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	<title>Blogging Idol - Computerworld Canada &#187; Tania Samsonova</title>
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		<title>Book review. Switch: How To Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 04:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tania Samsonova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am sure each one of you tried to change something in your life at least once (lose weight, change the way you do paperwork so you submit your taxes on time and do not get fined, make your developers comment the code they write… you name it). The goal may be clear and theoretically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Programs that help you fund your IT projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 04:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tania Samsonova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for funding to develop an IT product or hire people, here are some useful federal and/or provincial programs that may help you. SR&#38;ED is one of the most important ones, but there are others as well, and they can make all the difference in the development of your business. &#160; Ontario [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better late than never</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 06:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tania Samsonova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems somewhat late to enter the competition! I hope, however, to add my voice to the beautiful choir of the participants in the remaining week or so. I probably won&#8217;t win, but I know it will be fun anyway! I hope it will be more like last year (when I took the 3rd place), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: True names and eternal questions: Vernor Vinge and the cyberspace frontier</title>
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		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2010/05/book-review-true-names-and-eternal-questions-vernor-vinge-and-the-cyberspace-frontier/956#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 03:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tania Samsonova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging Idol 2010 Archives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cryptoanarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cryptography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyberspace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[key escrow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book contains &#8220;True names&#8221;, a novella by Vernor Vinge, and nine essays on deep political and technological issues underlying the novella. As it often happens with true artists, Vinge, who published his story in 1981, predicted a lot of problems that we face today. He was the first to describe cyberspace (although the actual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resources for technology-related startups in Toronto, Ontario, Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 02:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tania Samsonova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging Idol 2010 Archives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative spaces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government incentives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incubators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OIDMTC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SME]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SRED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[startup]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article contains some useful information that I inevitably accumulated over the past few years, as a SR&#38;ED consultant and as someone who has recently started a business. It might save you some time that took me to figure out all this. Good luck with your startup! Various camps, startup drinks, green drinks Startup entrepreneurs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CloudCamp 2. Cloud Computing: Return on Investment</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/05/cloudcamp-2-cloud-computing-return-on-investment/890</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2010/05/cloudcamp-2-cloud-computing-return-on-investment/890#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 08:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tania Samsonova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging Idol 2010 Archives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[6) Cloud Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloudcamp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IaaS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is another session from Cloudcamp that was held in Toronto on April 6, 2010. (Find the article about the first session, with links to the CloudCamp sound files and some presentations, here.) The session was facilitated by Dave Nielsen and discussed the ROI of cloud computing. The following questions were raised: What is cloud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MicroSkills and macro changes</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/microskills-and-macro-changes/786</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tania Samsonova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging Idol 2010 Archives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[career advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first job in Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mentorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MicroSkills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wired Woman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women in IT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About 250,000 immigrants arrive to Canada each year. Most of them settle down, and find jobs, and many of these jobs are in the IT (I’d say even most of these jobs are, or were, until recent ridiculous changes in the occupation list came into effect, but then I am an IT person myself, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloudcamp 1. The unpanel</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/cloudcamp-1-the-unpanel/694</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tania Samsonova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging Idol 2010 Archives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[6) Cloud Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloudcamp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IaaS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Cloudcamp was held in Toronto on April 6, 2010. For those of you who are not familiar with the concept of a camp, it is usually an unconference: there is little or no traditional presentations (one active presenter vs. a more or less passive audience). Instead of that, most camps are unconferences where people [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>My Microsoft Outlook Connector suddenly stopped working</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/my-microsoft-outlook-connector-suddenly-stopped-working/667</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/my-microsoft-outlook-connector-suddenly-stopped-working/667#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tania Samsonova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global disaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hotmail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outlook Connector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our dependency on technology becomes rather alarming. If a global disaster strikes and you live in the country in an 18-century house, you will be able to get some firewood in the forest, bring water in a bucket from the river, catch a rabbit with a snare made of your suspenders, and roast that rabbit [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Book review: Tom Rand,  Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/book-review-tom-rand-kick-the-fossil-fuel-habit/634</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/book-review-tom-rand-kick-the-fossil-fuel-habit/634#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tania Samsonova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging Idol 2010 Archives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clean tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cleantech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geothermal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MaRS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Rand, an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, innovator, philosopher and MaRS Discovery District advisor, just launched his book, Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save Our World. It talks about things like solar power, wind power, hydro power, biofuels, smart buildings, and more that are leading the way to a sustainable future. Tom [...]]]></description>
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