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	<description>Technology Start-Up Consultant</description>
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		<title>For lack of a better word, Risk is Good.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That isn&#8217;t the line Gordon Gekko said in the movie Wall Street, probably because &#8220;greed is good&#8221; is alliterative and more rememberable. But greed motivates risk. And risk-taking is a both a key component of the US economy and the creation of the new jobs. Jobs we need to not only recover but to be competitive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sambeal.com/?p=436</link>
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		<title>Identify Theft in the 21st Century</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Identify theft is the illicit use of another person&#8217;s identify, usually to steal, by making false purchases, withdrawing money from an ATM or cash back purchase, or usurping an identify to gain a benefit otherwise unobtainable.
The most common mechanisms are credit card theft from lost wallets, rifled mailboxes and trusting your card to someone who copies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sambeal.com/?p=426</link>
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		<title>Five famous people I have met</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first started at TI, my boss Turner Hasty, introduced me to Jack Kilby, roaming the quarter-mile long hallway of the &#8220;semiconductor&#8221; building at the Dallas headquarters of Texas Instruments. He was working on a crazy idea to &#8220;grow&#8221; solar cells on flexible rolls, like paper is made. It never succeeded. Thirty years later, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sambeal.com/?p=361</link>
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		<title>Digital Asset Management, a slideshow</title>
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		<link>http://sambeal.com/?p=267</link>
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		<title>Musings on Social Media Ennui</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Justin Kistner at Webtrends, social media era will peak in 2012. I think he meant that the term &#8220;social media&#8221; will simply be replaced with something new, something will also change the world and last forever.
But what if he&#8217;s right, i.e. the phenomenon called social media becomes boring.
Jason Calacanis started a &#8220;quit Facebook&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sambeal.com/?p=254</link>
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		<title>I know Moore&#8217;s Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started college with my new Post Versalog sliderule, a High School academic award I still have (current picture).   ]]></description>
		<link>http://sambeal.com/?p=240</link>
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		<title>What is a digital legacy and what matters?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the hot trending topics to emerge in the last year is Digital Legacy. What is it? What does it mean? What should you do about it?
What is a digital legacy?
A digital legacy is the total available online content for a topic, person or an organization. Your digital legacy is everything created about you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sambeal.com/?p=187</link>
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		<title>Voice (messages) from the past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember the tape-based phone message systems that were popular twenty years ago? Perhaps you still use one. If so the voice-recording quality has likely degraded. Do you save voice messages from special people?  
I read a story in the Wall Street journal (April 7, 2010) about James Alan Bouton, the author of &#8220;Ball [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sambeal.com/?p=153</link>
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		<title>Death and Memory</title>
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I just finished a book on death and personal family memoir by Nothing to Be Frightened Of .&#160; &#8220;Nothing&#8221; is a double entendre that also means &#8220;total annihilation of your being&#8221;. The central theme is, religious beliefs not withstanding, that the living brain simply can&#8217;t grasp it&#8217;s own death. To quote William Saroyan, &#8220;Everybody has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sambeal.com/?p=140</link>
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		<title>Teaching Video to my Grandson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is a pixel? A pixel is a made-up term for &#8220;picture element&#8221;.  Displays (TVs, phones, etc.) are composed of scads of pixels arranged in rows and columns. The iPhone 3GS has 480 pixels in the wide direction. Under each one is 319 more pixels (in the narrow direction). But what are they? Each [...]]]></description>
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