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		<title>Life with my Ipad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve spent several days now with the iPad and thought it best to jot down a few thoughts. If your thinking about buying yourself one, you may find this information useful.




So after enduring the ordeal of actually battling my way to the counter in an Apple Store, fighting my way past product demonstrations &#38; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mariodecristofano.com/myblog/?p=228</link>
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		<title>The Value in Qualifications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every organisation wants skilled employees, but are IT qualifications worth the paper they are printed on?


Few IT directors or CIOs would disagree with the claim that having skilled employees is an important component of operating an effective IT department. Far more contentious, however, is the question of which skills are most beneficial to the organisation, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mariodecristofano.com/myblog/?p=220</link>
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		<title>How not to recruit.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Again and again, I experience both myself, and my professional colleagues, that typically SME&#8217;s are making the same recruitment errors.


Getting that resource in &#8220;quick&#8221; to finish off some work, or &#8220;taking a punt because we&#8217;re desperate&#8221;, is not the way to recruit staff. One needs to show diligence, a concerted effort to check detail, check over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mariodecristofano.com/myblog/?p=215</link>
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		<title>No attention to detail &#8211; what grinds my gears!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What I am referring to is how people in business seem to be ‘not paying attention to paying attention’.
I get sad when senior people, make small errors, such as typo&#8217;s, incorrect grammar, poor communication or have inconsistent or even non-existent psychological understanding of not only the people that work with them, but the business they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mariodecristofano.com/myblog/?p=211</link>
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		<title>Iphone 4 &#8211; Cupertino offer update to fix signal bars issue, bricks phone, that&#8217;s a freebie!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The company has said an update to its operating system &#8211; iOS 4.0.1 &#8211; &#8220;improves the formula to determine how many bars of signal strength to display&#8221;.
Many users have reported problems with reception on their device, which is caused when their left-hand covers an antenna in the lower left-hand corner of the iPhone 4. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mariodecristofano.com/myblog/?p=208</link>
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		<title>Will your CMS cause paid search problems?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For many marketers involved in SEO, the three letter acronym CMS can sometimes be more like a four letter word.  Depending on the CMS and the implementation, there are some serious problems that can impact your SEO efforts.  From duplicate content to unfriendly redirects to lack of content optimization, the list can get quite long.


The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mariodecristofano.com/myblog/?p=206</link>
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		<title>The future of social networking . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Picture this: a young woman goes to a party. She doesn&#8217;t know anyone but it&#8217;s fine because she has her mobile with her. A few clicks and she accesses the profiles of a dozen people at the party, including their pictures. She&#8217;s in luck: two of them turn out to be friends of friends. She [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mariodecristofano.com/myblog/?p=203</link>
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		<title>Sunrise School in Ughanda, donate if you can</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finally finished jbd2010.co.uk for the eclectic Mr Bracey-Davis and the charity bike ride across Europe in the next few months. Check out his blog on http://jbd2010.co.uk/jbd2010b/
Tis pretty awesome, 
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		<link>http://mariodecristofano.com/myblog/?p=200</link>
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		<title>Im going mad . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I dont know whats the matter with me lately. Im just angry for some reason. Things are getting to me. I dont know why my sub-concious isnt terminating the things that it wouldnt usually get under my skin, and trouble my usual calm exterior.
 
It&#8217;s a brooding sort of anger that I can&#8217;t shake, the kind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mariodecristofano.com/myblog/?p=195</link>
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		<title>How to stay relevant in Changing Times . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is common to hear people say that the present is unlike the past. Yes, and that’s true. For change is indeed constant. If we do not change, we risk being outcast by the wave of societal changes.
At the same time, there are certain generic steps you can take to meet up with the changes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mariodecristofano.com/myblog/?p=194</link>
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