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	<title>kaiyen online &#187; Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts</title>
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		<title>supporting early adopters, or punishing those that go off the reservation?</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2012/05/14/supporting-early-adopters-or-punishing-those-that-go-off-the-reservation/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2012/05/14/supporting-early-adopters-or-punishing-those-that-go-off-the-reservation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A combination of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) &#8220;movement&#8221; and the rise of widely-used, highly-effective third party communication systems (eg &#8211; Gmail over whatever your company/institution is using) has created what I see as a conflict about whether to support people that you&#8217;d call either early adopters or ones that have gone off on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sometimes you have to put baby in a corner</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/08/28/sometimes-you-have-to-put-baby-in-a-corner/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/08/28/sometimes-you-have-to-put-baby-in-a-corner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work-related]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collaboration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dirty dancing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve been either working with people who are less than enthusiastic about developing a meaningful rapport with myself and my department or have been affected by various issues that have made them less collaborative/cooperative.  In general, I try to build relationships that will help out in the long-run.  That will create allies, that will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what do I really bring to the table?</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/07/03/what-do-i-really-bring-to-the-table/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/07/03/what-do-i-really-bring-to-the-table/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 08:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ncip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[northern california innocence project]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A great many of us, I am willing to wager, want to believe that we are doing something meaningful in life.  That whatever it is we do, it is making some kind of difference to someone.  It is quite reasonable that the &#8220;someone&#8221; is one&#8217;s supervisor, by the way, and that the &#8220;meaning&#8221; is in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>half-assed Google products</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/05/02/half-assed-google-products/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/05/02/half-assed-google-products/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 21:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[google apps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google docs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1084</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[NB - As I have been writing and editing this post, Google already updated their Docs application suite to make it a bit more functional.  I haven't done a lot of real-time editing with someone else so I don't know if it's any better, but the point is that this post might be irrelevant before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>stuck in an analog world</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/04/10/stuck-in-an-analog-world/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/04/10/stuck-in-an-analog-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1070</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, during my budget meeting, I got to &#8220;see&#8221; a great tool that our finance officer had put together.  It was a spreadsheet, true, but anyone that has worked with really complex ones knows that a properly designed sheet that has every reference done just right and provides the right data is as valuable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>online scholarship</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/02/03/online-scholarship/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/02/03/online-scholarship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1042</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The idea of online scholarship has come up quite a bit recently at work.  By this, I mean that part of a scholar&#8217;s work must, in today&#8217;s world, be done online, or at least exposed online.  So when you write an article, you tweet about it.  You have and maintain a blog in which you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>it&#8217;s all in the words</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/02/03/its-all-in-the-words/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/02/03/its-all-in-the-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1039</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think that one&#8217;s choice of words can really say a lot about one&#8217;s perspective on many matters.  One can certainly read too much into words &#8211; trying to get tone and meaning out of an e-mail is an invitation to disaster and misinterpretation (today, I decided against sending an e-mail and opted for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>an olive branch turned into stifled innovation</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/01/11/an-olive-branch-turned-into-stifled-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2011/01/11/an-olive-branch-turned-into-stifled-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1036</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer:  The Tech Steering Committee Innovation Grants offered by Santa Clara University are a terrific idea in support of those that have viable proposals to move teaching and learning forward.  Without these grants, many projects could not even get off the ground.  That these grants even exist at a smaller university is a testament to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>false advertising and hiding the tracks</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/11/17/false-advertising-and-hiding-tracks/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/11/17/false-advertising-and-hiding-tracks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1025</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Usual disclaimer:  IT groups at any university are faced with a tough challenge.  Limited resources, usually not quite enough staff to manage too many enterprise-level type services, and a strong, legitimate desire to do things the right way that gets misread as slow response, lack of concern, and or a number of other negative opinions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>management and innovation</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/11/17/management-and-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/11/17/management-and-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1021</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago, I posted about how hard it is to be a manager.  It was a kind of introspective, philosophical post rather than an in-depth analysis of management.  I was doing an off-the-cuff look at the conflict between being a manager and a leader.  The two are different, but unless you happen to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EDUCAUSE_HULK SMASHES twitter</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/10/26/educause_hulk-smashes-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/10/26/educause_hulk-smashes-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[educause]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[educause_hulk]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=1004</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A superhero touched down at the Educause Annual Conference last week in Anaheim.  Experiences were changed, Twitter was twisted, and everyone was asking&#8230; &#8220;Who is Educause_Hulk????&#8217; At this year&#8217;s Educause Annual Conference, held last week in Anaheim, I got to witness something that, realistically, doesn&#8217;t happen all that often anymore.  I got to see an existing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>edupunking law school, part 1</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/10/17/edupunking-law-school-part-1-2/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/10/17/edupunking-law-school-part-1-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=997</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a long hiatus from this blog, during which I was basically swamped at work, I return to the idea of how to redefine or perhaps restructure law school to make better use of its faculty, give more to the student, and get away from the traditional models of revenue and federal aid reliance.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a funny thing</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/09/25/a-funny-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/09/25/a-funny-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=988</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Something a bit odd happened earlier today.   