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	<title>Hate Life, Will Travel</title>
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		<title>Getting your relationship off to a rip-roaring start</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The installer&#8217;s the first thing most users interact with. Before &#8220;what are they trying to use the app for?&#8221; or &#8220;how do I build the best interface?&#8221; Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac has in the course of the purchase and install - forced me to create a log in - tried to get me to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zumsteg.net/2011/04/01/getting-your-relationship-off-to-a-rip-roaring-start/</link>
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		<title>A favorite poem, a favorite punk song</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DULCE ET DECORUM EST Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zumsteg.net/2011/03/30/a-favorite-poem-a-favorite-punk-song/</link>
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		<title>Sony and the cool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recommend this fine Brooks Review piece on how Sony&#8217;s lost their way (it was inspired, in turn, by this excellent Jeff Yang article in the Chronicle). When I was growing up, I loved, loved, loved Sony stuff. My dad owned a Walkman 2 (1981), and it fascinated me. Clunky controls: function over form, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zumsteg.net/2011/02/01/sony-and-the-cool/</link>
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		<title>Interviewing: so, have you used our product?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why answering &#8220;no&#8221; is almost a certain no-hire. An interview loop is a full day of your time. And the company you&#8217;re interviewing at is burning at least six hours of their people&#8217;s time not developing features, or answering phones, or building a production infrastructure, to talk to you. Now, I know that not everyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zumsteg.net/2011/01/31/interviewing-so-have-you-used-our-product/</link>
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		<title>Do you have any questions about Expedia?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love interviewing. As much as anything else we do, it&#8217;s the chance to help pick the people who determine what the job&#8217;s going to be like, and the direction of the company. I&#8217;ll volunteer for any loop, I&#8217;ll substitute for anyone who is sick or working on a production issue, whatever. So I&#8217;m going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zumsteg.net/2011/01/27/do-you-have-any-questions-about-expedia/</link>
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		<title>How the iPad wants to be used</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this by Fraser Speirs excerpted at Daring Fireball: The iPad is an intensely personal device. In its design intent it is, truly, much more like a “big iPhone” than a “small laptop”. The iPad isn’t something you pass around. It’s not really designed to be a “resource” that many people take advantage of. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zumsteg.net/2011/01/27/how-the-ipad-wants-to-be-used/</link>
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		<title>O Vexing Capricious Muse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent much of today on the book, and my work process went - write - discover I&#8217;d been goofing off on Wikipedia for half an hour - make coffee - write - mow lawn - try to write but actually research something really interesting about city structures - write - word count made! have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zumsteg.net/2010/04/18/o-vexing-capricious-muse/</link>
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		<title>This took me almost a day to write</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My semi-retirement&#8221; from USS Mariner.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zumsteg.net/2010/04/15/this-took-me-almost-a-day-to-write/</link>
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		<title>iPad week one use</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent this week trying to keep it near me so I could use it immediately if I thought of something. So far, it&#8217;s about 50% &#8220;this is a large iPhone&#8221; and 50% glee that I&#8217;m using a device that feels like it&#8217;s straight out of all the science fiction I read and watched for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zumsteg.net/2010/04/10/ipad-week-one-use/</link>
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		<title>iPad dumpfest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So here&#8217;s Penny Arcade&#8217;s Tycho on the iPad: As an eReader, the iPad doesn&#8217;t match a dedicated machine for comfort. The iBooks narrative is strong, &#8220;does what iTunes did for music,&#8221; but that&#8217;s purely aspirational and doesn&#8217;t recognize just how late they are to the table. They are like Pink suggesting that the party has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.zumsteg.net/2010/04/05/ipad-dumpfest/</link>
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