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	<title>PC Pro blog &#187; Matthew Sparkes</title>
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		<title>Bouncing messages off the moon</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/06/30/bouncing-messages-off-the-moon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sparkes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radio nerds celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landings this week by bouncing radio waves off the moon. It&#8217;s a five second round-trip, even for a radio wave, so the conversations were rather stilted. But what an interesting tribute it was.
Will other technological milestones be celebrated in similar ways, I wonder?
Will the 40th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it right to censor Wikipedia to save a life?</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/06/29/is-it-right-to-censor-wikipedia-to-save-a-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sparkes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Rhode is a double Pulitzer-winning journalist with the New York Times who just escaped seven months as a captive of the Taliban &#8211; yet you won&#8217;t have heard about it.
It&#8217;s extremely newsworthy, but coverage of the kidnapping would have made Rhode a more valuable hostage. The higher profile the captive, the more attention the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Habitat annoyed the Tweeting masses</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/06/24/how-habitat-annoyed-the-tweeting-masses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/06/24/how-habitat-annoyed-the-tweeting-masses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sparkes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it makes extremely comfortable and effortlessly trendy furniture, but it doesn&#8217;t get social media.
Habitat is in the middle of a disapproval-a-thon on Twitter right now, after the company, or someone acting on its behalf, added Iranian election hashtags to tweets about its &#8220;totally desirable Spring collection&#8221;.
Well, the idea was to attract attention, so it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Folding up the humble three-pin plug</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/06/23/upgrading-the-humble-three-pin-about-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/06/23/upgrading-the-humble-three-pin-about-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sparkes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Processors, memory and hard disks go through numerous iterations each year; faster, smaller and shinier, while the humble plug remains as defiantly chunky as it is painful to accidentally step on.
The problem is one of scale; they&#8217;re on the end of every lead attached to every gadget, and built into every room across the country. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First look: Firefox 3.5</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/06/22/playing-with-firefox-35/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sparkes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Newsdesk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[browser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[update]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Firefox 3.5 is out as a Release Candidate &#8211; as close to a final version as you can get without being a final version &#8211; so I&#8217;ve taken a look to see how it compares to its competitors.
Porn/Private Browsing
Most other browsers already had this feature, and now Firefox does too. With nothing more than a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swearing, blasphemy and pranks: why Facebook shouldn&#8217;t trust its users</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/06/15/swearing-blasphemy-and-pranks-why-you-shouldnt-trust-your-users/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/06/15/swearing-blasphemy-and-pranks-why-you-shouldnt-trust-your-users/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sparkes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Great Facebook Rush occured over the weekend, as the site opened the floodgates for unique username registrations.
If this is the first you&#8217;ve heard of it, bad luck. Get used to being facebook.com/827430mvmhd9mdleek3.
I briefly considered waking up at the crack of dawn to snag matthew.sparkes, but I opted instead for a few hours more sleep.
To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay marriage and the Y2Gay bug</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/12/01/gay-marriage-and-the-y2gay-bug/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/12/01/gay-marriage-and-the-y2gay-bug/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sparkes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[database]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sql]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unsurprisingly, Holland was the first country to legalise gay marriage, all the way back in 2001. Since then, another six countries have taken the plunge, and there are plenty more sitting on the fence (but at least facing the right way) by allowing “civil partnerships”, or some other stupidly-named approximation of holy matrimony.
Sure, there have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creationism versus Artificial Intelligence</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/11/27/creationism-versus-artificial-intelligence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/11/27/creationism-versus-artificial-intelligence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sparkes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I’m well acquainted with the presence of the creationism/evolution debate in the classroom and in politics, but I never thought it would dare to bother computer science, Mecca of all things logical, provable and reproducible. Still, I read a blog post today that boiled my blood.
Scientists and mathematicians are more likely than the average to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why my desktop is like a space station and other assorted thoughts</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/11/24/why-my-desktop-is-like-a-space-station-and-other-assorted-thoughts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/11/24/why-my-desktop-is-like-a-space-station-and-other-assorted-thoughts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sparkes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[crash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desktop]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way back in 2001 I set off for university armed only with a rudimentary grasp of the object-orientated programming model and my trusty desktop computer. Actually, that’s a slight misnomer; my PC at the time was a reclaimed, bright blue server case that stood nearly as tall as me.
It weighed an absolute ton, and virtually [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Do you get paid for booting?</title>
		<link>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/11/19/do-you-get-paid-for-booting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/11/19/do-you-get-paid-for-booting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sparkes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[shutdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[startup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you get paid while your PC boots up? I hope for your sake that you’ve never even had to think about it; an office where that’s an issue sounds like an awful place to work.
Unfortunately, these offices do seem to exist, though. In fact, several companies in the US have been sued by employees [...]]]></description>
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