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		<title>Pioneer One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across a link to Pioneer One last week and I downloaded it over the weekend.  I finally got around to watching it this evening and I have to say that for a $6000 budget it's not that bad, in fact I'm sure hoping that it continues, I'm pretty curious about the plot.  Anyway [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.quay.net/2010/06/pioneer-one/</link>
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		<title>Training Courses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm on a RHCE course all week this week, it reminds me how much I don't fit into classroom settings.  The material we're covering is actually pretty interesting and I'm motivated to pay attention because I'd like to pass the exam on Friday but I still find myself drifting off in my own head.
Where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.quay.net/2010/06/training-courses/</link>
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		<title>A Couple Things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm still plugging away at the Aubrey-Maturin series and I'm still enjoying it, about halfway through HMS Surprise.  I mentioned it to a friend recently about the series and I agreed with her that it's probably a bit of an acquired taste but if you're in to sailing and/or military or historical fiction you should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.quay.net/2010/05/a-couple-things/</link>
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		<title>Diaspora</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just pledged $25 to the Diaspora project on Kickstarter.  I won't repeat all the details here, but it's in many ways an answer to my complaints about Facebook.  I'm still a bit leery of some aspects of social networking regardless of the tools but the idea that I manage my own data directly is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.quay.net/2010/05/diaspora/</link>
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		<title>G20 Summit Plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You are probably aware that the G20 Summit is on its way to Toronto in the not-too-distant future.  From what I'm hearing it sounds like the Toronto Police, OPP, RCMP, CSIS and their friends are going to be out in full effect for the duration to enforce a DMZ they're putting around the Convention [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.quay.net/2010/05/g20-summit-plans/</link>
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		<title>Flickr is Cool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm a pretty slow adopter of new "fad" Internet tools, particularly when it comes to so-called social media applications.  Though I don't have any illusions regarding the level on anonymity anybody can have on the Internet these days (read none), I am not very comfortable with ease with which sites like Facebook merge one's "private" [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.quay.net/2010/05/flickr-is-cool/</link>
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		<title>Flash is Not a Right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading this post on Slashdot as well as the linked blog post.  I've been hesitant to weigh in publicly on what I think about the whole Adobe/Apple war that's going on right now since I'm not really a iPhone OS developer and and I don't pretend to be a technology maven (or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.quay.net/2010/05/flash-is-not-a-right/</link>
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		<title>Master &amp; Commander</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've started reading Master &#38; Commander by Patrick O'Brian.  I've long been a fan of Napoleonic War era historical fiction but for some reason I've never quite gotten around to the Aubrey-Maturin series.  Though it's premature to give a real review, I can appreciate why the books were so well received critically.  I've got Post [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.quay.net/2010/05/master-commander/</link>
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		<title>Oracle, Don&#8217;t Strangle Sun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#60;frowny face&#62;
I don't quite understand what Oracle's strategy is with Sun.  They seem to be going out of their way to piss in the cornflakes of Sun hardware and Solaris/OpenSolaris people.  There are conflicting reports on Slashdot regarding the latest change to Sun hardware support whereby the public can no longer download firmware updates.  Then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.quay.net/2010/05/oracle-dont-strangle-sun/</link>
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		<title>US Piracy List, A Canadian Reponse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There's a good summary over on Ars Technica of some of the problems involved with the continued American insistence of categorizing Canada as a country that doesn't enforce intellectual properly law. I'm personally content with the middle ground that we seem to be standing here.  Although ideally I'd prefer to see a more open regime here, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.quay.net/2010/05/ars-technical-article-regarding-us-piracy-list-canadian-reponse/</link>
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