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	<title>Amal Graafstra - Technologist, Author &#38; Double RFID Impantee</title>
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		<title>Want a free RedBee Experimenter&#8217;s Kit?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The guys over at Trossen Robotics are throwing a &#8220;not so official contest&#8221; and giving away 5 free RedBee Experimenter&#8217;s Kits. From the Trossen contest page; Here is what I&#8217;m thinking. Those of you who are interested and can pull yourselves away from your robots for a few hours can pitch for one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency SQL transaction log truncation procedure</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Server Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you find yourself with an MS-SQL transaction log that grows in size very rapidly, quickly out-pacing your scheduled backup/truncation routines. I found when such events occur, you can manually truncate the log file without doing a huge time/space consuming backup by issuing these commands in sequence; DBCC SHRINKFILE(&#8216;LFLFLFLFLFLF&#8216;,1) BACKUP LOG DDDDDDD WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY DBCC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The RedBee RFID Kit is now available!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The kit includes a RedBee RFID reader module, several RFID tags in various form factors, and a software CD with full source code for the following applications; RFID Logger &#8211; Learn programming techniques to communicate with the RedBee RFID reader. RFID Deadbolt &#8211; Enhance an electronic deadbolt to accept RFID authentication. RFID Login &#8211; Log [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia Wrap-Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overall the IEEE ISTAS 2010 was a great experience, but not without its challenges… more on that in a later post. For now, I just want to say my talk went off without a hitch. I had 45 minutes but I think I went through it in something like 20, which was good because stretching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 1 of the ISTAS Symposium</title>
		<link>http://blog.amal.net/?p=3005</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m up early today ripping apart my lame powerpoint presentation and trying to put it back together so it seems more, well, intelligent. Yesterday was filled with really great presentations. I wasn&#8217;t sure what the crowd would be like here but I should have known it would be a small number of people with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sydney Morning Herald article</title>
		<link>http://blog.amal.net/?p=2996</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventures in RFID]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent almost a week in Sydney and I&#8217;ve noticed a few things. First, it&#8217;s very beautiful. It reminds me of all the best parts of Seattle and Vancouver BC mixed together. They have the &#8220;Sydney Tower&#8221;, but trust me it&#8217;s no Space Needle. Of course the Harbour Bridge and Opera House are amazing landmarks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Touchdown Sydney, Day 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flying from Seattle to LAX was fine, but the layover was horrible. Some airports are designed with layovers in mind, but not LAX. The place is so barren, and there are hardly any shops you can actually sit down in. I had an 8 hour layover at LAX before flying to Sydney (a 15 hour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New RFID virus infects media more than it does computers</title>
		<link>http://blog.amal.net/?p=2958</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 05:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventures in RFID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[implant]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Mark Gasson of the University of Reading in England shows the BBC that the storage space on his RFID implant could be used to house a specially crafted &#8220;virus&#8221; which could &#8220;infect&#8221; other systems. Technically this would be classified as a worm, not a virus, however the bottom line is quite simply this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is Ted Mosby kicking butt in District 13?</title>
		<link>http://blog.amal.net/?p=2946</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 03:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in general]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funny]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of my current vices is watching a show called How I Met Your Mother. Aside from Neil Patrick Harris (oh yes, NPH would do that), the show also stars Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Alyson Hannigan, and Josh Radnor. The story centers around Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) as he tells his kids the story how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking at the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society</title>
		<link>http://blog.amal.net/?p=2926</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 17:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventures in RFID]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago I was asked to be a keynote speaker at the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society being held at University of Wollongong in Australia. The symposium is part of IEEE&#8217;s Society on Social Implications of Technology, and since being asked I have been working on a paper to be reviewed and [...]]]></description>
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