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		<title>Will it not just fucking die already?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opened the papers this morning to find that Channel 4 and it&#8217;s various offshoots are still off limits. It appears the last series of Big Brother was not really the last series and they have beat the dead horse even further. Like something from a parody the walking dead are still there. Having churned out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/08/26/will-it-not-just-fucking-die-already/</link>
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		<title>The Decline of the Church of Scotland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just caught part of a report on Reporting Scotland on BBC. The Church of Scotland has just released new figures showing a low for membership. The piece was started by showing a trainee minister rearranging chairs in an empty room which was amusingly symbolic. In the short interviews there was mooted explanation behind this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/08/24/the-decline-of-the-church-of-scotland/</link>
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		<title>First Search Consultancy Scam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It appears that a lot of people find my site by searching for First Search Consultancy Scam. This is possibly related to a couple of previous posts I wrote &#8211; almost 650 at the last count. More than likely though it is related to the large number of people who claim to be dissatisfied with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/08/23/first-search-consultancy-scam/</link>
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		<title>Health and Safety gone mad!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hardly a day goees by without one of the scummy papers ranting about Health and Safety gone mad. These new rules always provoke outrage and rage and anger, but of course only in the mind of the readersand writers of these sorts of papers. The worst of course being the Hitler supporting Daily Mail. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/07/21/health-and-safety-gone-mad/</link>
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		<title>Down With the Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So as of today the Times is starting to charge for content. Lets hope Rupert Murdoch gets egg on his face. He can whinge all he wants about Google stealing content but if he was so concerned all he had to do was block access to Google&#8217;s search bots. Two minute job and it&#8217;s done. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/07/02/down-with-the-times/</link>
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		<title>Travel Dundee Silliness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2 minor annoyances with Travel Dundee lately. Firstly they have binned the flexi-cards and replaced them with paper tickets to be stamped by the drivers. Notices say this is to speed up the journey etc. Except the driver taking ticket, inpecting it, then leabning forward lining up stamper, stamping, checking stamp is in correct place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/06/21/travel-dundee-silliness/</link>
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		<title>DC Thomson Letter to MP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi Jim, When you meet with DC Thomson to discuss their slashing of jobs will you be bringing up their Lets Get Dundee Working Campaign? Recession recovery to take longer in Dundee Council backing Courier jobs campaign Surely a local company shedding 350 staff is ideal for being a focus of their campaign? They should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/06/11/dc-thomson-letter-to-mp/</link>
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		<title>Animated Film Meme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found via Evolving Thoughts This should be about 95% correct. Some of the names are familiar but I can&#8217;t remember definitely seeing them. X what you’ve seen O what you saw some but not all of Bold what you particularly liked Strike-through what you hated CLASSIC DISNEY ——————————- [ X ] 101 Dalmatians (1961) [ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/06/11/animated-film-meme/</link>
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		<title>Letter RE: Freedom Flotilla &#8211; David Martin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reply to Freedom Flotilla letter David Martin MEP &#8211; Labour First reply from Jim McGovern&#8217;s secretary Dear Alan, Thank you for your email. Unfortunately I am unable to attend the rally in Edinburgh tomorrow, but I share your outrage over recent events on the Gaza-bound flotilla, and fully agree with the points you raised in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/06/05/letter-re-freedom-flotilla-david-martin/</link>
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		<title>Letter RE: Freedom Flotilla &#8211; Jim McGovern</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reply to Freedom Flotilla letter Jim McGovern &#8211; Labour First reply from Jim McGovern&#8217;s secretary Thank you for your message which I shall pass to Jim McGovern. Jane O&#8217;Neill Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d705').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/06/05/letter-re-freedom-flotilla-jim-mcgovern/</link>
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		<title>Letter to Representatives RE Attack on Freedom Flotilla</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote the following letter to all my representatives yesterday and look forward to some interesting responses. MPs: Jim McGovern (Labour) MSPs: Joe FitzPatrick (SNP), Alison McInnes (Liberal Democrat), Richard Baker (Labour), Alex Johnstone (Conservative), Nanette Milne (Conservative), Marlyn Glen (Labour), Nigel Don (SNP), Maureen Watt (SNP) MEPs : Alyn Smith (SNP), David Martin (Labour), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/06/05/letter-to-representatives-re-attack-on-freedom-flotilla/</link>
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		<title>A Rank SEO Company</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Genna was called yesterday by yet another dodgy SEO company. They called from 0161 9058460 which from an advert appears to be a company called Rank Right. They claimed that they were from Google and could get her site to the first page of Google for £99 per month. Having dealt with this sort of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/06/05/a-rank-seo-company/</link>
