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		<title>Parenting can be incredibly tiring</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my resolutions for 2012 included actively blogging/writing every day. The joy of parenthood has dramatically changed my sleep and writing schedules. On a side note, did you know that a baby can squeak? Out of nowhere John Paul on occasion just squeaks&#8230; As my new world of eventualities unfolds, I am struggling to find a rhythm between work, personal life, and academic life. For the last few years, I have worked on different sets of tasking without any real interruption. One of my goals for this weekend is to watch the super bowl and complete my Stanford University classes from the Stanford Center for Professional Development. I have already selected a location in my office for the Stanford University advanced project management certificate. As part of my journey into the world of project management certification, I recently acquired Rita Mulcahy’s book, “PMP Exam Prep, Seventh Edition: Rita&#8217;s Course in a Book for Passing the PMP Exam.” At some point within the next 3 months, I plan on taking the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) exam. After gain the Stanford Certified Project Manager (SCPM) and PMP credentials, I plan on focusing my attention on earning a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Paul Lindahl</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Paul Lindahl, a set on Flickr. Here are some photos of John Paul Lindahl organized into a convenient set format stored by the Flickr photo sharing service.]]></description>
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		<title>A Windows 8 update mixed with some Dell warranty info</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I took the plunge and reformatted my primary computer replacing Windows 7 with the developer preview of Windows 8. I have been completely satisfied with Windows 8 (W8) as a primary operating system. Neither my laptop nor my desktop running the developer preview of W8 has suffered from any blue screen of death (BSOD) episodes. Dell shipped my Studio 1535 laptop back on November 7, 2008. I have 293 days remaining on my Dell warranty, but I digress… Over the last few weeks, I have been reviewing ultrabooks. Right now the two frontrunners in my pan-ultimate search for the perfect ultrabook are the HP Folio 13 and the Samsung Series 9. A solid state drive (SSD) boots faster than a regular hard drive disk. Maybe it was a small miscalculation on my part to purchase a 40 gigabyte (GB) hard drive to replace my 200 GB SATA traditional hard drive with a built in fall sensor. Modern versions of Windows barely fit on a 40 GB drive. The full install of the developer version of Windows 8 with Microsoft Office 2010 professional takes up about 26.2 GB of hard drive space.]]></description>
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		<title>A 3 day weekend mixed with some long term planning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dinner last night consisted of some Thai hot panang curry, Thai hot drunken noodles, and chef hot Thai style fried rice of with tofu. In case you missed the subtlety of last night’s dinner theme, the theme involved selecting spicy menu options. A few urban legends exist about spicy food being the catalyst for inducing labor. Dinner last night was very spicy, but the plan simply did not yield the intended results. Today for some reason I have been thinking about lunch menus since breakfast started.  Day one of my three day weekend will probably include eating snacks and watching two NFL football games. The early game involves the San Francisco 49ers vs. the New Orleans Saints. The late game is being predicted to be the most watched NFL game in recent history. Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos will be competing in Foxborough, Massachusetts against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. My course work at Stanford University has been focuses on project management. Concurrent with the Stanford University classes I have been studying for the project management professional (PMP) exam. Passing the PMP exam is one of my major personal goals for 2012. I am trying to decide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The movie Moneyball came out on Blu-ray disc today</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My review of the movie Moneyball was published on October 1, 2011 under the title, “Moneyball Movie Review.” Given my interest in the film, I decided to preorder the move on Blu-ray disc from Amazon. For the most part the transfer quality is pretty decent. Some of the interlaced footage had some serious artifacts.]]></description>
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		<title>Life without ESPN or the national championship game</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well the National Collegiate Athletic Associate (NCAA) college football championship game between Louisiana State University (LSU) and the University of Alabama is well under way tonight. How did ESPN get the rights to so many bowl games and the national championship game this year? The television executives over at the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) should have trumped ESPN and taken over the rights to the game. Could the advertising rights to a national championship game on ESPN be worth more than the same rights on ABC?]]></description>
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		<title>My third Stanford University class marathon weekend study session</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working late into the night can be very rewarding. Few people on the planet truly enjoy a good marathon writing or studying session. An even fewer number of people have the drive to sustain a single minded purpose long enough to drive a true marathon event. Strong intellectual performances can be incremental and follow a plan. Projects that involve strategy and planning will almost always trump spontaneous operational decisions. As part of the advanced project management program, I started working on completing my third class from Stanford University. Overall, the Stanford Center for Professional Development class “Managing without authority” has been enjoyable and thought-provoking. The wild card weekend NFL games are definitely a little distracting. Who would have predicted a Houston Texan wildcard matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals? The move to streaming online content various subscription cable and satellite television services has hit the mainstream media. Check out this weekend’s Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article Cutting the Cord on Cable.]]></description>
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		<title>The search for digital content and a Saturday Costco run</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cutting the cord on cable creates a situation where finding content over the air waves becomes very challenging. Over the air (OTA) content does not support on demand viewing. Finding a source of on demand content without a cable or satellite subscription requires turning to either physical media or internet content. For example, anybody with a Netflix subscription could easily push play on “How Beer Saved the World” which happens to be an amusing 2011 documentary about beer. This creates a scenario where new content has to be described. For better or worse the exposure to new content involves experiencing a combination of entertaining and disappointing content. Dinner tonight will involve grilling some steaks imported to the great State of Colorado from McGonigle’s Market in Kansas City. Grilling outside will be possible today thanks to some surprisingly warm January weather. Before the grilling process begins a few large baking potatoes will be placed in the over at 350 degrees for about an hour. The potatoes will receive a couple ventilation holes courtesy of a fork and they will probably be given a lite coating of Lawry’s seasoning salt. One large question about dinner still remains. Will the requisite vegetable side [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TiVo Advisors panel and some KSU football</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good people over at TiVo finely decided to send over an invitation email to join the TiVo advisors panel. The only TiVo related thing that would be more fun than the TiVo advisors panel would be an invitation to field test beta TiVo hardware. Throughout the process of filling out the TiVo advisor panel questionnaire the television in the living room was  tuned to the Fox broadcast of the AT&#38;T Cotton Bowl featuring Arkansas vs. Kansas State University (KSU). Without question Bill Snyder would be considered one of the foremost subject matter experts on how to rebuild a college football program. KSU might have gotten a little ahead of schedule this year. With any luck over the next few years the matchups between Charlie Weis and Bill Snyder will be legendary. How could the sunglasses worn by Burn Notice main character Michael Westin be so expensive? Throughout the show Michael Westin wears Oliver Peoples Victor 55 sunglasses with cognac colored lenses and gold frames. Based on a quick search of the Oliver Peoples website it appears that the sunglasses worn by Michael Westin have been discontinued.]]></description>
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		<title>Scheduled Post Test Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am testing the scheduled post option.]]></description>
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