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	<title>Cory Collier</title>
	<link>http://corycollier.com</link>
	<description>Web Developer and System Administrator in Orlando, FL</description>
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		<title>Baby Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So after a couple months of being a dad to twins, I&#8217;ve come up with a list of stuff that first time parents should know about. Here&#8217;s some of the most important stuff Melissa and I use:

The Slumber Bear: One of the few calming things for babies is white noise. It&#8217;s the shhh noise we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/12/baby-tools/</link>
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		<title>Crossfit, and Me.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, a good friend of mine inspired me to try out Crossfit, a workout methodology. After about a month of trying it out, I&#8217;m hooked. I&#8217;ve lost about 40lbs since last July, but the last month of doing Crossfit has me feeling better than ever.
I did my first &#8216;Fran&#8216; on Monday with 135. Apparently that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/11/crossfit-and-me/</link>
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		<title>Babies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On October 9, 2009, Mason and Charlotte were brought into the world. It&#8217;s been quite the experience since then. Some things have been great, some have not. As usual, I have a bit of a different perspective on things than what I hear from most.
First off, Mason and Charlotte are awesome. I can&#8217;t begin to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/10/babies/</link>
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		<title>Mega Nursery Building!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things have been pretty busy for Melissa and I over the last few weeks. Melissa&#8217;s finally on Maternity leave, which is great considering almost everything is getting difficult for her these days (twins are no joke). The one thing that both of us have been pretty busy on lately, is getting the kids room ready.
We&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/08/mega-nursery-building/</link>
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		<title>Priorities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, over the last few months, a lot of life lessons have become much more relevant for me than in any time in my life prior. Of all of these lessons, priorities seems to be the most important for me. I, like many of us, feel a want or need for a number of things. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/07/priorities/</link>
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		<title>The Trouble With The Web &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Web Development is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Nearly every day some new product or development turns the whole scene on it&#8217;s head. Just a dozen years ago, the thought of being a web developer was less than promising for most folks. Today, that&#8217;s quite different.
There&#8217;s a huge catch in all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/07/the-trouble-with-the-web/</link>
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		<title>A Boy and A Girl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official: Melissa and I are having a boy and a girl. I sent out a text message that said: &#8220;1 boy and 1 reason to buy more guns&#8221;. I guess it&#8217;s a little typical of me, but I still thought it was pretty funny.The picture to the left is of Charlottle Elizabeth Collier. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/05/a-boy-and-a-girl/</link>
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		<title>Insanity, Depression, and Recessions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, the lack of money in the economy has provided a number of opportunities for me to see things in ways that I had not in years past. All Americans, and likely the rest of the world, is feeling the effects of a global recession in a number of ways. Those effects have lead many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/05/insanity-depression-and-recessions/</link>
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		<title>A Nation of Victims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, things have been difficult for my family lately. Melissa is still pregnant with twins, I&#8217;m still struggling to find work for my new business, and we&#8217;re still pretty broke. After a while of feeling like things just won&#8217;t turn in my favor, I slipped into feeling like a victim of circumstance.
Keep in mind, I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/05/a-nation-of-victims/</link>
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		<title>How To Incorporate In Florida</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen a lot of mis-information, and mis-guided information on how to start a corporation. The specifics of this vary by state to state. I live in Florida, and I went through the process on my own. The process was a bit difficult, but only because there wasn&#8217;t a clear guide on what to do.
Hence, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/04/how-to-incorporate-in-florida/</link>
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		<title>What I Use</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It occurred to me recently, that there&#8217;s a bit of variance in what developers use. For many folks not used to writing code, the availability of software to help write software can be a bit overwhelming. For that reason, I&#8217;m writing the stuff that makes me tick.
A disclaimer: I primarily use Mac OS X (Leopard). I love [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/04/what-i-use/</link>
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		<title>Twins!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who don&#8217;t already know, Melissa is pregnant. We&#8217;ve kept that pretty quite for the last month (it&#8217;s been hard). We were supposed to have an ultrasound before I went to SXSW, but it got canceled on us (weird, I know).
So, on my first day back home after SXSW, Melissa and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/03/twins/</link>
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		<title>SXSW Recap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, let me publicly announce something: SXSW was worth my time, and I did love going. I learned a few things about myself though, that I&#8217;ll remember for a long time to come.
First, while I love people, I cannot hang out with anyone for very long. This isn&#8217;t to say that I don&#8217;t love my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/03/sxsw-recap/</link>
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		<title>Super Secret Against Me! Concert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So last night I met my buddy Jon, and a couple of new friends for a secret Against Me! concert held in the ghetto of Orlando. The &#8216;venue&#8217; was a garage covered in graffiti and surrounded by a barbed wire fence. There were opening bands, and Against Me hung out with all of the kids [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/03/super-secret-against-me-concert/</link>
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		<title>Freelancing In The New Economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my Ignite Orlando presentation. First, the video (recorded for practice), then my slides, and finally the basic text of my talk.

Freelancing in the New Economy from Cory Collier on Vimeo
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Freelance in the New Economy
As cliche as it might sound, we live in new economic times. Because of this, being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/03/freelancing-in-the-new-economy/</link>
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		<title>Updates From The Free World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a freelance web developer for a week now. There&#8217;s been some ups and downs about it all. I still haven&#8217;t gotten any money, but I also haven&#8217;t head to deal with rush hour traffic either. I&#8217;ve had a few opportunities that look promising, but I&#8217;m still trying to be careful about how I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/03/updates-from-the-free-world/</link>
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		<title>Future Of Web Apps Miami 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got back from FOWA Miami 2009. The event was awesome and I met tons of amazing folks (including the amazing Gary Vaynerchuk). There were plenty of amazing tech revelations at the event, and more talk about business and marketing. The latter was more relevant for me.
While there was definitely a lot of good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/02/future-of-web-apps-miami-2009/</link>
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		<title>Unemployed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m independent again.
I was laid off at Hydra Studio today. I kinda knew it was coming. This crazy economy definitely has a lot of people in some difficult positions lately. The process went pretty smoothly, and the separation is amicable.
I&#8217;ve been there for a little over 6 months. I&#8217;ve been a primary developer for 2 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/02/unemployed/</link>
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		<title>Socialism = Fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today will be remembered for a long time to come. How it will be remembered, is likely going to be up to the rest of us. On this seventeenth day of February, two-thousand and nine years after the birth of our lord and savior Jesus Christ, Socialism was snuck upon the people of the greatest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/02/socialism-fail/</link>
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		<title>Primetime Virginity Broken Badly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is really pissing me off.
President Barack Obama&#8217;s first prime time Presidential news conference was tonight, and it went off with many a hitch. First, President Obama insisted upon the same fear-mongering that has dominated his first month in office. Second, sounding like a dictator from a third-world country he claims the conservatives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycollier.com/2009/02/primetime-virginity-broken-badly/</link>
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