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		<title>Serious philosophical debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 19:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re staggering home from the pub one night, slightly the worse for wear. You make a wrong turning and end up stumbling across a lonely common near a military airforce base. A bright-light comes from the sky and centres on you. You&#8217;re pulled up into an spaceship, whisked away to a foreign planet, and caged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from a foreign county</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 12:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you considering a visit to Devon this bank holiday weekend? Well, it&#8217;s a great place &#8211; if I could convince my employer to open an office in the south-west I&#8217;d move there tomorrow. But if it&#8217;s your first visit then there are one or two things you should know. Notes for the visitor In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No news update</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading one of those self-help books. It is entitled &#8220;The twelve-step programme to becoming a pretentious tosser&#8221;. It&#8217;s written by Gyles Brandreth, with a foreword by Michael Mcintyre &#8211; so I consider it pretty comprehensive. It has been some time since I ticked-off steps like &#8220;start a blog&#8221;, &#8220;use Apple computers&#8221;, &#8220;be openly scornful of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you clevererererer than an infant?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got this from the wonders of Facebook, from people whom I (up until now) have considered friends. &#8220;This puzzle&#8221;, they claim, &#8220;can be solved by an infant in under five minutes. Adults may take up to an hour.&#8221; 8809 = 6 5555 = 0 7111 = 0 8193 = 3 2172 = 0 8096 = [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birmingham haute cuisine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a lazy bugger who doesn&#8217;t like making his own sandwiches. Fortunately my new job is in the centre of Birmingham, and so, come lunchtime, I am spoilt for choice. On this occasion I am trying out the baked-potato-purveyor parked outside the office, manned by what may politely be described as a &#8220;colourful local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Train geeks and game geeks are all geeks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In April, my contract came to an end at Sony Cambridge and they very kindly offered me a permanent role. I was also offered a job back in Derby (my home city) for the same money &#8230; but not in games. So I took the sensible, adult option and picked the one that didn&#8217;t involve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A surprisingly accurate prediction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found this in a Far Side book. It was first published in 1990, which makes it over twenty years old. And it&#8217;s an easier read than Nostradamus.]]></description>
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		<title>The feeling of freedom: your butt in the breeze</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Found this scribbling among my notes. Decided to clean it up.) I&#8217;m having one of those days. It&#8217;s not one thing. There isn&#8217;t one big ol&#8217; stinker that I can point to and say &#8220;it&#8217;s YOUR fault&#8221;; though I have a line-manager who may be credited with a fair percentage. No, it&#8217;s lots of things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Having my say, again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I pity those who produce breakfast shows on local radio. Every morning, they have to take a complex and multifaceted issue that affects the whole nation, throw it to the ravening locals, and hope that some sensible debate will come from it. They field telephone calls from barstool generals, armchair dictators, retired colonels or just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>English is still English, even when typed on your mobile</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communication is the art of being understood (according to Peter Ustinov). It&#8217;s about getting your point across clearly and succinctly. And as regular readers of this blog will know &#8230; oh boy, I need to remember this simple truth. If you want someone to read and understand what you have written, then it is your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m never invited to christenings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There comes a time in all our lives when we hear the pitter-patter of tiny feet. The joy of new birth. That&#8217;s right: when our friends and work colleagues have children. When they announce to the office the fruit of their disgusting, uncontrolled lust, we are socially obligated to congratulate them. I have always found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confectionery Theory</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I drink very little wine; but if I did, I imagine I&#8217;d drink the cheap stuff because I wouldn&#8217;t see the difference between a bottle that costs two quid and one that costs twenty. When living in Cambridge I was once invited to a wine-tasting evening; an invite I politely declined. I just knew that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The terror of pet-sitting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My family have gone camping with some friends. I have made my feelings about camping fairly clear, so I&#8217;ve stayed home to feed the cats. A family we are good friends with have also gone, and so &#8211; dizzy from the prospect of getting the house to myself for a few days &#8211; I agreed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob The Builder</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This keenly-observed ponderance comes to you courtesy of the Department of Donuts, Philosophy and Stating The Bleedin&#8217; Obvious of the multinational behemoth that is the Oddbloke News Corporation. Our moment of enlightenment &#8211; whilst being forced to endure children&#8217;s television on Saturday morning &#8211; is this: Bob the Builder is a lie. Bob is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saggyboobpocalypse</title>
		<link>http://www.danceswithferrets.org/meeblog/?p=1364</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week my new employer &#8211; benevolent overlord and thoughtful provider of my &#8220;varied and challenging role&#8221; &#8211; saw fit to send me to North London for two days in order to fix/upgrade/break-in-a-different-manner (delete as applicable) a customer&#8217;s installation. Go on Thursday, work, stay in a hotel overnight, work friday, back home. This is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would 72 virgins really be all that great?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 09:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So President Obama has announced that Osama Bin Laden is dead; making all westerners rejoice, and bringing despair to those websites that sell &#8220;America&#8217;s Most Wanted&#8221; playing cards because they&#8217;re going to have to get a whole new set printed. It also brings to an end the longest game of Hide and Seek ever recorded. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oops &#8211; it&#8217;s been a while since I last posted, hasn&#8217;t it? When a blog is updated less and less frequently, it&#8217;s usually a sign that the author is getting bored or has run out of things to say. There&#8217;s nothing sadder in the world than a blog that hasn&#8217;t been updated in months &#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A toy from childhood (creative writing homework)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For my creative writing class, I was asked to remember a favourite toy from my childhood and describe it as best I could. Unfortunately, I drew a complete blank &#8230; so I have instead taken a more (ahem) &#8220;creative&#8221; approach. When I was a little girl my parents didn&#8217;t have all that much money. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A childhood memory (creative writing homework)</title>
		<link>http://www.danceswithferrets.org/meeblog/?p=1211</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is my first piece of homework for the creative writing evening class I&#8217;m attending. The brief was to take a childhood memory from a friend, and then fictionalise it. To be honest, I&#8217;m not all that happy with the result &#8211; but the feedback from the class was very constructive.) I was six years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rare antique spotted in the wild!</title>
		<link>http://www.danceswithferrets.org/meeblog/?p=1201</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oddbloke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotted this little beauty at lunchtime on my way to Tesco&#8217;s. It was padlocked to one of Cambridge&#8217;s gazillion bike parks. I unashamedly took some photos and embarrassed my non-geeky friends by shouting &#8220;LOOK! IT&#8217;S A BLOODY C5!&#8221; and attacting the attention of Normal People for miles around. Kudos to whoever owns it. Your hardcore [...]]]></description>
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