An e-mail had gone out to various senior members of the law school that came from one of the school staff but looked a bit fishy.  Had some elements of unsolicited spam in it &#8211; &#8220;Have you heard the latest on..&#8221; and &#8220;the biggest scam you&#8217;ll find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>i can&#8217;t be the only smart one here&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/08/18/i-cant-be-the-only-smart-one-here/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/08/18/i-cant-be-the-only-smart-one-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=974</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[quite an ostentatious title, I know.  But if you will humor me&#8230; Twice in the last 5 business days, I have discovered problems of which Central IT was not aware. Last week, I passed along information that several law school staff and faculty received almost no e-mail over the weekend and that most had almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>outsourcing ourselves</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/08/05/outsourcing-ourselves/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/08/05/outsourcing-ourselves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[amazon web services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ferpa]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=960</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[here&#8217;s a thought:  why not outsource IT strategy? I&#8217;m not talking about IT infrastructure or tools.  I don&#8217;t mean using Amazon EC2 for computing power or S3 for storage, much less Google Apps for Education.  I&#8217;m not talking about outsourcing specific services. I mean outsourcing the actual decision-making process that drives our services and overall strategy.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>dear university&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/07/12/dear-general-counsel/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/07/12/dear-general-counsel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=949</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear University General Counsel,* I write to ask you to help foster an environment of creativity, innovation, and to engage us in how to push the envelope, rather than present to us the dimensions of said container and the strength of the glue that keeps contents within. I ask that you consider how important innovation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>deeply misunderstood&#8230;or stuck in a professional rut</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/07/04/deeply-misunderstood-or-stuck-in-a-professional-rut/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/07/04/deeply-misunderstood-or-stuck-in-a-professional-rut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education IT]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=938</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I read through a post by a friend who has been struck by the changes between working at a start-up and now in academia.  I, in turn, have been thinking a lot about whether I&#8217;ve been painting myself into a professional corner.  Making myself irrelevant to the rest of the working world&#8230; About 4 or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the limits of outsourcing</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/07/02/the-limits-of-outsourcing/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/07/02/the-limits-of-outsourcing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, about approaching outsourcing in higher education from a strategic view that goes beyond simple cost savings or privacy concerns, I talked about how outsourcing should either lower costs, increase value, or do both in order to help an organization develop and maintain a competitive advantage. Defining competitive advantage in higher education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>next in higher ed:  outsourcing as strategy</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/28/next-in-higher-ed-outsourcing-as-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/28/next-in-higher-ed-outsourcing-as-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=925</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A hot topic for some time now in Higher Education is outsourcing.  Generally, this has taken the form of using Google for e-mail.  In fact, other than a handful that use Microsoft&#8217;s live@edu for e-mail&#8230;I can&#8217;t think of anyone else doing anything through outsourcing.  No storage, no running of Exchange in the cloud, etc. Having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>managing by exceptions == anarchy</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/25/managing-by-exceptions-anarchy/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/25/managing-by-exceptions-anarchy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=921</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, it seems like all I ever hear is how, because there is such great certainty that students or other customers will just break the rules anyway, we should plan for the exceptions, rather than modify and/or enforce actual policy. For instance, since we know that students routinely share account information with each other, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the new (scarier?) conservative</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/22/the-new-scarier-conservative/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/22/the-new-scarier-conservative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=916</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The front page of the San Francisco Chronicle a few days back included a story about Carly Fiorina&#8217;s bid to oust Barbara Boxer as one of the US Senators from California.  Actually, the article is more about how Carla is part of a &#8220;new&#8221; breed of pro-woman, pro-life voters. This article struck me for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the land of the lost</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/16/the-land-of-the-los/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/16/the-land-of-the-los/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=908</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some organizations are monolithic and distant.  Huge, hulking, single-minded set of drones that present an impenetrable barrier to two-way communication.  Messages within are often top-down.  Big Brother tells you what to do, and all you have is a memory hole at hand. Should messages be top-down, from the organization but emanating out to the rest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>fighting complacency</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/13/fighting-complacency/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/13/fighting-complacency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=898</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a conversation with a classmate of mine recently, discussing various issues of interest at our school, the university at large, and educational technology in general.  We quickly moved from the specific &#8211; technology that we have seen implemented ourselves &#8211; to the general. We spoke, essentially, about how one must approach educational technology. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the endless pursuit of&#8230;complacency</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/12/the-endless-pursuit-of-complacency/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/12/the-endless-pursuit-of-complacency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=883</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a post about differing perspectives on technology and support of student learning here at SCU, so I must preface things a bit.  Any administrator at any academic institution, especially in &#8220;these tough economic times&#8221; (a phrase that I am so sick of&#8230;yet I use here in this post) has to make tough decisions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>where is Apple going?</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/10/where-is-apple-going/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/10/where-is-apple-going/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Companies compete on the basis of cost or value advantage over other products.  Either they make a product at a lower cost than competitors (often at the expense of value), or they offer more value (which is measurable to an extent, but is more than just the difference in willingness to pay or WTP).  A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>see what has become of Bill Jobs.  I mean Steve Gates.  I mean&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/07/see-what-has-become-of-bill-jobs-i-mean-steve-gates-i-mean/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/06/07/see-what-has-become-of-bill-jobs-i-mean-steve-gates-i-mean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe a week ago, the market capitalization of Apple exceeded that of Microsoft for the first time in history, dislodging the latter from the lofty perch that it has held for years and years. To me, the significance of this is more about a &#8220;popularity bubble&#8221; that I think Apple is experiencing.  