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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Reed Me : cancer</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/cancer/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: cancer</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Do you want the bad news first? Or the worse news?</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/2008/11/18/do-you-want-the-bad-news-first-or-the-worse-news.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:16:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9119554</guid><dc:creator>reedme</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/comments/9119554.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9119554</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=9119554</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;Oh noes!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;We're interested in seeing COBOL as a first-class citizen on .NET and on the Azure cloud,&amp;quot; &lt;/em&gt;[chief technology officer of application modernization at Micro Focus]&lt;em&gt; said. &amp;quot;Wherever cloud computing is going, we want COBOL to be running there.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.eweek.com/index2.php?option=content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=50422&amp;amp;pop=1&amp;amp;hide_ads=1&amp;amp;page=0&amp;amp;hide_js=1" target="_blank"&gt;Taking COBOL into the Cloud? (eweek)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Modernization? Srsly?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I'm going to censor myself and not say anything further.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/17/meh/print.html"&gt;meh&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;p.s. If you're @ SCAN or SQL PASS this week, come say howdy. I'm wandering around looking suspicious.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9119554" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/fungibility/default.aspx">fungibility</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/You_2700_re+doing+it+wrong_2100_/default.aspx">You're doing it wrong!</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/bleep/default.aspx">bleep</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/Cthulhu/default.aspx">Cthulhu</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/cancer/default.aspx">cancer</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/COBOL/default.aspx">COBOL</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/cloud/default.aspx">cloud</category></item><item><title>Michael Crichton: RIP. We’ll miss you.</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/2008/11/05/michael-crichton-rip-we-ll-miss-you.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:07:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9044975</guid><dc:creator>reedme</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/comments/9044975.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9044975</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=9044975</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;Loved the books, Michael. We’ll miss all the ones that you didn’t to write.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;The novelist passed away in Los Angeles after a private battle with cancer. His family said the death was unexpected. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,447384,00.html" target="_blank"&gt;Author Michael Crichton Dead at 66 (foxnews.com)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Catch up with you on the Other Side™.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9044975" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/scifi/default.aspx">scifi</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/science+fiction/default.aspx">science fiction</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/fiction/default.aspx">fiction</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/horror/default.aspx">horror</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/cancer/default.aspx">cancer</category></item></channel></rss>