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		<title>&#8220;IT&#8221;, you say?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 04:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What&#8217;s the next course?&#8221; I recall asking some fellow classmates during the break of one of our marketing seminars. &#8220;IT&#8221; was the reply. My heart sunk deep into my chest. A topic that I knew nothing of and always had an insecurity about. You see, I graduated from Mt. Allison University at a time when you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alimassoudi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1031976&amp;post=45&amp;subd=alimassoudi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>to blog or not to blog&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://alimassoudi.wordpress.com/2007/05/26/to-blog-or-not-to-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 02:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Freedom of speech is supposedly the foundation of a functioning democracy.  Most of us here in Canada enjoy our freedom and exercise it on a regular basis. Do we take it for granted? Perhaps. Is it human nature to overlook what we are blessed with until we experience something worse? What if your government were to block [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alimassoudi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1031976&amp;post=39&amp;subd=alimassoudi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not without my intranet&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 23:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through my adventures in this course I have read about the pros and cons of intranets. Some will argue that all business have a case to take advantage of intranets, while others will harp on the fact that this is yet another potential threat as it provides a possible entry point forhackers. Overall, the positives seem to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alimassoudi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1031976&amp;post=33&amp;subd=alimassoudi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>got bacteria?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 05:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Digital storage demand is increasing from 30 to over 50 percent annually and is expected to steadily increase for the foreseeable future,” said Fred Moore, principal of Horison Information Strategies. “One of the big disk challenges is that capacity is growing ten times faster than performance.” (Article) Okay, it has become quite clear to me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alimassoudi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1031976&amp;post=29&amp;subd=alimassoudi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crank Up the Return&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 03:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Making the Case for IT investmentappeared in the Globe and Mail on the 17th of May, 2007 and was written by Terrence Belford. The article highlights the fact that the Canadian economy lags that of the US when it comes to investment in productivity enhancing IT.  Is it that Canadian entrepreneurs are myopic vis-a-vis their US [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alimassoudi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1031976&amp;post=27&amp;subd=alimassoudi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting in the Information Age.</title>
		<link>http://alimassoudi.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/parenting-in-the-information-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 22:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me start by saying that I am not a parent. However, I can claim a fair stake at having &#8220;some&#8221; experience.  After all, my wife and I cared for my little brother who moved in with us when he was 13. After five years with us, he is now at Queen&#8217;s University (Congrats!).  What is interesting is that the gap between his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alimassoudi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1031976&amp;post=25&amp;subd=alimassoudi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What about the social implications???</title>
		<link>http://alimassoudi.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/what-about-the-social-implications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 20:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does a world that subscribes to capitalism, encourages innovation, invention, and strives to embrace new technologies that increase efficiency, reduce cost and add utmost value really ever stop to consider the social impact of the change? In their ninth edition ofManagement Information Systems Kenneth Laudon and Jane Laudon present a framework to encourage thought about the social, political, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alimassoudi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1031976&amp;post=22&amp;subd=alimassoudi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fat Fingered Follies no longer an excuse!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 17:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[     It&#8217;s really quite amusing that at the age of 30, I rely more and more on my 18 year old brother and 16 year old sister to discover what&#8217;s hot in the world of technology. Moreover, what I find intriguing is how their generation uses the technology.  My brother would have friends over and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alimassoudi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1031976&amp;post=20&amp;subd=alimassoudi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hyper Music- Healing the mind, body and soul.</title>
		<link>http://alimassoudi.wordpress.com/2007/05/21/hyper-music-healing-the-mind-body-and-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 20:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine composing the above posted music without any musical background&#8230;as if?? I came across a video article in MIT&#8217;s Tech Review that discussed how reading and creating music can develop the brain and also relieve pain, particularly within populations suffering from mental and physical illnesses. But we all know that creating music requires tremendous talent, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alimassoudi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1031976&amp;post=18&amp;subd=alimassoudi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Semantic Web</title>
		<link>http://alimassoudi.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/semantic-web/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 03:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After all, there is one thing that computers and I share in common, neither of us understand the language so well&#8230; I found it amusing that JohnBreslin, in his blog entry on the Irish Internet Association site, uses the above cartoon to depict the lack of interoperability between certain software agents (see his blog entry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alimassoudi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1031976&amp;post=16&amp;subd=alimassoudi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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