There are a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the sanctity of our electronic data&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/02/27/the-sanctity-of-our-electronic-data/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/02/27/the-sanctity-of-our-electronic-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=817</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NB and caveat:  I say &#8220;we&#8221; a lot in this post.  I do not mean the &#8220;we&#8221; that is my organization and/or the university at which I work.  I mean academia in general. There has been a lot of debate &#8211; everywhere, but especially in academia &#8211; about outsourcing.  Lately, this has been e-mail.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>why not blame apple?</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/02/25/why-not-blame-apple/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/02/25/why-not-blame-apple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=796</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a post I started&#8230;a while ago so it&#8217;s sad that I&#8217;m only getting to it now.  Anyway&#8230; Over the last few months at the viral and national marketing level, there has been a &#8220;war&#8221; going on about ATT&#8217;s 3G coverage.  This has been fueled mostly by disgruntled iPhone users that aren&#8217;t getting the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I used to day dream</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/02/12/i-used-to-day-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/02/12/i-used-to-day-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=809</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now I merely fantasize. No, I don&#8217;t mean anything like that.  Get your mind out of the gutter. Before, I used to day dream, at least occasionally, about other schools calling me up someday asking how we (and, arrogantly, I) had managed to do something really cool.  About being asked to deliver a keynote at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon is dead.  Wait.  No it&#8217;s not.</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/02/08/amazon-is-dead-wait-no-its-not/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2010/02/08/amazon-is-dead-wait-no-its-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles from the Web]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=807</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon’s stronghold on e-book pricing crumbles, will renegotiate with Macmillan and HarperCollins « Boy Genius Report. There has been so much talk about how the iPad and iBooks store has been destroying Amazon.  Specifically, its ability to negotiate rock-bottom (and below-cost) prices for ebooks because they had such a dominant position in the field with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>more thoughts on Google diaspora</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/12/12/more-thoughts-on-google-diaspora/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/12/12/more-thoughts-on-google-diaspora/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=789</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I wrote about my thoughts on how Google is going nowhere in particular, and everywhere in general.  I was being generally being pretty fair about it, but the fact is that with all the power and personnel that Google has, why are there still so many items disconnected?  No integration, having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what is a &#8220;disruptive technology?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/11/05/what-is-a-disruptive-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/11/05/what-is-a-disruptive-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biz School]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other night and throughout Educause, people have been talking about &#8220;disruptive technologies.&#8221;  Because I&#8217;m getting my MBA, I think back to disruptive technologies in terms of products and markets. For instance, the transistor was a disruptive technology.  However, many manufacturers of radios considered it a process change &#8211; they put them in their existing, big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>google apps&#8230;and what the heck is wave?</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/11/04/google-apps-and-what-the-heck-is-wave/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/11/04/google-apps-and-what-the-heck-is-wave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=767</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So far, after just 1 day at Educause (and pre-conference day, actually), there has been quite a bit of talk about campuses that have gone with Google Apps for Education, and about their latest product, Google Wave. The talks about Google Apps have gone in 2 parts, it seems. 1 &#8211; migration to e-mail was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the oppression of the iPhone</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/11/03/the-oppression-of-the-iphone/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/11/03/the-oppression-of-the-iphone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here at Educause 2009 in Denver, I&#8217;m finding myself once again feeling left out because I don&#8217;t have an iPhone.  An application with all of the program information (you don&#8217;t have to pick up one of the paper booklets, perhaps) is available, and everyone I talk to just keeps asking me if I have an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>obsolecense of my&#8230;coffee maker?</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/10/23/obsolecense-of-my-coffee-maker/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/10/23/obsolecense-of-my-coffee-maker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=750</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about how the commoditization of so many different things that we use on a daily basis has changed our expectations of reliability.  For instance, I find myself thinking that if I get a good 4 years out of something, then that&#8217;s amazing.  Even with cars, I think of something 5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>teach me how to fish</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/10/21/teach-me-how-to-fish/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/10/21/teach-me-how-to-fish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biz School]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mere moments ago, I was meeting with some of the administration at the business school where I am pursuing my MBA, and found myself stunned by a statement.  For the most part, I am very happy with my education here.  Most of the faculty I&#8217;ve had have been very solid to great most of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starbucks&#8217; Pavlovian training</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/10/12/starbucks-pavlovian-training/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/10/12/starbucks-pavlovian-training/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=743</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently bought a new coffee mug for use here at work. My other ones, which are great for keeping things piping hot for hours, are all stainless steel on the inside and susceptible to staining. I was therefore hoping for something ceramic which would keep the coffee hot enough for at least a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>communicating and miscommunicating</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/10/08/communicating-and-miscommunicating/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/10/08/communicating-and-miscommunicating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=736</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One professional skill that I both value and work hard at improving is effectively communicating with others.  Effective communication skills is one of the most important attributes one must have in order to be an effective manager and leader.  And it is absolutely required should one have ambitions about moving upward through an organization, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>reconsidering MAD</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/09/08/reconsidering-mad/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/09/08/reconsidering-mad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Under the Eisenhower administration, Secretary of State Dulles pushed forth a nuclear policy known as MAD &#8211; mutually assured destruction.  It&#8217;s a rather frightening approach, but the idea was that if we had enough weapons with enough range and power, we could basically ensure our safety by raising the stakes so high that no country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>making lemonade</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/25/making-lemonade/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/25/making-lemonade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work-related]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit &#8211; I&#8217;m a big fan of the phrase &#8220;when the world gives you lemons, make lemonade.