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	<description>One geek&#039;s way in the universe</description>
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		<title>I am a soon-to-be-published poet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Worryingly.
I entered a poetry competition advertised at school with something I cooked up in half an hour, and amazingly they&#8217;re mad enough to want to publish it. (OK, so they don&#8217;t seem to be too selective and I have a feeling most of their business model is selling to proud parents).
Here it is, in all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinewave42.com/blog/2010/01/i-am-a-soon-to-be-published-poet/</link>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Resolutions again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And in true sinewave42.com style, they&#8217;re late.
1. Keep a diary
I tried to do this last year, and I kept it for four or five months in total. I&#8217;d like to try again, and I&#8217;d like to try to keep it up for the whole year.
2. Blog more
Yeah. I tried to do this last year as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinewave42.com/blog/2010/01/new-years-resolutions-again/</link>
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		<title>GCSE Results &#8211; only posted 3 months late</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Results first, then my predictions from before exams for comparison. Mainly as a matter of record given just how long it&#8217;s taken for me to get these up.

Maths: A*, predicted A*;
Statistics: A*, predicted A*;
English Language: A*, predicted A*/maybe A;
English Literature: A, A*/maybe A;
Core Science: sat last year: A*;
Additional Science: A*, predicted A*;
History: A*, predicted A*;
French: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinewave42.com/blog/2009/12/gcse-results-only-posted-3-months-late/</link>
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		<title>Thoughtcrime is&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading the GNU Project philosophy essays in your lunchbreak from testing proprietary software.
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		<link>http://sinewave42.com/blog/2009/08/thoughtcrime-is/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Irony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft (sorry, Windows in a vain attempt to reduce the risk of anti-trust suits) Internet Explorer 8 has &#8220;compatibility mode&#8221; (read incompatibility), to &#8220;improve the appearance of web pages designed for older browsers&#8221;. In other words: now we&#8217;ve built a standards-compliant-ish browser, we need a mode that makes it render like its older, non-compliant siblings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinewave42.com/blog/2009/07/microsoft-irony/</link>
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		<title>GCSE Predictions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a little late, given I had my first exam yesterday, but here they are:

Maths: A*;
Statistics: A*;
English Language: A*/maybe A;
English Literature: A*/maybe A;
Core Science:  sat last year: A*;
Additional Science: A*;
History: A*;
French: A*;
German: A*;
Food Tech: A*/A;
RE: half sat last year, A*, would have predicted A* overall, fairly confident about A* having sat it yesterday.

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		<link>http://sinewave42.com/blog/2009/05/gcse-predictions/</link>
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		<title>I am slain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://achallengerapproaches.com/ With thanks (and a bullet in the post) to Sean, Ben and whoever else chipped in to the domain, and Jim who took the photo. I HAZ A MEME!
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		<link>http://sinewave42.com/blog/2009/05/i-am-slain/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Chemicals&#8221; &#8211; a rant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Chemical&#8221; does not mean additive. It does not mean an artificially synthesised substance. It does not mean something with the potential to harm. It does not mean toxin.
It means a pure substance comprised of atoms or molecules. It is not a perjorative. Use &#8220;synthetic chemical&#8221;, &#8220;harmful chemical&#8221;, &#8220;dangerous chemical&#8221;, &#8220;carcinogenic chemical&#8221; (although the &#8220;-ic chemical&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinewave42.com/blog/2009/01/chemicals-a-rant/</link>
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		<title>The problem with adversarial debate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about socialism quite a lot recently, and it&#8217;s occurred to me that, while there are many fine lefty-liberal minds at school, the time we spend philosophising is largely wasted. Why? Because it&#8217;s spent in Debating Society, tearing down, rather than building, arguments.
The adversarial debating format is a great way to test who&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinewave42.com/blog/2009/01/adversarial-debate/</link>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s resolutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have decided to give myself some belated New Year&#8217;s resolutions (an idea stolen from inspired by Sean and James R). Here they are:
1. Keep a diary in my Moleskine
Moleskines are beautiful. I probably won&#8217;t live up to that with my scribblings, but they&#8217;ll be valuable to me in years to come. I look back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinewave42.com/blog/2009/01/new-years-resolutions/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft DRM circa 1998</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been installing Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 (I&#8217;ll give it a quick post by the end of the holiday),  and was amused by the DRM:

I haven&#8217;t tried it, but I suspect that the process of making an installable copy is as simple as ignoring that notice and copying the contents of the CD. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinewave42.com/blog/2008/08/microsoft-drm-circa-1998/</link>
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		<title>42 Days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who don&#8217;t know (and either you&#8217;re foreign, in which case I&#8217;m amazed that anyone I don&#8217;t know personally is reading this thing; or you&#8217;ve been living in a cave without a phone line, computer or TV for the past six months), the UK government is planning to introduce the power for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinewave42.com/blog/2008/06/42-days/</link>
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		<title>Holiday in the Lakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the half-term holidays, so I&#8217;ve been on holiday with my family from Saturday (24th) to Thursday (29th). We were camping in the Lake District on a very nice campsite just above Keswick. For the first couple of full days it was pretty windy, but we managed to get a couple of walks in, going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinewave42.com/blog/2008/05/holiday-in-the-lakes/</link>
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		<title>Hello World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to my blog. Content is currently minimal (for which read non-existent). I hope to get a few pages and blog posts up within the not too distant future. The theme is not intended to be permanent, but will suffice until I write my own or persuade a friend to do it.
A little about me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sinewave42.com/blog/2008/05/hello-world/</link>
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