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		<title>Save $160 by Purchasing the Office 2007 Upgrade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This came as a surprise to me; you do not need a previous version of Microsoft Office to use the "upgrade" version of Office! I stumbled upon this the other day while helping an old freelance client set up a new computer in their business. In fine print along the side of the Office 2007 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funzytech.com/?p=134</link>
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		<title>Percentage Comparison of 2 Strings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent project had me trying to determine a way to compare two strings and calculate their percentage difference. I was using Java and honestly figured there would be a built in function that would do just that. Unfortunately that was not the case.
After doing a good deal of research I discovered the Levenshtein Distance. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funzytech.com/?p=93</link>
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		<title>Guake for Windows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you ask me, Guake is the next best thing since sliced bread for GUI-based Linux users. It allows you to open a persistent, transparent terminal window by pressing F12 while in Gnome. Did I mention it's toggle-activated. Meaning when you don't need it in front of you, you press F12 again and it slips [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funzytech.com/?p=87</link>
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		<title>Decrease the time spent using the Start menu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At first use, the Windows Vista (and now Windows 7) Start menus are a bit odd. I thought it was short-sighted of Microsoft to make the menu so small and require scrolling, but what it did was force me to use the search feature. Just type the name (or even part of the name)  of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funzytech.com/?p=48</link>
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		<title>6 degrees of (insert your name here)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A fairly common social circle concept is that any one person is connected to another person by at most 6 people. It was made famous by the game 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Now let's apply this to business, networking, and job hunting. The number one reason for getting a job or catching wind of an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funzytech.com/?p=44</link>
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		<title>Tracking your sales leads, for free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While working at a local Rochester firm, sales tracking consisted of a precariously rigged Excel sheet that only one person could edit at a time, was consistently out-dated, and just all around horrible to use. Not to mention you couldn't access it outside the network without VPN access.
After asking around, this was a pretty typical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funzytech.com/?p=24</link>
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		<title>Fixing loud fans on your Xbox360</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was bound to happen at some point, my Xbox360 Premium bit the dust. Well, not exactly... It has an error E 74, which is apparently fixable with some voodoo overheating, but I'm reluctant to try it out just yet.
So, on to the point of this post. I got a used Xbox360 Elite from a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funzytech.com/?p=7</link>
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		<title>iPhone, why did I wait so long?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally got an iPhone! When the first generation iPhone came out I was skeptical. My thoughts were justified when a friend got it and months later Apple took $200 off the price. Then shortly thereafter the phone started slowing down.  Besides all that the iPhone only supported AT&#38;T. Being a 10+ year subscriber to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funzytech.com/?p=1</link>
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		<title>A lesson in audience awareness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A large consulting firm recently approached me and asked how they could improve their teaching program targeted at Lean Six Sigma Master Blackbelts. After looking at their materials it was immediately apparent what was wrong. There were 500+ presentation slides for a week long course. The topic, issue-based consulting skills. This is the point where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funzytech.com/?p=49</link>
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