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    <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:30:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Greece Should Default</title>
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        <![CDATA[ The Greeks should default and tell the speculators where to stick their austerity measures.  ]]>
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      <title>The Strange World of Overseas Card Payments</title>
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        <![CDATA[ As the rest of the world seems to have been constantly banker-bashing for a couple of years, The Impressionist thought it would be a good time to jump on the bandwagon.  ]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:36:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Music to My Ears</title>
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        <![CDATA[ I really must get back to blogging regularly.  ]]>
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      <title>My Back Pages</title>
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        <![CDATA[ On the radio recently a historical researcher who had been delving through 100 year old archives said that in the future researchers like him would have a much tougher job.  ]]>
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      <title>The Verbiage</title>
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        <![CDATA[ My colleague Jack, who once worked beside me for a Canadian software company, used to comment that there is no noun that can be verbed and no verb that cannot be nouned.  ]]>
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      <title>Business As Usual</title>
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        <![CDATA[ As the great Copenhagen climate charade drags on and the politicians gyre and gimble in the wabe, as Lewis Carroll might have described it, climate change sceptics have found a renewed vigour.  ]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:50:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>When is a Business like a Police State?</title>
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        <![CDATA[ I've just been reading a thread from my favourite forum - WebProWorld - which is all about how to improve your website's rankings in search engines, and a multitude of other issues related to browsers, servers and all the paraphernalia of the internet.  ]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Econothink</title>
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        <![CDATA[ If you ask two economists for an opinion, expect at least 3 conflicting answers.  ]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:54:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Airport Security</title>
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        <![CDATA[ I noticed that my PC had taken to thrashing its hard disk every few seconds and was worried that it had picked up a virus.  ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 14:06:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Moral Manor</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Look up the word Manor in Google and you get a whole collection of definitions, all of which (apart from the trade names) mean the same thing: the home of a rich person.  ]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:04:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Unnatural Selection</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Charles Darwin's great principle doesn't just affect lions and zebras on the plains of the Serengeti ...  ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:38:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Saving Time</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Saturday 29th November 2008 is buy nothing day, an annual event with enhanced poignancy in these straitened times.  ]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:43:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cutting Grass and Base Rates</title>
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        <![CDATA[ In most simple descriptions of the internal combustion engine a critical component is left out: the governor.  ]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:04:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Unbookiness of Blogging</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Why is science so successful at explaining the world and allowing us to manipulate it to our advantage? ]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:14:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Marry in haste, repent at leisure</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Electronic messaging is part of the furniture of life now: texts are sent to inform employees that they ..  ]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:50:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Old TV and The Big Bang</title>
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        <![CDATA[ The Impressionist reckons he is one of the few people left whose television uses a cathode ray tube.  ]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:43:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Price of Gold</title>
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        <![CDATA[ A Beijing Olympics gold medal contains about .19 ounces of gold - which is used to coat the mainly silver medal body.  ]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:02:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cuil - Context is King</title>
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        <![CDATA[ A new search engine to compete with Google, Yahoo and others was announced a few days ago.  ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:26:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dan Dare is Dead</title>
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        <![CDATA[ The Impressionist stumbled into yet another art installation.  ]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:17:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Why Cars are Weightless</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Even though they may not have a word for entrepreneur, the French have two words for the verb to know so I suppose that makes up for it.  ]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:28:58 GMT</pubDate>
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