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		<title>Knowledge &#8211; I need to read more.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve come to realize that I do not know nearly as much as I ought to. As such, I&#8217;m endeavoring to remedy this abysmal realization by reading more non-fiction. Current things on my list to read: Salt &#8211; Mark Kurlansky Free Culture &#8211; Lawrence Lessig (reading this again) Chivalry &#8211; Maurice Hugh Keen Medicine&#8217;s 10 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zacbrown.org/2011/08/04/knowledge/</link>
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		<title>Food trucks and Pork</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#60;Engage stream of consciousness mode&#62; This past week I&#8217;ve gone out of my way to visit some food trucks and farmer&#8217;s markets that I don&#8217;t typically get a chance to go to. Those included Where Ya At Matt (Creole foodtruck), Maximus/Minimus (Pork truck) and the Queen Anne Farmer&#8217;s Market which has Proper British Bacon as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zacbrown.org/2011/07/31/food-trucks-and-pork/</link>
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		<title>Intellisensing my way to victory&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Caroline and I were discussing some issues I was seeing in a dogfood version of the next version of Visual Studio. I noted that I was having trouble with Intellisense and C++. It was making programming with some APIs that I&#8217;m not entirely familiar with difficult. In trying to describe this I quipped this little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zacbrown.org/2011/07/28/intellisensing-my-way-to-victory/</link>
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		<title>Words of Wisdom 1 &#8211; Chuck Moore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chuck Moore is the creator of the Forth programming language and a brilliant engineer. The creation of Forth is unlike many of the older languages in that it was created by an engineering need, not an academic need (i.e. Smalltalk or Lisp). I&#8217;ve been relearning Forth lately, trying to get a stronger footing in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zacbrown.org/2011/06/30/words-of-wisdom-1-chuck-moore/</link>
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		<title>Data and Language &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other night I posted something of a stream of consciousness about my impressions of where programming paradigms are headed. In short I tried to state the following (even if it was not obvious): Object-orientation, while useful, does not scale well to the size of the data sets we now work with and try to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zacbrown.org/2011/05/09/data-and-language-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Data and Language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The core purpose of a computer is to manipulate data. Regardless of what a person does with a computer, ultimately they are transforming data. With the addition of the Internet, we have even more data to manipulate. In my recent ponderings, I&#8217;ve been reading William Cook&#8217;s thoughts on a new &#8220;Smalltalk of Modeling&#8221; which has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zacbrown.org/2011/05/02/data-and-language/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft: One Year On The Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a dreary February day in 2010 when I started at Microsoft. I sat bored, reading my Kindle in New Employee Orientation (NEO). Now, a little over one year later, I seem to be endlessly busy. I am okay with this as it is preferable to the wretchedly boring first two to three months [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zacbrown.org/2011/04/27/microsoft-one-year-on-the-job/</link>
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		<title>A new start, or something.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ultimately got fed up with the old blog. It had cruft contained within as well as having successfully confused SimpleScripts, the shoddily made but useful installation manager I use for WordPress. SimpleScripts had somehow managed to come under the impression that there were in fact two identical WordPress installations in the same location on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.zacbrown.org/2011/04/25/a-new-start-or-something/</link>
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