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	<title>Stoss Blog</title>
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	<description>The Musings of a Techie Canuck</description>
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		<title>The Great Pretender</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/the-great-pretender</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>Disappointed, but not at the Olympics</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/disappointed-but-not-at-the-olympics</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/disappointed-but-not-at-the-olympics#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Canadian Media,
I am tired, absolutely tired of phrases like &#8220;only # medals&#8221; and &#8220;disappointment&#8221; and &#8220;let down&#8221;. Canada is having one of their best games ever and continue to have hopes with a week left in the games.
Last night we lost, arguably, the most anticipated single game of the Olympics and what happened? We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we&#8217;re destroying TV</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/why-were-destroying-tv</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/why-were-destroying-tv#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started thinking about this topic after I watched this Craig Ferguson clip:

By now we have all heard about Conan and Leno dueling it out for the sacred 11:35 slot on NBC. However, the situation brings to light something that hasn&#8217;t yet sunk in at most major corporations yet. The public is changing.
Ferguson&#8217;s hypothesis is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My API</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/my-api</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/my-api#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[website change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WARNING: Geeks only. (Persistent Link on the left hand side)
I have been doing an excessive amount of coding lately, for both work and for personal things and I found that I use the same handful of JAVA methods in sequence to perform many tasks. Specifically around persisting/converting data.
So in an effort to make my life [...]]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<title>The Fight Against Futility</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-fight-against-futility</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>Wave of the Future</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/wave-of-the-future</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/wave-of-the-future#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The beta of Google Wave has started, and I begged and grovelled for an invite and a friend was gracious enough to send one over. Here are my first thoughts.
Google Wave will change virtual communication. It won&#8217;t be over night, and it won&#8217;t be accepted by all, but then again Facebook was founded in 2004 and [...]]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<title>Travel Pic&#8217;ins</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/travel-picins</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/travel-picins#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[




Has no one ever looked at the €1 and noticed that Sweden is trying to have unaroused sex with the U? (Click on the pic to see for yourself)The land doesn&#8217;t even look like that! They seem to have totally cut off Norway like some bizarre cartographic STD that needed removing.
But notice they left in [...]]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<title>Technology Killed the Memory Star</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/technology-killed-the-memory-star</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/technology-killed-the-memory-star#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been think a lot about death lately. Before you raise your eyebrows, it isn&#8217;t a bad thing. There have just been a few things in my life lately that brought the subject up. I&#8217;ve outlined a couple below.
Firstly, a friend and former co-worker in his late 20&#8217;s lost his battle to cancer a few [...]]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<title>The Scary Side</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-scary-side</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes advertisers don&#8217;t seem to understand how things will look or read after they spend their 9-5 day creating the ads.





It&#8217;s very good that Jack Daniel&#8217;s would like to let us know about their expert quality controllers. I am sure they provide a lot of benefit to the end product. However, I am very very [...]]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<title>Anatomy of a Con</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/anatomy-of-a-con</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/anatomy-of-a-con#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Lonely Planet Guide for India (which was a God send of a book) had countless warnings about scams in India. Almost each city/section had special headings on the type and nature of scams in that region and spoke about how to spot them and avoid them. Aside from being a yet another fear mongering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India-ology</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/india-ology</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/india-ology#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings from India where my friend Andrew and I have been traveling around for 2 weeks now!
In that ime I have learned a few things and thought I would share.
1) I am white and rich
 - It sounds almost racist, but in a country of over 1 billion Indian residents being white makes you stand out like Elton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Re-Linking</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-re-linking</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-re-linking#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you fortunate enough and/or with enough spare time to read my Facebook, Twitter and Blog sites are aware that I recently de-coupled Twitter updates automatically updating Facebook statuses. I did this for a very specific reason, and have just &#8220;un-done&#8221; this for another. I had a few people comment on that decision, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tri-Tour Conundrum</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-tri-tour-conundrum</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love guests. Since moving to England three years ago I have had the fortune of being host to several of my friends from back home and always welcome more people to my humble abode. This week I was lucky enough to have 3 seperate groups of people pop over the big pond for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing 101</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/market-101</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 16:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>Pics For Thought</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/pics-for-thought</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/pics-for-thought#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 18:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few more day-to-day pictures:







The above comic was sent to me after my blog posts on Mr. Keen&#8217;s book about Internet media destroying society. The big-nosed guy on the right makes an interesting point, there will always be a need for writers no matter where we read our news.
