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		<title>Let&#8217;s Both Pretend I Read the Agreement</title>
		<link>http://blog.isnoop.net/2011/11/18/lets-both-pretend-i-read-the-agreement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The EULA. It&#8217;s an interesting beast. On one hand, software makers have the right to say you cannot decompile their code and resell parts of it on your own. On the other hand, the rights granted to software makers and the limitations placed on end-users are often egregious, ludicrous, contradicting, and at the very least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return of the Rum Runners</title>
		<link>http://blog.isnoop.net/2009/08/04/return-of-the-rum-runners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend Washington state just upped its liquor prices an average of 13% per bottle in a bid to help fill its 6 billion dollar budget gap. The estimated proceeds from the increase in liquor tax should cover about 1.3% of the budget shortfall. The problem is, I don&#8217;t think they will take in nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Developers: Don’t Be Password Idiots</title>
		<link>http://blog.isnoop.net/2009/06/22/web-developers-don%e2%80%99t-be-password-idiots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a follow-up to my last post, here are a few tips to help keep you from driving your site users away with misguided password restrictions. #1: Consider Context Your tweets may be precious to you, but as a web developer, you should understand the differences between password security for Twitter and for online banking. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Developers: Don&#8217;t Be Username Idiots</title>
		<link>http://blog.isnoop.net/2009/06/18/web-developers-dont-be-username-idiots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.isnoop.net/?p=313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note to any developer, site owner, or project manager who is in charge of developing a user login system: Don&#8217;t put unreasonable restrictions on usernames. It is sensible to prevent people from creating names containing certain characters or names of extreme length. However, some sites go too far by requiring all user [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Rules to Protect User Passwords</title>
		<link>http://blog.isnoop.net/2009/05/01/10-rules-to-protect-user-passwords/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.isnoop.net/2009/05/01/10-rules-to-protect-user-passwords/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 22:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[10 simple rules for web developers to protect their users' passwords.]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in store for Google Voice?</title>
		<link>http://blog.isnoop.net/2009/04/21/whats-in-store-for-google-voice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.isnoop.net/?p=274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Voice is a very interesting service. If you were one of the people (like myself) that got an account on GrandCentral.com before they were bought out by Google, you are now eligible to be part of the Google Voice beta. It offers a lot of interesting services such as visual voicemail, speech to text, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want to know your Google Voice Number?</title>
		<link>http://blog.isnoop.net/2009/04/19/want-to-know-your-google-voice-number/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.isnoop.net/2009/04/19/want-to-know-your-google-voice-number/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.isnoop.net/?p=270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Voice is the long awaited re-release of Grand Central, an online voice communications service. Based on their beta, Google Voice will essentially be a Gmail for voicemails with call forwarding, filtering, SMS, VOIP, and speech to text. They appear to be assigning Montana area code (406) phone numbers to folks who call or SMS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Quick Explainer on Tax Brackets</title>
		<link>http://blog.isnoop.net/2008/12/07/a-quick-explainer-on-tax-brackets/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.isnoop.net/2008/12/07/a-quick-explainer-on-tax-brackets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.isnoop.net/?p=211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a common belief that moving into a higher tax bracket will cause you significant financial hardship. People have given away large sums for a tax deduction or even accepted lower pay believing they are actually saving money by maintaining a lower tax bracket. This post explains why this is incorrect and illustrates what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power to the Depot</title>
		<link>http://blog.isnoop.net/2008/11/17/power-to-the-depot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://isnoop.net/blog/?p=189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I should preface this by saying that I normally do my home improvement shopping at Lowe&#8217;s. Historically, they have had better customer service and have a higher likelihood of carrying the oddball things I require for my more unusual projects. This weekend I found myself going back and forth between Lowe&#8217;s and Home Depot as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP Closing Tags Stealing Your Cookies?</title>
		<link>http://blog.isnoop.net/2008/10/24/php-closing-tags-stealing-your-cookies/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.isnoop.net/2008/10/24/php-closing-tags-stealing-your-cookies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://isnoop.net/blog/?p=187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a professional PHP developer who enjoys helping others learn about the language, I have noticed several phases of PHP skill development. One of the first phases is when one stops piling all of their code into one file and starts storing their classes and specialized logic into reusable files. For some, this change brings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New MacBook Pro is Looking at You?</title>
		<link>http://blog.isnoop.net/2008/10/18/new-macbook-pro-is-looking-at-you/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.isnoop.net/2008/10/18/new-macbook-pro-is-looking-at-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://isnoop.net/blog/?p=185</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the Apple store right now playing with a new MacBook Pro. I love the backlit keyboard of the original MBP, so I decided to get it to light up in this bright showroom for a quick demo. On the old MBP, you&#8217;d cover both speaker grilles at once. There is a light sensor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>T-Moble Forces an iPhone User to go Legit</title>
		<link>http://blog.isnoop.net/2008/09/08/t-moble-forces-an-iphone-user-to-go-legit/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.isnoop.net/2008/09/08/t-moble-forces-an-iphone-user-to-go-legit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://isnoop.net/blog/?p=180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a very happy customer with T-Mobile for over four years now. Ever since the beginning, I have been using various smartphones with their T-Zones service. T-Zones was originally intended to be a walled garden internet service where you pay $4.99 (when I signed up) each month for the privilege of being able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter to an Aspiring PHP Programmer</title>
		<link>http://blog.isnoop.net/2007/08/06/a-letter-to-an-aspiring-php-programmer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.isnoop.net/2007/08/06/a-letter-to-an-aspiring-php-programmer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://isnoop.net/blog/2007/08/06/a-letter-to-an-aspiring-php-programmer/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is an email I got through Zend&#8217;s certified engineer website. The questions posed by the writer below are not uncommon, so I have posted his letter and my response for general consumption. Hi, I am an aspiring PHP programmer. I need some advice from the right people like you before taking a plunge into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Science of Luck</title>
		<link>http://blog.isnoop.net/2007/06/02/the-science-of-luck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://isnoop.net/blog/2007/06/02/the-science-of-luck/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard a lot of people claim not to believe in luck. Allow me to demonstrate that this belief, while psychologically satisfying to some, is tantamount to disbelief in Pi or milkshakes. Luck is not some sort of ethereal faith-based system of wish-granting priority. Luck is the result of a simple calculation and luckiness is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned House Hunting in Seattle</title>
		<link>http://blog.isnoop.net/2007/04/16/lessons-learned-house-hunting-in-seattle/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.isnoop.net/2007/04/16/lessons-learned-house-hunting-in-seattle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now is a tedious time to be trading Seattle real estate. While the nation at large is experiencing a deflation in housing values, the Seattle market is stubbornly fluctuating between plateau and boom days. A large number of properties are going unsold for 90+ days [zillow.com] while others are subject to irrational bidding wars. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dimmable CFLs: Not Ready for the Spotlight?</title>
		<link>http://blog.isnoop.net/2006/11/14/dimmable-cfls-not-ready-for-the-spotlight/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.isnoop.net/2006/11/14/dimmable-cfls-not-ready-for-the-spotlight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every light fixture in my home, with the exception of those in the bathroom, is on a dimmer circuit. I&#8217;m not sure who&#8217;s idea it was, but it is kinda nice if you want to set a romantic mood by the coat closet. Most CFL (Compact FLuorescent) bulbs come with a warning indicating that they [...]]]></description>
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