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	<description>Balancing the signal-to-noise ratio.</description>
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		<title>Tips for starting a career</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to a post on brazencareerist.com about what tip(s) I would offer someone starting a career, I submitted the following:

Nights and weekends invested in your skillset will pay off. Don&#8217;t run away from hard work.
A positive attitude is essential. You *will* go unrecognized and taken for granted. This will be true of every job [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nicholascloud.com/2010/04/27/tips-for-starting-a-career/</link>
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		<title>Honoring your life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found a very powerful quote today on a blog that I just happened to stumble across through an unrelated Google search.  I&#8217;m unfamiliar with the author, though a quick Wikipedia search revealed that Charles Bukowski was an American poet who wrote about &#8220;&#8230;the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nicholascloud.com/2010/01/10/honoring-your-life/</link>
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		<title>Random thoughts on a depressing Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I did a little catch-up on Google Reader today.  Here are some random thoughts it provoked.

If swine flu is such an epidemic, why aren&#8217;t we banning pigs and burning their bodies in the streets?
If it will be illegal to not have health insurance, we should all immediately quit paying for it and see how the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nicholascloud.com/2009/11/18/random-thoughts-on-a-depressing-wednesday/</link>
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		<title>Bannventure 2009 Day 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 10 PM on our last day in Banff.  We did a lot today &#8212; not big things, but a handful of smaller, relaxing activities that have rounded out our vacation quite well.
Brittany wanted to see the sunrise this morning, so she got up early and took her camera to Lake Minnewaka, just inside of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nicholascloud.com/2009/10/05/bannventure-2009-day-7/</link>
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		<title>Banffventure 2009 Day 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was a long day.  We set out early in the morning, slowly making our way north to Jasper National Park, with stopovers in Kootenay and Yoho, and some scenic driving via the glacier fields along the Icelands Parkway.  We decided to bypass construction on highway 1 heading north, and veered off to the parallel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nicholascloud.com/2009/10/05/banffventure-2009-day-6/</link>
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		<title>Banffventure 2009 Day 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We awoke to snow on our fifth day in Canmore.  Big flakes were falling from the sky, covering everything with a wet, heavy snow.  The temperature hovered around one degree Celsius, just one degree above freezing, so the roads were relatively clear and the accumulation everywhere else was rather light.  We decided to stay near [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nicholascloud.com/2009/10/04/banffventure-2009-day-5/</link>
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		<title>Banffventure 2009 Day 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I woke up hurting this morning.  All this hiking is making me stiff, sore and tired.  But there is so much to do, and so many places to go, we don&#8217;t let silly little things like bodily pain stop us!
Today&#8217;s agenda began with a trip into Canmore, to a sled dog training facility called Snowy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nicholascloud.com/2009/10/03/banffventure-2009-day-4/</link>
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		<title>Banffventure 2009 Day 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m drinking hot chocolate right now, fighting exhaustion, trying to stay awake.  It&#8217;s only 9:22 PM.  I swear we hiked a gazillion miles today.  My feet and legs are sore, but luckily my hiking boots pulled through and I have no blisters.  Brittany says it&#8217;s because I wore tennis shoes up Sulphur Mountain, but whatever.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nicholascloud.com/2009/10/01/banffventure-2009-day-3/</link>
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		<title>Banffventure 2009 Day 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day two in the mountains. Nobody around for help. I think we may have to resort to cannibalism.
Oh wait, we landed safely in Canada yesterday, right.
This morning&#8217;s excursions began at the hotel lobby where we officially signed in and got a nice map of the area.  The clerk gave us directions to Canmore, where we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nicholascloud.com/2009/09/30/banffventure-2009-day-2/</link>
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		<title>Banffventure 2009 Day 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We finally made it.  It only took 13.5 hours, but we are now in the Canadian Rockies.  I was so right about the  washing machine being an omen though.  Here is the official list of travel trials and tribulations we endured yesterday:

Flight in STL was delayed by an hour and a half.  We knew we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nicholascloud.com/2009/09/30/banffventure-2009-day-1/</link>
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