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		<title>The Secret to Losing Weight by David Heinemeier Hansson (or what he would say)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: David had nothing to do with this post, but I am a big fan of  his and I have watched several of his speeches like this one.  His words (or my version of them) been my inspiration for losing weight over the last month and a half.
I have created a book for losing weight [...]


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		<title>Medicare Fraud &#8211; Inspecting Quality into a process rarely works well</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just watched a story on 60 Minutes on how simple it is to game the Medicare system out of millions of dollars.   Essentially, with a few pieces of static data a criminal can bill the system for medical equipment without having even met the Medicare patient.  The government will pay the [...]


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		<title>Competing poorly outside your core is not the way to win</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Twitter today @paul_irish shared this infographic which illustrates why the legacy carriers can&#8217;t effectively compete with low-cost airlines.

The information on this picture is nothing you can&#8217;t learn from taking any business school class, but what is interesting is how something so obvious is not put to good use.  I have felt for a [...]


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		<link>http://caldeas.com/2009/08/17/competing-poorly-outside-your-core-is-not-the-way-to-win/</link>
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		<title>Virtual relationships and the art communication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Services like Twitter and Facebook have allowed us to connect with people in ways we never imagined.  They have also allowed us to learn more about these people and to put our virtual feet in our mouths without even know we had.
You see, verbal communication and written communication are very different beasts.  When [...]


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		<link>http://caldeas.com/2009/08/08/virtual-relationships-and-the-art-communication/</link>
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		<title>Sending email in Rails via GMail &amp; using HAML with Action Mailer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sending Email via Gmail
I was following the Action Mailer Rails Guide to set up outbound email from my app and I came across a problem when trying to use GMail.  Many blog posts and the Rails guide point to plugins which enable TLS. I kept running into a wall and getting this error:

wrong number [...]


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<li><a href='http://caldeas.com/2009/08/03/book-review-rails-freelancing-handbook/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Book Review: Rails Freelancing Handbook'>Book Review: Rails Freelancing Handbook</a> <small>As part of helping out on a RailsBridge project, I...</small></li>
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		<link>http://caldeas.com/2009/08/06/sending-email-in-rails-via-gmail-using-haml-with-action-mailer/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Rails Freelancing Handbook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of helping out on a RailsBridge project, I was given a copy of the Rails Freelancing Handbook by Mike Gunderloy so I thought I would share my impression of it.
Overview
Even though the book has the word Rails in the title, a lot of the advice in this book can apply to anyone who [...]


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		<link>http://caldeas.com/2009/08/03/book-review-rails-freelancing-handbook/</link>
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		<title>The problem with SKU proliferation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TechCrunch has a short post on the number of models of handsets Nokia and Sony Ericson have on their site.
Why Nokia and Sony Ericsson are failing 
For reasons of market segmentation and distribution strategies electronics companies choose to spin new almost identical models of products which on some marketing plan may seem reasonable, but which [...]


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		<link>http://caldeas.com/2009/07/24/the-problem-with-sku-proliferation/</link>
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		<title>The Toyota A3 Report &#124; shmula</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a really good article on the Root Cause analysis technique developed by Toyota.
The Toyota A3 Report &#124; shmula.


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		<title>A study of Sass (meta-language on top of CSS)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been experimenting with different technologies as I learn Ruby on Rails and recently I have been looking into using HAML instead of ERB and Sass instead of CSS.  I started using HAML a while back and I really enjoy how clean the template files look.  This article has an argument for HAML and [...]


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		<link>http://caldeas.com/2009/06/14/a-study-of-sass-meta-language-on-top-of-css/</link>
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		<title>iPhone 3G S, The world&#8217;s most accessible smart phone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Apple upgraded the iPhone and made it the most accessible phone.  As I had predicted in an earlier post, with more capable hardware they were able to improve accessibility.  Apple gets it, they see accisibility not as a hindrance, but as a way to create a competitive advantage.
Voice Over, speak it to me
With Voice [...]


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		<link>http://caldeas.com/2009/06/08/iphone-3g-s-the-worlds-most-accessible-smart-phone/</link>
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