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	<title>Sparkplug</title>
	<link>http://gapopensource.com</link>
	<description>Adventures in open source communication</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Death by PowerPoint</title>
		<link>http://gapopensource.com/?p=425</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter McGarvey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a slow death to be sure.  Similar to the classic “death of a thousand cuts”; only replace the tiny slashes of the razor with bullet points - fact after fact, benefit after benefit. 
The listener’s mind disengages instantly, wandering off to their coming vacation, wondering what’s for dinner tonight or pondering when the Leafs might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Crawled from my comments box Part Two&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://gapopensource.com/?p=424</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter McGarvey</dc:creator>
		
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When you have a blog it doesn’t take too long for the scam artists to find it and try to link to it via comments spam.  They apparently are trying to push their ratings up in Google by linking to as many blogs as possible.  Most of the spam is of the inane variety EG: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New York Guide at Zinio&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://gapopensource.com/?p=422</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter McGarvey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We made the splash page on Zinio for the electronic edition (which is a terrific buy).  Check it out here.
The print edition will be arriving in bookstores in a couple of weeks.
Presently, I am immersed in writing the London guide hence the lack of new postings for a while.
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		<title>FlashForward&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://gapopensource.com/?p=419</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter McGarvey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FlashForward premiered last night and I have to say that I really liked it.  In the interest of full disclosure, the show is based on my friend Rob Sawyer&#8217;s novel of the same name.  (That&#8217;s Rob in the picture with series star Joseph Fiennes)
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		<title>Julian Comstock reviewed this Wednesday&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://gapopensource.com/?p=417</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter McGarvey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail online review of Robert Charles Wilson&#8217;s Julian Comstock will be featured this coming Wednesday, August 26.
This was my favourite read of the summer and is worth the cost just for the hilarious footnotes alone.  So put down that Julia Child biography or Malcom Gladwell&#8217;s latest and have some fun for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This summer&#8217;s burning questions&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://gapopensource.com/?p=416</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter McGarvey</dc:creator>
		
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Robert Novak – miss him or piss on his grave?
Why do I think of Lincoln’s observation,“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” when I listen to the U.S. health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glenn Beck the human wreck&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter McGarvey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Faux News commentator Glenn Beck appears to be off his meds once again.  Famous for screaming like a little girl at any caller who offends his rather skewed sense of reality, Glenn has gone completely off the deep end as of late.
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		<title>The New York Guide</title>
		<link>http://gapopensource.com/?p=411</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter McGarvey</dc:creator>
		
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I am just about finished writing Baffled By Travel&#8217;s New York Guide which is much cause for celebration around our house.
However, it is like birthing a baby and I tend to suffer from mild post partum depression.
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		<title>Books, books and more books&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://gapopensource.com/?p=409</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter McGarvey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Baffled By Travel Guide to Toronto and Niagara Falls 
The Toronto Guide I wrote is now in the stores and I have been busy finishing up the New York guide which is being published next month. There&#8217;s an online preview of the guide right here.  If youwant your very own copy it is available at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joe blow&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://gapopensource.com/?p=407</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 00:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter McGarvey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m afraid that our old friend Joe the Plumber aka Samuel Wurzelbacher is a little past his &#8220;best before&#8221; date.  Since John McCain hailed him as &#8220;my hero&#8221; during last fall&#8217;s Presidential election Joe has managed to keep himself front and centre in the media with his regular knuckle-headed pronouncements.
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