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		<title>I rebranded my site</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking for maybe a month or so about rebranding my site to cover self-promotion, which I&#8217;m told is my specialty. Visiting the Eastside Entrepreneurs event Thursday and then the Bigfoot Blogging Conference today, I decided that it was finally time to follow through on that. My original thought was that I should focus [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericpratum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3408495&amp;post=247&amp;subd=ericpratum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using Twitter &#8211; The Basics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you already use Twitter, take a second to click here and follow me on Twitter, and if you are so inclined, follow the Twitter account for The Hotel Experience, a blog I manage at work. Now onto business. . . What is Twitter?Twitter is a micro-blogging platform that allows users to post updates of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericpratum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3408495&amp;post=242&amp;subd=ericpratum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Give me cookies or the invisible dragon will kill us all</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found this on Wondermark this morning. Gee, I wonder what it refers to. . . could it be President Bush, Congress, the current economic crap heap on Wall Street? Who knows. Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: bailout, cartoon, comic, economy, funny, invisible dragons, president bush, Watermark<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericpratum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3408495&amp;post=237&amp;subd=ericpratum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Found on Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: drugs, facebook, hostel, hungary, illegal, marijuana, pot leaf, smoking<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericpratum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3408495&amp;post=234&amp;subd=ericpratum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(Online) Social Networking Tools &#8211; The Basics</title>
		<link>http://ericpratum.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/online-social-networking-tools-the-basics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ericpratum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m speaking at Western Washington University as part of a panel discussion with a former boss from Parker Remick and with a former MBA classmate, who also happens to work there now, so I thought that I would throw together a post on basic social networking for those not already deeply involved. This post is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericpratum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3408495&amp;post=223&amp;subd=ericpratum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why do you drink bottled water?</title>
		<link>http://ericpratum.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/why-do-you-drink-bottled-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ericpratum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have friends and family members, who refuse to drink from the tap. I used to use a Brita. . . have never been much of a fan of buying bottled water, but honestly, even after I explain how much waste product bottled water creates (it usually take 1.5 liters of water to create a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericpratum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3408495&amp;post=220&amp;subd=ericpratum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How long can a plant live without natural light?</title>
		<link>http://ericpratum.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/how-long-can-a-plant-live-without-natural-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you might be able to tell from the pic, we don&#8217;t have particularly good lighting for growing plants in my office. There are no windows. I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re ever given fertilizer. As far as I know, the only attention they get is a chick that comes once a week and waters them. We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericpratum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3408495&amp;post=210&amp;subd=ericpratum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t park your SUV in a compact spot!</title>
		<link>http://ericpratum.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/dont-park-your-suv-in-a-compact-spot/</link>
		<comments>http://ericpratum.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/dont-park-your-suv-in-a-compact-spot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took these pictures yesterday at about 7pm, while leaving the Bellevue Galleria parking garage. On the way in, I saw at least 6 cars parked like this. One, these SUVs shouldn&#8217;t be in compact spots. Two, if they&#8217;re going to take up two spots, they should have to pay twice as much as me. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericpratum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3408495&amp;post=205&amp;subd=ericpratum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m thinking of printing a shirt</title>
		<link>http://ericpratum.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/im-thinking-of-printing-a-shirt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ericpratum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realize that you pretty much can&#8217;t argue faith because faith in anything implies that, at some level, the individual is willing to make a leap from empiricism to belief, but still given my own beliefs, I do still like to point out the seemingly ludicrous nature of certain beliefs. Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: agnosticism, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericpratum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3408495&amp;post=197&amp;subd=ericpratum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The guys that stand on the sidewalk with business signs</title>
		<link>http://ericpratum.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/the-guys-that-stand-on-the-sidewalk-with-business-signs/</link>
		<comments>http://ericpratum.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/the-guys-that-stand-on-the-sidewalk-with-business-signs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ericpratum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much do these guys get paid? Before having a professional job, I just assumed that these people weren&#8217;t needed for the moment in their stores, restaurants, etc, so they&#8217;re managers sent them out to wave signs during slow afternoons. Now that I&#8217;ve been working for awhile and have actually talked to some of our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericpratum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3408495&amp;post=194&amp;subd=ericpratum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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