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	<title>John Brown - at work and play</title>
	<link>http://www.silesti.net</link>
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		<title>I find myself torn &#8211; iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was hooked. All day Wednesday I was looking forward to Steve Jobs speech and the announcement of the Apple Tablet device &#8211; that which we now know as the iPad.
The secret was poorly kept, key figures had dropped hints and clangers and at least one NDA seemed to have expired 12 hours too soon, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silesti.net/home/i-find-myself-torn-ipad/</link>
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		<title>Ducks  Quack &#8211; Eagles Soar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got this through on am email today and, although I don&#8217;t usually share stuff that comes through that medium, this kinda worked for me&#8230;
No  one can make you serve customers well&#8230;. that&#8217;s because great service is a  choice.
Harvey Mackay, tells a wonderful story about a cab driver that  proved this point.
He was waiting in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silesti.net/work/ducks-quack-eagles-soar/</link>
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		<title>Business policy for Facebook, Twitter and Blogging?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most, if not all, organisations have in some form an &#8220;Internet Policy&#8221; which would typically describe what is acceptable to do with your browser during office hours. I&#8217;ve seen these range from &#8216;anything as long as it&#8217;s legal and you don&#8217;t waste time&#8217; to &#8216;these 3 sites for these 5 people ONLY&#8217;.
And this is fine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silesti.net/work/business-policy-for-facebook-twitter-and-blogging/</link>
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		<title>A new site &#8211; Hosting-Thoughts.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Silesti.net has been a bit of a mish-mash &#8211; no excuses here, it was by intention &#8211; but I&#8217;ve decided that my &#8216;work&#8217; focused stuff, especially the Hosting Thoughts podcast and my commentaries on Hosting and Cloud technologies, deserves a space of it&#8217;s own.
There are, of course, many reasons for this but primarily my words [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silesti.net/home/a-new-site-hosting-thoughts-com/</link>
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		<title>Hosting Thoughts &#8211; Episode 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Episode 1 of our new regular chat about hosting and related technologies.
This week, we talk a little bit about the origins of shared hosting, why things have not really moved forward in that space so much, the rise of framework engines and virtualisation and why no-one should be building datacenters!
Next time we&#8217;ll be talking about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silesti.net/hosting-thoughts/hosting-thoughts-episode-1/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Private Cloud&#8221;? Been there, done that.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cloud technologies&#8230; it&#8217;s all everyone is talking about at the moment. You can&#8217;t scan a blog site, pick up a magazine or log on to any technology forum without have &#8220;Cloud&#8221; shoved in your face.
And I&#8217;m as guilty as everyone else! When ones livelihood depends on the adoption and deployment of technology you sometime have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silesti.net/work/private-cloud-been-there-done-that/</link>
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		<title>BPOS &#8211; There really isn&#8217;t a reason not to.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft&#8217;s BPOS Suite has come on quite a journey since it&#8217;s difficult birth. I can remember the reactions from the hosters I work with when the product set was announced. It ranged from outrage &#8220;They&#8217;re in competition with us!&#8221; through disbelief to a very simple &#8220;Meh, we provide other stuff with they can&#8217;t.&#8221;
Today&#8217;s announcement that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silesti.net/work/bpos-there-really-isnt-a-reason-not-to/</link>
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		<title>Windows 7, Snow Leopard, cloud services and my Desktop life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I felt the urge to share my desktop life with the world. It&#8217;s been a busy old 6 months, new technologies and solutions are bubbling up to the surface and keeping on top of them has been a challenge in itself, let alone actually doing the jobs I&#8217;ve got to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silesti.net/work/windows-7-snow-leopard-cloud-services-and-my-desktop-life/</link>
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		<title>The wheel turns &#8211; Parliament under scruitiny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a politica animal at all &#8211; ask anyone who knows me! I like to be informed and I certainly have opinions on thisngs but on the whole politicionals are grey-suited ne&#8217;er do wels who are long on promise and short on delivery. I have come to accept this &#8211; apathy rules, as long [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silesti.net/home/the-wheel-turns-parliament-under-scruitiny/</link>
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		<title>SaaS &#8211; WoW it really is!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there are is a  phrase which are generating more debate within the hosting community and in IT generally than &#8216;Software as a Service&#8217; (&#8220;SaaS&#8221;)  I don&#8217;t know what it is!
Many have sought and created definitions over the last year or so and all are without fail both right and wrong, how so? Because everyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.silesti.net/home/saas-wow-it-realy-is/</link>
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