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	<description>A blog about life, linux and photography</description>
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		<title>Amusing Mathematics videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So while I am sat on the sofa, my wife is watching mathematics videos from http://mrbartonmaths.com/youtube.htm. There are some rather amusing and clever videos so have a look when you get a chance.
Particularly clever are The Mathematics Love Song which attempts to explain love using group theory (which I vaguely remember from my degree)
Amazing Maths trick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2010/01/25/amusing-mathematics-videos/</link>
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		<title>GPS scripts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a simple walking GPS (Garmin Etrex H) which is great for walks, hiking etc. I wrote about using it under Ubuntu earlier.
I can input waypoints and use it to direct me where to go and it can be set to tell you where you are in BNG (British National Grid, i.e. Ordnance Survey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2010/01/10/gps-scripts/</link>
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		<title>Walking in the new forest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On new year&#8217;s eve we decided to go for a walk to try and shake off some of those calories from Christmas, so we went out to Brockenhurst in the New Forest.

Trip recored in EveryTrail, view full trip
Following Walk #22 from Hampshire and The New Forest Walks (Pathfinder Guides) we had a nice time, though the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2010/01/04/walking-in-the-new-forest/</link>
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		<title>The saga of seven suns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a little quiet here lately, the reason being is I have been completely consumed by reading the saga of seven suns by Kevin J Anderson.
It is a seven book series of sci-fi, and I was completely addicted to it. I am not sure what I am going to do now that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2010/01/03/the-saga-of-seven-suns/</link>
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		<title>What Stormtroopers do on Their Day Off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you are bored and have some time, see what Stormtroopers get up to in their free time
What Stormtroopers do on Their Day Off &#124; WildAmmo.com
Fantastic photos &#8211; makes me wish I had some stormtrooper action figures to try the same with
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		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2009/12/21/what-stormtroopers-do-on-their-day-off/</link>
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		<title>Not X-Factor for Xmas No 1&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, some of you may have heard of the campaign for getting Rage Against the Machine to no1 in the UK charts for Christmas.
If you want to take part, have a look at the Facebook page for where you can buy a digital download of the track &#8220;Killing In The Name Of&#8221;
Now, part of me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2009/12/14/not-x-factor-for-xmas-no-1/</link>
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		<title>Oli Lemieux trampoline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Reader recommended this post on Gizmodo &#8211; it is the most incredible video of trampoline work I have ever seen

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		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2009/11/16/oli-lemieux-trampoline/</link>
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		<title>dpatch &#8211; using patch files in Debian packaging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I do a fair bit  of packaging of Debian and Ubuntu packages at work, often having to make tweaks to upstream packages. I used to just hack the upstream source directly, but have now discovered dpatch.
dpatch is a clever addition to the Debian packaging process which allows all your changes to be stored as patch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2009/11/13/dpatch-using-patch-files-in-debian-packaging/</link>
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		<title>Cross-platform realtime collaborative editing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently stumbled across Gobby:
Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms.
It looks really cool, and the realtime-editing would be very well suited to trying to draw up any form of document or source [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2009/11/11/cross-platform-realtime-collaborative-editing/</link>
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		<title>Garmin Etrex-H on Ubuntu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month my wife got me a Garmin Etrex-H walking GPS for my birthday. On friday my usb data cable from Kawa Mall (bought via ebay) arrived.
Getting data from the gps was trivial with gpsbabel (thought you might find it easier to use the gebabbel gui frontend and getting a track uploaded to a Google [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2009/11/09/garmin-etrex-h-on-ubuntu/</link>
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		<title>New gpg/pgp key</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I suspect only a few readers here will care, but I have a new gpg/pgp key

If the message below is not verifiable, it is probably mangled by your browser &#8211; a plain-text version is at http://strangeparty.com/new_key.txt
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256,SHA1                [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2009/11/08/new-gpgpgp-key/</link>
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		<title>Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
If possible, use the Torrent download: http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent (it should be faster and saves money for all the mirrors)
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		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-released/</link>
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		<title>Waving with Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been playing with Google Wave for about a week, and while it is interesting I have not really had enough time with it to write up much here yet.
If you are on Wave, you can find me as &#8220;anton.piatek&#8221; on Wave
If you are not on Wave and want to have a play, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2009/10/26/waving-with-google/</link>
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		<title>Dishwasher + Keyboard = ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My keyboard at work has been getting too dirty, so I started thinking about how to clean it.
A colleague suggested that a dishwasher works fine, so I put it on the top shelf of the dishwasher with the plug wrapped in clingfilm and hit go on an &#8220;eco&#8221; wash which is slightly cooler.
I pulled it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2009/10/12/dishwasher-keyboard/</link>
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		<title>powerline networking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After moving into our new house, I contemplated running a pile of ethernet cables before we got the new carpets laid, as I have always had issues with wireless. In the end I didn&#8217;t find the time to rip up floorboards and skirting boards to lay the cables I wanted, and as it turns out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2009/09/30/powerline-networking/</link>
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		<title>Virgin broadband &#8211; not so fast!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a while ago about the speed of virgin broadband vs. Be but my internet has been feeling rather slow recently&#8230; So I decided to take another speed test.

For reference the previous test got 9Mb/s download and 0.49Mb/s upload. The old speed wasn&#8217;t too bad, but still wasn&#8217;t as good as Be provided.
Obviously this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2009/09/29/virgin-broadband-not-so-fast/</link>
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		<title>Standing Hat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We bough a book on Hampshire and New Forest walks about a year ago, and finally actually did one of the walks in the New Forest. We did a really nice walk from Standing Hat, Balmerlawn near Brokenhurst.
The walk was a 8km walk, and the book suggested 2.5 hours but we spent 2 hours walking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2009/09/29/standing-hat/</link>
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		<title>Sore backside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago I decided I should do some cycling again, having not really cycled for quite a few years.
We went and bought helmets (as mine no longer fitted &#8211; yes, that long ago) but then I decided my bike really needed a service. So I borrowed a pile of tools from my dad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2009/09/27/sore-backside/</link>
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		<title>They have the technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[8pm Tuesday night, and I am watching some trash on TV (or maybe it was a dvd &#8211; I don&#8217;t remember). There is a knock at the door, and I open it to find an ID card for the TV Licensing company&#8230;
I recently moved house, and tried to change address with them via their automated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2009/09/23/they-have-the-technology/</link>
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		<title>Ubuntu Global Jam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently noticed that 2nd-4th October is Ubuntu Global Jam. There is actually a meetup in Birmingham:
Ubuntu Global Jam – Birmingham (UK) &#8211; Source Guru
So, if you’re interested in helping make Ubuntu a better distro, and live in (or can travel to) the Birmingham Area in the UK, then you’re welcome to come along.
The Jam [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strangeparty.com/2009/09/22/ubuntu-global-jam/</link>
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