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		<title>WTF Amazon?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so I&#8217;m looking to get Bill Clegg&#8217;s memoir &#8220;Portrait of the Addict as a Young Man?&#8221; Now I head over to my fine friends at Amazon to grab a copy for my Kindle, only to be told that this ebook is currently not available for purchase in Canada. Uh&#8230;okay, that&#8217;s disappointing, but I guess [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2010/07/13/wtf-amazon</link>
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		<title>Life with the iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I went ahead and got an iPad. Call me an Apple fanboy if you want, because, well, I am. Predictably, I am typing this post on the iPad (using a wireless bluetooth keyboard and the WordPress app, which has a nice iPad version.) First impressions? Well, unlike a lot of people who aren&#8217;t all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2010/06/07/life-with-the-ipad</link>
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		<title>Live Blogging the Oscars 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve been away from my blog so long that someone hacked it and I couldn&#8217;t log in. Luckily I fixed it. I never did my picks this year because I didn&#8217;t see very many movies this last year, so I&#8217;m just gonna wing it as I go. Also, I&#8217;m working on some budgeting spreadsheets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2010/03/07/live-blogging-the-oscars-2010</link>
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		<title>Hockey Liveblog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just out with thw wife watching the Hitmen (Calgary) play the Pats (Regina)[1]. We&#8217;re between the second and third period and the Hitmen are ahead 3-2. As a former Reginian Who attended dozens of Pats games as a kid I do feel some residual loyalties (even if none of these players were born the last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2009/12/29/hockey-liveblog</link>
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		<title>New from the Pragmatic Programmers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, it&#8217;s the 10th anniversary of the Pragmatic programmers, and part of going forward, they have teamed up with the inimitable Michael Swaine (you likely enjoyed his Swaine&#8217;s Flames column in addition to all the fine articles he wrote for the late, great Dr. Dobb&#8217;s journal) to put together a free online magazine called PragPub. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2009/07/01/new-from-the-pragmatic-programmers</link>
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		<title>Revenge of the Nerds 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who don&#8217;t know, the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo was held this weekend, and the family decided to check it out. It was as expected &#8211; super crowded, super crazy, and a lot of fun. I got to meet and talk for a few minutes with Terry Moore who might be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2009/04/26/revenge-of-the-nerds-2009</link>
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		<title>Gardening; not architecture &#8211; Oblique Strategies with Brian Eno &amp; Peter Schmidt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everybody blocks.  Writer’s block.  Programmer’s block.  Lego block.  As with so many things, one of the things that differentiates the great from the average is how we break through.  I’m always on the lookout for new ideas and came across the idea of oblique strategies, an idea from producer Brian Eno &#38; Peter Schmidt.[1]  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2009/03/16/gardening-not-architecture-oblique-strategies-with-brian-eno-peter-schmidt</link>
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		<title>Random Thoughts: Duplicity (the movie)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been critical of what I like to call the &#8220;Julia Roberts and Richard Gere desperately trying to duplicate the success of Pretty Woman&#8221; genre of film (cf. Runaway Bride). For many years, I&#8217;ve considered Clive Owen to be quite the bad ass. Think about it: Sin City, Children of Men, Shoot &#8216;em Up. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2009/03/09/random-thoughts-duplicity-the-movie</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s ALIIIIIVE!!1!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after I left Service Intelligence all those years ago, a small panel convened at a Tim Horton&#8217;s to discuss the future. Well, actually, it was me, The Ront and Foo and since we seemed to like working together we figured we&#8217;d write a game of some kind. After not a whole lot of thought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2009/02/28/its-aliiiiive1</link>
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		<title>Live Blogging the Oscars 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[6:29 The show is about to begin. I fell down the stairs yesterday and my tailbone is in bad shape, so I&#8217;ve spent most of the day off of my feet, which means I caught most of the red carpet rigamarole. I can&#8217;t say I missed it. Ooh, ooh! Here comes Hugh! 6:38 Okay, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2009/02/22/live-blogging-the-oscars-2009</link>
