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	<description>Damien Ayers - Irregular Musings</description>
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		<title>On the way to Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My big holiday begins!
It&#8217;s 2am in Singapore, the first stop off on my way to Italy, and I&#8217;m making use of the free internet facilities at the airport. That was the longest leg of the flight, the next two portions are each half an hour shorter. There&#8217;s sooo much to watch on the plane, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://omad.net/2008/07/on-the-way-to-europe/</link>
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		<title>Why Photography?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Neil Creek posted a few weeks back, a wonderful item on the right question to ask about photos and photography. Why?
Having bought a DSLR a month ago, I&#8217;ve been struggling to get out and enjoy taking pictures. It&#8217;s time to sit down and work out why I want to, and rediscover some motivation.
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		<link>http://omad.net/2007/10/why-photography/</link>
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		<title>New Job, New Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I finally started work again after only about 3 months holiday. I&#8217;m not helping a Brisbane based web startup called MyNight. Everything&#8217;s going well so far, and it&#8217;s great not to be sitting around the house any more.
I&#8217;ve also changed the layout of my site. Hopefully only temporary (hah), and just a stock [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://omad.net/2007/02/new-job-new-design/</link>
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		<title>Burning Video DVDs with K3b in Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend it was finally time to sort out the mess of data on my computer. First task was to free up some space to move, and burning a few of the ripped DVDs would help a lot. I&#8217;ve managed before in linux, using the command line, but this time I wanted a GUI.
Low and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://omad.net/2007/02/burning-video-dvds-with-k3b-in-linux/</link>
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		<title>Return From Blogging Hiatus</title>
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I&#8217;m back home now, after my two month summer climbing holiday taking in the best Australia has to offer. Starting out in the Blue Mountains in a house with QUT Cliffhangers, then continuing on camping at numerous places before ending up at Arapiles. Australia&#8217;s climbing &#8216;Mecca&#8217;.
It&#8217;s actually been a week and a half since I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://omad.net/2007/02/return-from-blogging-hiatus/</link>
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		<title>Fierce Hailstorm</title>
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Hail storms are fun! A rather impressive specimen just roared through Brisbane. Luckily I was home to batten down the hatches.
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		<link>http://omad.net/2006/11/fierce-hailstorm/</link>
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		<title>Another Year, Another Stupid Horsey Tradition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The lunch and sweeps organised at work today for the Melbourne Cup were too much effort, so I&#8217;m now home for lunch. I&#8217;m not going to watch the race here either, thanks to an allergic reaction to the advertisement for &#8216;Dancing with the Stars&#8216;, and then the painfully inane statistics being spouted by Bruce McAvaney.
Instead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://omad.net/2006/11/another-year-another-stupid-horsey-tradition/</link>
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		<title>Pet Peeve: Date Formats!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing that annoys me more than the variety of different ways different countries write their dates!
The main problem affecting me occurs with Australian/UK and US formats, there is often no way to tell which is which. Most well designs APIs avoid them both, and sensibly order elements year-month-day, but many people decide dates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://omad.net/2006/11/pet-peeve-date-formats/</link>
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		<title>Most Effective Five Dollar Upgrade Ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally got around to replacing the broken IDE cable in my computer last night. It had been limping along with an old UDMA33 cable, and now has a proper UDMA100 cable.
Before:
damo@omad:~$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/hdc /dev/hdd
/dev/hdc:  Timing buffered disk reads:   86 MB in  3.07 seconds =  28.05 MB/sec
/dev/hdd:  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://omad.net/2006/11/most-effective-five-dollar-upgrade-ever/</link>
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		<title>Topcoder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday I took some time out and entered my first Top Coder competition.
For those who&#8217;ve never heard of it, Top Coder is an online competition for computer programmers. There&#8217;s several different categories to compete in with the most interesting to me being Algorithms.
Each week thousands of coders from around the world enter, and are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://omad.net/2006/07/topcoder/</link>
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