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		<title>Comcast price increase: small &amp; stealthy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twelve days ago, I received an unexpected email from Comcast: &#8220;Important Service Announcement &#8211; Speed Increase&#8220;. Okay, cool &#8212; apparently my performance internet speed is being bumped up from 12 to 15 mbps. That&#8217;s nice of them! But what they didn&#8217;t say in the email is that my bill is also going up. That&#8217;s right <a href="http://www.baeronline.com/business/comcast-price-increase-small-stealthy/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Comcast and cloud storage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After realizing I have 100+ gb of online storage ready to go, I&#8217;m planning to backup all my digital photos. Today I have an external hard drive and some DVD-Rs with these backups, but I&#8217;m pretty sure all of my backups are still in the same physical location. Given that 19 fire trucks showed up <a href="http://www.baeronline.com/technology/comcast-cloud-storage/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why doesn&#8217;t box.net use SSL for personal plans?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update (10/21/11): A PM at Box.net posted in their support forums that free personal accounts are using SSL for file transfers, which is great! Other users seemed to be similarly confused about the state of SSL on Box.net, so I&#8217;m glad it is resolved now. More details I still think it&#8217;s odd they don&#8217;t make <a href="http://www.baeronline.com/technology/why-doesnt-box-net-use-ssl-for-personal-plans/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Another year of health insurance down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been in Boston for over a year now, and somewhat surprisingly, haven&#8217;t been to the doctor&#8217;s office yet. This actually marks the second job where I&#8217;ve not used health insurance in the first full year of employment&#8230; Good to be healthy, bad to pay quite a lot for healthcare that wasn&#8217;t used! Here&#8217;s to <a href="http://www.baeronline.com/personal/another-year-of-health-insurance-down/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Not quite enough health insurance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working remotely in Boston for two months, and had a weird moment with Kaiser Permanente today. It turns out that I&#8217;m outside of Kaiser&#8217;s &#8220;zone&#8221; &#8212; it sounded like they have no coverage in Massachusetts at all &#8212; and so therefore I won&#8217;t be covered for anything other than emergency or urgent care (and <a href="http://www.baeronline.com/opinion/not-quite-enough-health-insurance/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Study of intelligence versus competition?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Was driving home and thinking to myself, if intelligence were plotted against inclination to compete, would it be a normal distribution? Or is there no correlation at all? A quick Google search didn&#8217;t really turn up much.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baeronline.com/opinion/study-of-intelligence-versus-competition/</link>
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		<title>Should Google wait to make more money?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It goes without saying that the economy has been going down the tubes lately, and a lot of tech news coverage has been centered on how Google seems to be trying to monetize everything more. That means ads in places where there weren&#8217;t ads before, etc&#8230; Example, Example2. I remember something on Techcrunch about how <a href="http://www.baeronline.com/analysis/should-google-wait-to-make-more-money/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Textbooks next to try DRM &#8211; raises prices for students by a lot!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just saw a NYT article suggesting that academic textbook publishers are the next group to try digital rights management (DRM), which really tickles me. I wonder if anyone in the textbook industry has read last week&#8217;s news that Yahoo! Music is shutting down, just about bringing to a close the era of DRM for <a href="http://www.baeronline.com/analysis/textbooks-next-to-try-drm-raises-prices-for-students-by-a-lot/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baeronline.com/analysis/textbooks-next-to-try-drm-raises-prices-for-students-by-a-lot/</link>
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		<title>Old guard power company making it confusing to pay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just had a weird experience with one of the old guard power companies, Pacific Gas &#38; Electric. These guys were founded in 1905, so I have to salute their tenacity through the last century. Presumably, they are still around because they have been able to successfully innovate and adapt to change. And, given they <a href="http://www.baeronline.com/opinion/old-guard-power-company-making-it-confusing-to-pay/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baeronline.com/opinion/old-guard-power-company-making-it-confusing-to-pay/</link>
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		<title>Joining the conversation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After 5 years of blogging daily, Fred Wilson seems to be running out of things to say. Happily, I&#8217;m here to take up the slack with this brand new blog. Let&#8217;s start with some level setting. Who am I? I graduated from Stanford in 2006 and went to work for eBay shortly thereafter. I&#8217;m a <a href="http://www.baeronline.com/personal/hello-world/"> read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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