<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Stoss Blog &#187; cynical</title>
	<atom:link href="http://stoss.ca/wp/category/cynical/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://stoss.ca/wp</link>
	<description>The Musings of a Techie Canuck</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:23:07 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>Protection Against Protection</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/protection-against-protection</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/protection-against-protection#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cynical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=295</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The US Federal Trade Commission recently released a  report about how online/virtual &#8216;worlds&#8217; protect underage children from  harmful or explicit images. They investigated the mechanisms these  companies put in place to ensure that children 13 and under did not  access &#8220;things they shouldn&#8217;t.&#8221;
Their first recommendation was to &#8220;&#8230;put in place more [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/protection-against-protection/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Great Pretender</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/the-great-pretender</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/the-great-pretender#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cynical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pretending is ingrained in us from the very beginning. As a child, we would sit Calvin &#38; Hobbes style in a box and blast off to space, or watch the Muppet Babies invent crazy worlds and adventures, or turn a sandbox into a Jurassic playground.  Imagination is one of the very components which make us [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/the-great-pretender/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Publicly Private</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/publicly-private</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/publicly-private#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cynical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stupidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=303</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m tired of reading about people ‘losing privacy’ with Facebook and Twitter. People are not losing their privacy; they are losing their common sense. There was an article this morning in the paper which cited examples of ‘loss of privacy’:
1)      A UK worker being fired for comments that her job was boring.
2)      Employees in a [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/publicly-private/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Flight Sense</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/flight-sense</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/flight-sense#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cynical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deep thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stupidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=297</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As we all know by now on Christmas day a man attempted to detonate an explosive on a flight as it was descending into Detroit. The media reported this almost immediately as a &#8220;terrorist attack&#8221;.
There was a Republican senator on CNN this week denouncing Obama because &#8220;&#8230;he took 3 days to respond to the attempted [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/flight-sense/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Fight Against Futility</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-fight-against-futility</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-fight-against-futility#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cynical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[survey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently the file sharing site Mininova decided to stop hosting any torrent that was not sent in from a registered user with rights to the material that was being posted. It was if a million file sharers suddenly screamed and then were silenced&#8230;
With the fall of Napster, Supernova, Pirate Bay and now this I wonder [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-fight-against-futility/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Trick or Hack!</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/trick-or-hack</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/trick-or-hack#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cynical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hackers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stupidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the recent news of the e-mail phishing scam on Gmail, Yahoo! and Hotmail (and presumably others) my blood has been absolutely boiling over the horribly inaccurate, sensationalistic comments that are being published in all sorts of reputable newpapers!
First lets be clear:  These guys are NOT hackers. They are not. At very best they are [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/trick-or-hack/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>27 September 13ths later</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/27-september-13ths-later</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/27-september-13ths-later#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cynical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[random]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So I am told that 27 years ago today I was born into this world.  I say &#8220;I am told&#8221;, because who knows if I can trust my parents&#8230; They lied to me about Santa and the Easter bunny for years.
This really isn&#8217;t a milsetone, but then again milestones are arbitrary anyway. If we lived [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/27-september-13ths-later/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>V is for &#8220;Anna Paquin is hot&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/v-is-for-anna-paquin-is-hot</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/v-is-for-anna-paquin-is-hot#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cynical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[random]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As recommended by a friend and source of always different and enjoyable reading/viewing material, I recently started watching &#8220;True Blood&#8221;. For those of you that haven&#8217;t seen it, I will try not to issue too many spoilers, at least none that a pre-pubescent goth freak couldn&#8217;t grasp about 12.5 minutes into the first episode.
The show [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/v-is-for-anna-paquin-is-hot/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Driving me to Drink</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/driving-me-to-drink</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/driving-me-to-drink#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cynical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pints]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day in the paper there was an article about a 22 year old English man who died due to liver failure. The doctors were quoted as saying &#8220;He had the worst case of cirrhosis they have ever seen&#8221;. In fact his alcohol consumption was so bad that he was denied a liver transplant on the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/driving-me-to-drink/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Top One Reason People Hate Technology</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/top-one-reason-people-hate-technology</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/top-one-reason-people-hate-technology#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cynical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=232</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate &#8220;Top&#8221; lists. I do. All of them. I&#8217;ve hated them since before Letterman tried to make them his own, and I hate them even more now when webpages take 10 links to show 10 pictures of the top 10 potentially homophobic animated characters as judged by someone with the television knowledge of my [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/top-one-reason-people-hate-technology/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>What a Hack</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/what-a-hack</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/what-a-hack#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cynical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stupidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was recently announced that 1 month ago perennial Stoss Blog antagonist Twitter had a security breach when a high ranking executive&#8217;s account was accessed by a &#8220;hacker&#8221;. The hacker correctly guessed the users&#8217;s secret security questions to gain access to the account then surfed through corporate data and released it to well known techie [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/what-a-hack/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Marketing 101</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/market-101</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/market-101#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 16:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cynical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[random]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Signs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I show you some advertisements that came from marketing departments that are seemingly run by monkeys who are either 40 years older or younger than their target audience and/or have IQs in the single digits.





This ad advertises that mayonnaise and chicken &#8220;is McDonald&#8217;s&#8221;. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn&#8217;t the definition of [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/market-101/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>What Hogwash&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/what-hogwash</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/what-hogwash#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cynical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stupidity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned briefly in my last post about the Swine Flu. And today I read that Air Transat and other airlines have suspended flights! Has this world gone mad?!
This picture was in the UK morning paper. Notice that the only place that has any deaths in it is Mexico? Yes, the US A just confirmed [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/what-hogwash/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Continuing Social Networking Discussion (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-continuing-social-networking-discussion-part-2</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-continuing-social-networking-discussion-part-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cynical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 3 &#8211; 5:
We join the book with a new hypothesis from Mr Keen. Because some people lie on the Internet, we cannot be sure if anything is truth and therefore it is all invalid.  Solid idea. Applying this to elsewhere in the world: Because airplanes crash no one should fly, because some people kill [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-continuing-social-networking-discussion-part-2/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>A bright idea!</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/a-bright-idea</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/a-bright-idea#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cynical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I get to work before anyone else, not because I am overly keen, but I live an 8 minute walk away&#8230; Pretty hard to blame traffic.
When I do this I do not turn on the 57 fluorescent lights that line our ceiling so I can sit at my desk in the very back of [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/a-bright-idea/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Stopping abuse 1.5 pints at a time</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/stopping-abuse-15-pints-at-a-time</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/stopping-abuse-15-pints-at-a-time#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cynical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conversation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pints]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=65</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday after a meeting in London and a couple of pints I was approached by a 20-something woman who asked if I had a moment. I certainly did have a moment, so here is our (annotated and slightly abridged) conversation:
Woman &#8211; &#8220;I work for Amnesty International and they are doing a £27,000 ($50,000 CDN) charity [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/stopping-abuse-15-pints-at-a-time/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Sanity or Sanitization?</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/sanity-or-sanitization</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/sanity-or-sanitization#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cynical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stupidity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=30</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As many of you who are faithful readers of my rants know, I have this very unexplainable obsession with hygiene. We humans have this insane fetish with being absolutely sanitized from top to bottom, so much so that we are actually making ourselves susceptible to worse diseases, by killing the very ugly helpers that eat [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/sanity-or-sanitization/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
