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	<title>Geoff Corey</title>
	
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		<title>Time Boxing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all have difficulty getting stuff done. There are always challenges that derail us or distract us from getting the things we need to get done, done! Whether that be Facebook, text messages, instant messages, email, cell phone, or the household dog that wants to tell you that the cat wants out. Let’s face it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why your shop should stop doing one-liner requirement gathering!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got off a project where everything was specified by the customer as one liner requirements. System shall do this. System shall do that. Such old school gathering of requirements shows the lack of understanding what a customer really needs and what adds business value. Here how software development falls apart right from the beginning. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better software development metrics and estimates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[estimate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[project management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scrum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[story points]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.geoffcorey.com/better-software-development-metrics-and-estimates/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Don’t you hate gathering metrics that don’t mean anything? In the 80’s it was KLOC (thousand of lines of code) in the 90’s projects got so big we had to do big bang waterfall estimates where nobody had a handle on how long it would REALLY take to complete a project. Now in the agile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a new deck</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Building]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[clayton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fuquay varina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We bought a home in Fuquay Varina that is 20 years old and we knew it was going to take some work to get it where we want it to be. One of the items on the list was the deck that was build to wrap around the above ground pool. My estimation was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setup Sony Vaio Laptop Internal Microphone Ubuntu 9.10 VPCCW17FX</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sony Vaio VPCCW17FX uses the Realteck ALC262 codec and out of the box Ubuntu 9.10 the internal microphone does not work.  However the mic input jack does work. $ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* &#124; grep Codec Codec: Realtek ALC262 Researching on the web there were a lot of folks across a lot of distrubtions having issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setup Sony nVidia 220m laptop VPCCW17FX Xorg</title>
		<link>http://www.geoffcorey.com/setup-sony-nvidia-220m-laptop-vpccw17fx-xorg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.geoffcorey.com/?p=104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently purchased a Sony VPCCW17FX laptop that is equiped with an nVidia 220m graphic chipset.   Not a fan of Windows 7 so I installed Ubuntu 9.10 without a problem. However to take advantage of nVidia and have all the bells and whistles I needed to update the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.   There were several issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cell phone radiation levels</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radiation levels]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a doctor but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.   That being said I did work for a large cell phone carrier and visited a testing lab where all the engineers used hands free sets with phones they were testing.  Understandable since they get in demo phones for testing and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you losing a sale?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[selling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend a local wine store opened in town and my wife and I decided to spend time on main street and check it out.   It was a nice store in a historic building with a good selection of wine. I notice a buddy of mine who is an area wine rep was helping the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Differences Between Listening and Hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Just Listen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Goulston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seth godin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tipping Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whitney Hoffman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading Whitney Hoffman&#8217;s article on the Difference Between Listening and Hearing and it got me to thinking about all the conversations I have had last week, last year and all my life where the conversation was frustrated by neither one of us listening.   I would say X and they would hear Y and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Cleanup Day</title>
		<link>http://www.geoffcorey.com/internet-cleanup-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.geoffcorey.com/?p=80</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It isn&#8217;t easy to clean up my internet mess!   All the social media sites, the blog, the email accounts, rss reader!    Here is a couple of tips to help you clean up! Blog clean up This blog has been updated with the latest WordPress.  I originally used an installer my hosting company provided but it [...]]]></description>
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