&#8221; It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m some die-hard optimist, nor that I always see the sunny side.  Actually, I might like that phrase because it helps me get through the day sometimes, when I&#8217;m being more pessimistic. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>why is recycling so hard?  oh wait, it isn&#8217;t&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/20/why-is-recycling-so-hard-oh-wait-it-isnt/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/20/why-is-recycling-so-hard-oh-wait-it-isnt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On the Way to and from Work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have 3 recycling bins &#8211; as big as large rolling trash cans &#8211; at our apartment complex.  There are 3 sets of these located next to each dumpster area for about 100 units.  That&#8217;s a pretty good ratio.  The bins are clearly labeled: Mixed paper (does not include newspaper, laminated paper, or cardboard) Newspaper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The mindset of the Class of 2013 « Feral Librarian</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/19/the-mindset-of-the-class-of-2013-%c2%ab-feral-librarian/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/19/the-mindset-of-the-class-of-2013-%c2%ab-feral-librarian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles from the Web]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=675</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The mindset of the Class of 2013 « Feral Librarian. I worked with Chris, the &#8220;owner&#8221; of Feral Librarian, for a number of years.  Closely for perhaps the last 2 years at Stanford.  She is a very intelligent person with great insights on a number of topics.  Yes, she&#8217;s a librarian, but she sees the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the career (life?) journey</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/15/the-career-life-journey/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/15/the-career-life-journey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Birth (you gotta start somewhere) Go to elementary school, spend the afternoons running around like idiots.  Do things only idiots would do. Go to middle school, be mean to each other Spend high school first feeling lost, then concentrating on getting into a good college If you&#8217;re luck enough to get an admissions officer to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I still have faith in e-mail</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/15/i-still-have-faith-in-e-mail/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/15/i-still-have-faith-in-e-mail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the age of 140 character tweets, super-bloggers that post just a few paragraphs at a time (hey, Paul Krugman &#8211; for a Nobel Prize winner, I really wish I could get more from you than a link to someone else&#8217;s article and a few nuggets of commentary), and facebook status updates that are at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Lose a Job Via Facebook In 140 Characters or Less &#124; Applicant &#8211; Job Tips And Advice</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/09/how-to-lose-a-job-via-facebook-in-140-characters-or-less-applicant-job-tips-and-advice/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/09/how-to-lose-a-job-via-facebook-in-140-characters-or-less-applicant-job-tips-and-advice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How To Lose a Job Via Facebook In 140 Characters or Less &#124; Applicant &#8211; Job Tips And Advice. With every question in my head about whether to have this person or that person as a friend on Facebook, I think about the possibility of something like this happening.  Not that I post anything quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>can a shape be green?</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/07/can-a-shape-be-green/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/08/07/can-a-shape-be-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was staring at the box of 24 or however many bottles of Arrowhead water we recently bought at Costco while eating my morning yogurt, and noticed the big graphic that said: &#8220;Eco-Shape!  Less Plastic, Better for the Environment.&#8221; This struck me as very intriguing. Can a shape be eco-friendly?  Does it fit better into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The President needs to shut up (or stick to the important stuff)</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/07/30/the-president-needs-to-shut-up-or-stick-to-the-important-stuff/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/07/30/the-president-needs-to-shut-up-or-stick-to-the-important-stuff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles from the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Getting Political]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=656</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Twice now, while watching the Daily Show I&#8217;ve wanted to get up and write something about the idiotic, stupid, waste of time that is this whole affair with the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.  Why did the President of the the whole freaking United States have to make any comment whatsoever on the actions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>facebook is not everything</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/07/23/facebook-is-not-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/07/23/facebook-is-not-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago, I was invited by one group on LinkedIn to join its group on Facebook.  For those that aren&#8217;t familiar with LinkedIn, it&#8217;s kind of like professional networking.  Whereas social networking sites like Facebook attempt primarily to bring friends and those in our social circles together, LinkedIn connects professionals.  So on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>anyone else think Palin&#8217;s resignation speech was less than stellar?</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/07/21/anyone-else-think-palins-resignation-speech-was-less-than-stellar/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/07/21/anyone-else-think-palins-resignation-speech-was-less-than-stellar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles from the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Getting Political]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/07/21/anyone-else-think-palins-resignation-speech-was-less-than-stellar/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Palin&#8217;s Resignation: The Edited Version &#124; vanityfair.com First &#8211; I got this off someone else sharing it on facebook.&#160; Sometimes this whole social networking thing is useful. I wanted to comment on Palin&#8217;s resignation when it first happened, because it made so little sense and, on a more superficial level, if one listened to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>watching what you say onilne &#8211; google really changes things</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/07/16/watching-what-you-say-onilne-google-really-changes-things/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/07/16/watching-what-you-say-onilne-google-really-changes-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=637</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Back in the day,&#8221; I used to have a pretty strong online presence as either myself or, much more frequently, as my alter ego, kaiyen. If you google &#8220;kaiyen,&#8221; you still find me mentioned here and there. That&#8217;s interesting since I have not gone by that in posts or discussion forums for probably 8 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>coordinates and street addresses</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/06/23/coordinates-and-street-addresses-2/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/06/23/coordinates-and-street-addresses-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/06/23/coordinates-and-street-addresses-2/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m heading out on a trip along the Oregon coast very soon and have been trying to make sure my GPS can find all of the hotels we&#8217;ve booked.  The problem is that many of them are just addresses along the highway.  That&#8217;s probably fine, but I know that, for instance, in Big Sur, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;let them fall&#8221; concept of macroeconomics</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/06/10/the-let-them-fall-concept-of-macroeconomics/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/06/10/the-let-them-fall-concept-of-macroeconomics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008 Economic Crisis]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=572</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Peter Schiff was interviewed.  Schiff is an &#8220;economic commentator&#8221; (as compared to an economist?) and the head of a brokerage firm.  