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	<title>The Telarah Times &#187; General</title>
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	<description>The Practical Application of Linux and Opensource Technology, and Other Stuff</description>
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		<title>Holiday Reading &#8211;  Bounce: The myth of talent and the power of practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just finished reading Bounce by Matthew Syed. ISBN: 978-0-00-735054-4 Very interesting as it says that practice and training is more important that &#8216;talent&#8217;. I was especially interested in the psychology of &#8220;choking&#8221; i.e. when a sport person completely muffs a game because they seem to have forgotten how to play at the level they usually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 5th Anniversary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They really made her&#8230; Perfect. I know. Just had a wonderful anniversary weekend with my Beautiful Wife: Friday Night: Anniversary Dinner at the thevintage.com.au. This is where we had our reception 5 yrs ago. Saturday Night: Chris Isaak concert at www.wyndhamestate.com. Sunday: A day trip to the beautiful Watagan Ranges overlooking Lake Macquarie. Followed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wonk — When you have to KNOW</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little while ago I was watching an episode of Covert Affairs and it used the term `Wonk&#8217;. I had heard the term &#8220;Policy Wonk&#8221; before in relation to someone employed as a political adviser that had a vast general knowledge of just about everything related to politics and policy. But I had no idea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Comment Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m noticing an increasing number of comments that say something like &#8220;Hey Great Post&#8221;. While everyone likes to be praised, I am coming to the conclusion that some of these posts aren&#8217;t really praise, but merely self-serving flattery. Why? Because in the process of the commenter telling me what a great post I have done, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Husband Creche&#8212;How to take your husband shopping&#8230; sort of</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a tip for the ladies&#8230; Your husband, if he is typical of husbands, would probably prefer to be neutered than to spend a whole day shopping. This is not his fault&#8212;it&#8217;s genetics. What to do? Take him to the Shopping Centre, but put him in a &#8216;Husband Creche&#8217;. For my Wife and I, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IIBYGTKBP &#8211;  If it breaks you get to keep both parts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 07:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IIBYGTKBP. I saw this acronym on the linux-users email list A Google didn&#8217;t enlighten me. So I delved into wet memory and came up with what it means by recalling the poster who used the full version of IIBYGTKBP in the past. So here it is &#8211; IIBYGTKBP: If it breaks you get to keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going offline for a day or so</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 07:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m moving my website to another provider.]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You ask her the time and she tells you how her watch is made&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Power outage for a day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today 7 Jan 2009 we have an all day power outage starting at 8:30AM. Seeing as this webserver sits under my desk at home and the UPS is a tiny one that means that we are going offline for the duration of the outage. Be back at about 4:00PM]]></description>
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		<title>RIP &#8211; Foo the Fighting Fish</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly Foo our Siamese Fighting Fish was found motionless in the bottom of his tank this morning (18/12/2008).]]></description>
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