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		<title>Copyright Notices in Code Files</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My current joy: Doing a compare between an old and new version of two versions of a piece of software. This is the last minor release before the next major version number release. The developer has decided to update his address in the copyright section of almost 300 files. I am now having to go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/05/29/copyright-notices-in-code-files/</link>
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		<title>Erasing David</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to see Erasing David at the DCA. It was quite good, there were a number of things in it I thought could have been fleshed out into great points, and a number of those which were fleshed out which in the scope of the documentary appear unfounded. The premise of the documentary is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/05/28/erasing-david/</link>
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		<title>Buyer Beware</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to a combination of factors regarding scammy scummy business practices I remembered about this incident. A few weeks ago I get a knock at the door and it is someone from an energy company touting for business by trying to convince us to switch suppliers. I forget the exact figures but he asked me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/05/15/buyer-beware/</link>
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		<title>Developer Day Scotland #DDDScot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I attended the Developer Day Scotland for the second time at the weekend (I had to miss first one, can&#8217;t remember why). My sessions did vary a bit from what I had originally intended. Firstly I had forgotten to pick up the directions so couldn&#8217;t remember exactly what building it was in. I bumped into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/05/10/developer-day-scotland-dddscot/</link>
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		<title>Dundee West General Election</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the election is tomorrow, what&#8217;s been happenning in Dundee West. Well as of now my only contact has been 3 hand delivered Lib Dem leaftets and a personally addressed SNP letter. The three Lib Dem leaflets all contained their usual bunch of lies, damn lies and irelevent and massaged statistics. A letter from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/05/05/dundee-west-general-election/</link>
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		<title>Ben Elton &#8211; Stark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my quest for something to read on the bus I noticed Ben Elton &#8211; Stark at the top of the novel/comedy pile. That&#8217;ll do thinks I. I got the bus to work and read some. Then read some more on the way home on the bus. And still wasn&#8217;t in to it. The writing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/04/26/ben-elton-stark/</link>
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		<title>Hero Quest Video Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quite silly video about Hero Quest. Awesome. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d663').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/04/24/hero-quest-video-review/</link>
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		<title>First Search Consultancy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently contacted by someone else who had received legal threats from First Search Consultancy. They have since edited and re-published their post about First Search Consultancy. I recommend reading it. Ryan also says he has a recording proving the claim made by a number of people online and my partner that they say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/04/23/first-search-consultancy/</link>
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		<title>Dundee West voters choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can tell it&#8217;s an election because Labour and the SNP showed their face in the city centre today, so probably time for an info post. Well, unless there are any last minute changes or anyone withdrawing at the last minute (ooh err missus) the line up for the election in Dundee West looks like: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/04/17/dundee-west-voters-choice/</link>
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		<title>Digital Economy Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hadn&#8217;t noticed But Stewart Hosie (MP for Dundee East) voted for the Digital Economy Bill meaning that 100% of the SNP MPs who voted supported it. I have written to Jim Barrie (Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the SNP in Dundee West) asking for his view on the bill (email sent on 15th April). Jim [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/04/15/digital-economy-bill/</link>
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		<title>Stuff Jim McGovern</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night was the final straw. Having spent several years as a member of the payroll vote he eventually started being a constituency MP. He voted for authoritarian measures like storing massive amount of information on citizens and then tried to block information about where he has been on taxpayers money using privacy as his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/04/07/stuff-jim-mcgovern/</link>
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		<title>Neglect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been kind of swamped lately so haven&#8217;t been updating this much. What hasn&#8217;t helped is I used to think oh post that up and expand in a blog post. I find myself compressing things into Twitter instead. So random media etc I have been enjoying over the last wee while: Films and TV [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/04/03/neglect/</link>
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		<title>Designing Without Tables</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading Designing Without Tables and it was really good. Totally refreshed my mind on CSS. I mucked around with the samples throughout the book and think that Gennas Jewellery site is probably ok for layout and style. I will probably tweak it a bit &#8211; definitely try to do something with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/03/05/designing-without-tables/</link>
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		<title>Vodka Breaking News!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night at Duke&#8217;s Corner I sampled the DQ vodka and it was immense. Will definitely look forward to buying a bottle at some point. This morning I was digging through old posts, spotting errors etc when I noticed one about Blackwoods going into administration. It appears they have licenced their vodka to Blavod I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/02/27/vodka-breaking-news/</link>