Stewart showed a number of clips of Schiff on CNBC prior to the current economic crisis warning of the dangers of the housing bubble, sub-prime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the long and winding road indeed</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/05/13/the-long-and-winding-road-indeed/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/05/13/the-long-and-winding-road-indeed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 23:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NY Baking Examiner A few years ago, I was bored and, like many others, I started googling to find some friends from high school (c&#8217;mon&#8230;admit it, you&#8217;ve done it too).  Obviously before Facebook made the world flat and small. For some reason, whenever I looked for my friend (I say that with a weird feeling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(when) should I start wearing a tie to work?</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/05/12/when-should-i-start-wearing-a-tie-to-work/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/05/12/when-should-i-start-wearing-a-tie-to-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=526</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wondering lately about whether I should start wearing a tie to work, or perhaps when in my career it would be appropriate to do so, if ever.  Please note that I work in academia, in administration (as compared to faculty) so it&#8217;s not the same as working in corporate.  And I&#8217;m in Silicon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biz School @ 2 Years:  Hitting the Wall?</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/05/07/biz-school-2-years-hitting-the-wall/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/05/07/biz-school-2-years-hitting-the-wall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 15:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biz School]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I may have hit the wall after 2 years in the evening MBA program at Santa Clara University.  Bear in mind that, as an evening program I, like many of my classmates, work all day long, then go to 1.5-3 hours of classes at night.  Generally we either go for 1.5 hours 4 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;living&#8221; with sleep apnea</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/05/04/living-with-sleep-apnea/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/05/04/living-with-sleep-apnea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 17:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=500</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have Obstructive Sleep Apnea, a condition where, during the night, my throat/airway closes up and I stop breathing.  Usually, a person notices the obstruction, wakes up, coughs and falls asleep only after the airway has reopened.   It is the frequency and duration of these obstructions that are the key.  Right now I&#8217;m at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>where business and law schools meet&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/04/30/where-business-and-law-schools-meet/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/04/30/where-business-and-law-schools-meet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 05:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biz School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=489</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I had a discussion with a student at Santa Clara University&#8217;s School of Law who is also pursuing an MBA at the Leavey School of Business.  There are only a few joint degrees at Santa Clara, and the JD/MBA is one of them.  However, to put it simply, it&#8217;s a bit haphazardly organized.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>looking for the right netbook</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/04/01/looking-for-the-right-netbook/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/04/01/looking-for-the-right-netbook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[netbook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Until very recently, I have been very wary and circumspect of &#8220;netbooks.&#8221;  These are the ultra-small, RSI-inducing laptops such as the ASUS eeePC that are very light, have small screens, but are ultra, ultra, ultra portable.  As an aside, I find the name netbook hilarious.  Apparently my MacBook can&#8217;t access the net.  Hm. 99.9% of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>may I join you?  I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ve met.  Hello, I am&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/03/31/may-i-join-you-i-dont-think-weve-met-hello-i-am/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/03/31/may-i-join-you-i-dont-think-weve-met-hello-i-am/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=445</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I worked at Stanford, I can&#8217;t think of a single conference that I attended alone.  There was always one or two other Stanford colleagues there at over a dozen trips.  In addition, because of how I started at Stanford, where I got to know a lot of other people very quickly and then built [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumerism &#8211; not such a bad thing</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/03/19/consumerism-not-such-a-bad-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/03/19/consumerism-not-such-a-bad-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008 Economic Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression 2.0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IS curves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[macroeconomics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I sit here getting ready to take my economics final exam, I am struck by a comment a friend of mine made the other day about our economy and our economic situation.  Essentially, his point was that what we needed to do was save more and spend less.  In other words, that it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I&#8217;m studying management&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/03/05/im-studying-management/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/03/05/im-studying-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biz School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mba]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=419</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I&#8217;m interacting with classmates in my MBA program, especially when I&#8217;m meeting someone new, I am often asked &#8220;what is your concentration?&#8221;  Many people answer that they are pursuing the finance track, or economics, or perhaps operations.  I say that I am pursuing the management and leadership concentrations (they are two separate ones). I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iStock:  What do you want from me???</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/02/18/istock-what-do-you-want-from-me/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/02/18/istock-what-do-you-want-from-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[istock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock photography]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=405</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently applied to istock, which is an online stock photography service.  The idea is that all these photographers submit images, which advertisers, graphic artists, etc can then purchase and use according to your licensing.  It has proven quite the revenue stream in the past for many photographers.  I have no illusions that I&#8217;ll make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laptops &amp; classes &#8211; the slippery slope</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/02/11/laptops-classes-the-slipper-slope/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/02/11/laptops-classes-the-slipper-slope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work-related]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=390</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me preface this a bit &#8211; I work at a law school.  Unlike most other groups at a university, where the laptop ownership rate might be very high but the &#8220;actually carry laptop to class&#8221; rate might be quite a bit lower, just about every law student owns a laptop, and uses it in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>General rant</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/02/06/general-rant/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/02/06/general-rant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a general rant based on a conversation where, to be honest, I was a jerk because I took the below comments too far.  But having said that&#8230; If someone mentions something in IM, even in passing, I&#8217;m allowed to react to that.  We&#8217;re allowed to do that in conversation in general right, unless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drobo-fied&#8230;part 2</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/02/02/drobo-fiedpart-2whileiwa/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/02/02/drobo-fiedpart-2whileiwa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drobo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=368</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick thoughts on my new drobo: While I want to support TWIP and buy with their coupon from drobo directly, it was way cheaper to buy from newegg with yet another rebate. It really is neat how I can just put a drive in there and suddenly I have more storage.  