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		<title>MediaCamp Athens &#8217;09</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2009/03/16/mediacamp-athens-09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[credit to peter michel heilmann It&#8217;s been 2 months since I lasted blogged and I apologise for that. Tonight has been special in that I have had the privilege of attending MediaCamp Athens &#8217;09. I took a lot of photo&#8217;s, some quite good, others not too good. They&#8217;re on Flickr so take a look if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supporting WikiPedia</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/11/05/supporting-wikipedia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. — Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia I use wikipedia a lot. Today, I donated a small sum in support of this great service. If you use this service, please join me. Click on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OpenCoffee Athens featuring Jason Calacanis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George and his crowd scored a real hit with the latest OpenCoffee. I witnessed one of the most inspiring talks ever. Direct, to the point. Jason was superb. In summary: Entrepeneurship is like going into battle. It&#8217;s tough and not everyone is cut out for it. There are two types of people, those that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mygazines is a real winner and a game changer</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/09/11/mygazines-is-a-real-winner-and-a-game-changer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The perception we have regarding cost of magazines is that the cover price is the cost of the content within the magazine. The truth is that the cover price of a magazine these days reflects little more than the cost of printing and distribution. Few magazines actually make money from the cover price, they make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scratching your own itch</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/08/05/239/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently reading Getting Real from 37 Signals and wanted to share some phrases from it. Here&#8217;s a first &#8220;Build software for yourself A great way to build software is to start out by solving your own problems. You&#8217;ll be the target audience and you&#8217;ll know what&#8217;s important and what&#8217;s not. That gives you a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Direct Democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/07/01/more-direct-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thereâ€™s no doubt that the internet and the social networks it helped create have done two things: brought people closer and brought about much more democracy. A new political party in Australia called Senator Online is taking this to new extremes, it will allow each member to vote on each and every bill that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psst &#8230; Something wonderful is happening &#8230; pass it on</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/22/something-wonderful-is-happening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take 4 minutes to view this great video. Now if that has whet your appetite, take a look at this: Charles Leadbeater at TED talks]]></description>
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		<title>Teach the machine</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/20/teach-the-machine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a great video about Web 2.0, the social / semantic web (4 minutes)]]></description>
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		<title>What is twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/16/what-is-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently started using twitter as a microblogging service and for status updates. One really cool feature is the free sms feature for those following you. Can you imagine the creative ways this can be used? Think updating a family member about how late you&#8217;ll be or getting a direct message to bring home some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coincidentally, Zografou City Council website finally live TODAY</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/05/coincidentally-zografou-city-council-website-finally-live-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/05/coincidentally-zografou-city-council-website-finally-live-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I say coincidentally because, I went by their offices today and complained about their site not being available for the past year or so. I&#8217;ve recently moved to Zografou and have often needed to talk to someone at the council for various things. Naturally, being a geek, I would look to their website to provide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>too many tweets</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/05/30/too-many-tweets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 16:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too many tweets again today. I&#8217;m beginning to realise the benefits of this platform. Twitter is fast becoming defacto goodness for all. Guys, it seems youcant handle the load more often than not. Either sell to Google who can handle the load or take the platform peer-to-peer and let everyone share the burden.]]></description>
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		<title>A website is like a baby. It needs love, care and feeding</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/03/19/a-website-is-like-a-baby-it-needs-love-care-and-feeding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/03/19/a-website-is-like-a-baby-it-needs-love-care-and-feeding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend asked if I would help with setting up of a new website. My first response: Does your organisation have the commitment and resource available to follow the process through? Can you or someone here look after this new child of yours? One that needs love, care and feeding? If not, then it&#8217;s best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook- Cool and Not so Cool</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/12/18/facebook-cool-and-not-so-cool/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/12/18/facebook-cool-and-not-so-cool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook has brought me back in touch with many high school buddies I had long lost touch with but it can be such a damn waste of time. Take a look at the video below, really true, really funny.]]></description>
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		<title>I wish !! Mesh Networks &#8211; Cell phones and Cars</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/12/06/mesh-networks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When are our cellphones going to have mesh network capability? Imagine thousands of cellphones connecting to eachother, sharing connections, perhaps bridging to a home aDSL / cable / Wireless connection and sharing it on. It will kill the ISP&#8217;s. Cell phones should be relay devices. Check out these links along similar lines Brad Templeton&#8217;s entry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flattening the Amazon</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/08/13/flattening-the-amazon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this flat world we live in, you would think that Amazon.com would get it. What I mean is that if Amazon knows where I live (and they do), they can keep all my profile info and credit card details across all sites (and they do), why can&#8217;t theyÂ  put my orders via theÂ  closestÂ  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mahalo is all the rage</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/05/31/mahalo-is-all-the-rage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 19:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jason launched the Mahalo search engine today &#8211; it looks really great. The front page looks like it&#8217;s a zeitgeist of sorts and it&#8217;s kindof funny to note what&#8217;s on peoples minds (seems like it&#8217;s showing more US minds though, the results would be starkly different if more International users were visiting and poking around) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shameful &#8211; Vivodi is a Joke &#8211; Don&#8217;t go there</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/05/17/vivodi-is-a-joke-dont-go-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 20:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I applied for CableTV on the 15th of March &#8211; given current rumors I can expect to be connected around 4 months from now. Any complaints are futile. The irony is that I&#8217;m posting from a shared wireless connection I&#8217;m on through Vivodi. Am I being selfish? Perhaps. Let me counter with this. Vivodi charge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone in Customer Support should do a stint in a ladies shoe shop at one time or another</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/05/11/everyone-in-customer-support-should-do-a-stint-in-a-ladies-shoe-shop-at-one-time-or-another/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 22:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I read Lior Arussy&#8217;s little book called The Experience!: How to Wow Your Customers and Create a Passionate Workplace It&#8217;s a fun short read that everyone in customer support should read. I found it quite entertaining. A colleague, seeing me with the book asked what it was about so I answered &#8220;Customer Relationships.