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	<link>http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com</link>
	<description>A blog of significant nothingness</description>
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		<title>Banuary</title>
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This year is the second year running where I have joined the club for Banuary, giving up alcohol for 1 month in, well, January (some go all the way and give up snacks and caffeine too).
Now, I do it mainly for the feeling. I miss a couple of ales mid-week, a couple over the weekend, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com/2010/01/18/banuary/</link>
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		<title>The real Torino</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many moons ago my ambition was to work on A&#038;R for a record company. Way back in 1996 I decided to apply to some record companies to do work experience. Acid jazz, one of my favourite record labels of the time answered my call and I spent a few weeks working in their warehouse and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com/2010/01/05/the-real-torino/</link>
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		<title>That is some sweet Chrome!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started using Google Chrome. There, I said it. I&#8217;ve been dabbling with it a little at work, but this weekend, I decided to try it for a bit at home, see what it&#8217;s like. I have to say I like it a lot!
I, like a lot of web addicts out there am a Firefox [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com/2009/12/21/that-is-some-sweet-chrome/</link>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s Passion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may have seen from this blog, I have something of a love hate relationship with Apple. I love their stuff, but I hate their anti-competitiveness as they act like Microsoft in the 90s but on a smaller scale yet all the open source evangelists have a Mac. It doesn&#8217;t make sense to me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com/2009/11/04/apples-passion/</link>
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		<title>Google Streetview conversation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this video on College Humour the other day and had to post it. I did wonder what the conversation was like in the Streetview car.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1922981


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		<link>http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com/2009/10/19/google-streetview-conversation/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not looking forward to Flash on my phone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent announcements that Adobe are working on a full version of their Flash platform for mobile is making me jittery. Over the years of developing I have been well aware that Flash, for whatever reason, hogs resources. It uses processor aplenty, battery life, RAM. I&#8217;ve even worked on some projects where it has slowed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com/2009/10/06/im-not-looking-forward-to-flash-on-my-phone/</link>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m not afraid of my online data</title>
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I&#8217;ve just read this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/02/uk_eu_data_menace/. In a nutshell, it is about a UK government system, which holds all kinds of information about us, being shut down because of a security alert.
This time it isn&#8217;t just for UK residents, it&#8217;s for residents in the European mainland too. The best part about this quaint story is that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com/2009/09/02/why-im-not-afraid-of-my-online-data/</link>
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		<title>Fizzbin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just moved home about 2 weeks ago now. It&#8217;s lovely, we&#8217;re having a smashing time. In typical &#8220;that is so Francis&#8221; fashion I had the broadband installed as we moved in. &#8220;Fantastic&#8221; I thought. But alas the line is noisy etc. and giving me about a 50th of the speed. &#8220;No worries&#8221; I thought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com/2009/07/31/fizzbin/</link>
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		<title>Retro not tacky</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has had the pleasure of speaking to me about music while drunk has most probably heard my rant about disco. The short story: disco has gone from the classy days (to sordid days) in the 70s to (a lot of the time) just pure tack. Of course every music form has its tack, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com/2009/07/07/retro-not-tacky/</link>
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		<title>That was a Natal move</title>
		<description><![CDATA[E3 is on at the moment. It&#8217;s a big games show which us gamers get to have new technologies and games banded about and then told we can&#8217;t have it for another 6-12 months. I keep a bit of an eye on it for new consoles and what is coming out there.
Nintendo have set the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whoisfrancisgilbert.com/2009/06/01/that-was-a-natal-move/</link>
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