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	<title>John Conde .net</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The 2008 Olympics In Bullet Points</title>
		<link>http://www.johnconde.net/blog/the-2008-olympics-in-bullet-points/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johnny</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Randomness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category>

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    I don&#8217;t really have much to say about the Olympics as a whole but I do have some random thoughts about what I&#8217;ve seen so I&#8217;ve organized them as bullet points below. These are just my opinions and are worth whatever you think they are.


 Any sport that relies on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tutorial: Integrating the Authorize.Net AIM API with PHP</title>
		<link>http://www.johnconde.net/blog/tutorial-integrating-the-authorizenet-aim-api-with-php/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnconde.net/blog/tutorial-integrating-the-authorizenet-aim-api-with-php/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johnny</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Authorize.Net]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnconde.net/blog/?p=48</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
    Working with the Authorize.Net AIM API in and of itself is very easy to do. Between the integration guide and sample code a good programmer can have a working solution in only minutes. But this code is for demonstration purposes only and isn&#8217;t suited for live production sites. A reusable concise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m In Urban Dictionary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johnny</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[afro]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[lo0ol]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SitePoint]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[stymiee]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Urban dictionary]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnconde.net/blog/?p=42</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who don&#8217;t use much slang or don&#8217;t really care where it came from, there is website called Urban Dictionary that offers up user submitted definitions for various slang and derogatory terms.
While checking the rankings of my personal website in Google I noticed that the seventh position for thew term &#8220;stymiee&#8221; was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being A Good Samaritan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johnny</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pizza]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnconde.net/blog/?p=33</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So I was driving home from a BBQ around 1:30AM last Saturday night and as I rounded the bend in the road I noticed someone pushing their truck to the side of the road. It was a small pickup, a Mazda B2200 I think, but still a truck which is heavier then a passenger vehicle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing Jobs is Always Awkward</title>
		<link>http://www.johnconde.net/blog/changing-jobs-is-always-awkward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johnny</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[job]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in almost exactly six years I will be starting a new job. On August 11th I will be begin my employment with Nicolas Creative in Shrewsbury, NJ. My position will be unchanged as a PHP developer. 
Back in the days when I worked in retail it seemed like every year, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Site Traffic Is Not A Ranking Factor For Search Engines</title>
		<link>http://www.johnconde.net/blog/site-traffic-is-not-a-ranking-factor-for-search-engines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johnny</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Alexa]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnconde.net/blog/?p=26</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the many myths concerning how pages are ranked is that the volume of traffic a website receives affects the rankings of the pages within that website. On the surface this seems logical as a website that gets a lot of traffic probably has good content. Unfortunately once given a deeper look this starts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use PHP to Force the www on URLs</title>
		<link>http://www.johnconde.net/blog/use-php-to-force-the-www-on-urls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johnny</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Apache]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[htaccess]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnconde.net/blog/?p=27</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many good reasons to be consistent when using the &#8216;www&#8217; in URLs. This includes good usability (it may confuse some people when they see it there some of the time but not others) and SEO (some search engines may consider the the same page with the &#8216;www&#8217; different then the one without it).
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meta Tags Are Dead. Get Over It.</title>
		<link>http://www.johnconde.net/blog/meta-tags-are-dead-get-over-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johnny</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Meta tags]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Yahoo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
For the purpose of this blog post, when I say &#8220;Meta tags&#8221; I am referring to the Meta description and keyword tags only.
&#160;
Back in the day, when Alta Vista was king of search and Yahoo was primarily a web directory, meta tags were powerful tools for helping a web page rank well in Alta Vista [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Twitter?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnconde.net/blog/how-do-you-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johnny</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Snitter]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Twirl]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Twitterfox]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although I am not a huge participant of the social media scene, I find myself actually sustaining use of Twitter. For those of you who don&#8217;t know what Twitter is, according to Wikipedia:

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send &#8220;updates&#8221; (or &#8220;tweets&#8221;; text-based posts, up to 140 characters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Pets and Their Names</title>
		<link>http://www.johnconde.net/blog/my-pets-and-their-names/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johnny</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Boba Katt]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cats]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Harley]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Star Wars]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows me knows that I love animals. I&#8217;m known as a &#8220;cat person&#8221; and my fondness for dogs is no big secret as well. Heck, I&#8217;ve even taken to liking horses now that I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to be around them more.
I have two cats, Boba Katt and Harley. Yes, Boba Katt is [...]]]></description>
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