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&lt;P&gt;Editor - Brendan is one of the top 5 most technically gifted Unified Communications experts in Australia. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2188875" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/oscartr/archive/tags/Dimension+Data/default.aspx">Dimension Data</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/oscartr/archive/tags/BHP+Billiton/default.aspx">BHP Billiton</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/oscartr/archive/tags/Brendan+Carius/default.aspx">Brendan Carius</category></item></channel></rss>