<?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; Observation</title>
	<atom:link href="http://stoss.ca/wp/tag/observation/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>The Scary Side</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-scary-side</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-scary-side#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[random]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Signs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=222</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-scary-side/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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[random]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=211</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/anatomy-of-a-con/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[social commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=208</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/india-ology/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[random]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Signs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stupidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/pics-for-thought/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/www-dot-withdrawl-dot-com/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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[deep thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reality]]></category>

		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/direction-of-anger/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/a-social-networking-discussion-part-1/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[deep thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/140-characters/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Tazed and Confused</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/tazed-and-confused</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/tazed-and-confused#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<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=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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/tazed-and-confused/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<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=40</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2007/few-see-anything-wrong/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[social commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie]]></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=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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/social-commentary/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Stupidity]]></category>

		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/gay-is-not-brocolli/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
