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		<title>Some background on HP Networking</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2013/04/06/some-background-on-hp-networking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 06:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made no secret that I&#8217;m a big fan of HP Networking. I like to thing that my belief in their product is based on positive experience and positive results under numerous deployment circumstances (ranging from small business to major government and university campus deployments I&#8217;ve been involved with). I believe most particularly that they [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=1489&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And speaking of Green IT&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2013/01/12/and-speaking-of-green-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a post last year about Green IT (http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/13/does-cisco-hate-the-environment/) where I discussed how Cisco has been pumping more power into  devices rather than looking to make them more efficient. Since I&#8217;m doing comparisons (and I openly admit I am less familiar with the power consumption of offerings from Brocade, Extreme, Juniper, etc.) I thought [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=1473&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HP Networking &#8211; an introduction part 1 &#8211; the company</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2013/01/12/hp-networking-an-introduction-part-1-the-company/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[3com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s start with HP. This post will be more about the history of HP Networking and where I see its advantages lie. Even though I will touch upon some of the important technologies HP offers with their switching portfolio, I won&#8217;t go into much depth until my next post. First, a brief history (go to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=1460&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Starting a new series</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2013/01/12/starting-a-new-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi all, I&#8217;ve got my next general post entitled &#8220;Where have all the Integrators gone?&#8221; nearly ready to go but I&#8217;m going to start a new series that is as much training as it is Blog based around the vendors&#8217; kit that I most like to use and endorse. Most of my last 15 years in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=1445&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A thought after attending vForum today&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/11/15/a-thought-after-attending-vforum-today/</link>
		<comments>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/11/15/a-thought-after-attending-vforum-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ICT companies whose heads are stuck in the ground are failing to notice that most new business opportunities are in the Clouds.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=285&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Workplace Surveillance (or why you shouldn&#8217;t do that at work!)</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/04/15/understanding-workplace-surveillance-or-why-you-shouldnt-do-that-at-work/</link>
		<comments>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/04/15/understanding-workplace-surveillance-or-why-you-shouldnt-do-that-at-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sydney Morning Herald recently published an article about IT snooping people&#8217;s emails (http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/email-snooping-it-admins-like-dracula-in-charge-of-the-blood-bank-20120413-1wxnu.html). Whilst I found this to be an interesting article, I don&#8217;t think they went far enough on the subject matter so I decided to expand on it a bit. I also think that the article was sponsored by Earthwave in order [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=281&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking a quick break</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/03/20/taking-a-quick-break/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi all, This has been a good month with what I think are some solid posts and some great and much appreciated feedback. I&#8217;ve got a lot on over the next couple of weeks so I&#8217;m having a little break. In the meantime, please feel free to suggest any topic within the ICT field that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=233&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adding VoIP to your network &#8211; some things you need to know</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/03/15/adding-voip-to-your-network-some-things-you-need-to-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi again, The feedback from my last post was great thank you. I also got a nice request from New Zealand to cover the perils of introducing VoIP on the LAN, since I gave so much coverage to implementing VoIP on a traditional LAN. Thank you, IT Manager in New Zealand, and here goes. I&#8217;m [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=276&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VoIP over Wireless Networking &#8211; some things you need to know</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/03/12/voip-over-wireless-networking-some-things-you-need-to-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi all, I&#8217;ll get back to The Cloud soon, I have my next post mostly written but it&#8217;s a very complicated topic; and what&#8217;s not too hard to deliver as a presentation is proving far more difficult to put into a blog post. I&#8217;m going to start seeding these with diagrams soon, which should make [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=226&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding your Customers, and Bringing Understanding to your Customers</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/03/04/understanding-your-customers-and-bringing-understanding-to-your-customers/</link>
		<comments>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/03/04/understanding-your-customers-and-bringing-understanding-to-your-customers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 04:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to James Vickery http://jamesvickery.com.au for inspiring this post. My readers will have certainly picked up by now that I am an IT consultant. It&#8217;s what I do, and it&#8217;s who I am. Over the last 19 years I have been: A Security Specialist A Messaging Specialist A Server Specialist A Database Specialist A Standard [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=218&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transition Projects &#8211; doing it right!</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/23/transition-projects-doing-it-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my clients just completed a critically important network transition and it went perfectly. The process of architecting that transition motivated me to put up a quick post of some of the most important steps in planning a transition project (any transition project) involves certain steps that must always be undertaken to ensure its success. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=215&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Migrating to the cloud &#8211; Small Business</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/16/migrating-to-the-cloud-small-business/</link>
		<comments>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/16/migrating-to-the-cloud-small-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Citrix]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is probably a bit out of order since I should cover some foundation information first but I know a few of my readers are most interested in this part of the series so I figured I would start here first. As a general definition, I classify Small Business as an organisation with less than [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=211&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Migrating to the cloud &#8211; introduction</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/15/migrating-to-the-cloud-introduction/</link>
