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		<title>The Tale of the Horrible Desk Mess</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing how easily our eyes adjust to chaos. Papers, books, a stapler, a roll of film, a ruler &#8211; quite a few things you&#8217;ve no intention of using &#8211; all spread out on your desk, and you don&#8217;t notice them. Maybe there&#8217;s a voice in the back of your head saying &#8220;I really need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldgnat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7423653&amp;post=1030&amp;subd=worldgnat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The End of a Blog Hiatus, The Start of a Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Davoust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that, once a year, I end up taking a break from blogging. Most of the time the reason is that I&#8217;m overwhelmed with school work, and that is usually followed by a few weeks of responsibility-shirking that I call &#8220;vacation.&#8221; Well, this year&#8217;s blogging hiatus is now officially over. You can resume sleeping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldgnat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7423653&amp;post=1018&amp;subd=worldgnat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tuition: Why Should We Pay to Fix What Others Broke?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Davoust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Quebec, we have very low University tuition. It costs about $1600 a semester to go to school, which is the lowest tuition price in Canada. The Quebec government, for those who don&#8217;t know, has decided to raise tuition fees from about $1600 to $3793 a semester; Quebec would remain the province with the lowest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldgnat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7423653&amp;post=1001&amp;subd=worldgnat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On The MUNACA Rally</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Davoust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday, September 16th, there was a rally for MUNACA outside McGill. The portion of McGill College avenue closest to the university campus was closed off and totally filled with MUNACA members, AMURE members (another McGill union which officially supports MUNACA&#8217;s efforts in this negotiation,) students, and other faculty and staff who support the MUNACA strike. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldgnat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7423653&amp;post=974&amp;subd=worldgnat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Equus: Not Exactly About Horses</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Davoust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you were a child, you had all sorts of misconceptions about how the world worked. For example, when I was very young, I was convinced that we lived on the inside of the world; that we were surrounded by a crust of blue stuff that was the sky. It&#8217;s inevitable that we misunderstand some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldgnat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7423653&amp;post=970&amp;subd=worldgnat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Effects of the Strike Are Worse Than You Think</title>
		<link>http://worldgnat.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/the-effects-of-the-strike-are-worse-than-you-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Davoust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I was fairly noncommittal about my feelings toward the strike. I was leaning toward supporting the strike, but I wasn&#8217;t convinced either way. Now I&#8217;m still not sure, but I mostly support the strike, and I certainly support the MUNACA members. But it&#8217;s more complicated than that. Much more complicated than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldgnat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7423653&amp;post=958&amp;subd=worldgnat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Starting School with a Strike</title>
		<link>http://worldgnat.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/starting-school-with-a-strike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Davoust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As most (if not all) downtown campus McGill students have heard, read about, or experienced, McGill&#8217;s MUNACA (McGill University&#8217;s Non-Academic Certified Association) is on strike. The strike apparently started on Wednesday, and the battle is over pension and health care cuts, as well as inadequate pay raises. McGill&#8217;s Vice-Principal of Administration and Finance has been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldgnat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7423653&amp;post=953&amp;subd=worldgnat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Montreal Downtown Cycling Map of Hazards</title>
		<link>http://worldgnat.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/montreal-downtown-cycling-map-of-hazards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Davoust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daily commute to work requires me to pass several hazards, most of them places where pedestrians, cyclists, and cars come together at awkward intersections. The other day I was thinking about how the area between Côte des Neiges and Crescent street really lends itself to the name &#8220;The Concordia Corridor,&#8221; because it really is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldgnat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7423653&amp;post=941&amp;subd=worldgnat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s 7am, and I &#8211; Am &#8211; Awake. Yes, You Read that Right.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Davoust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning&#8217;s post is brought to you by the cup of Tim Horton&#8217;s coffee sitting on my desk. This morning, for the first time in a long, long time, I woke up at 7am. The plan is to get myself used to waking up this early so that when my semester starts and I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldgnat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7423653&amp;post=951&amp;subd=worldgnat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Geek Tip: Volume Controls in wmii</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Davoust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[wmii is awesome. wmii will change your life. wmii will change the way you think about working with a computer. It will help you stay focused, it will teach you more about how your computer works, and encourage you to solve problems on a scientific level, rather than a &#8220;maybe if I do this it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=worldgnat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7423653&amp;post=939&amp;subd=worldgnat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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