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		<title>Developer Day Scotland Agenda Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Developer Day Scotland Agenda has been announced and looks really good. I went last year and thought it was excellent so was looking forward to this year. Only one clash and one empty slot for my preferred items I voted for so a good result for me. Right now my plans would be for: HTML [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/02/26/developer-day-scotland-agenda-announced/</link>
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		<title>Attack of the virgins from mums basement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday was a special occassion. The 200th episode of the excellent Boagworld podcast. To celebrate, rather than record the usual show of about 1hour the hosts organised a 12 hour spectacular pulling together some of the brightest and most interesting people in the web industry. There were experts on coding and design, CSS and CMS, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/02/14/attack-of-the-virgins-from-mums-basement/</link>
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		<title>Re-learning the web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having sat and looked at Gennas site and tried to come up with the best ways to improve it I have realised that it&#8217;s a while since I have done any HTML/CSS development. At work I have been doing a bit of Asp.Net but the majority of my time is back-end coding in C# with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/02/13/re-learning-the-web/</link>
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		<title>Games For Windows Live Sucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the second time in a week I can&#8217;t log in to Games For Windows Live. I can log into the Live mail account associated with it and am online doing other things. What am I trying to do? Play Dawn of War 2 Campaign. That, is a single player game which requires two online [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/02/08/games-for-windows-live-sucks/</link>
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		<title>Terminal Illness Isn&#8217;t A Health Issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In parliament today a bill on euthanasia for those with terminal illnesses was punted to a sub-committee. This is probably what you would expect in a parliament. What was strange was it had been expected to be handed to the Health committee. According to party hacks euthanasia doesn&#8217;t fall under the remit of health. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/02/03/terminal-illness-isnt-a-health-issue/</link>
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		<title>Lindsay Mathers Equestrian Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lindsay Mathers has launched a blog (and soon to come site) with some of her horsey paintings. Looking forward to seeing more images up soon. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d593').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/02/02/lindsay-mathers-equestrian-art/</link>
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		<title>Deluded fantasist rambles on again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems the supreme magic user in Europe has opened his mouth and channelled the spirit of a bigot from an earlier time. Given the organisation he is in it could be anywhere from the 1st century to last week. Daily mash as usual are pretty on the ball with the satire. He apparently will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/02/02/deluded-fantasist-rambles-on-again/</link>
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		<title>Dundee &#8211; A Crime Free Utopia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I can only assume as much given the 13 cops and command unit sitting in a layby on the Kingsway&#8230; Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d589').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/01/29/dundee-a-crime-free-utopia/</link>
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		<title>Private Eye &#8211; ooh err missus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This fortnights edition of Private Eye is quite good. The two stand-outs for me though were the ingenuously fuelled letter about classical music with the quote the capital is positively stiff with magnificent organs. The second is the large column with outrage that a comedian has been dumped from a festival, the comedian in question [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/01/25/private-eye-ooh-err-missus/</link>
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		<title>Church Attendance figures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was sure I had previously written about it here but apparantly not. Before Christmas there was a stooshy in the Courier due to Dundee holding a Winters Light Festival which included turning on the Christmas tree lights among other things as part of the Homecoming Celebration. Rants and raves from the religious and righteous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/01/23/church-attendance-figures/</link>
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		<title>First Search Consultancy send in the lawyers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An SEO company previously discussed here with a dubious reputation has sent in the lawyers against someone who posted about them. Apparently them phoning up people claiming to be from Google and people reporting this is grounds to send in legal threats. In the actual thread a number of people posted their experience with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/01/21/first-search-consultancy-send-in-the-lawyers/</link>
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		<title>Chaos as frozen water plummets from the sky!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sitting in the pub last night one of the 24 hour News programs was on giving us breaking news such as roads frozen and temperature below freezing. How this was breaking news baffled me. Then after the news finished there was the weather. The newspaper headline section was hilarious with their shocking headlines and attacks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2010/01/07/chaos-as-frozen-water-plummets-from-the-sky/</link>
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		<title>Two interesting articles in a row!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slashdot beats it&#8217;s usual high of 1 decent article a day with two belters. Insurgents hack US drones Iraqi insurgents are intercepting communications from pilot-less drones as they are not encrypting it before sending it to base. The second will be of interest to anyone who has visited the Secret Bunker in Fife. A report [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/12/17/two-interesting-articles-in-a-row/</link>