Interestingly enough, does anyone else notice the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>www dot withdrawl dot com</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/www-dot-withdrawl-dot-com</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/www-dot-withdrawl-dot-com#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 20:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=51</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other night I came home to no Internet. It appeared I could not get an IP address from my ISP. (un-geekly written: Internet had a booboo). I wanted to call the provider to tell them I was down, to make sure they were investigating, however I realized to do this I needed access to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Significant Insignificances</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/significant-insignificances</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/significant-insignificances#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 12:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What do a typewriter and Germany have to do with Twitter?
In fact quite a bit, but let&#8217;s step back for a second. How many times have you felt like you were wasting time? Seemed like you were doing something insignificant? Your actions have no relevance to your future goals?
In this season on &#8220;How I Met [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pics are worth $$$</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/pics-are-worth</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/pics-are-worth#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 21:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=162</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent bit of feedback from a friend and fellow blogger is that my posts lack a certain graphical appeal. I therefore have decided to introduce a recurring feature to this site where I use the power of my Blackberry&#8217;s camera to bring you interesting things I encounter on my day-to-day adventures.
Today&#8217;s edition is Silly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greed flies high</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/greed-flies-high</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/greed-flies-high#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 23:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have flown quite a bit, not a lot, but more than most and less than quite a few. I have flown on everything from &#8220;Can this legally be considered a plane?&#8221;-class on Delta to Executive First on Air New Zealand, one of the best airlines in the air. I have been on Virgin Blue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Conclusion to a Discussion on Social Networking</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/a-conclusion-to-a-discussion-on-social-networking</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/a-conclusion-to-a-discussion-on-social-networking#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 14:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I could spend a lot of time reviewing each absurdity of this book, but alas I like to branch out more. Instead I think in my final reflection I&#8217;ll finish with why I believe Mr. Keen has this sense of reality that I do not share.
Since I stated posting blog entries I have received many [...]]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<title>Direction of Anger</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/direction-of-anger</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/direction-of-anger#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=133</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of you have probably heard about the young girl Tori from Woodstock, Ontario who has recently been kidnapped. I feel so sorry for the parents and family of this child. She has been missing more than a week and I am sure none of you reading this, nor I writing it, can imagine the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Social Networking Discussion (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/a-social-networking-discussion-part-1</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/a-social-networking-discussion-part-1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Preface:
Lately a phenomenon has taken off like many of the fads of the 80s we all love so much. Starting with the BBS systems in the late 70s and through the 90s we have had this intrinsic need to network with people at any distance via computer. With the web becoming more accessible, network speeds [...]]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<title>A View from the Street</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/a-view-from-the-street</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/a-view-from-the-street#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As was my view in this entry of my blog, I can now provide even further proof of this ridiculous world we live in.
Google Street View has recently come under fire when trying to photograph a specific town in England.
Now the camera has been used by the public for about 100 years. Over those years [...]]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<title>idea-ology</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/idea-ology</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/idea-ology#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=61</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where do ideas come from? Earlier tonight I was trying to think of a topic to write about and even started two articles (now saved in my draft folder). The ideas never fully formed.
If we think about it all things started from an idea, from the computer, to the spoon, to the wheel. All things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>140 characters&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/140-characters</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/140-characters#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=53</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a bit of a geek. I like technology and I like understanding the various uses of that technology. I have spent the last month or so reading every news article I can about a new (I won&#8217;t say newest, because as we all know in this industry &#8220;newest&#8221; is outdated within minutes) phenomenon: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tazed and Confused</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/tazed-and-confused</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=48</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of you may have heard about the trial of the mounties in the taser death of some nut at an airport. I don&#8217;t want to minimize a death in anyway, and I feel for his family and friends, but many words have been thrown around about these officers: &#8220;knee-jerk reaction&#8221;, &#8220;impulse acting&#8221;, &#8220;instinctual&#8221; etc. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the new Design</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/welcome-to-the-new-design</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/welcome-to-the-new-design#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new design, hopefully to invite more blogging!