Or I can take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Universities &#8211; why not take on debt..?</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/01/31/universities-why-not-take-on-debt/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/01/31/universities-why-not-take-on-debt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=364</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I blogged about how the economic crisis affects universities in a weird way.  One of the key differences is that they don&#8217;t operate on debt, as far as I know, so the credit freeze hasn&#8217;t killed it the way it has companies.  Other than hits on endowments, I&#8217;m not aware of problems in general.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Economic Crisis &amp; Universities &#8211; my take on why it&#8217;s different</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/01/30/the-economic-crisis-universities-my-take-on-why-its-different/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/01/30/the-economic-crisis-universities-my-take-on-why-its-different/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression 2.0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[endowments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=360</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As with just about any financial entity in the country and possibly the world, Santa Clara University has been dealing with the ramifications of the economic crisis that the entire nation is facing right now.  Frozen credit markets, liquidity concerns, dissolution of various funds which were the basis of our wealth &#8211; they are all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the government spends $700 billion, you&#8217;ve just increased demand by $700 billion</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/01/22/when-the-government-spends-700-billion-youve-just-increased-demand-by-700-billion/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/01/22/when-the-government-spends-700-billion-youve-just-increased-demand-by-700-billion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression 2.0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus package]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, my macro-economics professor stated something similar to the title of this post in class. While government spending and demand creation is not directly linear, an interesting point is made. When the government actually spends, say, $700 billion on roads, bridges, green energy, etc, it injects that money directly into the actual economy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Messing with an ecosystem is rarely good</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/01/16/messing-with-an-ecosystem-is-rarely-good/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/01/16/messing-with-an-ecosystem-is-rarely-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles from the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collapse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jared diamond]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/01/16/messing-with-an-ecosystem-is-rarely-good/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Removing cats to protect birds backfires on island In Jared Diamond&#8217;s book, Collapse, one of the case studies he examines is the introduction of, I believe, rabbits to Australia.&#160; They were brought in for game hunting, and actually the first attempt failed so people tried again.&#160; However, they soon bred out of control and now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to write an episode of 24</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/01/13/how-to-write-an-episode-of-24/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/01/13/how-to-write-an-episode-of-24/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can't be Contained]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[24]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiefer Sutherland]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=317</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just follow these basic guidelines: Have Jack Bauer look serious and angry at least 3 times per episode Mention either or all of the following topics at least once:  Jack being kidnapped to China, Jack&#8217;s wife dying in season 1, Jack&#8217;s daughter not talking to him, or the actions of the various Presidents that have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook/Plurk/Twitter/etc updates</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/01/08/facebookplurktwitteretc-updates/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/01/08/facebookplurktwitteretc-updates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plurk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=305</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So now Plurk has a plug-in that lets you send something to them (to &#8220;plurk&#8221; I guess) and have it update your FB status.  Twitter has had this for a while.   I have been torn ever since I started seeing people use Twitter for FB updates, and am now even more so as I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>re:</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/01/07/re/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/01/07/re/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression 2.0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Debbie Schinker posted a comment in response to another post of mine that has me wanting to write a bit more&#8230; I always take what the “experts” say with a grain of salt. Expert analysis lags real life &#8211; they wait for the numbers to “confirm” what the rest of the world &#8211; literally &#8211; already knew: we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OMG!  I better watch what I say now or people realize I have no idea what I&#8217;m talking about</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/01/07/omg-i-better-watch-what-i-say-now-or-people-realize-i-have-no-idea-what-im-talking-about/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2009/01/07/omg-i-better-watch-what-i-say-now-or-people-realize-i-have-no-idea-what-im-talking-about/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debbie schunk]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s kind of strange &#8211; if you add in the &#8220;lost posts&#8221; from the first version of this blog, where what turns out to have been a stupid mistake on my part cost me a couple years&#8217; worth of posts, I&#8217;ve been writing for a while without any real expectation that anyone reads anything I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wedding photography is serious business</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/12/19/wedding-photography-is-serious-business/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/12/19/wedding-photography-is-serious-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wedding photography]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me qualify this post by saying that I am not bashing those that are trying to get started in wedding photography, I realize that many are &#8220;sucked in&#8221; by friends and family and get in over their heads, and that I know that wedding photography is hard.   But, I was one of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Camera) Format Wars</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/12/15/camera-format-wars/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/12/15/camera-format-wars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[6x17]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[large format]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medium format]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most popular and perhaps famous camera formats out there is 6&#215;17. This is medium format film, which is 6cm tall that is shot in a really wide camera and a big lens, producing a 17cm wide image. Nor surprisingly, it&#8217;s very panoramic in appearance. Many famous photographers have used cameras that shoot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One never has enough resources, but that doesn&#8217;t hurt any less</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/12/10/one-never-has-enough-resources-but-that-doesnt-hurt-any-less/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/12/10/one-never-has-enough-resources-but-that-doesnt-hurt-any-less/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work-related]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know that every manager faces the issue of not enough resources.  I can&#8217;t think of anyone I know that has enough or too much, certainly.  There&#8217;s always one project that one wishes can be done, but can&#8217;t due to budget, resources, etc. But that doesn&#8217;t make it hurt any less.  We operate basically with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter hits its stride (at least for me)</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/11/20/twitter-hits-its-stride-at-least-for-me/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/11/20/twitter-hits-its-stride-at-least-for-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[educause]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[educause2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=219</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t heard of twitter, you should check it out, at least for reference and general knowledge purposes.  