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    <title>The Bloomers</title>
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    <updated>2009-11-25T09:04:22Z</updated> 
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    <subtitle>Yet another home on the interweb</subtitle>  
    
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        <title>My short story Reboot has been published</title>   
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        <published>2009-11-25T09:04:22Z</published>
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          My short story Reboot has been published by the webzine Short-Story.me. Here’s how it starts:  A quantum worm uncoiled itself out of the machine being restored, suddenly collapsing into a specific state and wreaking havoc within the operating sys...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Bricks And Mortar? Who Cares?</title>   
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        <published>2009-11-14T16:43:15Z</published>
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   Today I went to a music shop, Dawsons to be precise. They&#39;re a chain and sell all sorts of musical instruments. I knew exactly what I wanted and had done research for prices online. I made a spreadsheet. I took a printout of the spreadsheet into t...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Frank Turner. LIVE!</title>   
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        <published>2009-10-22T18:38:00Z</published>
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         I&#39;ve been listening to Frank Turner&#39;s music ever since I first heard Long Live The Queen on Radio 1. Because I loved that song so much I bought Love Ire &amp; Song which has some truly wonderful songs on it. Frank&#39;s latest album is Poetry of the Deed ...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>I&#39;ve been told to blog again</title>   
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        <published>2009-10-22T16:23:14Z</published>
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         So here I am blogging.   I stopped blogging here for a few reasons. Well actually excuses.     I want to talk about what I&#39;ve just done and use the photos I&#39;ve just taken and the photos are still on my camera and not on Flickr. It&#39;s easier to just...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Happy New Year!</title>   
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        <published>2009-01-01T19:28:22Z</published>
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         I hope everyone has a fantastic and wonderful New Year.   I must do more blogging here.   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Bumper batch of cool Threadless T-Shirts</title>   
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        <published>2008-12-16T09:32:10Z</published>
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        <title>Eddie Izzard Live!</title>   
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        <published>2008-11-23T15:10:51Z</published>
        <updated>2008-12-15T16:46:23Z</updated>
    
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                Eddie Izzard, live at the Lyric theatre in London.   It&#39;s a nice theatre, in the West End. We had balcony tickets and were a bit worried that we would be too far away, but the theatre isn&#39;t massive so it was fine, we could still see his fac...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>The Mysterious Problem Of The Missing Dial Tone</title>   
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        <published>2008-11-05T18:20:22Z</published>
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              Old British telephones, originally uploaded by givepeasachance.    I have been trying to swap our old wireless DECT land line phone for a newer model. Easy I thought, just plug it in. Unfortunately that didn&#39;t work, the new phone had no dial ...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>And Now For The Hard Bit</title>   
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        <published>2008-11-05T09:11:34Z</published>
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              It&#39;s interesting that throughout the US election the colour of Obama&#39;s skin has been the elephant in the room that no one was talking about. Now it seems to be the only thing that people are talking about, despite the fact that his victory im...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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    <entry>
        <title>The Alt-Fuel Race Cars of 2025</title>   
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        <published>2008-10-22T14:25:17Z</published>
        <updated>2009-10-19T08:07:06Z</updated>
    
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