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		<title>Making a killing in the name of drivel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the campaign to have a band of musicians who write songs, sing lives and can play musical instruments to No1 gains over half a million supporters Simon Cowell took time out of being a prat to comment on it. The campaign is stupid and cynical From a talentless prick who has made millions from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/12/14/making-a-killing-in-the-name-of-drivel/</link>
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		<title>Complete Banker: no free lunch!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Stephen Hester when discussing bank charges: Banks had to meet the costs of doing business. From a bank who had billions chucked at it after failing at business and then billions more in secret so that it&#8217;s share price wouldn&#8217;t plummet more. They then started discussing how many staff to make redundant. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/11/25/complete-banker-no-free-lunch/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Jewellery Exhibition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Genna is helping to organise an exhibition of jewellery and other arts at WASPS next month. Details of the artists can be found at their blog. The artists are having profiles of them and their work added &#8211; Gennas is here. WASPS Dundee Saturday 28th November 11am &#8211; 5pm Sunday 29th November 12pm &#8211; 5pm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/11/16/christmas-jewellery-exhibition/</link>
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		<title>Letter to Jim McGovern</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The contents of the letter I just to my MP It is an outrage that your government have sacked Professor David Nutt. Surely the purpose of advisers is to give an experts opinion not to rubber stamp policy decisions by government taken not because of scientific evidence but in line with the opinions of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/10/31/letter-to-jim-mcgovern/</link>
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		<title>Status Updater</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It appears the WordPress Status Updater now works correctly by pushing each post to Facebook once. Woo. Technorati claim code: WBJWEAQ95M8P Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d549').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/10/22/status-updater/</link>
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		<title>London Food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t really figure up a good way to post about random stuff from the trip to London so will start off with the food. Friday On the Friday we arrived in the afternoon so we only really ate out for tea. With the hotel we were given a voucher for various Hotel owned outlets. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/10/13/london-food/</link>
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		<title>Random website sham again?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Genna got another call from a web design company today. This time they are claiming that that a government scheme is there to help companies with websites. For £149 per year she can have a site with a shop. A quick scan of their site shows that that package is £199 per year. The £149 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/10/07/random-website-sham-again/</link>
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		<title>Invention of Lying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I saw Invention of Lying, the new film by Ricky Gervais. It was ok, a few laughs but nothing special. What is frustrating is it had so much potential. Anyway to start off, I had read the reviews that it was a world where everyone tells the truth. This is inaccurate. It is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/10/06/invention-of-lying/</link>
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		<title>Three quarters through the year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just realised that we are now three quarters of the way through the year. What shocked me was that I couldn&#8217;t really think of anything significant I had done yet. For me. I thought about it a bit more and counted up about 20 days I had helped Genna on stalls including about 3 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/09/30/three-quarters-through-the-year/</link>
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		<title>Underwhelming statistics?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article in the Guardian has the Vatican defending smears on them based on paedophile priest stories. Firstly by claiming that other churches do it too (nice deflection) Secondly by claiming that the majority of paedophile priests were gay. Supremely ironic given one of the vilest homophobic attacks is to claim that gay people are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/09/30/underwhelming-statistics/</link>
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		<title>Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally gave into FaceBook and added a profile here I added a thing to the blog which should integrate, testing it now. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d509').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/09/28/facebook/</link>
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		<title>Wordplay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the areas I wanted to write a few pieces about, but have neglected, was the strangeness of the English language. Those that know me in person know I love puns and wordplay. I can generally be found giggling at something which amuses me which I then have to explain to others who hadn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/09/18/wordplay/</link>
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		<title>Polo and Posh Portaloos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, Genna and I attended an event with a group who funded her business. They had some space at a corporate event day. Anyhoo, the two amusing things prompting the title. Firstly posh portaloos. They had hired the poshest portaloos I had ever seen. The sinks were bowls on raised daises. They had motion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/09/14/polo-and-posh-portaloos/</link>
