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	<title>Some Random Blog</title>
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	<description>A weblog about the web.</description>
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		<title>Things Microsoft should get credit for</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Bill Gates&#8217; retirement this week, there&#8217;s been an excuse for lots of chatter about his career with Microsoft, and what they have done in the world of computers over the years.
I came across this post about &#8220;Things No One Gives Microsoft Credit For (But Should)&#8220;, which I thought seemed a bit&#8230; uninformed. But I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.somerandomnerd.com/2008/06/30/thankyoumicrosoft/</link>
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		<title>Yahoo rebuffs plans to oust the board.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when you thought it was all over; investor Carl Icahn (a major shareholder in Yahoo!) has announced his plans to oust the entire board of directors and replace them with a new board who would be friendlier to a Microsoft takeover.
BBC NEWS &#124; Technology &#124; Yahoo rebuffs plan to oust board 
 Yahoo chairman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.somerandomnerd.com/2008/05/16/yahoo-rebuffs-plans-to-oust-the-board/</link>
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		<title>Ahead of the curve…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A post on Digg today pointed out that Google&#8217;s April Fools joke last year is now becoming a reality, as a company is laying fibre-optic cables in the sewers of Bournemouth to provide next-generation high speed internet access.
Maybe if I spent more time working on increasing my Google pagerank, fostering online friendships and general self-promotion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.somerandomnerd.com/2008/05/12/ahead-of-the-curve%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>What is &#8216;blogging&#8217;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The widespread definition of a blog today is;
A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. &#8220;Blog&#8221; can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
(From Wikipedia.)
I think it&#8217;s interesting that in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.somerandomnerd.com/2008/03/24/what-is-blogging/</link>
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		<title>Trapped for a week in Meatspace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I came back from a holiday in South Africa, which was a really interesting break from London life. So the next couple of posts are going to be about a few things I noticed while I was out there.
But this post is about why I didn&#8217;t write them while I was there.
Being a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.somerandomnerd.com/2008/03/05/trapped-for-a-week-in-meatspace/</link>
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		<title>A New Way of Laying a Cable?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or the importance of a high-fibre diet…
I can&#8217;t quite believe this;
Google&#8217;s April Fools joke last year;

Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.

(Excuse the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.somerandomnerd.com/2008/01/23/a-new-way-of-laying-a-cable/</link>
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