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		<title>How to free yourself from being too busy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How many times have you heard: "No, sorry, I'm just too busy!" or "Oh I'd love to, but I'm just too damn busy!". I heard it countless times and I must admit I have used the phrase a lot myself. But being "too busy" is only in your mind. And when you realize this and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2011/05/02/how-to-free-yourself-from-being-too-busy/</link>
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		<title>10 ways to know you&#8217;re actually a great developer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post might seem as stating the obvious. But for a lot of developers it is not as easy to assert their  own value to the company, community or world they live in. Despite what others think of them! In a nut shell: Great developers have a knack  for greatly help progressing a  project they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2011/04/12/10-ways-to-know-youre-actually-a-great-developer/</link>
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		<title>First Employer Syndrome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past 10 years - the first years I started working after my education - I have discovered that there seems to be a group of employees who suffer from what I call "First Employer Syndrome". In essence this syndrome causes the employee to be unwilling to leave his job despite the fact that he is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2010/11/09/first-employer-syndrome/</link>
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		<title>Movie-Review: Robin Hood &#8211; Directors Cut (verdict:6)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had not heard a thing about this movie whatsoever until the day that I popped in the BluRay. Of course everybody knows about Robin Hood, and once I saw the title, the director and the actors playing in the movie, I felt like this evening would be a great movie experience... I was wrong... Right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2010/09/12/movie-review-robin-hood-directors-cut-verdict6/</link>
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		<title>Stop being lived and live!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago when I was working on a Freelance project for Fabrique I noticed that Martijn (former colleague, college companion and friend) was reading "The 4-hour Workweek" (by Timothy Ferris). As I was intrigued by the title I asked what it is about.  As he explained I was immediately intrigued by it. In a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2010/04/22/stop-being-lived-and-live/</link>
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		<title>Star Wars in Concert; A concert in a movie, or a movie in a concert?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 30th, I went to "Star Wars in Concert" in Antwerpen, Belgium. An Impressive StarWars event where a great symphonic orchestra plays the well known tunes from the Star Wars saga. All of it accompanied with a lot of scenes from all six of the movies, a great light show and this all narrated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2010/04/06/star-wars-in-concert-a-concert-or-a-movie/</link>
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		<title>Movie-Review: The Man from Earth (verdict: 8.5)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just once in a while you come across a movie which doesn't need special effects, cgi or  a superb soundtrack. It can solely rely on a story. "The Man from Earth" is one of those fascinating movies. A tantalizing story which triggers your imagination and will keep doing so, even weeks later. It surely is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2010/02/11/movie-review-the-man-from-earth-verdict-8-5/</link>
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		<title>HowTo: Run a mailserver, even if your ISP blocks SMTP port 25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After some hard work we have finally gone beta with our service: RerouteMAIL. A service with which you can easily run a mailserver even if your ISP actively blocks port 25. A while ago I posted about some wild idea's where you could go around the SMTP block of your ISP by running your mail [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2010/01/20/howto-run-a-mailserver-even-if-your-isp-blocks-smtp-port-25/</link>
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		<title>10 reasons why development projects can and will fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It really is everywhere! Until now, in every company I have worked for, I have seen it. Projects fail to hit their deadline. And total anarchy emerges from the ashes of those failures. Save yourself (or your company) while you can and learn from the top 10 list of reasons I came across in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2010/01/14/10-reasons-why-projects-fail-or-dont-hit-their-deadline/</link>
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		<title>All the best wishes for 2010!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a few day's cool down (christmas, new year's eve and a nice long weekend) we can plunge ourselves back into real life and into the new year! I would like to wish everyone the very best for 2010! I hope everyone will have a great, healthy and prosperous year! I am looking forward to hearing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2010/01/03/all-the-best-wishes-for-2010/</link>
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		<title>Movie-Review: Das Experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had "Das Experiment" on my To-Watch list for a few months now. It was recommended by a friend of mine after discussing some things which are related to the experiment depicted in the movie. The movie is based on an actual experiment which was conducted back in the 70's. However there are some differences [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2009/12/22/movie-review-das-experiment/</link>
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		<title>Movie-Review: 9</title>
		<description><![CDATA["9"... A title which does not describe much at all. So I looked it up on IMDB to get a bit of an idea of what this movie is about. An animation/SciFi movie, rated 7.1, and staring the voice of Elijah Wood. It triggered something in me, so I placed it on my "To Watch" [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2009/12/17/movie-review-9/</link>
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		<title>The money problem with friend-groups: &#8220;Nah&#8230; I&#8217;ll pay! Pay me back later!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might recognise the problem. You have a close friend group and you do lots of things together. So when you go out,  or go to the movies you decide that you'll pay something, and the others pay other stuff and you dont realy worry about the money. They are your friends, and you trust [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2009/12/13/the-money-problem-with-friend-groups-nah-ill-pay-pay-me-back-later/</link>
