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	<description>Towards a new Liberalism: rational, compassionate and progressive</description>
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		<title>Chickens and Eggs: A Proof of God</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/07/14/chickens-and-eggs-a-proof-of-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media is all atwitter about how new research indicates the crystallization mechanism in eggshells involves a catalytic protein.  This implies there has to be a chicken to make the protein, before the egg gets made.  Ergo:  Chicken &#8211;> egg.
Poppycock.  Here&#8217;s an answer I came up with a long time ago:
1) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty: The Best Idea in History</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/07/11/liberty-the-best-idea-in-history/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/07/11/liberty-the-best-idea-in-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rights and Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The American Experiment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Towards a New Liberalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, with your permission, I'd like to pay homage to the speechifying tradition. To keep things <strong>polite</strong>, I'm not going to talk about a particular candidate or party, nor praise a specific policy or polity.  In fact, I promise not to talk about anything controversial at <strong>all</strong>; and will, for the sake of friendliness and universality, limit my discourse to the following non-controversial topics:  science, economic policy, politics and religion. I will tie them with the common thread of liberty.  We'll leave more fractious debates and incendiary topics to others, and stick with these <strong>comfortable</strong> issues.  Now, I suspect you might consider this a full, perhaps <strong>too-full</strong>, agenda for such a beautiful day.  Likewise, I am obliged to be mindful of the plans you may have made-- for this evening, and will keep my comments brief.  But before you decide I've set myself an impossible task, I hasten to remind you that last year the same allotment of time proved sufficient to make good headway regarding The Meaning of Life.   Today's few topics should, <em>by comparison</em>, be much easier to manage.  So please, give me the liberty to speak for a few minutes more.]]></description>
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		<title>Cracklin&#8217; Sky!</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/06/18/cracklin-sky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The same day that brought nifty clouds also presented an opportunity for catching the lightning&#8230;
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		<title>A storm rolls through</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/06/18/a-storm-rolls-through/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Rob for the idea to &#8220;picturify&#8221; the shelf cloud.  More fun with nature in my back yard &#8211; or close to it.
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		<title>Punctuated Equilibrium and Universality</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/06/09/punctuated-equilibrium-and-universality/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/06/09/punctuated-equilibrium-and-universality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Punctuated equilibrium is a refinement of natural selection theory.  To cut to the chase, it proposes that speciation happens in bursts during periods of rapid genetic change; often in response to environmental factors.  
It occurs to me that bursts of creativity and innovation also sometimes stand as bookends to periods of status-quo in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the way home from breakfast&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/03/26/on-the-way-home-from-breakfast/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/03/26/on-the-way-home-from-breakfast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;we saw a blue heron.  Zipping home to grab my camera, we came back to find it still fishing in the pond nearby.  Nice birdy!

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		<title>Medieval witch-hunts continue</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/03/19/medieval-witch-hunts-continue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently Ali Hussain Sabat, a Lebanese TV personality made a trip of religious devotion to Saudi Arabia, where things got a bit nasty.  Part of Mr. Sabat&#8217;s shtick  involved a kind of &#8220;Carnak the Magnificent&#8221; routine wherein he would dispense sage advice and pretend to read the future for callers.  The stuffy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Brain: Scientist or Fortune-Teller?</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/03/18/the-brain-scientist-or-fortune-teller/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/03/18/the-brain-scientist-or-fortune-teller/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent research has shown the brain inherently uses something like the scientific method.  Although the study specifically assesses the response of the visual cortex to anticipated or novel stimuli, it makes sense that there&#8217;s a more general pattern-matching mechanism underlying basic cognition.  A commentator even suggests there&#8217;s a link between the brain&#8217;s success [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Another Day</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/03/18/just-another-day/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/03/18/just-another-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Idle Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[horned owl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pleiades]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These are some of the things I have seen today.

 From my back patio in a suburb of bustling Chicago.


		A mother owl with her chick
	
                


		The first flowers in my yard
	

 

 

		
		A watchful mother   
		Owl family in moonlight

I am filled with wonder that such beauty is available

 right under my feet,

and up above my head.

 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capacity Management with Treemaps</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/03/17/capacity-management-with-treemaps/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/03/17/capacity-management-with-treemaps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capacity Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capacity integrator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capacity management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heatmaps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adding the functionality to build dynamic treemaps from Nicolas Garcia Belmonte&#8217;s InfoVis  javascript package into Capacity Integrator.


 

	
I&#8217;m confident this is the first product for enterprise IT capacity management that uses treemaps to provide an overview and drill-down of the tremendous amount of performance and capacity data large enterprises must deal with.  I&#8217;ve written [...]]]></description>
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