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	<title>Daniel Krook</title>
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	<description>Daniel Krook is an IBM Certified IT Specialist based in Armonk, New York.  He has over 10 years experience in Web site development and presently builds integrated applications on WebSphere and DB2 along with Apache, MySQL, and PHP for ibm.com and the intranet.  He holds certifications in PHP (ZCE), Java (SCJP, SCWCD), DB2 (ICDAssoc., ICAD), and Solaris (SCSA).  He occasionally writes PHP-related articles for IBM developerWorks and co-authored the IBM Redbook 'Developing PHP Applications for IBM Data Servers.'  His current interests include RESTful Web services and mobile application development for smartphones.</description>
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		<title>Mobile Metro-North BlackBerry shortcut</title>
		<link>http://krook.net/archives/337</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 13:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just released a BlackBerry shortcut icon that launches Mobile Metro-North using the default browser on your device.
In the near future, I intend to launch a native BlackBerry application that offers more features over the simple Web interface.  It will store station preferences, display the big board of all currently departing trains, and help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WebSphere sMash at New York PHP April 28th</title>
		<link>http://krook.net/archives/293</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Next Tuesday night we&#8217;re excited to have WebSphere guru Roland Barcia introduce the latest PHP and Web 2.0 capabilities in IBM&#8217;s WebSphere sMash environment (built on Project Zero) to the New York PHP community:

IBM WebSphere sMash is a platform for developing and running agile Web applications using scripting languages and Web 2.0 technologies such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CommunityOne East roundup</title>
		<link>http://krook.net/archives/280</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The network is the computer&#8230; finally?  It seems that Sun&#8217;s motto comes full circle, and perhaps confirms their business plan all along.
I attended Sun&#8217;s CommunityOne East in Manhattan last Wednesday and cloud was the word of the day.   It was also an apt term to describe IBM&#8217;s vague overture towards the hardware/software [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Images of Cuba now on Flickr</title>
		<link>http://krook.net/archives/270</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just took a few minutes to copy the photos from my time in Cuba over to Flickr.  
I spent three weeks in and around Havana while studying abroad after my junior year in college during the summer of 1998. 
The scans have long been available at PlayaGirón, but in the recent spirit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotas for Women in Politics</title>
		<link>http://krook.net/archives/255</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My sister Mona recently published her first book, &#8220;Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide,&#8221; just in time for International Women&#8217;s Day.  
And it seems to be out of stock on Amazon already :)  

Cat, my parents, and our family friend Mikey Ward took a trip to The Coop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best short film ever: Oktapodi</title>
		<link>http://krook.net/archives/252</link>
		<comments>http://krook.net/archives/252#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I hereby nominate Oktapodi the best short film of 2008, or any other year for that matter.
Great title, great characters, great colors, great animation, great plot.  All in two measly minutes.
Excellent.   See for yourself.
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		<title>Refueling like it&#8217;s 1989</title>
		<link>http://krook.net/archives/247</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The truck]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the important thing is that I didn&#8217;t lose money by trading in my truck for a Prius, and that there are other incentives for developing alternative fuel sources.

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		<title>DB2 on the Mac arrives</title>
		<link>http://krook.net/archives/241</link>
		<comments>http://krook.net/archives/241#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Antonio Cangiano just posted that DB2 Express-C for 64-bit Intel Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is now available for download from IBM.
Stay tuned to his site for more details.
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		<title>Listing DB2 triggers, routines, indexes and keys</title>
		<link>http://krook.net/archives/228</link>
		<comments>http://krook.net/archives/228#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[IBM]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently compared two DB2 databases that should have been identical, but for some reason were not.  The foreign keys were missing from one of the instances.
I suspect the keys were lost during a migration when the administrator commented out the constraints in the DDL as a means to avoid errors on import.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cut spam with Postgrey</title>
		<link>http://krook.net/archives/226</link>
		<comments>http://krook.net/archives/226#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Krook</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[System administration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve regained control over my inbox (and my BlackBerry) thanks to a nice little utility called Postgrey.   A hat tip to Thomas on the NYCBUG list for the pointer.
Postgrey is a policy server for Postfix that employs an RFC compliant technique for handling mail called greylisting.  This is roughly equivalent to placing [...]]]></description>
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