<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from blog.glen-martin.com</title><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2008 blog.glen-martin.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:05:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from blog.glen-martin.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Tool for requirements management - not</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/requirements_management.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/requirements_management.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=requirements%5Fmanagement</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sorry to disappoint, but requirements management means more than just capturing, saving and listing requests.]]></description><category>product management</category><category>requirements</category></item><item><title>iTunes and remote media via NFS, not SAMBA</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/itunes_not_samba.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/itunes_not_samba.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:47:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=itunes%5Fnot%5Fsamba</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Lots of time in Google didn't help at all in solving my pain with iTunes and my Samba server, but this morning I had a flash of insight and replaced SAMBA with NFS Client for Windows. Life is good.]]></description><category>itunes</category><category>samba</category><category>nfs client</category></item><item><title>iTunes store and country restrictions</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/itunes_country_restrictions.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/itunes_country_restrictions.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=itunes%5Fcountry%5Frestrictions</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Maybe I've been giving Apple a bum rap. Recent antitrust investigation of Apple for country restrictions seems misguided at best. I still won't by DRM-protected content, but I'll quit blaming Apple for all iTunes ills.]]></description><category>itunes</category><category>apple</category><category>country licensing</category><category>region encoded</category></item><item><title>Yahoo footer turns a meal (well, email) into spam</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/yahoo_footer_spam.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/yahoo_footer_spam.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=yahoo%5Ffooter%5Fspam</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yahoo injects marketing messages in footer of emails sent by users of its service. These can trigger spam filters, so recipients don't get them, and should, but probably doesn't, violate anti-spam legislation.]]></description><category>spam</category><category>yahoo</category><category>optout</category></item><item><title>Nash strategy and public health</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/nash_productivity.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/nash_productivity.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=nash%5Fproductivity</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nash equilibrium is rarely the best possible outcome. What is the effect of Nash strategy on disease and national productivity?]]></description><category>nash strategy</category><category>productivity</category><category>trade imbalance</category><category>vaccination</category><category>prisoners dilemma</category></item><item><title>401Ks and other registered plans are not always the best retirement savings vehicles</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/registered_plans_future_taxes.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/registered_plans_future_taxes.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=registered%5Fplans%5Ffuture%5Ftaxes</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For those with long retirement horizons, or with large mortgages or other itemized deductables, a 401K may not always be a good idea.]]></description><category>retirement</category><category>savings</category><category>401k</category><category>boomer</category></item><item><title>Options backdating is not always unreasonable</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/speculative_backdating.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/speculative_backdating.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=speculative%5Fbackdating</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Despite a furore in the media about options backdating, backdating itself isn't illegal as such. And sometimes it makes sense.]]></description><category>options backdating</category><category>stock options</category><category>speculation</category></item><item><title>Who me? Bitter?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/who_me_bitter.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/who_me_bitter.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=who%5Fme%5Fbitter</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Another open-source homebrew, another t-shirt.]]></description><category>homebrew</category><category>hop head</category></item><item><title>A9 and Google</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/innovators_a9.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/innovators_a9.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=innovators%5Fa9</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Innovators dilemma alive and well in sponsored links.]]></description><category>search</category><category>innovators dilemma</category><category>google</category><category>a9</category></item><item><title>Minimalist OK Go videos</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/okgo.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/okgo.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=okgo</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Things found by roadside, sure, but really funny. I'm laughing my proverbial ass off]]></description><category>ok go</category></item><item><title>Data theft is criminal - loss should be as well</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/criminal_data_loss.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/criminal_data_loss.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=criminal%5Fdata%5Floss</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here's a thought - make loss of media containing personal data of customers or citizens a criminal offense. Especially if the data are unencrypted.]]></description><category>data loss</category><category>identity theft</category><category>government</category></item><item><title>Bogus Patents: it ain&apos;t just software</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/drug_patents.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/drug_patents.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=drug%5Fpatents</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Many have said that patents on software are reprehensible, immoral and probably fattening. Beyond software, patents on drugs seem to have some similar issues.]]></description><category>patents</category><category>generic drugs</category></item><item><title>Forcing late payments</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/visa_payments.