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	<title>John Berns' Blog</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tuning LAMP Systems</title>
		<link>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/06/29/tuning-lamp-systems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Berns</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Free &amp; Open Source Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[apache]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[lamp]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mysql]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[performance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[php]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tuning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been on a website performance and scalability kick lately.  I thought I would share some articles I have enjoyed on the topic.
IBM Developer Works has a nice little two part series on Tuning Lamp Systems (pt 2).  
Then again, IBM Developer Works often has some awesome articles.  Scan it regularly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Stupid People Use Computers (Humor from InfoWorld)</title>
		<link>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/06/18/when-stupid-people-use-computers-humor-from-infoworld/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/06/18/when-stupid-people-use-computers-humor-from-infoworld/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Berns</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Desktop Computing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Random Musings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it: some people should just NOT be allowed near computers.  

Photo by °Florian
InfoWorld, a magazine that is seldom considered a bastion of humor, has a series of hilarious articles with real-life stories about seriously stupid things that IT people and Hackers did with computers.  
They are a great way to kill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thai Open Source Initiative Uses&#8230; .NET?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/06/12/thai-open-source-initiative-uses-dot-net/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/06/12/thai-open-source-initiative-uses-dot-net/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Berns</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Free &amp; Open Source Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the The Nation:
Soon, a factory will lead the push for development of open-source code software  for Thai industries, locally.
The Association of Thai Software Industry (ATSI), the Industrial Promotion Department, the Software Industry Promotion Agency (Sipa), Microsoft (Thailand), Rangsit University and 20 local software companies have joined hands to set up the country&#8217;s first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo Design Patterns - Awesome!</title>
		<link>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/06/11/yahoo-design-patterns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/06/11/yahoo-design-patterns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Berns</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design Patterns]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Information Architecture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Yahoo Design Patterns]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnberns.com/?p=122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s the thing you do all the time.  Solutions that you have internalized and you often can look at a problem and you think &#8220;oh, that&#8217;s a _____ problem and if you do _____ it&#8217;s easy to solve.&#8221;  That&#8217;s a design pattern: a generalized problem that has a set of generalized solutions.
Design patterns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Encylopedia Britannica Goes Wiki</title>
		<link>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/06/10/encylopedia-britannica-goes-wiki/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/06/10/encylopedia-britannica-goes-wiki/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Berns</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Online Travel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Media / Computing / Networking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Travel Guidebooks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[travelguide]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wiki]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnberns.com/?p=119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, Encylopedia Britannica has gone wiki.

Not a bad move, but will they be able to be able to build a strong contributor base?  One one hand there is some cachet to having your contribution approved by EB, on the other hand, it&#8217;s perceived as closed, old-school, stuffy and exclusive&#8211;which might put potential contributors off.
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barcamp Chiang Mai Is Underway!</title>
		<link>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/05/17/barcamp-chiang-mai-is-underway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/05/17/barcamp-chiang-mai-is-underway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 07:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Berns</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Barcamp]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[barcampchiangmai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barcamp Chiang Mai is underway.  We have 104 people who are attending.  

Group Shot.  That&#8217;s a lot of Barcampers!
Preetam Rai just gave a very interesting presentation on Interesting Web 2.0 Companies in Asia.  Draper Fischer Jurvetson just set up an office in Vietnam.  Preetam suggested that if companies in Thailand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>English Font, Thai Look: AW Siam</title>
		<link>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/05/10/english-font-thai-look-aw-siam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/05/10/english-font-thai-look-aw-siam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 07:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Berns</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Desktop Computing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[font]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[thai]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnberns.com/?p=115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s not to love about this font?

AW Siam is a free font for Mac and PC that give you English characters with REAL Thai flair.
It even uses a few actual Thai characters. (For example, &#8220;a&#8221; is &#8220;lor ling&#8221;, &#8220;T&#8221; is &#8220;sara o&#8221; and &#8220;n&#8221; is &#8220;tor ta-haan.&#8221;)
The funny thing is, when I showed it to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Twitter a Better Search Engine than Google?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/05/07/is-twitter-a-better-search-engine-than-google/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/05/07/is-twitter-a-better-search-engine-than-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 09:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Berns</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blogs &#038; Blogging]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Media / Computing / Networking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Startups]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[distributed intelligence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[reputation systems]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnberns.com/?p=110</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have had a flurry of thoughts since posted my blog &#8220;My New Distributed Brain.&#8221;  
The result of that epiphany is this: that Twitter has the potential to be a better search engine than Google.

&#8220;But,&#8221; you say, &#8220;Twitter is a microblog?  How can it beat Google at search?&#8221;
Are you on Twitter?  
Try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My New Distributed Brain</title>
		<link>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/05/07/my-new-distributed-brain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/05/07/my-new-distributed-brain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 03:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Berns</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Media / Computing / Networking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[distributed intelligence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mahalo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[reputation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnberns.com/?p=107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have become smarter recently.  It is due to my new Distributed Brain. 
I have recently begun to distribute my thinking across the globe with Twitter.  When a question pops into my head, I first check the local cache (my memory), then I query the global memory (Tweet the thought or question on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding and Removing Duplicate Files from Your Digital Photo Library</title>
		<link>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/04/28/finding-and-removing-duplicate-files-from-your-digital-photo-library/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnberns.com/2008/04/28/finding-and-removing-duplicate-files-from-your-digital-photo-library/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Berns</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Photography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[duplicate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[lightroom]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[photos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I needed to sort through a library of 150,000 digital photos that was taking up 150GB of disk space.  I knew most were duplicates.  (Poor file management practices!)
I needed a tool that would help me find the duplicates so I could delete them.
The problem was, the file were frequently renamed&#8211;so two files that [...]]]></description>
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