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		<title>SPECIAL HURRICANE EDITION:  Lions and Tigers and Bears…</title>
		<link>http://www.curriculotta.com/?p=1082</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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…and lawn furniture and anything else that isn&#8217;t tied down or secured will be flying around during a Hurricane OH MY!  Yes, it is Hurricane season again. Secure or bring in lightweight objects such as garbage cans, garden tools, toys and lawn furniture


		
Are you prepared? Is your company and family prepared? Preparation BEFORE a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to be a Thought Leader in IT</title>
		<link>http://www.curriculotta.com/?p=1059</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Sweeney, of Affinity, reached out after reading a thought leadership thought leadership blog and suggested a Curriculotta post, &#8220;How to be a Thought Leader in IT?&#8221;


		
The original blog post posits:

According to Wikipedia, a thought leader is a futurist or person who is recognized for innovative ideas and demonstrates the confidence to promote or share [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughtful Transition Management..the neglected art.</title>
		<link>http://www.curriculotta.com/?p=1052</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find it thoroughly amazing many technology organizations still seem to forget or neglect the the most fundamental aspects of transitioning technology products into the hands of their customers.  I&#8217;m not referring to the technology bits and bytes about how to move code into production or fire up a new storage device, I&#8217;m talking about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stretching the Data Center</title>
		<link>http://www.curriculotta.com/?p=1048</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data centers are the un-sung heroes of the IT world.

A number of companies pushed off addressing facilities limitations during 2008 &#38; 2009 for budgetary reasons.  Now, some facilities are reaching their design limits.


		
When data centers are designed, the basic questions are how large (square footage), how many watts/square foot (driving power and cooling) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to My BlackBerry</title>
		<link>http://www.curriculotta.com/?p=1037</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just received my new Motorola Droid X from Verizon and I love it.

As a BlackBerry user, it was hard parting with my 8800.  I was a very early BlackBerry adopter having acquired 50 BlackBerry 950&#8217;s for my company in 1997.


	
The BlackBerry 950 was a remarkable device.  I already carried a mobile phone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Pandemic a bust like Y2K?</title>
		<link>http://www.curriculotta.com/?p=1032</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the Pandemic a bust like Y2K?    A real problem that didn&#8217;t happen?


 

		

 
Over the last year we have been inundated with messages about the Swine Flu, H5N1.  One needs to be vaccinated, one needs to be prepared.  Is your family ready, is your business ready?  What will you do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Apple WINS</title>
		<link>http://www.curriculotta.com/?p=1011</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Capital]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My coworkers like to gently rib me about my newfound appreciation for all things Mac.  It&#8217;s fun and I enjoy the teasing especially because I&#8217;m so often reminded of why Macs and other Apple products are so popular.  Here&#8217;s the most recent occasion.


		
Windows is obviously the OS of the business world and in some ways [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AT&amp;T &amp; Apple</title>
		<link>http://www.curriculotta.com/?p=996</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[communications]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[vendors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge has thrown down the gavel at Apple and AT&#38;T allowing a class action lawsuit to proceed against the two companies.  Here are our thoughts.

Full disclosure:  I am a technologist, not a lawyer.  I am an AT&#38;T (wireless) customer (because the service at my home is great), and have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>… but Macs don’t break</title>
		<link>http://www.curriculotta.com/?p=988</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me begin by stating I have no bias as to what type of computer people want to use.   For me, it&#8217;s about people having the right computer to do their jobs and to not have to ask me for support.

With that said, let me share a story of the first day at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tradeoffs – Lessons for IT from the Gulf Disaster</title>
		<link>http://www.curriculotta.com/?p=965</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeing a &#8220;Gulf Disaster – Tracking the Numbers&#8221; chart on CNN.COM this morning made me ill:


		
CNN.COM June 29, 2010, 9:00AM EST

As an engineer by training, and a lifelong technologist, I know there&#8217;s no good reason for the shortcuts  taken by my fellow engineers on at BP.
		
And while the company is working feverishly to clean [...]]]></description>
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