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	<description>Well if you asked me...</description>
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		<title>Advancing Human Civilization Through Open Source Software</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epistemology is an area of philosophy that is concerned with studying human knowledge and justified belief. Human civilization advanced with the increased ability to transfer and propagate knowledge. Computing and the internet are the tools we rely on in the information age to advance human knowledge and civilization. Open source software provides a model for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suffering the Pseudoscience of Sorcery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 08:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ali Sibat with his kids On the morning of Friday, April 2nd 2010, in a Saudi Arabian jail cell in Riyadh, a father of five from a rural village in Lebanon named Ali Sibat was told to get ready for his beheading later that afternoon. The horrible news fell hard on his mother, his wife, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exporting Oil Back to Saudi Arabia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 20:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many Americans, I have struggled with my weight for the majority of my life. I said “majority” instead of “all” because it wasn’t always like that. There was a time when I didn’t have this problem. And I didn’t grow up American. I grew up in Saudi Arabia. Up until I was 9 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you really &#8220;Buying&#8221; an eBook?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a link today to buy a textbook online and decided to checkout the latest shenanigan the textbook publishers were peddling these days. I found myself at CourseSmart.com looking at what appeared to be the best eTexbook experience I could imagine. They had everything figured out and addressed pretty well. They had full text [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;ve Never Seen Saudi Arabia This Beautiful</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yousef Raffah did an amazing job capturing the essence of Jiddah like I&#8217;ve never seen before. I recognize some of the locations, it just never occurred to me&#8230; Check out his website at http://yousef.raffah.com]]></description>
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		<title>I Have Found Beauty &amp; Elegance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;in the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. The answers this nugget provides are amazing. I’m blown away. Learn more about it at Wikipedia.]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Speaking at O&#8217;Reilly OSCON 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the biggest Open Source events around. It&#8217;s really exciting to be part of this conference. I plan on talking about how we at Etelos support and advocate open standards, open source developers, and the impact that is having on the industry.]]></description>
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		<title>Etelos Goes Public !!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Blogging?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What made blogging popular? What changed from the days when blogging was not known? The internet has been around much longer than blogging has, yet blogging is a relatively recent phenomenon. The trigger is differentiation. It is the same thing that made us drop $5 for a cup of coffee at Starbucks as we abandoned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vimeo: YouTube in HD and On Steroids</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far, Vimeo looks awesome. Let&#8217;s see how far these people will go. I like them because they are much cleaner that YouTube, and they seem to be quality driven. Here is a sample.]]></description>
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