But basically, it&#8217;s a &#8220;micro-blogging&#8221; platform where you post 140-character maximum messages about&#8230;anything.  Kind of like facebook status updates (and many tie the two together), except that you can &#8220;follow&#8221; twitter feeds of certain users, much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Marketing of a Business School</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/11/12/the-marketing-of-a-business-school/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/11/12/the-marketing-of-a-business-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biz School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leavey school of business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[santa clara university]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some discussions between&#8230;various people and I have covered the issue of how the Leavey School of Business, where I am pursuing an MBA, markets itself. First, I&#8217;m not really sure how the school sees itself.  On the one hand, I think it&#8217;s well-known that the biggest benefit of the MBA program at SCU is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Badwater Basin to Electrode City</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/11/11/from-badwater-basin-to-electrode-city/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/11/11/from-badwater-basin-to-electrode-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[badwater basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sleep apnea]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two evenings ago, around 1AM, I was 2 miles out from the viewing platform at Badwater Basin in Death Valley, the lowest point in North America.  I was in the middle of the valley, under an almost-full moon (86% waxing gibbous), taking an hour-long photograph (yes, 1 shot for a full hour) of the trails [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So now he&#8217;s African American&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/11/07/so-now-hes-african-american/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/11/07/so-now-hes-african-american/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barack obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election 2008]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I kept meaning to write this earlier &#8211; the day after our election, when Barack Obama was elected to office &#8211; but things have been busy. As a very quick note, it has been interesting seeing how after the election, a lot more has been made of the fact that he will be the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain on SNL</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/11/02/mccain-on-snl/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/11/02/mccain-on-snl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick comment as I am catching up on last night&#8217;s SNL episode. It&#8217;s a pretty bad sign that McCain is willing to &#8220;poke fun&#8221; at his own campaign with Tina Fey, playing running mate Sarah Palin, joking about how Palin has been a rogue, possibly setting herself up for her own campaign in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain:  listening to a campaign speech today.  What the&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/30/mccain-listening-to-a-campaign-speech-today-what-the/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/30/mccain-listening-to-a-campaign-speech-today-what-the/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mccain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t a &#8220;political&#8221; post.  I&#8217;m not bashing or supporting either side (I did vote for Obama, and I don&#8217;t like McCain, but that&#8217;s not the point here).  What I&#8217;m not getting is how McCain can say something over and over and over, not changing what he is saying, when I truly feel like he&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Softening up tough female co-stars</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/25/softening-up-tough-female-co-stars/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/25/softening-up-tough-female-co-stars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eleventh hour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marley shelton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rufus sewell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[television]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the new shows this fall that has at least piqued my interest, if not actually capturing it, is Eleventh Hour, starring Rufus Sewell (of Dark City fame) and Marley Shelton (of cute blonde-in-Pleasantville fame and apparently cute-blonde in general fame).  I&#8217;m not sure yet if I like the show, but one thing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The politics of the walk to work</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/19/the-politics-of-the-walk-to-work/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/19/the-politics-of-the-walk-to-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On the Way to and from Work]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I walk to work.  In general, it&#8217;s a very pleasant 20 minute walk.  Just long enough to get me going in the morning, get a few steps on the pedometer, and to get my mind in the right place.  Just short enough so that if I&#8217;m running late I can hustle and cut it down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LinkedIn Invite &#8211; unexpected questions</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/18/linkedin-invite-unexpected-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/18/linkedin-invite-unexpected-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linkedin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I invited someone to join my LinkedIn network (my profile!).  The default message is something along the lines of &#8220;since you are someone I trust, I would like to add you to my network.&#8221; The key word is trust.  I believe that LinkedIn means in terms of who they are.  I trust [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The damnation of too many course materials websites</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/16/the-damnation-of-too-many-course-materials-websites/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/16/the-damnation-of-too-many-course-materials-websites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biz School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[angel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[docutek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning management systems]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here at SCU, we have two major online course materials systems.  One is called eres, the other Angel.  The former is really just a document repository.  It does have folders and a weird variant of a discussion forum but it&#8217;s a place where a professor can put a bunch of files and students can download [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How hard can it be to find a broadcast of the presidential debate&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/08/how-hard-can-it-be-to-find-a-broadcast-of-the-presidential-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/08/how-hard-can-it-be-to-find-a-broadcast-of-the-presidential-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, before I had class, I spent a good 20 minutes wandering around from building to building on campus trying to find a broadcast of the debate.  The servers at cnn.com were overwhelmed and I couldn&#8217;t quickly find another online stream.  I tried the business school building in general &#8211; believe it or not, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random thoughts on the the 2nd presidential debate</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/07/random-thoughts-on-the-the-2nd-presidential-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/07/random-thoughts-on-the-the-2nd-presidential-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Truly random Obama needs to calm down after McCain speaks and, IMO, distorts the former&#8217;s position.  That&#8217;s the nature of a debate.  Things are distorted.  Obama keeps jumping out of his chair.   McCain recommends nuclear.  I like that he grabbed that.  No one likes to talk about nuclear, but he did.  Interesting. Energy independence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another telling paragraph&#8230;economic plans of the candidates</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/07/another-telling-paragrapheconomic-plans-of-the-candidates/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/07/another-telling-paragrapheconomic-plans-of-the-candidates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Examining America&#8217;s presidential candidates &#124; Examining the candidates &#124; The Economist On his plans to fix the financial crisis, Mr Obama averages 3.1, a point higher than Mr McCain. Still, some said they didn’t quite know what they were rating—reasonably enough, since neither candidate has produced clear plans of his own.  