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		<title>Decided not to use the &#8216;custom&#8217; layout anymore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a while I used a custom layout for my blog. It is probably something everybody else already figured out ages ago... But, maintaining a custom layout just takes too much time to keep it up to date. Not to mention to keep it compatible with all the features in WordPress! So, today started as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2009/11/19/decided-not-to-use-the-custom-layout-anymore/</link>
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		<title>My Private Home Theater</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is the year 2002, and I was invited to a housewarming party of a colleague. When we came to his appartment the first thing I saw (or actually, everybody saw) was a big movie projector hanging from the ceiling. It was a huge Barco CRT projector. One with 3 tubes for red, green and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2009/11/06/my-private-home-theater/</link>
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		<title>Movie-Review: Terminator 4: Salvation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hadn't seen Terminator:Salvation yet because it never showed in Digital Cinema in Metropolis Antwerpen. As I now have a FullHD version of the movie, I could watch Terminator: Salvation at home... Finally! Large projection screen, great sound, killer sub. And most of all: No one running in front of me, no people sniffing, sipping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2009/11/04/movie-review-terminator-4-salvation/</link>
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		<title>Finding out if a tweet is posted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a text blog entry to find out if the twitter tool creates a tweet!]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2009/11/03/finding-out-if-a-tweet-is-posted/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t you hate it when your ISP blocks port 25 so you can&#8217;t run a mailserver?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You have an ISP which is just fabulous, great speeds, acceptable pricing and no download limits. Great! Now you can have your own linux/windows server right at home.  Run a webserver, claim some domains, host a few other things (mysql, python, ruby, django, etc) and tinker around with everything you couldnt do at a hosting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2009/10/30/dont-you-hate-it-when-your-isp-blocks-port-25-so-you-cant-run-a-mailserver/</link>
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		<title>A New Project &#8211; My framework actually didn&#8217;t fail!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently started working on a new freelance project. Now there's nothing special about that because thats what I do for a living right now... But reading around on the internet and in books made me realize again that blogging about it is a good way to get things 'out there' and a way to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2009/10/28/a-new-project-my-framework-actually-didnt-fail/</link>
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		<title>My new Home Theater Projector &#8211; the JVC RS-10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been some time now since I have given away my Barco 801s Graphics and bought the JVC RS-10 projector. But I did not take the time to write about it on my blog up until now. Why put away the Barco? Well that is an easy question to answer; maintenance, performance, weight,size and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2009/05/13/my-new-home-theater-projector-the-jvc-rs-10/</link>
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		<title>Getting Real &#8211; by 37signals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a few weeks I decided to start reading "Getting Real" from 37signals. I bought the book when I read about it on a blog from Scott Berkun (Why Requirements Stink) . I started in the morning and read it from cover to cover in a few hours. The book does a fabulous job in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2009/05/13/getting-real-by-37signals/</link>
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		<title>Why creating my framework &#8216;failed&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In one of my earlier blogs I posted about the framework I wanted to create. At the time I was really anxious in creating it and making it as cool as it was in my mind. Unfortunately, all didn't go as planned and although I have really created some nice stuff, it was not as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2009/05/13/why-creating-my-framework-failed/</link>
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		<title>How to Win Friends &amp; Influence People by Dale Carnegie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post by on the Joel on Software blog by Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software: How to be a program manager) I read about the famous book "How to Win Friends &#038; Influence People". The book covers some great ways to communicate with people and in a decent and nice way. Although the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2009/05/13/how-to-win-friends-influence-people-by-dale-carnegie/</link>
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		<title>Calibrating my Barco 801s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I bought my Barco projector (I guess it has been a year or 3 now) I wanted to get the most from it. And since it is a CRT projector it is guaranteed that you need to put in a lot of time to get everything correct. Although the PJ is really high maintenance (it requires constant care to get the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2008/10/20/calibrating-my-barco-801s/</link>
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		<title>Bootable Vista Install on a hard drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a long time I was wondering if it wouldn't be nice if you could boot your Vista Bootable CD from a hard drive. Because hard disks are much faster in comparison to a DVD I figureed having the bootable DVD on a hard drive would shave off a few minutes of your installation time. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2008/10/17/bootable-vista-install-on-a-hard-drive/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;PHP Tools which should help developers in creating high availability websites&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well. There it is... My first official blog entry. True there were trial ones before this first one. But this is the actual one which is going to be visible to everyone! So, why the hell do I want to start a blog? Everybody is doing it already, and everywhere you see useless information regarding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.markprins.com/2008/05/30/php-tools-which-should-help-developers-in-creating-high-availability-websites/</link>
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