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/visa_payments.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=visa%5Fpayments</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Credit card online payment system doesn't permit payment of forward-looking balance. Accident, or deliberate?]]></description><category>cardmember agreement</category><category>online payments</category></item><item><title>Can childhood survive multiculturalism?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/protecting_childhood.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/protecting_childhood.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2006 18:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=protecting%5Fchildhood</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Can we keep some of the magic in childhood, or are we trending to a lowest-common-denominator in which kids with different backgrounds are bursting all the bubbles and exposing all the gritty truths?]]></description><category>childhood</category><category>multiculturalism</category><category>protecting kids</category><category>santa claus</category></item><item><title>Taxes and capital improvements</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/capital_improvement_tax.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/capital_improvement_tax.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=capital%5Fimprovement%5Ftax</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tax policy as a lever to encourage automation needs a rethink for cases in which automation doesn't substantially increase the revenue base to be taxed.]]></description><category>capital</category><category>capital improvement</category><category>corporation tax</category></item><item><title>Fall Colours</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/fall_colours.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/fall_colours.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fall%5Fcolours</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Many who live in the Northeastern US insist that they couldn't live anywhere else because they love the fall colours. Well, do I have fall colours for them!]]></description><category>pine beetle</category></item><item><title>Off grid</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/working_off_grid.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/working_off_grid.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=working%5Foff%5Fgrid</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Everyone should get off-grid occasionally. For me it is very occasional, but August was great.  Though is any place really off-grid any more?]]></description><category>telecommuting</category><category>solar cell</category><category>remote</category></item><item><title>Hardware RAID is a really bad idea</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/hardware_raid.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/hardware_raid.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=hardware%5Fraid</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I used to think hardware RAID was the way to go, and that software RAID only a poor substitute.  A crash and a big array have convinced me that the opposite is in fact true.]]></description><category>software raid</category></item><item><title>a Modest Proposal for child care</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/modest_childcare.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/modest_childcare.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:47:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=modest%5Fchildcare</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A new business idea to solve two current issues.]]></description><category>building</category><category>modest proposal</category><category>construction</category><category>daycare</category></item><item><title>Blogs again, and frequency</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/blogging_frequency.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/blogging_frequency.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 23:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=blogging%5Ffrequency</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Some people think blogging is like the Chicago rules of voting (vote early, vote often)]]></description><category>blogging</category></item><item><title>Rules about what goes in a blog?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/diaries.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/diaries.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 01:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=diaries</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I don't know what blogs are, or have to be, but they're not diaries.]]></description><category>linkblog</category><category>blogging</category><category>diaries</category></item><item><title>Phishing with integrity</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/phishing_integrity.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/phishing_integrity.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=phishing%5Fintegrity</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Truth in advertising is something to be respected, even in a phish.]]></description><category>phishing</category></item><item><title>Traffic Jams</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/tiered_internet.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/tiered_internet.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tiered%5Finternet</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Complaints about tiering internet traffic are well meant, but misguided. Tiered models for traffic throttling abound in the real world, and the real world loves them. Why not the net? Don't we want content we've purchased to arrive faster than spam?]]></description><category>tiered internet</category><category>spam</category><category>traffic</category></item><item><title>Open source companies can&apos;t innovate in technology</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/open_source_innovation_after_rimer.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/open_source_innovation_after_rimer.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=open%5Fsource%5Finnovation%5Fafter%5Frimer</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Some believe that open source companies can't innovate in technology. I disagree. I think technology innovations that are open are more easily adopted than those that are proprietary.]]></description><category>danny rimer</category><category>rimer</category><category>open source</category><category>innovation</category></item><item><title>Manuel, the put-upon Porter</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/manuel_the_put_upon_porter.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/manuel_the_put_upon_porter.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=manuel%5Fthe%5Fput%5Fupon%5Fporter</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Now I'm a multi award winning brewer.]]></description><category>homebrew</category><category>fawlty towers</category><category>manuel</category><category>porter</category></item></channel></rss>