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	<title>Ahren Code &#187; Opinion</title>
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	<description>Bits of software inspired by little Ahren and Tanish</description>
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		<title>A summary of recent tech news</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 01:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s going to be a great week in techlandia: Microsoft and Barnes &#38; Noble team up to defeat Apple and Amazon. Once they figure out what to call their collaboration. Not content to wait on the sidelines, RIM releases developer alpha BlackBerry 10. Which doesn&#8217;t make phone calls. And the &#8220;rogue&#8221; &#8220;hacker&#8221; who spied on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unix FTW</title>
		<link>http://code.ahren.org/bit/unix-ftw</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[OperatingSystems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unix]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine an operating system that was conceived and developed as a secondary project, decades before operating systems became a household word. One that its owner (AT&#38;T) had neither the skill nor the legal sanction to sell. One that once out into the wild, forked into a hundred avatars. One that ran natively on (and was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The value of Instagram</title>
		<link>http://code.ahren.org/bit/the-value-of-instagram</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[startups]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine if you had entered college in 1999 and left grad school in 2005. You wouldn&#8217;t know much of the dot-com boom and the bizarre billion dollar acquisitions of companies that had not made a single dollar and had no clear chance or plan of ever doing so. The tech boom of 2010 would seem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open vs Free, the Android vs iPhone edition</title>
		<link>http://code.ahren.org/bit/open-vs-free-the-android-vs-iphone-edition</link>
		<comments>http://code.ahren.org/bit/open-vs-free-the-android-vs-iphone-edition#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Android]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://code.ahren.org/?p=1621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over on GigaOm, Tom Krazit spins an old argument as a new one by characterising as silly the many recent blog posts on how little money Google makes on Android, in fact much lesser than what it makes on iOS (I have made such posts myself). Look beyond the dollars, he says, as if that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think beyond the server farm, CI-CIO!</title>
		<link>http://code.ahren.org/bit/think-beyond-the-server-farm-ci-cio</link>
		<comments>http://code.ahren.org/bit/think-beyond-the-server-farm-ci-cio#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enterprise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SysAdmin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone quotes Steve Jobs but nobody wants to follow him. I suspect there are two implicit or even explicitly profered conceits behind that: maturity and safety. Maturity is the grown-up pragmatism that a business leader (for this post, a CIO) needs to juggle conflicting criteria: cost, variable preferences over individuals and time, interoperability and compatibility, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google and Apple</title>
		<link>http://code.ahren.org/bit/google-and-apple</link>
		<comments>http://code.ahren.org/bit/google-and-apple#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Android]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iOS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time when Google and Apple were sitting on the forbidden tree&#8230; or something like that. Google CEO Eric Schmidt appeared on stage at Apple events and sat behind the scene on Apple&#8217;s board. Together they drove Microsoft out of our lives. Then Google decided to enter the mobile OS market out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHPFog for WordPress blogging</title>
		<link>http://code.ahren.org/bit/phpfog-for-wordpress-blogging</link>
		<comments>http://code.ahren.org/bit/phpfog-for-wordpress-blogging#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hosting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHPFog is an excellent PaaS (platform as a service) that offers a free version with a limit of three apps. One of the apps they provide is WordPress. What is nice about this is that unlike the free version of WordPress.com, an installation of WordPress on PHPFog has no restriction on the themes, plugins, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>V is for Viral</title>
		<link>http://code.ahren.org/bit/v-is-for-viral</link>
		<comments>http://code.ahren.org/bit/v-is-for-viral#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vanilla This week&#8217;s Internet bruhaha finds designer Dustin Curtis at its center. Just yesterday, sensing that the field suffers from a supply deficit, Curtis announced a new blogging platform called Svbtle that addresses the &#8220;uninspiring&#8221; nature of today&#8217;s blogging platforms. Forget the plugins, the markup, all those distractions, cries Curtis. What you need is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation: Bell Labs vs Google/Facebook</title>
		<link>http://code.ahren.org/bit/innovation-bell-labs-vs-googlefacebook</link>
		<comments>http://code.ahren.org/bit/innovation-bell-labs-vs-googlefacebook#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has a profile of Bell Labs (full disclosure: my home!) by Jon Gertner that I highly recommend (despite the glaring absence of Unix in Gertner&#8217;s list of Bell Labs&#8217;s greatest) . The conclusion of the piece (emphasis added): But what should our pursuit of innovation actually accomplish? By one definition, innovation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which High Horse? Piracy, Entitlements and Morality</title>
		<link>http://code.ahren.org/bit/which-high-horse-piracy-entitlements-and-morality</link>
		<comments>http://code.ahren.org/bit/which-high-horse-piracy-entitlements-and-morality#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[piracy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Andy Ihnatko (a tech columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times) doesn&#8217;t like free[down]loaders. Marco Arment (one of the founders of Tumblr, proprietor of the very useful Instapaper service) and John Gruber agree. Ihnatko carves his argument against the pirates hooked to the torrent tubes using the device of a hypothetical conversation with one of them. It&#8217;s a fine bit [...]]]></description>
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