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	<title>esotechnica &#187; Whinges</title>
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		<title>The Trouble With ClearType (and WPF)</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2010/05/the-trouble-with-cleartype-and-wpf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 19:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whinges]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who&#8217;ve been reading here a while will know I used to be a huge fan of ClearType. Huge fan! I thought it made fonts really readable. Then, about two years ago, I started to get headaches. Big, nasty headaches. So I tried fiddling with display options – upped the refresh rate (sort-of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;And we are back!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 20:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My regular readers (all both of you) may have noticed that Esotechnica has been offline. I&#8217;m sure your curiosity has been insatiable, so why the outage? That&#8217;s easy. I messed it up. One control panel &#8211; many sites. Too much wine, one wrong click&#8230; Safe to say I won&#8217;t be doing that again!]]></description>
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		<title>DON&#8217;T buy a TopUp TV branded digibox&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2010/02/dont-buy-a-topup-tv-branded-digibox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Whinges]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I warn you, it&#8217;s a real mistake unless you plan to subscribe. We made the mistake of buying one without meaning to subscribe, and the programme guide just got smaller because there&#8217;s a new channel &#8220;TopUp Showcase&#8221; that is ALWAYS on screen. It makes me annoyed enough to want to destroy the box&#8230; Worse, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Genuine &#8211; &#8220;Advantage&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/09/windows-genuine-advantage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/09/windows-genuine-advantage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Whinges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thunderbird]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bit of disk corruption splattered all my emails in Thunderbird.  Fortunately most were still there in Google Mail, and I had a backup (from May) of the profile, and I managed to rebuild most of it. However after rebooting into Windows, I got the message &#8220;This copy of Windows is not genuine&#8221; on the desktop. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three for tonight: Java, dot Net and Flash</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/08/three-for-tonight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Whinges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[.Net]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I had a hankering to watch the excellent Danny Kaye movie The Court Jester again. Hence the title: &#8220;Plan one,&#8221; says Basil Rathbone&#8217;s fiendish Ravenhurst: &#8220;The untimely demise of my lords Brockhurst, Finsdale, and Pertwee.&#8221; &#8220;Three for tonight,&#8221; Kaye replies, in his hypnotic state. &#8220;Proceed.&#8221; Well, here&#8217;s my three for tonight: kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vista SP1</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2008/01/vista-sp1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I downloaded and installed Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate. Big mistake. What had been a very reliable, happy computer, turned into a crash-prone bug monster.  Windows Explorer didn&#8217;t start properly (no response from the start menu, system tray or task bar); when killed and restarted with Task Manager the system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luddite networking</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2007/11/luddite-networking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[FileZilla]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The networking in Vista is just a little bit too complex these days.  I remember when Windows for Workgroups came out, and we could all share files across a LAN easily&#8230; Well I just can&#8217;t work it out in Vista any more, or XP for that matter.  Just too many firewall/UAC/security things going on. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 things I like about Windows Vista</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2007/11/10-things-i-like-about-windows-vista/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[disk manager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To redress the balance from yesterday, I promised a list of ten things I like about Vista.  So here we go&#8230; Oh, and please &#8211; no emails telling me it was copied from OS X or Plan 9 or wherever. I&#8217;m trying to keep things simple here by comparing Windows to Windows, not Windows to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 things I don&#8217;t like about Windows Vista</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2007/11/10-things-i-dont-like-about-windows-vista/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2007/11/10-things-i-dont-like-about-windows-vista/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aero]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, my last post was about DirectX 10,  and why I thought it might be Microsoft&#8217;s biggest mistake of all time.  So now I revert to the pair of posts I was originally going to make: 10 things I do and don&#8217;t like about Vista.  I&#8217;m doing this one first out of laziness because I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DirectX 10: Microsoft&#8217;s all-time biggest mistake?</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2007/11/directx-10-microsofts-all-time-biggest-mistake/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2007/11/directx-10-microsofts-all-time-biggest-mistake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[compatability]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking this morning, lying in bed, half asleep, about writing two articles: ten things I like, and ten things I don&#8217;t, about Windows Vista.  I got to about number three on the &#8220;don&#8217;t&#8221; list -DirectX 10 &#8211; and the more I thought about it, the more I realised that it could actually turn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busses?  Yeah, we&#8217;ve heard of them</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2007/11/busses-yeah-weve-heard-of-them/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2007/11/busses-yeah-weve-heard-of-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Whinges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been planning a journey for next week, and have been struck by the difficulty of actually planning it online.  Bus companies produce timetables, and they have them online, right? Well, the ones I was looking at were in my pet hate for this sort of thing: PDF.   Compared to a database based solution [...]]]></description>
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