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	<title>On Matters of Interest</title>
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		<title>Some Advice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t use data roaming when on holiday in Japan:

That&#8217;s a phone bill that cost as much as my last holiday.
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		<link>http://roryparle.com/2010/02/some-advice/</link>
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		<title>Differentiating the Sexes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My higher level maths class for Leaving Certificate (the state exam at the end of secondary school in Ireland) was entirely populated with boys. I think there were one or two girls in the class at the beginning of the year, but they found the subject too time-consuming relative to the six or seven others [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://roryparle.com/2010/02/differentiating-the-sexes/</link>
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		<title>Is That All?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m happy to live in a world where I can read a blog post about two extraordinarily large stars in orbit around each other; think, &#8220;that orbital period makes it sound like they must be pretty close to each other&#8221;; and within moments have Google presenting me with the answer that these two stars are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://roryparle.com/2010/02/is-that-al/</link>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Even Know Anymore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gawker reports on the introduction of a sarcasm punctuation mark. Well that&#8217;s a real useful idea.
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		<link>http://roryparle.com/2010/01/i-dont-even-know-anymore/</link>
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		<title>Original?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently the Writer&#8217;s Guild of America has nominated Avatar for an award for Best Original Screenplay. This is surprising news. I had no idea Avatar even had a screenplay. I thought James Cameron had just organized a big game of charades and Sam Worthington took three hours to mime Ferngully before anyone in the cast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Unbeatable Scheme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A guide to getting (marginally) rich(er) quick(-ish):

Take one promotion code offering free gambling credit when you deposit a small amount of cash in an online gambling site.
Sign up for said site and deposit money, earning yourself a supermarket voucher of equal value as well as credit to use on the site.
Bet the deposit money and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://roryparle.com/2010/01/an-unbeatable-scheme/</link>
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		<title>Seven Years On</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While we&#8217;re still celebrating milestones, I have one of my own. I started this blog seven years ago, on January 7, 2003. Back then it was made of hand-coded HTML that lived on the servers of my university&#8217;s Internet Society.
I soon moved it to a self-made blogging platform on those same servers. From there it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://roryparle.com/2010/01/seven-years-on/</link>
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		<title>Alive?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I dearly hope that the newly announced (at CES) Panasonic 3D camcorder comes to be known as Johnny 5.

No disassemble!
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		<link>http://roryparle.com/2010/01/alive/</link>
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		<title>Dara O&#8217;Briain and Reality vs. Pseudoscience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Any time you spend reading what I write is time you&#8217;re not spending watching Dara O&#8217;Briain skewer pseudoscience.
For the sake of &#8220;balance&#8221;, we must now turn to Barry, who thinks the sky is a carpet painted by God.

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		<link>http://roryparle.com/2010/01/dara-obriain-and-reality-vs-pseudoscience/</link>
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		<title>A New Hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the few days since my recent post about my hopes for 2020, I&#8217;ve come up with a few more ways in which I hope we can collectively improve our situation before this new decade is spent. Just like last time, these aren&#8217;t things that I necessarily expect to be fixed by 2020, but they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://roryparle.com/2010/01/a-new-hope/</link>
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