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	<title>iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare</title>
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	<description>About a man who saw an over crowding of information and said &#039;me too!&#039;</description>
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		<title>Updates from the PassNerd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My web site passnerd.com has had some recent updates. Here&#8217;s what to look for: There&#8217;s a new complexity picker. The site has got even more light-weight and should load even faster than before. There is a new mobile version ( preview it at passnerd.com/?mobile ) You can enter the password length into the URL, for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattclare.ca/blog/2010/08/31/updates-from-the-passnerd/</link>
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		<title>Building the Baby&#8217;s Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a lot of planning, sawing, hammering and a little bit of screwing [up] it is finally ready. I think I had a good plan and I benefited from [grand]dad&#8217;s experience. In the interest of practicing what I teach I modeled two walls worth of wainscotting in the tiny room via Google SketchUp. It helped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattclare.ca/blog/2010/08/03/building-the-babys-room/</link>
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		<title>Save the Manuals!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Car and Driver has started a new campaign: Save the Manuals! As a fan of rowing my own gears I have to throw my support behind manual transmissions. I&#8217;m a fan, but many aren&#8217;t. When I bought my last two used cars I had to cast a very wide net to find a manual transmission. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattclare.ca/blog/2010/07/22/save-the-manuals/</link>
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		<title>Billy Corgan has a point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting and insightful comment from Billy Corgan while in Cleveland to kick off the Pumpkins latest world tour: Do you go online to see what the fans are saying about the new tracks? No, but I still get a vibe. If I read anything from let&#8217;s call it the &#8220;hardcore fanbase,&#8221; they are stuck in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattclare.ca/blog/2010/07/16/csnyandcorgan/</link>
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		<title>FaceTime Ads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple always succeeds when they make it feel like their technology enables the best of human emotions and experience. It&#8217;s really hard to watch this video and at the end of the 60 seconds not feel like you need to buy the phone to feel this way again&#8230;.. then you realize that you&#8217;d have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattclare.ca/blog/2010/07/15/facetime_ads/</link>
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		<title>Fourscare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Really good blog post by Shea Sylvia about her chilling experience with a FourSquare &#8220;stalker&#8221;. foursquare.com/ is a web site and mobile app that lets users &#8220;check-in&#8221; at locations. The social side that many enjoy is being able to discover your friends at locations, make new ones, and bring exciting elements of the internet to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattclare.ca/blog/2010/07/14/fourscare/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a peaksaver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last summer we signed-up to be Peaksavers. In the middle of the summer of 2010&#8242;s first heave wave in Ontario I&#8217;m still keen. Once we had signed-up Burlington Hydro sent someone over to install a new thermostat. The new thermostat allows Burlington Hydro / The Peaksaver program to send a signal to raise the temperature [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattclare.ca/blog/2010/07/07/peaksaver-heat-wave/</link>
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		<title>G20 Riots and Protests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Five issues that are worth protesting at the Toronto G20 meeting about that the rioters are preventing from being heard: The environment, it&#8217;s exploitation and climate change and the global response it requires. Sovereign debut levels&#8230;.. of poor countries. Maternal health AND family planning. The rights of women and minorities in discriminatory cultures. The many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattclare.ca/blog/2010/06/26/g20-riots-and-protests/</link>
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		<title>Denver Sakai Conf 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My presentation went really well. Here&#8217;s a picture Mathieu took of me about to burp I appreciated all the positive feedback in the session and via Twitter. During my presentation I warned the individuals in the room that &#8220;your faculty are Google&#8217;ing Sakai help and ending up at our wiki right now because MediaWiki has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattclare.ca/blog/2010/06/16/denver-sakai-conf-2010/</link>
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		<title>2010 Canadian Grand Prix Pics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a few of my pictures from the 2010 Canadian Grand Prix. /* Images are wrapped in divs classed "flickr_badge_image" with ids "flickr_badge_imageX" where "X" is an integer specifying ordinal position. Below are some styles to get you started! */ #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper {text-align:center; width:150px;} #flickr_badge_wrapper {padding:10px 0 10px 0;} .flickr_badge_image {margin:0 10px 10px 10px;} .flickr_badge_image img [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattclare.ca/blog/2010/06/15/2010-canadian-grand-prix-pics/</link>
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		<title>Ron MacLean saves a man, all I can do is make fun of him</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During lunch with Don Cherry in Philadelphia Ron MacLean responded to someone looking for help to save a drowning man by jumping into the Delaware to save the man who was apparently trying to take his life. Written up here: http://www.theprovince.com/mobile/story.html?id=3108588 My response was to make fun of this man who is national treasure: Ron [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattclare.ca/blog/2010/06/04/rn-maclean-saves-a-man-all-i-can-do-is-make-fun-of-him/</link>
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		<title>Ottawa 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are Lindsay&#8217;s pictures from when we were in Ottawa this week: #flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;} #flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;} #flickr_icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;} .flickr_badge_image {text-align:center !important;} .flickr_badge_image img {border: 1px solid black !important;} #flickr_www {display:block; padding:0 10px 0 10px [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattclare.ca/blog/2010/06/02/ottawa-2010/</link>
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		<title>Acura CSX Short/DIY Air Intake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been looking for a modification for my new-to-me car to help make it my own. I searched around the forums that deal with the Acura CSX and the Honda Civic and quickly realized that the simple &#8220;bolt-on&#8221; modifications available for the Honda Civic don&#8217;t work with the CSX as it has a slightly larger [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattclare.ca/blog/2010/05/29/acura-csx-short-diy-intake/</link>
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		<title>Matt at OUCC 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not presenting at the Ontario University Computing Conference (OUCC) this year, but I am part of a panel: Birds of a feather: Changing Learning Management Systems Other panel members include: Nancy Owen, Queen&#8217;s University Kyle Mackie, University of Guelph It&#8217;s too bad I&#8217;m not willing to be more of a Sakai zealot, because someone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattclare.ca/blog/2010/05/25/matt-at-oucc-2010/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Privacy Infographic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt McKeon has created an excellent &#8220;Evolution of Privacy on Facebook&#8221; infographic. It&#8217;s a great demonstration of how what was a great private place to share information surreptitiously became a tool for selling your information to marketers and disclosing your private information to the entire Internet. The Evolution of Facebook Privacy on MattMckeon.com Update: Friday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattclare.ca/blog/2010/05/11/facebook-privacy-infographic/</link>
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