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		<title>appstore and cryptography</title>
		<link>http://blog.vladalexa.com/2009/07/07/appstore-and-cryptography/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=appstore-and-cryptography</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the onset of copy/paste in the 3.0 version of the Iphone OS i figured i would write some software providing a facile way of encrypting text with a password for sending via sms , email and whatnot, it is called TXTcrypt after a long struggle it is now both on the appstore and as &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>iphone and flash</title>
		<link>http://blog.vladalexa.com/2008/03/06/iphone-and-flash/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=iphone-and-flash</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[iphone]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[adobe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steve Jobs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ok so i have to quote and comment on the following from informationweek : ^ Jobs&#8217; statements are sure to disappoint Web developers, many of whom are familiar with Flash development I am a web developer and i am not disappointed at all by his statement which for the record was straight on and amounted to &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>On MS VC++ 2005 reinventing the wheel</title>
		<link>http://blog.vladalexa.com/2006/02/20/on-ms-vc-2005-reinventing-the-wheel/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=on-ms-vc-2005-reinventing-the-wheel</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vladalexa.com/2006/02/20/on-ms-vc-2005-reinventing-the-wheel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlad</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microsoft]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vladalexa.com/?p=110</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It comes as no surprise too , microsoft&#8217;s paradigm for adding new features is reinventing the wheel , and they overengineer it just to the point where it is inevitable to break , and impossible to determine why it did so. Without further adieu let me present MicroSoft Visual C++ 2005 and it&#8217;s brand new &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>On high-tech thrillers and story telling</title>
		<link>http://blog.vladalexa.com/2005/07/04/on-high-tech-thrillers-and-story-telling/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=on-high-tech-thrillers-and-story-telling</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vladalexa.com/2005/07/04/on-high-tech-thrillers-and-story-telling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2005 03:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlad</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vladalexa.com/?p=106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have finished going trough my third Dan Brown novel , i was curious about these &#8220;high-tech thrillers&#8221; he is supposed to write , and what can i say , they are not plain , prety documented and mostly entertaining , but i am not sure Dan Brown is a writer , or at best &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The quirks and taboo&#8217;s of modern english</title>
		<link>http://blog.vladalexa.com/2005/07/02/the-quirks-and-taboos-of-modern-english/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-quirks-and-taboos-of-modern-english</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vladalexa.com/2005/07/02/the-quirks-and-taboos-of-modern-english/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2005 03:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlad</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[funny]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is some time now since english has became my secondary language given my computer interests (kids, in the past there were only english versions of operating systems) , and technical things like RFC&#8217;s are better understood in their original language , still every now and then i can not feel entertained or puzzled by &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>European Union is being corrupted</title>
		<link>http://blog.vladalexa.com/2005/03/24/european-union-is-being-corrupted/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=european-union-is-being-corrupted</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vladalexa.com/2005/03/24/european-union-is-being-corrupted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2005 03:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlad</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vladalexa.com/?p=95</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A tyrannical ruler of the medieval lands here once said &#8220;If you do not want me , well i do want you&#8221; when he was opposed to becoming a king , and he had his ways to enforce his saying and overcome all his opposer&#8217;s. Well for the sake of freedom of the european union &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The Confidence of the Incompetent The Peter Principle and Hagakure</title>
		<link>http://blog.vladalexa.com/2005/03/20/the-confidence-of-the-incompetent-the-peter-principle-and-hagakure/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-confidence-of-the-incompetent-the-peter-principle-and-hagakure</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vladalexa.com/2005/03/20/the-confidence-of-the-incompetent-the-peter-principle-and-hagakure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2005 03:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlad</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Incompetence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Peter Principle]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vladalexa.com/?p=90</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was baffled but not really surprised by a relatively new discovery by Dr. David Dunning that the most likely persons to overestimate their skills in a area are the ones that do not have any skills in that area. The logical explanation seems to be that the skills required for competence often are the same &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate programmers get licence to hack</title>
		<link>http://blog.vladalexa.com/2005/03/17/corporate-programmers-get-licence-to-hack/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=corporate-programmers-get-licence-to-hack</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vladalexa.com/2005/03/17/corporate-programmers-get-licence-to-hack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlad</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[XP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vladalexa.com/?p=88</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Xtreme Programming or XP for short are &#8220;agile&#8221; programming methodologies are the spearhead of what are known as lightweight programming methodologies , and are getting more popular every day. They relate closely to opensource methodologies and are essentially a license to hack for the oppressed corporate developers so i can easily understand their joy and sympathize with these &#8230;]]></description>
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