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	<title>Diary of a Network Geek</title>
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	<description>The trials and tribulations of a Certified Novell Engineer who&#039;s been stranded in Houston, Texas.</description>
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		<title>Government Seeks $1.4 Million in H1-B back pay!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Long time readers will know how I feel about the H1-B visa issue.
Look, in the IT business, the H1-B visa program is well known for the rampant abuse and the undercutting of salaries for American workers.
For you who are new to the blog, here&#8217;s the basic run-down.  I think American workers should get jobs, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art PC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I almost never think of what I do as &#8220;art&#8221;.
I mean, I&#8217;m mostly a network plumber, you know?  I make functional networks and good, solid, dependable machines that, well, that just run.  But, there are people who take hardware to a new place, where they are, in fact art.
The Edelweiss by Pius Giger is just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryumaou.com/hoffman/netgeek/2010/03/art-pc/</link>
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		<title>UnMovie Friday</title>
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UnMovieFriday
Originally uploaded by Network Geek

By this time of the week, my regular readers know I&#8217;ve usually reviewed a movie, but not this week.
This past Friday, instead of seeing a movie, as is my usual habit, I was on a plane coming back from Belle Chasse, Louisiana.
Now, to those of you who haven&#8217;t done a lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryumaou.com/hoffman/netgeek/2010/03/unmovie-friday/</link>
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		<title>Hedge Fund Buys Novell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, maybe Novell isn&#8217;t quite dead yet after all!
According to this story at Computer World, the New York-based Elliot Associates, LP, a hedge fund that is already Novell&#8217;s largest stock-holder, has made a public bid for the company.  They claim to have extensive experience and good fortune turning around tech companies, and they see the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harris County Atlas Obscura</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Houston is a strange town.
Now, I don&#8217;t mean that in a bad way!  I like strange.  Strange is different, interesting.  The problem is, finding it.  Think of all the chance encounters that have led you to something weird and beautiful.  How often does that happen?  If you&#8217;re like me, not often enough.
Back when I started [...]]]></description>
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