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		<title>Hannah for president</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea who she is but I like her style Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d497').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/09/04/hannah-for-president/</link>
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		<title>Come in 1999 your time is up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Games Workshop, in their infinite wisdom have re-released Space Hulk. It&#8217;s ordered and now I can&#8217;t wait for September. It was suggested this was to renew the copyright by releasing it again. In that case, I can&#8217;t wait for Hero Quest and Warhammer Quest which would be re-released in the next couple of years. Bookmark [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/08/18/come-in-1999-your-time-is-up/</link>
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		<title>Bow before the king of the nerds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i finally managed to see Rob Deb&#8216;s comedy show. I couldn&#8217;t manage the past two years but after seeing the stuff in SciFi Now was more determined to go. Being on earlier made it easier too. He was really, really funny. Lot&#8217;s of nerdy material, references but also stuff non-geeks could get related to his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/08/17/bow-before-the-king-of-the-nerds/</link>
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		<title>Edinburgh Craft Fair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Absolutely knackered after spending 9 days at the West End Craft Fair with Genna. It was quite fun, the weather was pretty poor at times (which you pay attention to when working outside!) but at its worst was not as bad as last years torrential downpours. One of the reasons I like the fairs is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/08/17/edinburgh-craft-fair/</link>
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		<title>Green Trilobita theme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking at styles for her blog, Genna liked the Green Trilobita theme by Trilobita. She wanted the palette changed to blues though so I made modifications. I couldn&#8217;t see any licence, but assuming it was GPL&#8216;d I&#8217;ll put the modifications here. I changed the following files: Footer.php Added text Colours modified by Alan Graham to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/08/02/green-trilobita-theme/</link>
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		<title>Genna blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just put a test blog up for Genna so we can put news there and migrate away from her static pages. Beta just now, posting purely to show here pingbacks. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d471').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/08/02/genna-blog/</link>
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		<title>Alice, Alice, who the fuck is Alice?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had been moderately excited for the new Alice movie. I just watched the trailer. What the hell is Burton doing with all this ridiculous CGI? It looked appalling and out of place. Never mind that most of it was completely unnecessary, bah. CGI works if it blends in to the film, if it adds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/08/01/alice-alice-who-the-fuck-is-alice/</link>
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		<title>Wi-fi woo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amused today to read about some cretin who claims to be allergic to wi-fi. Of course it will be no surprise to know the rag source of this garbage is the Hitler supporting Daily Mail. Of course if such a claim were true the DJ would be in luck, with a profile and a paranormal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/07/28/wi-fi-woo/</link>
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		<title>Blackwood vodka</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a trip to the Ferry on Saturday I popped into Aitkens Wine. Looking at their vodka shelves I noticed 3 bottles of Blackwood Vodka. Yoink. I had a bottle before after searching for a few years and it was gorgeous. Later spotted some in a wine shop in Edinburgh for £20. Thought sod that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/07/27/blackwood-vodka/</link>
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		<title>Nerding out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spent lunchtime today looking at the rumours of the re-release of Space Hulk Rumoured Space Hulk contents this is obviously exciting as if it is successful it means Games Workshop might look into re-releasing Hero Quest/Advanced Hero Quest/Warhammer Quest. Speaking of Hero Quest, found a new free gaming magazine with a short article about it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/07/27/nerding-out/</link>
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		<title>Last British World War One trench veteran dies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have only briefly glanced at the reports on the death of Harry Patch, the last surviving British trench soldier from World War One. (One sailor survives: Claude Choules) The reports have mainly went on about the war he fought in and ignored his insights into the situation. Which is a shame, as he had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/07/26/last-british-world-war-one-veteran-dies/</link>
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		<title>Miscellany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve neglected to post here for a bit so will wrap up some bits and bobs together. Films Have watched quite a few films recently, the best being In My Fathers Den which was superb. I tried to find the book online but it was quite expensive. Other recent watches included Sickle (appalling), We Don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/07/23/miscellany/</link>
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		<title>Fecking neckbeards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After my forays into the UDM drop-down menu I bit the bullet and decided the best thing for Genna&#8217;s site would probably be to install some kind of CMS and migrate the data to it. Means she can use a semi-decent HTML editor instead of raw HTML too. I had heard great things about both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/07/18/fecking-neckbeards/</link>
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		<title>Swines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having checked whether it was man or swine it appears the parents both have swine flu. Both have been feeling totally run down all week, dad complained of his throat being agony. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d443').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/07/17/swines/</link>
