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	<description>by Chris Poirier</description>
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		<title>In defense of Canadian politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some of you may know, there&#8217;s been a lot of political drama in Canada over the last couple of weeks. Back in our election in October, no single political party won enough seats to form a majority government. This was the third consecutive election in which this has happened, due to the fact that we now have four major political parties to choose from (five in Quebec). Truth be told, if the Liberal party can manage to get its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Fiction Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article is about the origins of the Web Fiction Guide and was written for and originally posted to Novelr in September of 2008. Back when we opened, Eli asked me to write an article for Novelr on the Web Fiction Guide. To be honest with you, when he asked, I wanted to run screaming for the hills. I just couldn’t imagine what I’d write about. And yet, the calmer, more business-like part of me knew it was a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truth versus Belief</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henry Neufeld writes a blog on issues of Christianity, which I read (cough) religiously. He&#8217;s always thought-provoking. Today he posted on the topic of how Christian writers often seem to distort or misrepresent the truth when arguing against things they don&#8217;t believe in. His particular context for this discussion is the creationist/evolution debate that always seems to be raging in the US. However, I&#8217;ve had similar feelings about some of the things I&#8217;ve been reading about the historical accuracy of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plotting Angst</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, it&#8217;s been an unexpectedly busy couple of weeks in the writing department. I did get the expected rejection slip for Dajoën. It&#8217;s kind of funny&#8212;the editor said she &#8220;enjoyed reading it&#8221;, then proceeded to suggest it needed a plot and/or a hook. Which is pretty much the standard criticism of the piece, and exactly why I&#8217;ve gone and rewritten it a half-dozen times, over the years. Come to think of it, &#8220;needs a plot&#8221; and &#8220;needs a hook&#8221; are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting published, and other bad ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a weird couple of weeks. I sent in a short story to a publisher, for the first time ever, and the lead up to it was an interesting experience. Interesting in a purely scientific sense. I didn&#8217;t enjoy it. Several years ago, on the advice of a friend, I sat down to write something that was going to be purely for me. A story that I could work on just for fun, that I would never show to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why bother creating new programming languages?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know that at least a few of you are probably asking that question. And I guess it&#8217;s a fair question&#8212;programming languages take a certain level of skill to design, and a certain level of expertise to implement. Truth be told, there seems to be a common perception that language designers rate up there with brain surgeons and rocket scientists on the nerd scale. And, to make matters worse, programming languages have a bad reputation as being hard to learn. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking of writing, lately. And I&#8217;ve been thinking of swearing off writing, lately. I know I can write. That&#8217;s not really at issue. The problem is that I&#8217;m not so convinced I have anything to write about. I&#8217;m not a great storyteller. That&#8217;s not a pity plea. That&#8217;s simple truth. I&#8217;ve been actively thinking about and (somewhat less actively) working at writing for about six years now. To date, I&#8217;ve had two (count &#8216;em) ideas for novel-sized stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leopard Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;ve been running Leopard (OS X 10.5) since Friday. There&#8217;s a lot of nice stuff, and some not so nice stuff. First of all, Leopard is gorgeous to look at. The frosted menu bar is very pretty, for one. The new Finder windows are a vast improvement over the old, and CoverFlow is stunning when browsing picture folders. I have a folder of astronomy pictures I&#8217;ve collected from APOD, over the years, and running through them in CoverFlow is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re-examining my faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, I found myself sitting down to write about my beliefs as a Christian. I&#8217;d had a rather vivid dream, in which someone said something that didn&#8217;t feel right to me, and I woke with the strong urge to write a response to what she&#8217;d said. But I didn&#8217;t get far before I started to wonder if my counter-argument was, in fact, rather weak. You see, I&#8217;m not what you&#8217;d call a bible-thumper. Truth be told, I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well, that was short-lived</title>
		<link>http://courage-my-friend.org/articles/well-that-was-short-lived/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My iPod Touch is going back. I&#8217;m not happy. I suppose I should have read more reviews on the device, but I&#8217;d pre-ordered it the day it was announced, because I&#8217;d been wanting an iPhone for months. And not for the phone. So it didn&#8217;t think to read more on it. I just waited patiently for my new toy to arrive. When I ordered it, my only disappointment was the lack of a camera, but I figured I could live [...]]]></description>
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