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		<title>HP TouchPad Review</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/810</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though I&#8217;ve never owned a webOS-based device, over time I&#8217;ve followed with interest the various Mobile OS options out there &#8211; and webOS certainly seems to have some great ideas. In many ways, webOS is significantly more functional than Apple&#8217;s iOS &#8211; but is the HP TouchPad good enough as a consumer product to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-2011 MacBook Air processor comparison: Core i5 or Core i7?</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/790</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been promising myself for some time now that &#8211; as my current MacBook Pro has started to fall to pieces after three year&#8217;s perfect service &#8211; I would upgrade to a lighter, much more portable MacBook Air as soon as they received a Sandy Bridge processor update. There is a nice overview of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding UK Distance Selling Regulations</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/724</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been looking to purchase a piece of equipment online which is not available from big-name suppliers, only from a limited number lesser-known websites. Having no reputation on which to base a purchasing decision, I decided that a viable method to choose between a reliable site and a potentially bad site would be to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;blog spam :(</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/719</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has someone worked out how to reliably game Akismet? I&#8217;ve just had to clear out 45 spam posts all within a few minutes around 6:30pm, then a few every 10 minutes to half an hour or so, until another bunch appeared around 11:15pm. Quite how desperate for praise and/or attention to these spammers think bloggers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working around the lack of an RTC battery on ALIX system boards&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/710</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ALIX 2c3 system board the forms my traffic-shaper has one irksome weakness: it lacks an on-board CMOS/RTC battery to maintain the time when the system is shutdown. This is a more significant problem than it sounds since, for starters, the fsck tools for the ext2 filesystem, by default, treat a timestamp in the future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Installing Steam on Mac OS with a Case-sensitive boot partition</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/626</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 23:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Steam has now been released for the Mac. Whilst this is a massive step forwards for the Mac as a platform &#8211; finally giving Apple a credible position regarding gaming (after the 2007 deal with Electronic Arts, which didn&#8217;t even promise Mac native games but merely wrappers around Windows titles*, apparently went nowhere) &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone development&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/499</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a long slog ironing out some last-minute bugettes (and a major performance issue I&#8217;d accidentally introduced by attempting to bubble-sort an 10,000-entry strong list) I&#8217;ve just posted an updated release of Æther Tool to Apple for approval. This is my first commercial app, admittedly, but it has taken a great deal of time, sweat, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Xbox LIVE&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/490</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally realised that to trial Xbox LIVE Gold you need to create a new account &#8211; I never got a trial because I imported my old Xbox account. Underwhelmed by the new Gold-only features: Facebook is alright &#8211; I like the photo browser, but doesn&#8217;t appear to be integrated; Twitter is an #epicfail without a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Outlook #fail</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/431</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;ve just re-installed my ageing work desktop PC with a shiny new Windows Vista Business installation (which has its own share of quirks) I thought I&#8217;d also give Microsoft Outlook 2007 a try over my standard PC email client, Mozilla Thunderbird. There&#8217;s always going to be a period of adjustment with any major change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#o2fail</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/429</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good summary of the arguments is here. twitter is on fire over the issue too. In terms of the 3GS, the additional battery life, processor speed, and the magnetic compass are great features. Voice control is neat if coupled with a Bluetooth headset. I&#8217;d imagine that hardware-accelerated 3D is probably more of an effort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debian abandons GNU-libc for Embedded fork</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/403</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 14:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve hosed systems in the past by inadvertently downgrading the C-library, which breaks&#8230; everything. Luckily, this is why I have test machines before updates are rolled out to all of our servers. Even so, this makes upgrading glibc to a newer version a somewhat fraught experience &#8211; especially when it can&#8217;t pass its own test-suite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Vista Installation Experience&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/401</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 13:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We now have a fair collection of both 32bit and 64bit Windows Vista installations at work, with Vista Home Premium and Vista Business on laptops, and Vista Business on desktops. However today, for the first time, I came to install Vista from scratch onto a pre-existing machine which had been shipped with Windows XP. My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wide-spread exploitation of security hole in Windows Live Mail</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/395</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, April 5th 2009 at approximately 4:30pm (BST), several messages were sent from my HoTMaiL account to every single one of my MSN contacts. Luckily, this account is long-dormant &#8211; but unfortunately, Windows Live operates a shared list of contacts between Mail and Messenger (which I do still use, for my sins). The message test [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Windows 7</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/376</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve now been using Windows 7 Beta on-and-off for a few weeks. In all honesty, I&#8217;ve spent most of the small amount of time I&#8217;ve had with it playing games, so I can only reflect on my initial impressions. However, there are some observations I have as a (broadly) neutral observer which may be generalised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 &#946;eta</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/249</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Windows Vista-running PC decided to implode the other day, crashing with random noise on the screen (or a really strange frosting-type effect, where slightly off-white static quickly encroaches from the edges of the screen) after Windows has been running for a while, for a few minutes after starting a DirectX game, etc. It could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Red Wizard needs food, badly&#8221; *</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/242</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Christmas, I received a single video-gaming related item: Prince or Persia, on the Xbox 360. Actually, I can&#8217;t remember the last game I bought for the Wii&#8230; it may have been Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Why this (not so) sudden apathy for the saviour of the games console? Because after a dream start to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming soon&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/120</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have to most successfully history of predicting what Apple might do next &#8211; but then, who does? There&#8217;s an interesting discussion on MacRumors about newly-leaked photos (allegedly) showing more details of the machines which will be announced this Tuesday. There is ongoing uncertainly over whether the cases photographed are of two different models [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foxconn A79A-S ignores standards, doesn&#8217;t work</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/116</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read all about it (Additionally, the Contact links from their Support Forum return an ASP error page, as does attempting to post any topic whose text includes an apostrophe! Colour me highly unimpressed&#8230;)]]></description>
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		<title>The scan saga&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/109</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; or why I vow never to build a PC ever again Having last built a new desktop computer (I do have an ever expanding collection of MiniITX servers, but these don&#8217;t count ) in about 2003, I decided that it was high time to the 256Mb Athlon 1800+ to something more recent: I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indistinguishable from magic&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/92</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gareth has an iPod Touch, which he&#8217;s just updated to firmware 2.0 (at even more cost &#8211; and that he&#8217;s not best pleased about&#8230;), which adds many of the iPhone&#8217;s location-aware services. The Touch, of course, lacks any 3G/GSM circuitry and bluetooth &#8211; leaving only WiFi for position acquisition. Even though my name-server at home [...]]]></description>
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