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	<description>exerting thoughts to overcome inertia</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Upgrade issues with Norton Antivirus</title>
		<link>http://exertia.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/upgrade-issues-with-norton-antivirus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what to do if you&#8217;re trying to upgrade to Norton Antivirus 2008 and getting the dreaded error message: &#8220;Setup has detected that LiveUpdate or AutoLiveUpdate is running. Setup will now abort.&#8221;:

There is no easy way to kill the LiveUpdate processes or services once started. The only way around this is to prevent them from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google launches new Shakespeare site</title>
		<link>http://exertia.wordpress.com/2006/06/15/google-launches-new-shakespeare-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 06:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has launched Google Shakespeare - a site that allows readers to browse / read all 37 of the Bard&#39;s plays. Readers can even plug in words, such as &#34;to be or not to be&#34; from Hamlet, and  immediately be taken to that part of the play.
Google Book Search, the Google product which houses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s latest tool syncs your browser settings and favorites</title>
		<link>http://exertia.wordpress.com/2006/06/12/googles-latest-tool-syncs-your-browser-settings-and-favorites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newest addition to Google Labs - Google Browser Sync - allows you to sync your browser favorites, cookies, passwords and more between different machines. This is one tool I personally have been looking forward to for a long time&#8230;
Unfortunately for IE users, GBS currently works only on Firefox. It offers various options to restrict [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Spreadsheets: taking aim at MS Office</title>
		<link>http://exertia.wordpress.com/2006/06/06/google-spreadsheets-taking-aim-at-ms-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After offering an online alternative to Word by acquiring the online word processor Writely, Google has now launched Google Spreadsheets as an online rival to Excel. NYTimes reports:

It would make it possible for as many as 10 people to simultaneously edit a spreadsheet document online and chat about it using Google&#8217;s instant messaging program. 
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finance Brings Value Discipline to Strategy Execution</title>
		<link>http://exertia.wordpress.com/2006/05/30/finance-brings-value-discipline-to-strategy-execution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 05:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>exertia</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting comments from Costco&#39;s CFO Richard Galanti in the report &#34;Finance Brings Value Discipline to Strategy Execution: Different Paths to One Truth&#34; from CFO Research Services, in collaboration with Deloitte Consulting LLP:
&#8220;We tend to be arrogantly simple.&#8221; When planning a new store, Costco is willing to trade off academic sophistication in favor of practicality. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun with trends, time-series and stats!</title>
		<link>http://exertia.wordpress.com/2006/05/30/fun-with-trends-time-series-and-stats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 06:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>exertia</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you love trends and making sense out of statistics, check out Gapminder whose vision is &#8220;making sense of the world by having fun with statistics!&#8221; [via Google Blogoscoped]. Check out the Human Development Trends 2005 report that they have on their homepage. 
They have collaborated with Google Co-op so you can add them to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incentivising employees to put theories into practice</title>
		<link>http://exertia.wordpress.com/2006/05/29/incentivising-employees-to-put-theories-into-practice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 09:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What do you think is a good incentive to help people think through theories that show evidence in practices or outcomes?&#8221; asks Dr. Ellen Weber of the Brain Based Business blog, commenting on my earlier post on talent management. From my experience (as a participant) in the talent management initiatives of some well-managed organizations, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online page design tips</title>
		<link>http://exertia.wordpress.com/2006/05/29/online-page-design-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 07:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eyetrack has some interesting research findings and tips on Article-Level Page Design:

When readers encountered a story with an introductory paragraph, 95 percent of them read all or part of the introductory paragraph. 
Those who spent time carefully reading the introductory paragraph of a story on article-level pages typically spent little time with the full story. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The disappearing mid-market</title>
		<link>http://exertia.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/the-disappearing-mid-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 01:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist has a thought-provoking article on the &#34;two most noteworthy trends among the swelling ranks of middle-class consumers around the world&#8212;trends that appear to be, at first glance, at odds with each other. These are the tendencies for consumers to be more cost-conscious; but simultaneously more willing to splurge money on luxury items.&#34; Key [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The CEO&#8217;s role in talent management</title>
		<link>http://exertia.wordpress.com/2006/05/26/the-ceos-role-in-talent-management/</link>
		<comments>http://exertia.wordpress.com/2006/05/26/the-ceos-role-in-talent-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 21:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The EIU published a report &#34;The CEO&#8217;s role in talent management: How top executives from ten countriesare nurturing the leaders of tomorrow&#34; in collaboration with Development Dimensions International (DDI). Key takeaways:&#160;

Good talent management is not undertaken in a piecemeal fashion but consists of comprehensive development programmes. These include the identification of leadership potential, performance evaluations, [...]]]></description>
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