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		<title>Google Graphs!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another new feature added to the Google search engine&#8230; graphs! As I noted before, Google already had the ability to evaluate arbitrary arithmetic expressions typed into the search box. Just now I found out through the Official Google Search Blog that it can now draw graphs of arbitrary mathematical functions, even multiple functions at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=456&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The PhD Movie: My 2 Cents</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I blogged about Jorge Cham (the cartoonist behind the online comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper aka PhD Comics) coming to the University of Waterloo for a talk and book signing. If you&#8217;re a fan of the comics, you probably know that Jorge and the crew have been working on a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=444&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Google really &#8220;antisocial&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://brainblizzard.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/is-google-really-antisocial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of years, we have seen Google try, more than once, to become a player at the social networking game. Let&#8217;s look at these attempts, and what has become of them: Orkut (2004): a social networking website, similar to Facebook. Orkut has become very popular in Brazil, but did not have much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=425&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Properly Dispose of an Old Computer?</title>
		<link>http://brainblizzard.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/how-to-properly-dispose-of-an-old-computer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 01:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I had to get rid of my old laptop because of problems with its screen. The laptop was too old, and trying to fix or replace the screen seemed like to much of a hassle, and getting a new laptop seemed like the best idea. Many of us choose to get rid of their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=341&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Backup your Google Data?</title>
		<link>http://brainblizzard.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/how-to-backup-your-google-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brainblizzard.wordpress.com/?p=330</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The number of free services offered by Google keeps increasing, and the number of people using these services grows tremendously day after day. Anyone who reads this blog probably knows by now that I am a big fan of Google. I regularly use Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google+, and Google Docs. The biggest advantage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=330&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Goes Social</title>
		<link>http://brainblizzard.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/google-goes-social/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so I know that I often post about Google products. I admit that I have been a Google fan since day 1, and the folks at Google have managed to keep me this way until now. For those of you who have not heard yet, Google has launched its own social network Google+, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=290&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;PhD Comics&#8221; comes to Waterloo!</title>
		<link>http://brainblizzard.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/phd-comics-comes-to-waterloo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last 4 or 5 years, I have been a loyal fan of Piled Higher and Deeper (a.k.a. PhD comics), which is an online comic strip about life (or the lack thereof) in grad school. The comics are done by Jorge Cham, who started them when he was a PhD student at Stanford. Today, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=272&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web 2.0 and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution</title>
		<link>http://brainblizzard.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/web-2-0-and-the-2011-egyptian-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The highlight of 2011 so far has been the uprisings taking place in North Africa and the Middle East, particularly the Egyptian revolution. The Egyptian people have managed, through a peaceful revolution, to topple down a dictatorship that ruled the country for 30 years. One of the most interesting aspects of that revolution is that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=261&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Post: 5 Signs You’re Addicted to New Technology</title>
		<link>http://brainblizzard.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/5-signs-youre-addicted-to-new-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jessica Stilling is a guest blogger for My Dog Ate My Blog and a writer on online universities for the Guide to Online Schools. We’re living in a new age. For many of us, the term &#8220;Internet&#8221; had just been invented when we were kids. It was a cool thing some adults were into, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=250&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Tips for Academic Talks</title>
		<link>http://brainblizzard.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/10-tips-for-academic-talks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 01:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another excellent article by Matt Might. In his article, Matt lists his top 10 tips on giving a good academic talk, and goes into detail in explaining each tip. In summary, the top 10 tips (in no particular order) are: The audience determines the talk. Practice almost makes perfect. Nervous energy is exploitable. Every talk [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=235&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Blizzard: 2010 in review</title>
		<link>http://brainblizzard.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/brain-blizzard-2010-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 05:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here&#8217;s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats. A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=232&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Illustrated Guide to a PhD</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 03:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently stumbled upon The Illustrated Guide to a PhD by Matt Might. It is a simple way to visualize what it means to do a PhD. I completely forgot about it until it came up tonight during a discussion with some friends. I&#8217;m reproducing that page here for the sake of convenience: Imagine a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=225&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hotmail vs. Gmail: The Rematch</title>
		<link>http://brainblizzard.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/hotmail-vs-gmail-the-rematch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gmail has been the favorite email for many people in the last few years, mainly because of its many features that were unrivaled by its competitors. These features included: Threaded conversations Excellent spam filtering Unlimited (and expanding) storage Integrated chat client (google talk) in addition to Google docs, which allows users to edit and save [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=219&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best Downloads for Linux</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a follower of the very popular productivity website Lifehacker.com, today I just stumbled on one of their most recent posts. The post, titled Lifehacker Pack for Linux: Our List of the Best Linux Downloads lists and describes a number of free/open source software products that can be downloaded and installed on Linux. The post [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=216&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Google Buzz vs. Twitter and Facebook</title>
		<link>http://brainblizzard.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/new-google-buzz-vs-twitter-and-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google strikes again!! The folks at Google just rolled out yet another application that tackles an area previously dominated by Twitter and Facebook: Microblogging! Microblogging is posting small entries that usually consist of nothing but a short sentence fragment, or an image or embedded video. This is commonly known as &#8220;tweeting&#8221; for those who use [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=105&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web Browsers for Dummies</title>
		<link>http://brainblizzard.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/web-browsers-for-dummies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Considering the amount of time everyone spends online today, it is funny that many people still don&#8217;t know what a web browser is, even though they use it every day. The following video is a questionnaire conducted by Google while promoting their browser Chrome, and it shows that many people don&#8217;t know what a browser [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=96&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surrogates: When Sci-Fi Hits Close to Reality</title>
		<link>http://brainblizzard.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/surrogates-when-sci-fi-hits-close-to-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warning: includes spoilers! I just came back from watching the movie Surrogates, starring Bruce Willis. Even though it was a bit short, it was very entertaining and engaging (at least for me). The events take place in a future where people can use robots to do whatever they want to do in real life. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=91&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wolfram Alpha: A new way to search the web&#8230; or is it?</title>
		<link>http://brainblizzard.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/wolfram-alpha-a-new-way-to-search-the-web-or-is-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 03:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us have heard about the new search engine Wolfram Alpha (made by the same folks who are behind Mathematica, the computational software used in mathematical, engineering, and scientific fields). The new search engine only came online yesterday, but has been hyped up for quite a while now. Even before it was open for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=85&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Browser Wars</title>
		<link>http://brainblizzard.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/browser-wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away&#8230; No wait!! That&#8217;s another set of wars that we are talking about here, one that does not involve lightsabers and droids. According to Wikipedia, the term &#8220;Browser Wars&#8221; refers to the competition for dominance in the Web browser marketplace. So far, there has been two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=68&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fantastic Contraption&#8230;When Physics can be Fun!!!</title>
		<link>http://brainblizzard.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/fantistic-contraptionwhen-physics-can-be-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amr El-Helw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While skimming through various blogs, I came across a very interesting post on the How-to Geek. The post was about yet another online flash game, but this time it is based on physics and puzzle solving, so I thought I&#8217;d give it a try. Fantastic Contraption turned out to be an extremely fun game to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brainblizzard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2188926&amp;post=64&amp;subd=brainblizzard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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