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		<title>If it ain&#8217;t on your machine, it ain&#8217;t yours.</title>
		<link>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/12/if-it-aint-on-your-machine-it-aint-yours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 07:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I found out that Yahoo had pulled the plug on the Delicious application, amongst a few other APIs and services.  There will no doubt now be a spate of articles about how to move your content from these applications to somewhere else, and it may be that new services spring up out of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of Google Wave</title>
		<link>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/09/the-death-of-google-wave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not for Google Wave the sudden death; more a slow, drawn out lingering farewell on the life support machine of &#8216;development has been stopped&#8217;. I guess it gives the boys at Mountain View the opportunity to change their minds if the pressure gets too much. The demise of Wave doesn&#8217;t actually surprise me; I&#8217;m surprised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I write software&#8230;to solve problems</title>
		<link>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/08/i-write-software-to-solve-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1225</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s a while since I wrote a blog post so why not kick off with a slight bit of professional heresy.  I write software for a living; have done for over 30 years, starting with SCMP microprocessors in my teens (yes, I was THAT sort of teenager&#8230;) and working through everything in between until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I was right to blame it on sunspots!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Early on in my consulting career &#8211; late 1980s, early 1990s &#8211; I did a lot of work for a public sector organisation.  I worked on a number of projects &#8211; this was in the days when IT consultants could still be generalists, applying their skills to whatever was needed &#8211; and tended to specialise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Configuring MOWES on a USB Stick</title>
		<link>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/06/configuring-mowes-on-a-usb-stick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an old saying that you can neither be too thin  or have too much money.  I&#8217;d like to add to that list &#8211; you can&#8217;t have too many web servers available on your PC.   For the non-geeks amongst you, a web server is a program that runs on a computer to &#8216;serve up&#8217; web pages.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth calling Tim Cook&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/05/earth-calling-tim-cook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 09:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a scene in Monty Python&#8217;s &#8216;The Life of Brian&#8217; in which a character asks &#8216;What have the Romans ever done for us?&#8217;  This is then followed by a host of other characters giving many useful things that the Romans HAVE provided for the people of Palestine. I was reminded of this sketch when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crystal Reports&#8230;where did you go wrong?</title>
		<link>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/04/crystal-reports-where-did-you-go-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1085</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many moons ago, when you could write useful software on a computer with less processing power than my last cellphone, there was a reporting tool called Crystal Reports that was incredibly useful for those of us who spent our working lives using tools such as Visual BASIC 3 to write windows applications.  It had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple &#8211; why 2014 could be like 1984</title>
		<link>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/04/apple-why-2014-could-be-like-1984/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1984, Apple had Ridley Scott direct a very imaginative advert to launch the Macintosh computer.  It ran twice &#8211; once on a small TV station late at night to get it in the running for some awards, and the second time at half time in the Superbowl American Football game on 22nd January [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;father&#8217; of home computers dies&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/04/the-father-of-home-computers-dies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/04/the-father-of-home-computers-dies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago one of the pioneers of the home computer revolution of the 1970s died.  Ed Roberts, an MD in Georgia, died after a long battle with Pneumonia.  Back in the 1970s his company, MITS, moved from model rocket telemetry, to calculators, then to building the first &#8216;computer kit&#8217; &#8211; the Altair 8800 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are some Open Source support people so damn rude?</title>
		<link>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/03/why-are-some-open-source-support-people-so-damn-rude/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/2010/03/why-are-some-open-source-support-people-so-damn-rude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I love Open Source software and have used some of it fairly widely in various development projects that I&#8217;ve done.   I&#8217;m also aware of the fact that people involved in the development and support of such software are typically volunteers, and on the odd occasion I have called upon people [...]]]></description>
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