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		<title>&#8220;The Manifesto of Done&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ddreier.com/blog/archives/51</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This manifesto was written by Bre Pettis and Kio Stark. I think this is an excellent way to live life, and I will certainly be printing this out and posting it on my wall. You can read the original post here, and the manifesto is below. The Cult of Done Manifesto There are three states [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This manifesto was written by <a href="http://www.brepettis.com">Bre Pettis</a> and <a href="http://municipalarchive.wordpress.com/">Kio Stark</a>. I think this is an excellent way to live life, and I will certainly be printing this out and posting it on my wall.</p>

<p>You can read the original post <a href="http://www.brepettis.com/blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-manifesto.html">here</a>, and the manifesto is below.</p>

<blockquote><strong>The Cult of Done Manifesto</strong>
<ol>
    <li>There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.</li>
    <li>Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.</li>
    <li>There is no editing stage.</li>
    <li>Pretending you know what you&#8217;re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you&#8217;re doing even if you don&#8217;t and do it.</li>
    <li>Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.</li>
    <li>The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.</li>
    <li>Once you&#8217;re done you can throw it away.</li>
    <li>Laugh at perfection. It&#8217;s boring and keeps you from being done.</li>
    <li>People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.</li>
    <li>Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.</li>
    <li>Destruction is a variant of done.</li>
    <li>If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.</li>
    <li>Done is the engine of more.</li>
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		<title>Goodbye, AVG</title>
		<link>http://www.ddreier.com/blog/archives/44</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ddreier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, after leaving AVG once for Avast! and quickly returning I am (hopefully) leaving AVG for good. I have switched to the free Firewall and AV combo Comodo Internet Security. So far the experience has been really great, and I think uninstalling AVG has lessened my &#8216;login to usable&#8217; time by about 30 seconds. Comodo [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, after leaving AVG once for Avast! and quickly returning I am (hopefully) leaving AVG for good.</p>

<p>I have switched to the free <em>Firewall and AV</em> combo Comodo Internet Security. So far the experience has been really great, and I think uninstalling AVG has lessened my &#8216;login to usable&#8217; time by about 30 seconds.</p>

<p>Comodo is really easy to set up and it seems to be rather light-weight. While the firewall prompts are kinda big in size, they are easy to understand and they even tell you what other users have done in similar situations.</p>

<p>In other news, I found a PHP Markdown plugin for WordPress which seems to work rather well, I&#8217;ve only used it once in this post, but I plan on using it more in future posts.</p>
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		<title>Boxee</title>
		<link>http://www.ddreier.com/blog/archives/35</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ddreier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update:  I just got an invite to try Boxee Alpha for Windows, I&#8217;m currently installing it, and will post my thoughts later.   So I was finally able to use my boxee invite, and for all the hype, it&#8217;s not that great an app&#8230; I fully understand that this is an alpha application, but my overall [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Update:</strong>  I just got an invite to try Boxee Alpha for Windows, I&#8217;m currently installing it, and will post my thoughts later.</p>

<p> </p>

<p>So I was finally able to use my boxee invite, and for all the hype, it&#8217;s not that great an app&#8230;</p>

<p>I fully understand that this is an alpha application, but my overall impression was pretty bad. The first thing that I tried out was the access to Hulu and the integration was pretty terrible. I&#8217;m not fully sure if the &#8216;problems&#8217; are Hulu&#8217;s fault or not but in simple terms, the Hulu player controls popped up whenever I used the mouse as well as the boxee control widget. My only other really big complaint was that I couldn&#8217;t skip to a time by clicking on the scrubber bar and the fast-forward and rewind buttons were non-functional at best. Also, there were two buttons on the outermost of the play, stop, ff, &amp; rw buttons that also did nothing.</p>

<p>The only other concern that I had was how slow the show/channel thumbnails loaded which became very annoying. (I&#8217;m not sure if this was my internet connection, but I doubt it)</p>

<p>Other than those two things, I haven&#8217;t noticed anything else that really bugged me. But still, if you get the opportunity to try boxee out definitely seize the opportunity. I personally can&#8217;t wait for the beta and windows releases, there&#8217;s a lot of room for improvement but I think that they can do it.</p>
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		<title>Merry Christmas!</title>
		<link>http://www.ddreier.com/blog/archives/34</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ddreier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title says it all&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The title says it all&#8230;</p>
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		<title>First successful upgrade in a while!</title>
		<link>http://www.ddreier.com/blog/archives/31</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ddreier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, if you can&#8217;t tell, the upgrade to 2.7 worked without a hitch as far as I can tell. Hopefully it&#8217;ll stay this way, and I&#8217;m diggin&#8217; this new admin panel more than the previous one! Might even look for a new theme, I&#8217;m considering running my whole site on wordpress, so I might adapt [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, if you can&#8217;t tell, the upgrade to 2.7 worked without a hitch as far as I can tell. Hopefully it&#8217;ll stay this way, and I&#8217;m diggin&#8217; this new admin panel more than the previous one! Might even look for a new theme, I&#8217;m considering running my whole site on wordpress, so I might adapt the &#8216;design&#8217; I&#8217;m using for the main site to WordPress.</p>
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		<title>Update: WordPress 2.7</title>
		<link>http://www.ddreier.com/blog/archives/27</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ddreier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t even realize it, but wordpress just released the first Release Candidate for WordPress 2.7. So far my favorite upcoming feature is auto-update, because with the amount of times I&#8217;ve botched an upgrade this will certainly be welcome. I don&#8217;t really have much else to say about it for now, but I&#8217;m &#8216;installing&#8217; it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#8217;t even realize it, but wordpress just released the first <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/wordpress-27-release-candidate-1/">Release Candidate for WordPress 2.7</a>. So far my favorite upcoming feature is auto-update, because with the amount of times I&#8217;ve botched an upgrade this will certainly be welcome.</p>

