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		<title>Troublesome technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I have been tearing my hair out, fighting technology, at home this last week.

	Firstly, I have been trying to get a decent wireless LAN connection from the office to the cellar. The problem here is that the floors in our house are made of reinforced concrete (and, I suspect so are at least some of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyscorner.com/archives/2008/05/14/troublesome-technology/</link>
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		<title>EU to allow chicken-feed to contain pig remains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	From today&#8217;s Guardian:The European Union is preparing plans to allow pig remains to be used to feed poultry. The practice &#8211; banned in Europe after the BSE crisis 10 years ago &#8211; would save farmers millions of pounds as prices of cereal feed for chickens soar, say officials in Brussels.More >

	The justification for this idea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyscorner.com/archives/2008/05/04/eu-to-allow-chicken-feed-to-contain-pig-remains/</link>
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		<title>Online Mind Mapping Tool</title>
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Both Ruth and I use mind mapping when we are gathering ideas for a presentation or for a new document we have to write. Not all employers are happy with the idea that their employees install software on their PCs at work, and in Ruth&#8217;s case, where she is often consulting at a new customer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyscorner.com/archives/2008/04/27/online-mind-mapping-tool/</link>
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		<title>Unsubscribe me - waterboarding</title>
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See Amnesty&#8217;s latest film showing what George Bush calls an acceptable &#8216;enhanced interrogation technique&#8217;. Sign up to unsubscribe-me.org.
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		<link>http://www.keyscorner.com/archives/2008/04/23/unsubscribe-me-waterboarding/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft DRM woes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	If you bought music from Microsoft&#8217;s MSN Music Store, you need to make sure you have it installed on the computer and operating system version that you intend to use for the rest of your life before August 31st 2008. Or you need to burn it to CD and reimport it into your music library [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyscorner.com/archives/2008/04/23/microsoft-drm-woes/</link>
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		<title>Spring is finally here</title>
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At last, after the recent snow, it has warmed up and some of the foreign birds have arrived from warmer climes. These ducks arrived today and are making themselves useful eating the duckweed in our pond.
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		<link>http://www.keyscorner.com/archives/2008/04/20/spring-is-finally-here/</link>
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		<title>Selexyz Dominicanen</title>
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Next time we drive past Maastricht, we are going to take a look at Selexyz Dominicanen. There&#8217;s an article in the Guardian architecture section about this book shop in a converted church, and it looks spectacular. The architects were Merkx + Girod, and the photo above is from their website..
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		<link>http://www.keyscorner.com/archives/2008/04/14/selexyz-dominicanen/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Apothekenpreise&#8217; - soon history?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	In Germany, if something is ridiculously expensive for what it is, we refer to it having an Apothekenpreis (pharmacy price). If you&#8217;ve seen a typical Germany pharmacy (or chemist), you&#8217;ll understand why. They are usually fitted out with the top-of-the-market shop fittings and very well-staffed. Which means that we pay 2 or 3 times as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyscorner.com/archives/2008/04/08/apothekenpreise-soon-history/</link>
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		<title>Reformatting Windows (NTFS) disks for Mac OS X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I&#8217;ve bought several external hard drives recently to use for backing up under Leopard. Getting them reformatted from the pre-formatted Windows NTFS partition to Macintosh Extended Journaled has been unexpectedly problematical &#8211; usually the best chance has been to reformat (on the Mac) to MS DOS FAT format and then try to  change the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyscorner.com/archives/2008/04/06/reformatting-windows-ntfs-disks-for-mac-os-x/</link>
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		<title>How English might evolve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	All languages evolve, even French, despite the efforts of the Acad&#233;mie Fran&#231;aise to freeze their language. If you are interested in how languages have evolved in the past, then take a look at The Loom of Language by Frederick Bodmer, which despite having been written over 60 years ago is still one of the best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyscorner.com/archives/2008/03/27/how-english-might-evolve/</link>
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		<title>Schmitten 7:20 this morning</title>
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The view this morning at 7:20. It has been snowing most of the night, and the forecast is for more to come today. It should warm up a bit tomorrow, so I hope the winter might have gone after the weekend!
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		<link>http://www.keyscorner.com/archives/2008/03/26/schmitten-720-this-morning/</link>
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		<title>View out of our windows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Ruth is in the UK at the moment for a few days, so these pictures are mainly to show her how much snow (and sleet and hail) we have had since she left on Sunday!

	

	

	And it was good job she flew into Heathrow and not London City (with its short runway surrounded by water and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyscorner.com/archives/2008/03/25/view-out-of-our-windows/</link>
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