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		<title>Drop Down Menus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have spent most of this evening wrestling with the UDM menu on the root of my site. I can get it to import sub-menu items from an external file, but not the main menu items. So with the menu: Home &#8211; static Menu Top &#8211; static Sub Menu &#8211; loads dynamically Another &#8211; static [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/07/13/drop-down-menus/</link>
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		<title>Copy and Paste</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems a cocked up copy and paste job has broken the tags. Bah! Edit: Although my copy/paste of WordPress installs did bust stuff it was actually the latest version and plugins which did. All sorted after much hair being torn out &#8211; and I can&#8217;t afford to do that much more! Bookmark It Hide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/06/22/copy-and-paste/</link>
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		<title>Horrible code</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Going through an XNA tutorial I came across this: protected void CheckBulletHits&#40;&#41; &#123; // Check to see of any of the players bullets have // impacted any of the enemies. for &#40;int i = 0; i &#38;lt; iMaxBullets; i++&#41; &#123; if &#40;bullets&#91;i&#93;.IsActive&#41; for &#40;int x = 0; x &#38;lt; iTotalMaxEnemies; x++&#41; if &#40;Enemies&#91;x&#93;.IsActive&#41; if &#160;&#40;Intersects&#40;bullets&#91;i&#93;.BoundingBox, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/06/20/horrible-code/</link>
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		<title>Jim McGovern &#8211; snout in the trough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having trawled through Jim McGoverns expenses I spotted some belters. £658 for a computer desk. £4360 to set up his 10 page website &#8211; surely not. £123 for a trouser press. £950 for a sofa bed. As well as everything from cushions to bath screens he also claimed £2 for a knife. His office expenses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/06/20/jim-mcgovern-snout-in-the-trough/</link>
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		<title>Codetastic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I eventually gave up on SQL Server CE after suffering their install process again after installing Visual Studio SP1. I did a review of most of the databases around and what I wanted to do with them. I spotted Firebird. Downloaded it and a GUI. A GUI with the only option to hand edit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/06/19/codetastic/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon has been a bit of a battle with Microsoft. Now bear in mind none of these installers actually mentioned these as prerequisites in the installation process. I started working on a little game about 2 years ago. I dug it out, spewed when I saw the state of the code and upgraded it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/06/10/microsoft/</link>
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		<title>A Winner is Me! 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I have just won my third competition in 6 months. On the Scottish Socialist Party site there is a monthly competition run with philosophy football. I just won their International Brigade t-shirt. Two wins in two months from this competition, enter it yourself! Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d400').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/06/10/a-winner-is-me-3/</link>
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		<title>Keeping down the inbox count</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Catching up on my blog list has been fun. I was reading about the policy of E-mail zero where you aim to keep your inbox at 0 e-mails at all times by constantly properly filing your mail. Having fallen behind around 2 years ago mines is ever growing. I figured going for RSS zero was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/06/03/keeping-down-the-inbox-count/</link>
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		<title>Proposition Eight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, the reactionaries are really on the march lately. Californias Supreme Court rules that no more gay marriages can take place. For an accurate summary of this insanity see this Center For Inquiry post. Can anyone point to an argument against gay marriage not based on religion. I have looked and looked but can&#8217;t find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/05/27/proposition-eight/</link>
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		<title>Crazy religious nuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Phelps and his very close knit family have garnered yet more publicity for claiming to be coming to Scotland. Considering he was banned from coming last month it&#8217;s highly unlikely he&#8217;ll get here, or buy a ticket, go to the airport or do anything more than putting out a press release. And what a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/05/22/crazy-religious-nuts/</link>
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		<title>Check mate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just found out that my Uncles brother-in-law Ben died today. He had been ill for a few years and was one of the friendliest guys you could ever meet. He taught me to play Chess when I was 5 holidaying in Aviemore. It was something which really set the seeds for my interest in games, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/05/19/check-mate/</link>
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		<title>Two stories about Perthshire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two stories about Perth today in the papers &#8211; both of which are horrendous. The first has been overlooked by the national news: Woman beat for seven hours. A woman was beaten for seven hours by her partner, the neighbours at around midnight heard cries resembling shrieks from a horror film. Neighbours were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/05/19/two-stories-about-perthshire/</link>
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		<title>First Search Consultancy &#8211; SEO cowboys with a different technique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am used to seeing all the scam letters Genna gets from SEO companies guaranteeing first place on Google etc. Lately she has been getting pestered by phone calls. Today she had one from Google. Or at least a company impersonating Google. The company was First Search Consulting. A bunch of snake-oil selling cowboys. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/05/18/first-search-consultancy-seo-cowboys-with-a-different-technique/</link>
