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		<title>Eight things I’d like to see in Office 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Applications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft Office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[user interface]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It may be a bit late for this, but here’s eight things Microsoft could do NOW that would dramatically make my – and judging by some of the web searches I’ve done, lots of other people’s – experience of Office better.
8. An option to stop Outlook formatting phone numbers
Outlook really is dreadful at formatting phone [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2010/02/dont-buy-a-topup-tv-branded-digibox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Whinges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TopUp TV]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=469</guid>
		<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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>19 Most Effective Open Source Tools For Developers</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2010/01/19-most-effective-open-source-tools-for-developers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2010/01/19-most-effective-open-source-tools-for-developers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Applications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open source]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick one &#8211; if you haven&#8217;t seen this yet, Swati Bansal over at ITSpice has an excellent article &#8211; 19 Most Effective Open Source Tools For Developers.  Great roundup if you haven&#8217;t seen it already&#8230;
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		<title>10 mistakes Google is[n&#039;t] making with Chrome OS</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/10-mistakes-chrome-os/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/10-mistakes-chrome-os/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chrome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chrome OS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eWeek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=460</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've just read this piece on eWeek about ten mistakes Google is already making with Chrome OS.  Some I agreed with, some I disagree with, but I felt stroungly enough to post my answers here...  I advise you to read the eWeek article first, otherwise none of this will make any sense...]]></description>
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		<title>Google launches a URL shortener&#8230;  goo.gl</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/goo-g/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/goo-g/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WWW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feedburner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goo.gl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Web behemoth Google has launched its own URL shortening service &#8211; goo.gl.  So far, it&#8217;s intended for use for tweeting your blog through Feedburner.  It makes sense from a Google perspective, as it gives them more information for their store, and the likelihood is that they will also provide that information through Analytics, too, at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wordpress upgrades &#8211; beware beware beware!</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/wordpress-upgrade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/wordpress-upgrade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WWW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upgrade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=455</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My WordPress plugin auto-upgrade stopped working sometime around WordPress 2.7.  Being of an indolent persuasion, I stopped bothering trying.  Maybe it was the browser &#8211; but it didn&#8217;t work on either Firefox or Internet Explorer on Windows.  And when it didn&#8217;t work after the upgrade to Wordpress 2.8, I tried it on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And I wondered if you&#8217;d love me then dear, just as you do today?</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/ernest-pike/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/ernest-pike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=449</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Ernie, we do.  Some wonderful person has updated Ernest&#8217;s Wikipedia page with the sort of information that makes people like me cry, basically.  But what really made me purr was seeing that the link marked &#8220;listen on line&#8221; pointed here.  To esotechnica.
The end of the page says:
Perhaps it can be seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiddler &#124; App of the week</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/fiddler-app-of-the-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/fiddler-app-of-the-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Applications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debug]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dynamics CRM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiddler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[http]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Explorer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SOAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[XML]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fiddler allows you to inspect web browser traffic, see what Internet Explorer (or Firefox) is up to.  Very useful for web developing and debugging, and for other purposes, too, such as sussing out the link so I could bring you this.
Of course, there are more technical things you can do &#8211; debugging SOAP sessions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s new Public DNS&#8230;  worth a look?</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/google-public-dns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/google-public-dns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ARPANet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Public DNS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Mockapetris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SRI-NIC]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google have launched a new service, called Google Public DNS.  DNS, for those that don&#8217;t know, is the system that translates a domain name &#8211; such as www.esotechnica.co.uk &#8211; into the actual address that the computer connects to its services: such as retrieving a web page like this one, retrieving (or sending) your email, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exchange 2007 doesn&#8217;t work on Windows Server 2008 R2?</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/exchange-2007-doesnt-work-on-windows-server-2008-r2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/exchange-2007-doesnt-work-on-windows-server-2008-r2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bug]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[calendar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citadel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[email]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=436</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bit of an oddity, this.  I spotted on All About Microsoft (written by Mary Jo Foley, who&#8217;s been covering the company long enough to know more about them than most MS executives, I should imagine) that Exchange Server 2007 doesn&#8217;t work on Windows Server 2008 release 2.  The question is: why doesn&#8217;t it? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bing Bing, seconds out&#8230;  Google comes out fighting?</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/bing-bing-seconds-out-google-comes-out-fighting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/bing-bing-seconds-out-google-comes-out-fighting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WWW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google seems to be countering the threats from News Corp&#8217;s Rupert Murdoch, and Microsoft&#8217;s Bing by evolution, rather than revolution.  First of all there is the change to allowing five page views from a subscription site in 24 hours, rather than the previous &#8220;first click&#8221; principle (where the first click is free, you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Sherlock Holmes promotional game promises a great time&#8230;  with friends</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/coop-holmes-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/coop-holmes-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=432</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If anybody remembers playing co-operatively on Doom or, more recently, Left4Dead, you&#8217;ll be familiar with the social networking this engenders.  The &#8220;I&#8217;ve got your back&#8221;, &#8220;you need that health pack more than me&#8221; and &#8220;I just &#8216;accidentally&#8217; shot you in the back&#8221; that all that entails, too.  Well, there&#8217;s a new game in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye, Ceefax&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/goodbye-ceefax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/goodbye-ceefax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Retro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analogue TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ceefax]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[teletext]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC&#8217;s pioneering service Ceefax is to be switched off in 2012.  Not bad for a service that recently celebrated its 35th birthday.  (Thanks to Mike Brown, you can even spend An Evening With Ceefax, as it was in 1982&#8230;)
Most countries have their own text-based services, which are delivered in a few spare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain&#8217;s &#8216;oldest&#8217; computer to live again&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/britains-oldest-computer-to-live-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/12/britains-oldest-computer-to-live-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Retro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EDSAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manchester Baby]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m slightly behind the times here, but the Harwell computer, used by Britain&#8217;s Atomic Energy Research Establishment (based in Harwell, Oxfordshire, hence the computer&#8217;s name, I suppose) is to be restored to working order.
For a computer that first ran in 1951, it has an impressive working life: it was finally decommissioned in 1973.  It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 things Windows ought to blatantly steal</title>
		<link>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/10/5things-windows-ought-to-blatantly-steal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/2009/10/5things-windows-ought-to-blatantly-steal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Collis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 8]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esotechnica.co.uk/?p=41</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2007 I talked about 10 things I do and don&#8217;t like about Windows Vista.  So here are 5 things Windows doesn&#8217;t have that it ought to blatantly copy for Windows 8&#8230;

Unified file system
No, I don&#8217;t mean the Unix file system idea, where there is a single file system from a single root.  [...]]]></description>
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