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		<title>Does Vendor Lock-In Increase Health-Care Costs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is World Diabetes Day. I am a parent of a child with Type 1 diabetes (also known as juvenile diabetes). As such, my child is dependent upon insulin and will be until a cure is found. I am using my blog today to discuss the issue of interoperability (or lack thereof) of medical devices.
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		<title>gvSIG 1.9 Released</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Dollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just ahead of the gvSIG conference in Valencia, version 1.9 has been released. gvSIG is an open-source desktop GIS developed in Java. The new features in 1.9 are summarized here.
Some of the new features, including SLD import/export, are pretty interesting. gvSIG seems to be flourishing a bit under the wing of OSGEO. It&#8217;s a tool [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geobabble.wordpress.com&blog=588413&post=716&subd=geobabble&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Is This &#8220;GIS&#8221; Of Which You Speak?</title>
		<link>http://geobabble.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/what-is-this-gis-of-which-you-speak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Dollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Meltz has kicked off the most recent round of discussion about the nature/state of “GIS” (I put that in quotes since I am the one who declared it a myth). James and Sean also weighed with their thoughts on the subject. Like it or not, they are right. The technology that has for years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geobabble.wordpress.com&blog=588413&post=710&subd=geobabble&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Shows Blitz</title>
		<link>http://geobabble.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/twitter-shows-blitz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Dollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, NFL Sunday to be specific, I was the victim of a TV/internet outage due to a mistake made by a technician while they did some work at the junction box shared by my next-door neighbor and I. As a result, I was unable to watch my beloved Washington NFL franchise hobble to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geobabble.wordpress.com&blog=588413&post=701&subd=geobabble&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ESRI Javascript API 1.5 Released</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Dollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ESRI has released version 1.5 of the ArcGIS Server Javascript API. You can see what&#8217;s new here.
I am most excited about SSL access but that&#8217;s just me.
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		<title>GIS for Green Mountain Falls, CO: Step 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Dollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.&#8221; &#8211; Lao Tzu
One of my colleagues did a presentation at GIS in the Rockies 2009 regarding a project we’ve been working for a couple of months, the development of a GIS solution for the town of Green Mountain Falls, Colorado. My colleague, Marshall Worthey, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geobabble.wordpress.com&blog=588413&post=678&subd=geobabble&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon and the Fountain of Youth</title>
		<link>http://geobabble.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/amazon-and-the-fountain-of-youth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Dollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I enjoyed Seth Godin&#8217;s post titled &#8220;The End of Dumb Software.&#8221; This morning, I got an e-mail started off like this:

Dear Amazon.com Customer,
As someone who has purchased or rated books by Norman Bridwell, you might like to know that Clifford The Champion will be released on October 1, 2009.  You can pre-order yours [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geobabble.wordpress.com&blog=588413&post=663&subd=geobabble&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MapWindow to .NET</title>
		<link>http://geobabble.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/mapwindow-to-net/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Dollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The MapWindow open-source project will be holding its first-ever user conference from March 31 to April 2, 2010 in Orlando, Florida. Aside from being a great milestone for MapWindow, it is also being billed as a &#8220;coming out party&#8221; for MapWindow  6, its first native .NET version.
For those of you who are not familiar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geobabble.wordpress.com&blog=588413&post=657&subd=geobabble&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communication Proposal Deadline for gvSIG Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Dollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I posted before, the 5th gvSIG conference is scheduled for December 2-4, 2009 in Valencia. I got an e-mail reminder that communication proposals (presentations, posters, etc.) are due by September 21st. From the e-mail:

We remind you that we are now expecting communication proposals for the 5th gvSIG Conference (Valencia, 2nd-4th December 2009) [1]. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=geobabble.wordpress.com&blog=588413&post=650&subd=geobabble&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ArcGIS 9.3.1 SP1</title>
		<link>http://geobabble.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/arcgis-9-3-1-sp1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Dollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the upcoming release of ArcGIS 9.3.1 SP1 addresses a lot of issues. I am somewhat curious why it&#8217;s not being called 9.3.2. Calling it a service pack seems to be mixing metaphors. Hopefully, ESRI will reconsider before it hits the street. 
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