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		<title>A Winner is Me! 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I have just won my second competition in 6 months. On the Scottish Socialist Party site there is a monthly competition run with philosophy football. I just won their Miners Strike t-shirt. The new competition is to win an International Brigader t-shirt. Edit &#8211; which I won too! Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d371').each( function(e) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/05/16/a-winner-is-me-2/</link>
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		<title>Homophobic bigots on the march again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not being on Facebook, posting this here is a little I can do to help. I would rant about moving into the 21st century, but it is a church we are talking about, moving out of the bronze age would be a good start. Please sign the online petition in favour of Scott Rennie the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/05/14/homophobic-bigots-on-the-march-again/</link>
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		<title>Let the right one in</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let the right one in is a Swedish vampire movie which has just been released in the UK. I had been interested in it since I read about it late last year and finally had the chance to see it when it was showing at DCA. Unusually for a vampire movie the vampire and main [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/05/13/let-the-right-one-in/</link>
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		<title>On your Marks, get set, go!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading two books I grabbed cheap in Virgin, Zavvi, Head. First up was Mark Thomas with As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela: Underground Adventures in the Arms and Torture Trade. This was really interesting, funny and horrifying in equal doses. Some brilliant anecdotes of groups set up to take on arms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/05/11/on-your-marks-get-set-go/</link>
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		<title>Inbetweeners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the Inbetweeners has come to the end of series 2. After the disappointment of series 3 of Skins this was a breath of fresh air. Some really funny moments couple with some really cringe worthy moments. The final episode had Neil with the best quote of the series though. ghost stories like Harry Potter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/05/09/inbetweeners/</link>
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		<title>La Rebla Fam &#8211; internet lawyers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It appears the management of La Rebla Fam made a boo boo. They sent out moronic street teamers. They spammed forums etc. When they spammed UGS the users ripped the piss out of them. Now their management have noticed that the thread on UGS has a Google ranking of 2, just behind the band site. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/05/01/la-rebla-fam-internet-lawyers/</link>
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		<title>Chilli Burgers &#8211; Grill Room comes from behind for a late lead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most will know me as a fan of Tonics Mo of all Fo&#8217;s. At the weekend I discovered an even better burger though and in a surprising place. Dronley Produce have had Scotch Bonnet peppers in which have been gorgeous. I took one down town to the Grill Room (nee Kennedy&#8217;s) thinking I could get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/04/20/chilli-burgers-grill-room-comes-from-behind-for-a-late-lead/</link>
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		<title>April film roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having spent a weekend ill on the couch unable to turn the light, look at a monitor for longer than 10minutes or read I managed to get through quite a few films. Some of these were good, some were great, some won&#8217;t be watched again &#8211; a good mixture then. The unwatched pile however has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/04/17/april-film-roundup/</link>
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		<title>Lesbian Vampire Killers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I almost forgot that I went to the cinema to see this. Having never watched Gavin and Stacey I didn&#8217;t really know what to expect. What I had expected was a vampire spoof, anything spoofing the lesbian vampire sub-genre would be a bonus. What I got was, well, mince. Dire acting, pitiful jokes, ridiculous symbolism. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/04/17/lesbian-vampire-killers/</link>
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		<title>Wrong numbers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My landline keeps acting in bizarre fashion. I keep getting wrong numbers and recently someone claimed to have tried to contact me several times and we never got their voicemail. Just checked the voicemail there and had 2 for Joanne, 1 for Kevin and 1 from a plumber installing a shower in Riverview Terrace and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/04/17/wrong-numbers/</link>
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		<title>Proper Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Proper Games are launching their first title, Flock next week. Having met Paddy, one of the owners a while back through a friend I have been eagerly awaiting it. My pre-order was made a couple of days after they were available. A demo is now available.Game Daily being the only host I could get to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/04/03/proper-games/</link>
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		<title>Private Eye errata</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Private Eye is a great magazine but they are famed for getting facts wrong. The latest issue has x years since monarch succession law Brown wants to change, 14 years, time Brown waited before becoming prime minister unelected. Now whilst strictly true, it is certainly misleading. Gordon Brown was not elected as Prime Minister, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/04/02/private-eye-errata/</link>
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		<title>Andy Hallett dies!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andy Hallett was the actor who played Lorne on Angel. I hadn&#8217;t realised he was only 33, only 25 when he started playing the character. It was the only thing I saw him in (although he apparently was in an episode of Buffy too) but he was constantly superb as the campy living life to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/03/31/andy-hallett-dies/</link>
