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	<title>PC Pro blog &#187; Davey Winder</title>
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		<title>Twitter goes down (again) but will it soon be counted out for good?</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/08/11/twitter-goes-down-again-but-will-it-soon-be-counted-out-for-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davey Winder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today (Tuesday 11th August) Twitter went down, albeit briefly for around half an hour, with the official status blog reporting first &#8220;a site outage&#8221; but then changing tone later to say it was busy analysing traffic data to &#8220;determine the nature of this attack&#8221;.
Of course, while the Twitter servers may well have been up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norton makes oi larf</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/09/18/norton-makes-oi-larf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davey Winder</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=3294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I have mostly been in Madrid, trying not to laugh when someone said: &#8220;Security products are too slow&#8221; or, and this one is worth waiting for, &#8220;People shouldn&#8217;t tolerate a security product with poor performance.&#8221;
The reason for my exercise in ROFL-stifling being that the person saying this happened to be none other than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Ballmer to retire</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/06/08/steve-ballmer-to-retire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davey Winder</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Monkey Dance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=1710</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it is true, Steve &#8216;Barmy&#8217; Ballmer the exuberant Microsoft CEO has confirmed that he is to retire. The 52 year old originator of the Monkey Dance as performed in tribute by Ricky Gervais during an episode of The Office, was speaking to an audience in Washington earlier in the week when he let slip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo SearchMonkey is simply bananas</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/06/07/yahoo-searchmonkey-is-simply-bananas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/06/07/yahoo-searchmonkey-is-simply-bananas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davey Winder</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=1704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Look, everyone who has ever read any of my PC Pro columns over the years will know that I am something of a Firefox Fanboy, just like anything that makes my web browsing more efficient and effective. Which is probably why I think the whole Yahoo SearchMonkey thing is just simply bananas.

Basically, you can use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving to Windows 7 will be just as bad as moving to Vista, says Microsoft</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/06/05/moving-to-windows-7-will-be-just-as-bad-as-moving-to-vista-says-microsoft/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/06/05/moving-to-windows-7-will-be-just-as-bad-as-moving-to-vista-says-microsoft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davey Winder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=1635</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Forgive me if I have misread the &#8216;Business Value of Windows Vista&#8216; paper that Microsoft has published in an attempt to convince the corporate user to switch to Vista now instead of waiting for the arrival of Windows 7 instead. However, the way I read it, it seems that Microsoft, when it says users jumping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get orf moi broadband!</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/06/03/get-orf-moi-broadband/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davey Winder</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Phillips, the Product Director at ConsumerChoices.co.uk, has today called for Government action to redress the balance between townies and rural users when it comes broadband. He says that &#8220;recent analysis has shown that we have a distinct first and second class society in the UK when it comes to Broadband speeds. Rural areas are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buzzword Bingo is back</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/05/31/buzzword-bingo-is-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/05/31/buzzword-bingo-is-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 12:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davey Winder</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=1062</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For anyone who had hoped that Buzzword Bingo had jumped out of the same 10th floor window as the dotcom investors who excelled in playing it when the bubble burst a few short years back, sorry but I have bad news: it is alive and kicking. The proof can be found within my email inbox [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Earth gets Google News</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/05/21/google-earth-gets-google-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/05/21/google-earth-gets-google-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 13:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davey Winder</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=771</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Any Google Earth fans out there? Good. Now how about Google News fans as well? Excellent. Ever thought how cool it would be if you could combine the two? No, neither had I to be absolutely honest. However, this kind of maps and events mashup is something that has been happening for some time now. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Edd Hifeng, AI powered Second Life avatar</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/05/19/meet-edd-hifeng-ai-powered-second-life-avatar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/05/19/meet-edd-hifeng-ai-powered-second-life-avatar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 11:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davey Winder</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=702</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It had to happen at some point, and now an AI powered avatar is being tested within the Second Life virtual world by its creators, researchers at the Rensselaer Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning Laboratory. According to reports, Edd Hifeng has a mental age of about 4 years and is capable of only basic AI reasoning. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irony alert: South London teens use mobiles in project on tackling violent crime</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/05/16/irony-alert-south-london-teens-use-mobiles-in-project-on-tackling-violent-crime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/05/16/irony-alert-south-london-teens-use-mobiles-in-project-on-tackling-violent-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 09:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davey Winder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please forgive me for falling into the stereotype trap here, but in my defence I was born in South East London so feel I do have some right to pass judgement on the place. Anyway, the thing is I got this press release today which was bigging up (that&#8217;s me trying to be street, or [...]]]></description>
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