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		<title>7 rules for effective computing</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2010/04/7-rules-for-effective-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My own personal rules for effective computing: 1. Don&#8217;t buy anything with &#8216;Norton&#8217; written on it, unless the next word is &#8216;Ghost&#8217;. 2. Don&#8217;t buy any program without consulting osliving.com. Open source is often faster, more effective, and doesn&#8217;t provide features you don&#8217;t need. 3. Half the computer companies are brands of another. Check who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VB5: hindsight is golden&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/08/vb5-hindsight-is-golden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t hindsight wonderful?  Just re-installed VB5 because there&#8217;s an old VB project I need to modify and saw this in the install screens&#8230; &#8220;software that automatically downloads and installs on a user machine&#8221;.  Now who would ever have thought that could be a problem, eh?]]></description>
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		<title>Firefox easter eggs</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/08/firefox-easter-eggs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[easter egg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firefox]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know if you type about:robots in Firefox&#8217;s URL bar, you get a nice screen. Try about:god as well. Oh, and don&#8217;t forget about:mozilla as well (Kudos to http://seehere.blogspot.com/2009/08/firefox-easter-egg.html]]></description>
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		<title>Lower your office&#8217;s property values&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/08/lower-your-offices-property-values/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/08/lower-your-offices-property-values/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desktop wallpaper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[junkyard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=403</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;with junkyard desktop wallpaper! Sheer class &#8211; loving it!]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden game in Internet Explorer</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/06/hidden-game-in-internet-explorer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[easter egg]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[joke]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=396</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had to try this&#8230; Well, it made me laugh, anyway]]></description>
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		<title>Windows &#8211; Really Good Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/05/windows-really-good-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 19:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was re-organising my bookmarks the other day, and came across this little gem. Anyone else remember Windows Millennium? Enjoy&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Owls in my gravy?</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/05/owls-in-my-gravy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 23:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Simon Cowell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weebl]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=362</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No, it&#8217;s Collis, not Cowell. Please, you&#8217;ve got me mistaken for another Simon. Please, please no. Help me, save me from the oowwwllllsssss&#8230;&#8230; No! Aarrrgggghhhhh!!!!!!]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Error Reporting &#8211; FAIL</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/04/windows-error-reporting-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/04/windows-error-reporting-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emulation and Virtualisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[errors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Spyware Doctor]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Windows Error Reporting is all well and good, and I&#8217;m sure there are many problems that it&#8217;s solved. However it managed a classic fail tonight that made me chuckle. Take this error report here: &#8220;Update Spyware Doctor&#8221;. Fine. Sounds like a good idea. Such a good idea that&#8230;. it is in fact what I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Webcomics &#8211; a waste of time?</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/11/webcomics-a-waste-of-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/11/webcomics-a-waste-of-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[User Friendly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago I used to read lots of comics online, especially one of the earliest &#8211; Doctor Fun, which sadly stopped publishing in 2006.  You&#8217;ll need to be a bit of a science buff to get most of the jokes, but Records Your Neighbours Listen To or When Cats Try To Cook (which I used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spooky Scary Skeletons</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/09/spooky-scary-skeletons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t seen Spooky Scary Skeletons already, go and check it out. The animator &#8211; Zekey &#8211; is now working for Weebl&#8217;s Stuff animating things, and this is just a little animation that he put together. It&#8217;s completely wonderful and feels a bit Tim Burton-esque. Connosieurs of Disney cartoons may remember the rather wonderful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Talk Like A Pirate Day</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/09/international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/09/international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[International Talk Like A Pirate Day (here in the UK, in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care) is almost upon us (Friday the 19th in fact).  So it&#8217;s time to get your pirate name out, dig out those flags, blow up the inflatable parrot and get ready for 24 hours where every other word is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Chrome &#8211; the backlash begins</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/09/google-chrome-the-backlash-begins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/09/google-chrome-the-backlash-begins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s little marketing comic for Chrome has proved a goldmine for satirists, as The Register shows&#8230; (In case you&#8217;re wondering, I&#8217;m still using Firefox thanks.  Yes, it&#8217;s fast but I&#8217;ve too many Firefox plugins to switch.  Hmm &#8211; is there an article in that somewhere?)]]></description>
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		<title>Five things we should learn from The Rocky Horror Picture Show</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/08/five-things-we-should-learn-from-the-rocky-horror-picture-show/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/08/five-things-we-should-learn-from-the-rocky-horror-picture-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that they&#8217;re remaking it, and Russell Brand almost certainly won&#8217;t be in it (as much as I love his work &#8211; and having met him &#8211; I can&#8217;t but help think this is a good thing for all concerned), I thought I&#8217;d recap five things we should all learn from Rocky Horror&#8230; 5. Don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spam spam spam spam lovely spam</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/08/spam-spam-spam-spam-lovely-spam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/08/spam-spam-spam-spam-lovely-spam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Monkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just thought I&#8217;d share with you some of the weirder subject lines I&#8217;ve got in spam lately, some of which are quite amusing. For example, apparently &#8220;McCain unsure whether Obama a secret hippopotamus&#8220;. Yes, you heard it here first folks: John McCain not sure whether Obama is actually a large African behemoth (the Victorian name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comics » Dustinland is brill</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/07/comics-%c2%bb-dustinland-is-brill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/07/comics-%c2%bb-dustinland-is-brill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Over The Hedge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robotman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rose Is Rose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom The Dancing Bug]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accidentally, I&#8217;ve discovered another comic gem on the web. I can&#8217;t quite remember how I came across it &#8211; because I&#8217;ve been reading it for about the last 4 hours, have nearly gone blind, and forgotten to do the Thursday O/S (now that I&#8217;m back online after a week of sucky computer problems which include [...]]]></description>
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