&#8221; Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funny thing about Vivodi</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/04/25/funny-thing-about-vivodi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vivodi is currently giving higher preference to callers enquiring about new connections than tech support for existing customers. Dial 13880 - press 3 for tech support, wait 10min to talk to clueless agent or press 8 to talk to sales agent, wait 5 seconds &#8211; agent available and happy to take your sales call. CLEARLY [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re-Streaming streams</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2006/09/08/re-streaming-streams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More and more staff are streaming audio (music and news) into their offices, sucking upÂ bandwidth and Quality of Service from others. One idea (N!) was to try and bring in one copy of a stream and then run a streaming server from within the network where users can connect to. Then, we won&#8217;t need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t wait for this :IMDb Web API</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2006/04/27/cant-wait-for-this-imdb-web-api/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2006/04/27/cant-wait-for-this-imdb-web-api/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;m playing with Web Services like AmazonÂ ECS etc. I can&#8217;t wait for IMDb, another Amazon owned company to start offering web services. Then I&#8217;ll start a video collections project.]]></description>
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		<title>NewsAgent &#8211; I Killed the Spambots</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2006/04/26/newsagent-i-killed-the-spambots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2006/04/26/newsagent-i-killed-the-spambots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was getting ridiculous, apologies to thoseÂ writers who were getting spammed.Â  The botsÂ are Dead Dead Dead and need to get clever before they can spam us again. I&#8217;ve added a captcha function now so it isn&#8217;t so easy anymore. Resources used: b2evolution.net gudlyf&#8217;sÂ AuthImageÂ code implemented by: Whoo Captcha for b2evolution, explained]]></description>
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		<title>My Booklists project is coming along nicely</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2006/04/21/my-booklists-project-is-coming-along-nicely/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2006/04/21/my-booklists-project-is-coming-along-nicely/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The booklists project took a bit of a boost last night and some of it is up (See the sidebar). When I look at the data I&#8217;m struck by a number of things. 1) I&#8217;m paying too much for books locally. Amazon US has them at nearly 40%Â cheaper. 2) I have as many books as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Calendar Lives !!</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2006/04/13/google-calendar-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2006/04/13/google-calendar-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One more time, Google does better what MS couldn&#8217;t &#8211; Just think how great it is to simply type &#8220;Lunch with John tomorrow at 10am&#8221; and G-Cal recognises your text simply makes an entry for Lunch tomorrow. Neat ! RSS too Brilliant.]]></description>
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		<title>Podcasts I Listen To</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2006/03/12/podcasts-i-listen-to/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2006/03/12/podcasts-i-listen-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1) This Week in Tech 2) Security Now with Steve Gibson 3) Inside The Net 4) BBC Radio 4&#8242;s &#8220;In Our Time&#8221; &#8230;More to follow Â ]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend Linux &#8211; Rails (Blood, Sweat &amp; Tears)</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2006/01/07/weekend-linux-rails-blood-sweat-tears/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2006/01/07/weekend-linux-rails-blood-sweat-tears/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology I use]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I began playing with RubyOnRails Although there is a single click install package called InstantRails that I have been using, I prefer something more robust. So, this weekend, feeling rather masochistic, I decided to do a fresh Ubuntu install with Apache, PHP, mySQL, phpMyAdmin, Ruby, Rails, SSH, FTP. Now my previous experience with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging as a Social Tool &#8211; Gnomedex 5</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2005/12/23/blogging-as-a-social-tool-gnomedex-5/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2005/12/23/blogging-as-a-social-tool-gnomedex-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot of cool videos over at Chris Pirillo&#8217;s blog from his latest event Gnomedex 5. One I thought was particularly appropriate to mention was Blogging as a Social Tool &#8211; check it out.]]></description>
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		<title>GPR$ Rip Off</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2005/12/08/gprs-rip-off/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2005/12/08/gprs-rip-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2005 17:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am I cheap or am I simply not a fool? Is it me or are blackberries just not selling in Greece? I&#8217;ve had one for about 6 months but never turned it on. My feelings towards the daylight robbery that is GPRS bandwidth are well known. A Vodafone rep recently came in to the office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, Real Ubuntu CD&#8217;s !!!</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2005/11/20/finally-real-ubuntu-cds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2005/11/20/finally-real-ubuntu-cds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ubuntu has gotta be the coolest Linux out there. The 30min install has everything a PC will need, Firefox as the default browser and some cool server stuff too. It&#8217;s free, and supported by Spaceman Mark Shuttleworth. Of course I&#8217;ve downloaded ubuntu !! A couple of times in fact. I&#8217;ve burned quite a few CD&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Quest for Google Glory (Part II)</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2005/11/15/the-quest-for-google-glory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2005/11/15/the-quest-for-google-glory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search term &#8220;Stavros Messinis&#8221; (me!!) is No. 1 on Google. obective 1 &#8211; COMPLETE it now points to this weblog obective 2 &#8211; IN PROGRESS search term Stavros to be about me &#8211; currently it points to http://www.stavros.org THEIR MISSION STATEMENT: Promoting independence and access in our communities for persons with disabilities and Deaf people [...]]]></description>
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