<p>I don&#8217;t really have much else to say about it for now, but I&#8217;m &#8216;installing&#8217; it to my local http server (<a href="http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html">xampp</a>) and I&#8217;ll be messing around with it as I have time.</p>

<p>Update: I&#8217;ve been messing with RC1 and 2.7 has come out, and I&#8217;m gonna do the upgrade right now! (Hope I don&#8217;t mess this one up)</p>
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		<title>My first Vehicle</title>
		<link>http://www.ddreier.com/blog/archives/25</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ddreier</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dakota]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back my uncle gave his old blue 1992 Dodge Dakota Sport which had a bad fuel pump. After the arduous task of replacing that fuel pump, the truck runs fine and I have been driving it just about as much as I can. I posted some pictures to my flickr account. Even though [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A while back my uncle gave his old blue 1992 Dodge Dakota Sport which had a bad fuel pump. After the arduous task of replacing that fuel pump, the truck runs fine and I have been driving it just about as much as I can.</p>

<p>I posted some pictures to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ddreier" target="_blank">my flickr account</a>. Even though it doesn&#8217;t look to great, it runs fine, and it&#8217;s a thrill to own a vehicle and see my name on a title.</p>
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		<title>Cloud Computing and the Future</title>
		<link>http://www.ddreier.com/blog/archives/20</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ddreier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A member of YC recently made a post asking &#8220;what do you think is the future of Cloud computing, do you see it as being reliable or not?&#8221; I just thought I&#8217;d share my response will all of the lovely readers of my blog, enjoy . I absolutely see Cloud Computing as the future, its [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A member of <a href="http://www.youngcoders.com">YC</a> recently made a post asking &#8220;what do you think is the future of Cloud computing, do you see it as being reliable or not?&#8221;</p>

<p>I just thought I&#8217;d share my response will all of the lovely readers of my blog, enjoy <img src='http://www.ddreier.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> .</p>

<blockquote>I absolutely see Cloud Computing as the future, its future. The only thing is, will 99.9% uptime be good enough, looking at the articles I found for a post I made in the &#8220;<a href="http://www.youngcoders.com/showpost.php?p=151127&amp;postcount=7">Torrent hosting question</a>&#8221; thread, I&#8217;m gonna say no.

Obviously Amazon&#8217;s AWS aren&#8217;t the only cloud based services out there, MS is coming out with a whole computing platform based on the &#8220;Cloud&#8221; concept, and Dell even tried to trademark the name &#8220;cloud.&#8221; I think the real question is: When was the last time Google was down, and how can we steal their technology and use it to shore up services like AWS? (Hint: Never, and not legally)

P.S. Saying Google has never been down is certainly an overstatement, but really, when was the last time you wanted to Google something, and Google wasn&#8217;t there?</blockquote>
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		<title>How to upgrade WordPress</title>
		<link>http://www.ddreier.com/blog/archives/5</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ddreier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Step 1: Backup your WordPress Directory Step 2: Read this (http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress), but don&#8217;t do anything just read it. Step 3: Read it again, this time only do the first step. Yup, back it up again. Step 4: Read the instructions again, then when you get to the end do what it says. Step 5: Throw [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">Step 1: Backup your WordPress Directory</p>

<p style="text-align: left;">Step 2: Read <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress">this</a> (http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress), but don&#8217;t do anything just read it.</p>

<p style="text-align: left;">Step 3: Read <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress">it</a> again, this time only do the first step. Yup, back it up again.</p>

<p style="text-align: left;">Step 4: Read <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress">the instructions</a> again, then when you get to the end do what it says.</p>

<p style="text-align: left;">Step 5: Throw a party! As long as you followed the instructions, you should have successfully upgraded WordPress!</p>

<p style="text-align: left;">Coming soon: How not to upgrade WordPress.</p>
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		<title>A new beginning, again.</title>
		<link>http://www.ddreier.com/blog/archives/3</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ddreier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So for the second+ time since I got this domain, I&#8217;ve hosed my wordpress install. This evening I was going to start a new &#8216;tradition&#8217; of sorts, and write a blog post every thursday, and so here it is. Ok, so this isn&#8217;t it, and if I think about it tomorrow, I&#8217;ll write something more.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So for the second+ time since I got this domain, I&#8217;ve hosed my wordpress install. This evening I was going to start a new &#8216;tradition&#8217; of sorts, and write a blog post every thursday, and so here it is.</p>

<p>Ok, so this isn&#8217;t it, and if I think about it tomorrow, I&#8217;ll write something more.</p>
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