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	<description>Programming and making art in Vancouver, BC</description>
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		<title>On Choking Hazard Dolls</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bizarre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[textiles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I discovered this local textile artist almost by accident last year and I return to her Flickr portfolio often to admire these bizarre and imaginative plush creations.  This series is called &#8220;Choking Hazard Dolls&#8221; and incorporates components from old dolls that have been reworked with found objects and surgically precise stitches. Inspired by cartoons, comic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Erwin Olaf</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Erwin Olaf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portrait]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott and I went to Europe in June 2007 and while sightseeing in Amsterdam, I visited the Reflex Modern  Art Gallery.  The gallery, small and several blocks from the Rijksmuseum, was exhibiting large photographs of women (and one man) variously standing and sitting alone in modernist interiors.  The photographs were enormous and filled the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Machines: Windows 7 host and Ubuntu 9.10 guest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boundaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C and C++]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ubuntu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtual Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virtual machine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am trying out Sun&#8217;s Virtual Box this term.  I&#8217;m going to be doing a fair amount of development in C and C++ which means using gcc on Ubuntu.  I&#8217;m pretty invested in the software on my Windows 7 laptop and yes, I&#8217;ve got Cygwin, but I prefer working with C and C++ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Armchair Architect</title>
		<link>http://christhompson.ca/2009/12/the-armchair-architect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vancouver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Between classes this fall I&#8217;ve been writing letters to Bryan Newson, the City of Vancouver Public Art Program Manager, about the hosted light installation by Diana Thater which stretches 149 metres up the side of Vancouver&#8217;s downtown waterfront Shaw Tower.  It&#8217;s a column of LED lights that are computer programmed to dissolve from green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Java&#8217;s Sorted Collections and the Comparable and Comparator Interfaces</title>
		<link>http://christhompson.ca/2009/10/making-sense-of-javas-comparable-and-comparator-interfaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comparable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comparator]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Java&#8217;s SortedSet interface and the classes that implement it (like TreeSet) will store a collection of objects that are sortable.  In order to make a class sortable so that we can store it in a sorted collection, we have two choices:

the sorted class can implement the Comparable interface
we can pass a Comparator to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Epic Road Trip to the Northwest Territories</title>
		<link>http://christhompson.ca/2009/09/epic-road-trip-to-the-northwest-territories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northwest Territories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scott and I spent the last 2 weeks of summer driving up to Yellowknife and back.  We travelled from Vancouver across BC to Jasper in the Rockies, and then almost due north through Alberta to the 60th parallel and NWT.  We spent a few days in Yellowknife and then returned through northern BC with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AT91SAM7S256 aka the NXT Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LeJOS]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NXT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Lego MindStorms NXT Brick is controlled by a pair of Atmel microcontrollers:

Atmel 32-bit ARM processor, AT91SAM7S256
Atmel 8-bit AVR processor, ATmega48

The AT91SAM7S256 is part of an Atmel series of low pin-count Flash microcontrollers based on the 32-bit ARM7DMI ARM Thumb RISC processor.  It features:

a maximum clock speed of 55 MHz (48 MHz in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Land Art</title>
		<link>http://christhompson.ca/2009/08/on-land-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geoglyph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hill figure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nazca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Smithson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiral Jetty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Land art or earth art has existed for millennia. Materials such as rocks, sticks, soil, plants and so on are often used, and the works generally exist in the open and are left to change and erode under natural conditions. Particularly large works are sometimes known as earthworks. In most respects land art has become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Brian Jungen</title>
		<link>http://christhompson.ca/2009/08/on-brian-jungen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Jungen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sculpture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vancouver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A rhetorical contextualization of Brian Jungen’s art within the post-modern paradigm
That the city of Vancouver, and the province of British Columbia as a whole,  are promoted by our government both domestically and abroad as Canada’s Pacific  gateway to corporate prosperity and profit is an unmistaken and unabashed truism  in today’s economy of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dialog 1 with Clement Greenberg: Avant-garde and Kitsch</title>
		<link>http://christhompson.ca/2009/08/dialog-1-with-clement-greenberg-avant-garde-and-kitsch/</link>
		<comments>http://christhompson.ca/2009/08/dialog-1-with-clement-greenberg-avant-garde-and-kitsch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abstract Expressionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clement Greenberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dialog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kitsch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modernism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this after reading Greenberg&#8217;s seminal essay Avant-garde and Kitsch which was published in 1939.



Clement Greenberg
Hello Chris.


Chris
Hi Mr. Greenberg, it’s a pleasure to meet you and a little surreal since I was just sitting here in my lush garden on a lovely teak chaise sipping a gin and tonic whilst reading a collection of [...]]]></description>
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