<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11548260</id><updated>2012-04-28T16:48:24.545-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thoughts on Excellence</title><subtitle type='html'>Musings on excellence, examples thereof (good &amp; bad), and their effects on our daily lives.</subtitle><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11548260/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pqa.net/blog/excellence.html'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pqa.net/blog/atom.xml'/><author><name>PQA's Thoughts on Excellence</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09966049606847293036</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UO5cElnIdcs/T5xLzhk1yvI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/B9dpg_nnudo/s220/glenn_colour120-144.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11548260.post-1153920566236087967</id><published>2012-04-28T16:48:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2012-04-28T16:48:24.574-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This blog has moved</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;       This blog is now located at http://blog.pqa.net/.&lt;br /&gt;       You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click &lt;a href='http://blog.pqa.net/'&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to&lt;br /&gt;       http://blog.pqa.net/feeds/posts/default.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11548260-1153920566236087967?l=pqa.net/blog/excellence.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11548260/1153920566236087967/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11548260&amp;postID=1153920566236087967' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11548260/posts/default/1153920566236087967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11548260/posts/default/1153920566236087967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pqa.net/blog/2012/04/this-blog-has-moved.html' title='This blog has moved'/><author><name>PQA's Thoughts on Excellence</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09966049606847293036</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UO5cElnIdcs/T5xLzhk1yvI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/B9dpg_nnudo/s220/glenn_colour120-144.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11548260.post-111120252292925910</id><published>2005-03-19T00:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-03-18T22:22:02.930-05:00</updated><title type='text'>We're Off !</title><content type='html'>PQA has now joined the latest web fad (4 years after the starter's pistol went off!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This blog is on &lt;strong&gt;Excellence&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why Excellence?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe &lt;strong&gt;excellence&lt;/strong&gt; touches everything on this planet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Environmental &lt;strong&gt;excellence&lt;/strong&gt; stops spills.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manufacturing &lt;strong&gt;excellence&lt;/strong&gt; stops job losses and prevents accident.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Excellence&lt;/strong&gt; in hospitals prevents medication errors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No matter where you are, or what you do, you are affected by &lt;strong&gt;excellence&lt;/strong&gt; (or its lack thereof).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paraphrasing Vince Lombardi,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;strong&gt;Excellence isn't everything.  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