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		<title>If I picked the Oscars&#8230;again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As with last year, I&#8217;ve decided to throw out who would win the oscars if the Academy decided that maybe they should ditch the whole voting process and get some guy from Calgary to pick the winners. I will list both who I think the academy will pick (Who Will Win), and who I would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2009/02/19/if-i-picked-the-oscarsagain</link>
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		<title>Microsoft just doesn&#8217;t get it.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know, we like to put Microsoft down all the time. We all remember the hilarious &#8220;If Microsoft designed the iPod box&#8221; video[1], and those excellent points about how the Zune marketing discusses how many gigabytes it can hold, while the iPod lets you know how many songs it will hold. Hell, even I occasionally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2009/02/17/microsoft-just-doesnt-get-it</link>
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		<title>Review &#8211; Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all felt like Randy from Scream: watching hapless horror movie victims take every wrong turn so they cross paths with the killer for the next death set-piece. But who ever thinks about that killer? What about all the planning and training that goes into the perfect spree? If post-modern horror movies took the step [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2009/02/09/review-behind-the-mask</link>
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		<title>Birth of Vader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like so many geeks who grew up with the original Star Wars trilogy (and I mean people who were actually born when Star Wars came out, not these punk kids who are five years younger than Return of the Jedi) I was, shall we say, disappointed with episodes one two and three. It is my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2009/02/04/birth-of-vader</link>
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		<title>This is your project on Git&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of noise &#8217;bout distributed source control the last year or two, especially with regard to Linus&#8217; other baby, Git. Even I&#8217;ve bit &#8211; moving pawnzilla from sourceforge to GitHub last year, with serious thought to going with gitsvn in my professional life. Stuart over at Relevence even went so far as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2009/02/01/this-is-your-project-on-git</link>
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		<title>English Lessons (&#8230;2 in a series) &#8211; A Mute Point?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a software developer, you occasionally hear a conversation like the following: &#8220;You know, this resume looks good, but she doesn&#8217;t have a degree&#8221; &#8220;Yeah&#8230;but seven years of experience&#8221; &#8220;True, I suppose it&#8217;s a mute point&#8221; Well, not really. First off, mute as an adjective means &#8220;characterized by the absence of sound; quiet.&#8221; So while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2009/01/21/english-lessons-2-in-a-series-a-mute-point</link>
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		<title>OCD, RPG, OMG! (And other TLAs&#8230;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I loved Fallout. I loved Fallout 2 even more. And so far I&#8217;ve really loved playing Fallout 3 (yay Steam!) but my love of the previous games has tripped me up. I was developing my favorite type of character, a man who can destroy anybody with a hail of small arms fire, generally going by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2009/01/17/ocd-rpg-omg-and-other-tlas</link>
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		<title>Rock Band 2 DLC for the Wii is Here!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not going to comment on Rock Band 2 right now (Or it&#8217;s relationship to Guitar Hero: World Tour in the rock star simulation firmament) even though I have a lot to say, but I just want to say that as of right now (as opposed to not earlier today), the DLC is finally working [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2009/01/13/rock-band-2-dlc-for-the-wii</link>
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		<title>Not yet, my friends&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heard a remark that this was the last year that people could wear stupid 200X glasses (you know, like this: However, you can easily see that 2010 glasses would work out just fine. And if you&#8217;re willing to go all pirate and see out of one eye[1][2][3] you can comfortably wear hideous novelty specs at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2009/01/09/not-yet-my-friends</link>
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		<title>Holy Five-peat, Caped Crusader!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me congratulate Team Canada on a hard-fought tournament to claim a fifth World Junior championship in a row &#8211; this one on Canadian soil, led by a great performance by the best forward of the tournament, John Tavares. I&#8217;m not sure if you are aware, gentle reader, but our opponents in the gold medal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.geeksmithology.com/2009/01/05/holy-five-peat-caped-crusader</link>
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