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Friday Five – January 14, 2011
ByDerekI also blog at work (internally) and resolved to post more frequently this year. I figured the best way to keep that up was to institute a regular weekly feature which I’m calling the Friday Five – five technology-related articles I found interesting in the past week. I work with web, collaboration, and ECM (Enterprise…
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Ding dong the tolls are dead!
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New camera and lots of snow
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My god, I remember that costume I think! And funny enough, you really did look like your dad!