This is the interesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting an MBA &#8211; why we do it (not that I have any clue)</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/06/getting-an-mba-why-we-do-it-not-that-i-have-any-clue/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/06/getting-an-mba-why-we-do-it-not-that-i-have-any-clue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biz School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mba]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve progressed through my MBA program at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, I have lately been thinking about why I am doing this.  Why I am pursuing this degree in particular.  And, as I&#8217;ve thought about that, I have begun to wonder about the motivations of my classmates and thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The frustration of the 360 eval</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/06/the-frustration-of-the-360-eval/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/06/the-frustration-of-the-360-eval/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[360 evaluations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barry posner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jerry kouzes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lpi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was asked to completed a 360 degree eval of a colleague.  I&#8217;m sure most either know what this type of evaluation is or can make a pretty good guess, but the idea is that everyone around the individual &#8211; superiors, peers, subordinates, outside and inside the organization &#8211; are asked to evaluate that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Torre makes the playoffs.  The Yankees don&#8217;t.</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/04/joe-torre-makes-the-playoffs-the-yankees-dont/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/04/joe-torre-makes-the-playoffs-the-yankees-dont/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baseball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joe torre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manny ramirez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mlb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[playoffs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yankees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=80</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The LA Dodgers, managed by Joe Torre, just completed their sweep of the Chicago Cubs, their first postseason series win since they went all the way in 1988.  The Yankees missed the postseason for the first time since 1993 (which sounds longer than it really is &#8211; 1994 was the strike year).  Since the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Am I a good manager?</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/03/am-i-a-good-manager/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/10/03/am-i-a-good-manager/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Honestly?  I have no idea.  But I think it&#8217;s important to keep asking one&#8217;s self this question. Right now, I&#8217;m feeling alright.  Not great.  But alright.]]></description>
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		<title>Where did my Robin Weigert go?</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/09/29/where-did-my-robin-weigert-go/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/09/29/where-did-my-robin-weigert-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[damien lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[donal logue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nbc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robin weigert]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=68</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite shows from last year was Life, starring Damien Lewis and, among others, Robin Weigert.  The show is back this year, but Weigert is not.  Donal Logue has taken her place.  Usually I very much like Donal Logue. But so far, having seen the first episode, he is terrible.  Bring back Weigert.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from “Good to Great,” part 2</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/09/28/lessons-from-%e2%80%9cgood-to-great%e2%80%9d-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/09/28/lessons-from-%e2%80%9cgood-to-great%e2%80%9d-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design for six sigma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good to great]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jim collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[six sigma]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kaiyen.com/blog/?p=46</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I definitely have a second thought on Jim Collins&#8217; book Good to Great, this is now part 2.  No more question mark. I&#8217;m a bit farther into the book now and I am getting the kind of feeling I got with Design for Six Sigma when I was learning about that process management [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from &#8220;Good to Great&#8221; (part 1?)</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/09/27/lessons-from-good-to-great-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/09/27/lessons-from-good-to-great-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anasazi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collapse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[easter island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good to great]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jared diamond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jim collins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For one of my current MBA classes (IDIS 612, with Professor Kevin Walsh, to be reviewed later, surely), I am reading the bestselling book Good to Great by Jim Collins.  This is a nice breakdown of how companies managed to become great (based on a standard of beating the overall market by a factor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The case against dual-boot labs</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/09/23/the-case-against-dual-boot-labs/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/09/23/the-case-against-dual-boot-labs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bootcamp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dual-boot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lab management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[os x]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caveat &#8211; I haven&#8217;t managed a lab in about 2 years so this is mostly my ponderings and thoughts rather than a state-of-the-art analysis of the setup of dual-boot labs. Since Macs started supporting Windows via Bootcamp (not even bothering with a link here), everyone at all kinds of schools have been thinking about going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am not, therefore I am</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/09/22/i-am-not-therefore-i-am/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/09/22/i-am-not-therefore-i-am/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coffee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just a random observation and thought &#8211; a while ago, while discussing exactly what &#8216;being bad at making coffee meant,&#8217; I made that statement that &#8216;I am not a coffee snob, but I really do prefer&#8230;&#8221; Before I could finish the sentence, a comment was made that if I say &#8216;I&#8217;m not a coffee snob&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Okay I get it &#8211; law students are evil</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/08/05/okay-i-get-it-law-students-are-evil/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/08/05/okay-i-get-it-law-students-are-evil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is another one of those difficult posts, as it has to do with work, and with another group on campus.  As always, I preface by saying the following: Administration at a school is hard Dealing with students is hard Students always take advantage of everything and will abuse the system until you stop them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Conundrum of Protected Left Turns</title>
		<link>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/05/05/the-conundrum-of-protected-left-turns/</link>
		<comments>http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/05/05/the-conundrum-of-protected-left-turns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 05:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaiyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings, Rants, and Random Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protected left turns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traffic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The SF Bay Area (which includes all the way down to San Jose, yes), is the land of protected left turns.  Everywhere you go, there is a left turn lane, and a signal just for that lane.  People get used to it. There are two problems with this.  First, it&#8217;s not really &#8216;everywhere.&#8221;  There are [...]]]></description>
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