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		<title>Cali &amp; Popayan, Colombia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After 6 fun filled nights in Bogota I headed on the night bus to Cali, near the Pacific Coast of Colombia. Having read about the extreme cold on the long distance buses I was dressed for the journey with jeans, a sweater, a light jacket, a beanie hat, gloves and a light travel blanket – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vagabum.com/blogs/?p=502</link>
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		<title>Bogota, Colombia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I arrived in Bogota late at night at around 9PM on June 3rd, 2010.  Normally I do not pre-book a room since it is nice to see the place and  it is much easier to bargain on the price, but when getting into a city  at night when security can be an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vagabum.com/blogs/?p=500</link>
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		<title>Colombia (Trip Introduction)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With a likely top role in a new high profile gaming startup in Canada pushed back until August I decided to jump at the chance to get in some travel, even if I am putting my eggs into one basket. If and when it pays off it will all have been worth it and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vagabum.com/blogs/?p=490</link>
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		<title>Christmas 2009 in Costa Rica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once I realized that I had a 3 week break after the end of my Contract and before the start of a contract renewal or another round of interviews I quickly jumped at the chance to travel abroad and salvage some adventure from what little was left of a semi-disappointing 2009. The question was where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vagabum.com/blogs/?p=483</link>
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		<title>My Top 15 Favorite iPhone Apps (non-gaming)</title>
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I have had a few people ask me lately about my favorite iPhone apps, knowing that I have downloaded 200+ and keep up to date on the latest entries. So I though I would post this information on my Top 15 Favorite iPhone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vagabum.com/blogs/?p=372</link>
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		<title>My 3D Photo Synth Featured by Microsoft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just noticed that along with a new release of their web software the Microsoft Live Labs team behind Photosynth selected  My Lalibela, Ethiopia collection of photos as one of their top 20 featured sets on the
Photosynth Front Page. For now the PhotoSynth web applet works best from Internet Explorer although they just released [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vagabum.com/blogs/?p=318</link>
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		<title>2-Part Game Design Article Published</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had an advanced 2-part article on game design published on Game Industry site www.Gamasutra.com in November. For the full versions, see Part I of 2 and Part 2 of 2.
Part I Excerpt:
My initial Gameplay Fundamentals article was oriented towards the macro concept of gameplay progression in a campaign or career and how environmental content [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vagabum.com/blogs/?p=314</link>
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		<title>My Favorite Travel Video</title>
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www.wherethehellismatt.com
Time Magazine Article
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		<link>http://www.vagabum.com/blogs/?p=315</link>
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		<title>PhotoSynth (3D Scenes from 2D Photos)</title>
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** PhotoSynth requires the installation of the safe, signed PhotoSynth applet from Microsoft. Once installed the viewing should now work from any of the mainstream browsers. **
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		<link>http://www.vagabum.com/blogs/?p=274</link>
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		<title>Africa Travel Route Map &amp; Trip Stats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some trip stats and an excellent Google Maps route with location callouts and distances for the 4 major route legs of my Africa trip.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vagabum.com/blogs/?p=205</link>
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		<title>Lalibela, Ethiopia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visiting Lalibela has been a dream for me ever since I first saw the spectacular Bete Giyorgis rock-hewn monastery on The Amazing Race four or five seasons back. Of the 100 or so top UNESCO World Heritage sites I have visited, Lalibela definitely ranks in my Top 5 Most Favorite (only after Abu Simbel, Petra, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vagabum.com/blogs/?p=203</link>
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		<title>Aksum and the Lost Ark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To save myself a stopover in some dinky town and an extra morning of travel I traveled to Aksum by private Land Rover with a group of Dutch Med Students I had met in Gonder. The trip was long, cramped, expensive ($300 total is a ton in Africa even with 10 hours of fuel) but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vagabum.com/blogs/?p=200</link>
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