Hello Everyone! The page has changed significantly and hopefully I now can maintain this more. I have moved over my favourite posts from my old blog and will be perfecting the scheme of this webpage as  I discover new and wonderful things about WordPress.
Stoss
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		<title>Bad Meat</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2007/bad-meat</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2007/bad-meat#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=42</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Natural selection is an interesting subject. I was thinking, many animals have developed all sorts of mechanisms to protect themselves or to detect other predators: camouflage skin, heightened smell, night sight etc.
But one thing I don&#8217;t understand is: Why the hell do they not change the way they taste? Think about it&#8230; if a chicken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Few see anything wrong</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2007/few-see-anything-wrong</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2007/few-see-anything-wrong#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As always I have an opinion: The recent Virginia situation as before when this has occurred is being brought out to be a sign of the decline of society. This is because it is easy to point to a moron with a gun and blame him for all the fear in the world.
What you never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living in a sonnet</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2007/living-in-a-sonnet</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2007/living-in-a-sonnet#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=38</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually tote things on my blog. I am not much of a toter&#8230; can you verbize the word tote? Is verbize a word? Anyway, grammar lessons aside, I just watched the movie &#8220;Stranger than Fiction&#8221;. Apparently this came out last year and was recently released on DVD. I had never heard of it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monster-osity</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2007/monster-osity</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2007/monster-osity#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=36</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who decided what monsters look like? Why are they typically depicted as green and furry? Why do they have big teeth and growl?
Did someone decide that green was scary? I don&#8217;t envision green as scary.. in fact I have never once seen a person let out a bloodcurdling scream at grass&#8230;.
And fur isn&#8217;t scary! bunnies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mistaken mistakes</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/mistaken-mistakes</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/mistaken-mistakes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[deep thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=34</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So the other night I couldn&#8217;t sleep. It was about 1am and I thought, maybe some TV will put me out. So I turned on the TV and there was only one thing that sounded good&#8230; well two, but &#8220;I came, I saw, I blew&#8221; cost extra.
The other was the movie &#8220;13 going on 30&#8243;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>irreverent comments</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/irreverent-comments</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/irreverent-comments#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2006 06:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=32</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been gone for so long from this blog, my thoughts are now all scattered.
I find that after spending 9 or 10 hours at work on one of these things, I would rather watch tv and eat, then type more into a screen. Sort of like a stripper who is getting ready for bed [...]]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Recent Events</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/recent-events</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/recent-events#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=28</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Typically I write about derivitives of personal thoughts and conversations, however, in light of recent events, I will combine random thoughts with actually reality.
DISCLAIMER: Facts may be changed, twisted, diluted or exaggerated in order to make this more entertaining&#8230;. If you want news spell Stoss with a C and two N&#8217;s.
Shedden has recently become a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Social Commentary</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/social-commentary</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/social-commentary#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 01:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=26</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to comment on this article, because it shows a LOT of what is wrong with society.
I am not sure if you followed this story, basically because I have no idea who &#8220;you&#8221; are, since you are sitting at a computer looking at this at any time and in any place.. So regardless, here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is this It?</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/is-this-it</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/is-this-it#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=24</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So I was thinking, which is scary enough in itself, but regardless. What if human beings are exactly like any other animal, except that we have this highly developed brain which causes morals, emotions, thought etc?
Do the popular lions always win Class President? Is there a class system of buzzards flying above us? Do lonley, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay is not Brocolli</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/gay-is-not-brocolli</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/gay-is-not-brocolli#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[social commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=22</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When we were kids we had to be forced to eat our brocolli. There was no inherent reason why we didn&#8217;t like it, we just refused to eat it based on the principal that it was green and a vegetable.  I find nothing wrong with this, because kids are generally nonsensical and don&#8217;t need to [...]]]></description>
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