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		<title>So much for Mobile broadband</title>
		<link>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2010/05/12/so-much-for-mobile-broadband/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2010/05/12/so-much-for-mobile-broadband/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 12:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/?p=919</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In which Steve mutters about the O2 broadband dongle and its broken DNS handling.]]></description>
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		<title>Hitting a moving Target</title>
		<link>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2010/04/28/hitting-a-moving-target/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2010/04/28/hitting-a-moving-target/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wordbooker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/?p=886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In which Steve witters on about the crazy situation with Facebook and its ever changing API and developer policies and other such insanities.]]></description>
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		<title>The case of the stranded contacts</title>
		<link>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2009/08/10/the-case-of-the-stranded-contacts/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2009/08/10/the-case-of-the-stranded-contacts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[android]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/?p=312</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I quite like my G1, and now I&#8217;ve got TasKiller it&#8217;s battery life is almost reasonable. One of the big features of the G1 is that when you set it up you have to tie it to a Google Account. This gives you access to email and also synchronises your contacts and your calendar on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Hoover Sucks</title>
		<link>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2008/11/21/this-hoover-sucks/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2008/11/21/this-hoover-sucks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hoover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[washing machine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/?p=246</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2002 Kathy and I bought a Hoover AAA 140 washing machine. Hoover, a good name, so its going to be a good washing machine. Might last as long as my parents Hoover washing machine (aeons) or their Zanussi (not quite as long but still pretty good). How wrong we were. Within a couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things to do when you are unemployed</title>
		<link>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2008/11/11/things-to-do-when-you-are-unemployed/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2008/11/11/things-to-do-when-you-are-unemployed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vista]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wpa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/?p=244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I&#8217;m still sort of offically employed : my last pay cheque arrives this Friday but I&#8217;m laid off. So I&#8217;ve been using an old Toshiba Satellite SA30 laptop running Ubuntu and its OK but its only a 640*480 display and it was getting a bit unreliable. You know when the disk drive starting making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Endowments go wrong</title>
		<link>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2008/09/25/when-endowments-go-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2008/09/25/when-endowments-go-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[legal and general]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/?p=233</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1993 I bought a flat in Cheltenham, a nice flat it was too. OK when I bought it it didn&#8217;t actually exist and was just a muddy swamp but I saw it being built. I stood in it when it was an empty shell with no internal walls and over the weeks I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Someone, somewhere hates us</title>
		<link>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2008/09/08/someone-somewhere-hates-us/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2008/09/08/someone-somewhere-hates-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cheltenham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vandalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Early Friday morning (about 01:55) our car alarm went off. I went down stairs and found that the windscreen had three holes in it. I deactivated the alarm and went and phoned the police and gave them all the details. Got up in the morning and got a new windscreen booked for today. Also booked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh No. Not again!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2008/08/27/oh-no-not-again/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2008/08/27/oh-no-not-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[scrotes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/oh-no-not-again</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Those were the thoughts of the bowl of petunias in The HitchHikers Guide to Galaxy when it suddenly came into existance miles above Magrathea. Oh No. Not Again was what my wife and I said when we came out of the house this morning to find that someone had vandalised the 93. Not the windscreen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United Airlines &#8211; Fly the Unfriendly Skies : Part 3</title>
		<link>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2008/07/22/united-airlines-fly-the-unfriendly-skies-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2008/07/22/united-airlines-fly-the-unfriendly-skies-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Airlines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/?p=126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well they processed the refund sometime in the past couple of weeks. It appeared on the Credit Card statement we got the other day. I still have heard nothing from them, not a sausage, not a peep, not a word. OK so they processed the refund : its only take them 5 months. I guess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United Airlines &#8211; Fly the Unfriendly Skies : Part Two</title>
		<link>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2008/07/10/united-airlines-fly-the-unfriendly-skies-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2008/07/10/united-airlines-fly-the-unfriendly-skies-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fraud]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.canalplan.org.uk/steve/2008/07/10/united-airlines-fly-the-unfriendly-skies-part-two/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Early in June after battering my head against the wall over the fiasco with United Airlines and their inability to refund money they took from us I found that their refunds department now had an email address rather than a fax number( which they didn&#8217;t want to let people have). You CANNOT phone the refunds [...]]]></description>
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