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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, and [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Computer Games]]></category>
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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 browser [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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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 of [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/?p=401</guid>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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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 [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
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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 potentially [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Computer Games]]></category>
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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 [...]]]></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 of MacBook, [...]]]></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;)
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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>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breathtaking O2 incompetence reduces iPhone 3G launch to farce</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/91</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cambridge has one Apple Store (in the seemingly Bioshock-inspired Grand Arcade), one O2 shop, and two Carphone Warehouses.
Having decided that it&#8217;s finally time to replace my venerable Motorola RAZR V3, and never having been to an Apple product launch before* (albeit one at a local store) I decided to try my luck at the Apple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Server change</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/93</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps Wordpress has become slower in recent releases, perhaps I&#8217;ve broken something by running a non-prelinked system &#8211; but in any case, running this blog from my trustworthy SGI O2 was just getting too slow.

I&#8217;ve just finished migrating everything from there to the server which runs the house&#8217;s RAID storage system &#8211; a 1.2GHz Via [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basic English: O2 Fail</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/90</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this morning at about 7:30am, O2 sent out an email to what is probably millions of punters (judging by the fact that their pre-orders site has crashed and burned) with the headline:
iPhone 3G is here and its free*
Anyone spot the problem with this?

Let&#8217;s see what Wikipedia has to say about this:
ITS, it&#8217;s or its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nintendo Star Points &#8211; expressly designed to annoy?</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/88</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computer Games]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time was, you bought a new Nintendo game and got a code with it, which you entered into a Nintendo website and got points in return.  Never mind that anything worth buying with these points sold out immediately (the used to give away Gameboy Players for the GameCube, and certain NDS games) &#8211; people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hopes and fears for a new MacBook Pro</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/79</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the rumoured (hopefully) imminent launch of new MacBook Pro models, I thought I&#8217;m commit to blog a collection of thoughts I have about how Apple could improve it, how much I&#8217;d like to see them make the suggested change, and how likely I think it is that they&#8217;ll do so&#8230;

Multitouch
I&#8217;ve seen a number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nintendo Europe: Not evil, just irredeemably stupid?</title>
		<link>http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/77</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are several things which annoy me about Nintendo right now&#8230; amongst them the shameless price-gouging for Virtual Console games, the DRM which prevents you from backing up your saved games from your console to your SD card (what was the thinking behind this one??), the hopelessly slow SD write-speed when you do actually find [...]]]></description>
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