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		<title>Tar-baby</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tar-baby is a metaphor I find myself using and having to explain quite often. Metaphors are the essence of communication. They enable us to compare and contrast a situation in great detail with very few words. For instance, I can say “sour grapes” and evoke the entire Aesop story of the Fox and the Grapes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Very Large Project Insurance</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very large companies have very large software projects. It is not uncommon to find projects with hundreds of developers with schedules lasting years. Such projects cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Sometimes the projects go wrong. The companies put more people on the project, meaning more money. The deadline slips, the project is extended more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pioneers of Television</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently PBS has made documentary entitled &#8220;Pioneers of Television.&#8221; There were multiple articles about it in the local paper. I only just found out about it because I only read the headlines of the local paper while I am wadding them up to make a fire. (It is quite cold today.)
The documentary is about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven score and four years ago…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was seven score and four years ago today that Abraham Lincoln spoke these words.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that [...]]]></description>
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