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		<title>Review: Scaling MongoDB by Kristina Chodorow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am new to MongoDB but this book has been helpful in evaluating and learning about how to scale with it. At work we&#8217;ve been thinking about using it for some projects but it was important to investigate and review it in more detail before we jumped into it and added it to our stack. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you want to smell like a man?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I think I have seen everything now. There is a new cologne called Bacon, which of course smells like fried pork flesh. http://www.fargginay.com/shop-1.html I was at Sephora the other day with my girlfriend and I didn&#8217;t find any on their shelves. They could be missing out on a goldmine]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnarroyo.com/2011/04/do-you-want-to-smell-like-a-man/</link>
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		<title>Programming Python by Mark Lutz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Python is a great language for writing scripts that can be easily ran on servers or for writing web and desktop apps.  This book helps guide you through the syntax and coding style that make up a python app.  It&#8217;s definitely one of the more flexible and easy to use modern languages. There are lots [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnarroyo.com/2011/02/programming-python-by-mark-lutz/</link>
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		<title>Review: The Art of Community By Jono Bacon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One more day left in the O&#8217;Reilly blogger review program.  This time I have been looking at The Art of COmmunity by Jono Bacon. Overall it&#8217;s a great book for a foundation in community building and growing social websites.  It&#8217;s filled with lots of good advice and common sense.  My main complaint is I wish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnarroyo.com/2010/12/review-the-art-of-community-by-jono-bacon/</link>
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		<title>Make Magazine: DIY Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reviewing O&#8217;Reilly publications all week. I got ahold of Make Magazine: DIY Music (Technology on Your Time Volume #15) this time. It was fun reading about the various music hacks, brought me back to my hardware hacking days of undergrad and more recently Dartmouth Digital Musics. There is a particular project that seems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnarroyo.com/2010/12/make-magazine-diy-music/</link>
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		<title>Review of Native Video in HTML5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just recently took this video for a spin and posted my review on the O&#8217;Reilly site, Native Video in HTML5 Overall I gave it 4 stars.  Check out the review: HTML5 is becoming more of a standard and reality, but what does it mean to a web designer or programmer?  This set of videos [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnarroyo.com/2010/12/review-of-native-video-in-html5/</link>
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		<title>Issuu and uu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was looking at various ways to create a lookbook or flip book online and ran across some different solutions including page-flip.com, flashpageflip.com, and freshcatalog.com]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnarroyo.com/2010/07/issuu-and-uu/</link>
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		<title>I wouldn&#8217;t want to be the guy who lost this</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago an apple employee gets drunk and forgets his phone at the bar. It&#8217;s not just any phone though, it&#8217;s the next generation iPhone not to be out for months.  Given how secretive Apple is, I&#8217;m sure this person is in a world of hurt right now.  I was kind of surprised [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnarroyo.com/2010/04/i-wouldnt-want-to-be-the-guy-who-lost-this/</link>
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		<title>Google is taking charge of language translation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As google seeks to dominate all things digital, it gets one step closer.  This time with language translation.  It&#8217;s actually quite impressive to see the results.  I read this article from the NY Times and was pleasantly surprised. Check out the translation tests that the NY Times performed, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/09/technology/20100309-translate.html Human Translation of a passage from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnarroyo.com/2010/03/google-is-taking-charge-of-language-translation/</link>
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		<title>Do you miss the smell of bacon in your car?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ran across this bacon air freshener today.  Get your fix of fatty goodness when you are on your commute to work.  Forget about the trees, try out some bacon!  http://www.mcphee.com/shop/products/bacon-air-freshener.html]]></description>
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