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		<title>Google+</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not that I dislike Google+,  I actually think it&#8217;s somewhat refreshing and cool&#8230; but I just can&#8217;t get myself to really USE it. Chalk it up to either not having enough time, or not having a critical mass of friends who use it to exclusion, but it&#8217;s just so difficult to remember to log [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://john.whelans.net/archives/973</link>
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		<title>Vulnerabilities and Threats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Understanding the difference between vulnerability and threat is a key skill that most organizations (and people) lack. A vulnerability is most assuredly bad,   but a threat much more so. Vulnerabilities are weaknesses in a system; weaknesses which may or may not result in a compromise of that system. Threats are vulnerabilities with a high [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://john.whelans.net/archives/967</link>
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		<title>False Alarms, Fire Trucks, and Customer Service Failures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago &#8211; back in 2008 &#8211; I entered the land of the homeowner and bought my first house. I knew from talking to my insurance company that I would get a discount on my homeowners insurance if I had an alarm system installed.  Being a technologist I also knew I wanted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://john.whelans.net/archives/960</link>
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		<title>Smooth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2006 I decided that I didn&#8217;t want to bother with shaving any more.   I can&#8217;t recall the exact reasons, but it most likely had to do with me being lazy and deciding I&#8217;d rather just not deal with it anymore.  So, I stopped shaving and grew a beard.  I didn&#8217;t do it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://john.whelans.net/archives/955</link>
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		<title>Tradition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in late October and early November of 2008 my dad and I took a road trip.  We had a lot of fun and enjoyed spending a week together driving around the western United States.  The trip took us from Las Vegas (where we flew in and met each other) to Lake Tahoe, to San [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://john.whelans.net/archives/952</link>
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		<title>Google+ will not be very useful to me until I can interact with it outside of a browser.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google+ will not be very useful to me until I can interact with it outside of a browser.]]></description>
		<link>http://john.whelans.net/archives/977</link>
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		<title>The Evolution of a Cyclist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always enjoyed riding a bicycle, but it had always been approached very casually.  As a kid I would ride around our neighborhood all the time in my various bikes.  Even after suffering a horrific bike accident in 2nd grade (one which saw the majority of the skin on my face removed by pavement, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://john.whelans.net/archives/945</link>
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		<title>John Whelan changed his profile photo.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Whelan changed his profile photo.]]></description>
		<link>http://john.whelans.net/archives/978</link>
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		<title>The need for speed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometime around late summer or early fall of 2010, Ann and I decided we should start biking more.  We lived in our first house at the time, and it was conveniently located on a greenway walking/biking trail that led into Eagle Creek State Park, where we had a membership.   We started out with short [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://john.whelans.net/archives/939</link>
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		<title>Where do we go from here</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of news coverage in recent weeks on high profile data breaches across a variety of organizations.  The two that stick out perhaps more than others (if for nothing other than the sheer volume of news about them) are the breaches at RSA and Epsilon. Data breaches are a serious matter, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://john.whelans.net/archives/936</link>
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