		<comments>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/15/migrating-to-the-cloud-introduction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cloud computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi all, Based on the feedback I&#8217;ve received, it seems most people would like to know my opinion as to why businesses haven&#8217;t taken up cloud services anywhere nearly as quickly as most analysts have predicted. This is despite the fact that most cloud solutions offers big increases in ICT efficiency and flexibility whilst promising [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=207&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ASIC or Merchant Silicon &#8211; HP Switches</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/14/asic-or-merchant-silicon-hp-switches/</link>
		<comments>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/14/asic-or-merchant-silicon-hp-switches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[3com]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another re-post I&#8217;m afraid. I have a bad cold and can&#8217;t concentrate. the original post is at http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Networking/ProVision-Inside/ba-p/94329. This was my weigh-in on the debate over what was preferable to use in network switches following HP&#8217;s acquisition of 3COM (since HP has always focused on ASIC whilst 3COM was pretty much all MS). Here we [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=203&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Cisco hate the environment?</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/13/does-cisco-hate-the-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/13/does-cisco-hate-the-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi all, I&#8217;m a bit tired tonight so I thought I would re-post something I wrote last year against someone else&#8217;s BLOG in relation to Cisco&#8217;s newly announced UPoE technology, capable of delivering up to 60w of power per Ethernet port. The original post is at: http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&#38;gid=122304&#38;type=member&#38;item=63909236&#38;qid=abbb7112-8825-4ef2-bb71-6cfcba117d27&#38;trk=group_items_see_more-0-b-ttl. I kind of wonder if Cisco has something [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=202&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you want to succeed with Microsoft Lync &#8211; learn telephony!!</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/10/if-you-want-to-succeed-with-microsoft-lync-learn-telephony/</link>
		<comments>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/10/if-you-want-to-succeed-with-microsoft-lync-learn-telephony/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was lucky enough to move from a career in pure data (mainly servers, messaging and networking) to an organisation that was &#8211; up until my joining them &#8211; 100% focused on telephony just at the time when VoIP was beginning to become fashionable and the term &#8220;Unified Communications&#8221; hadn&#8217;t yet been coined. I was [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=123&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shopping for Quality not Quantity</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/09/shopping-for-quality-not-quantity/</link>
		<comments>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/09/shopping-for-quality-not-quantity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I was introduced to DealExtreme online shopping from China. Oh WOW! They sold everything and the prices were absolutely insane and they included postage! Headsets for my IPhone that I would normally pay $15-20 for were available for under 2 bucks!. I could buy 5 and even if they didn&#8217;t last [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=120&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In with the Old out with the New</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/07/in-with-the-old-out-with-the-new/</link>
		<comments>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/07/in-with-the-old-out-with-the-new/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure that I&#8217;m not the first person to cover this topic but I thought I&#8217;d add my bit. One thing that amazes me is the cycle of technology that goes on. The old cliche of &#8220;put the old dress in the closet and 20 years from now it will be back in fashion&#8221; seems [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=115&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Lync &#8211; Get used to it, get used to loving it because if you are in business, you will be running it soon</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/04/microsoft-lync-get-used-to-it-get-used-to-loving-it-because-if-you-are-in-business-you-will-be-running-it-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/04/microsoft-lync-get-used-to-it-get-used-to-loving-it-because-if-you-are-in-business-you-will-be-running-it-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unified Communications has been a passion of mine for over a decade. I left a senior position at Australia&#8217;s largest carrier in order to become a minor partner in what was to become one of Australia&#8217;s first truly UC-focussed businesses. Flash forward to around 2004 when we got involved in a tender for the complete [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=103&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Network do I need for my Small Office</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/04/what-network-do-i-need-for-my-small-office/</link>
		<comments>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/04/what-network-do-i-need-for-my-small-office/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Small businessmen have real challenges when it comes to IT in their business. They all need it and most of them don&#8217;t understand it. What makes it worse is the amount of terrible advice they get ranging from recommending they spend far too much money to &#8220;saving a packet&#8221; and having an unreliable environment that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=98&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Australia &#8211; the gambling country</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/02/australia-the-gambling-country/</link>
		<comments>http://dancingbear.com.au/2012/02/02/australia-the-gambling-country/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human beings gamble. It&#8217;s part of our nature and probably one of the reasons we came out of the trees in the first place. Gambling is OK, if we didn&#8217;t gamble, we couldn&#8217;t win and the world would stagnate. Excessive gambling on the other hand is an illness every bit as bad and destructive as [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=92&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Started&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://dancingbear.com.au/2011/05/29/getting-started/</link>
		<comments>http://dancingbear.com.au/2011/05/29/getting-started/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 14:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelGWolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, you have to start somewhere so I guess I&#8217;ll start here. I write quite a bit for business colleagues as well as fairly anonymously on various sites. Some of my colleagues have suggested that I should write a blog that could reach a wider audience, so I guess this is it. I won&#8217;t talk [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dancingbear.com.au&#038;blog=23587669&#038;post=3&#038;subd=michaelgwolff&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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