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		<title>Day 3 in the Big Brother state house</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After John Letford resigned the rest of the housemates were bitching about him in the diary room. They are now getting to see interviews with him inside. Courier article The overriding incident, which I found disgusting and unforgivably embarrassing, was that I was approached by the (Labour) group through Kevin (Keenan), asking if I would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/03/26/day-3-in-the-big-brother-state-house/</link>
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		<title>Support an Open Source project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons I have been playing around with WordPress is because it is Open Source. I have been using various Open Source projects for a while, not zealously, but when they are the best alternative for a given task &#8211; or at least good enough for what I do. Current software I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/03/25/support-an-open-source-project/</link>
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		<title>Labour in disarray Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight&#8217;s Evening Telegraph is basically a John Letford Resigns Special. He claims to have a long list of reasons for resigning but only reveals one: I have been trying to persuade my ex-colleagues for nearly two years to recognise the fact that, in the interests of the city and fair play, Dundee City Council committee [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/03/24/labour-in-disarray-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Labour in disarray</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 2007 Council elections the balance of power had shifted to 13 SNP councillors, 10 Labour, 3 Tories, 2 Liberal Democrat and 1 Independent. Borthwick, the independent had previously stated &#8211; correctly &#8211; that it was undemocratic for Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Tories to deny the SNP their place in the administration. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/03/24/labour-in-disarray/</link>
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		<title>Tech Talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday I attended a meeting of Scottish Developers with a talk given by Michael Briggs on SEO. It was quite interesting. Some of the information I knew already. Some I did not. The stuff I already knew I have put into place on blogs/sites etc. The stuff I learned I plan to prioritise and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/03/19/tech-talk/</link>
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		<title>Words Plus Plus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I dislike deliberate misspellings. There, I said it. Typos, mashing the keyboard, relying on a spell checker but not a grammar checker are all expected. I rarely text and when I do I try to, on a shit keyboard, use correct spelling. I understand that two differs in meaning from to and too. I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/03/17/words-plus-plus/</link>
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		<title>The Morality of Organised Religion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No doubt those who know me have heard me prattle on about a number of seperate but interlinked topics such as religion, secularism and abortion rights. If you needed a better reason to doubt that religion is the basis of morality and irreligion is the basis of amorality it is the recent case from Brazil. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/03/16/the-morality-of-organised-religion/</link>
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		<title>Curry and Enchiladas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday nights tea was another attempt at home made curry from scratch. Unfortunately we had not separated the chicken breasts before freezing them so I had to defrost the whole pack. I now had to make a monster curry. It was an improvement on before, sweeter and not as runny sauce but it still wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/03/02/curry-and-enchiladas/</link>
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		<title>March the First Films</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was a bit of a relaxing day so amongst the things that occupied our time were two movies. Zombies One was Zombies, a cheesy cheapo horror about zombie kids. Or ghosts or something. Pretty boring and plot holes you could drive a bus through. There are kids who were trapped underground, but are now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/03/02/february-the-first-films/</link>
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		<title>Amusing Tale of Protest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Steel has written an amusing entry on his blog about taking his kid to an anti-war march and the point where you notice a change in your life. For some people Mark Steel went from being Double Plus Funny to Double Plus Unfunny overnight. Thankfully I don&#8217;t have anyone telling me what to think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/02/28/amusing-tale-of-protest/</link>
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		<title>Freethought Radio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the numerous podcasts I listen to whilst working is the excellent FreeThought Radio, produced by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. FFRF They have a wide range of topics and guests to do with atheism, secularism, humanism, philosophy etc. Some of the guests are excellent, some not so much, but it&#8217;s such a diverse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/02/25/freethought-radio/</link>
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		<title>Remake Roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading various sources, mainly SciFiNow, has revealed a slew of remakes on the way, the ones worth pointing out are: Orphanage, 2 years old and being remade because a section of the movie liking audience are too xenophobic to cope with subtitles and foreign dialogue. Fuck, em if they wish to miss this fine film [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/02/22/remake-roundup/</link>
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		<title>Making a Meal of it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided to do something with the pile of cookbooks we have acquired and made a couple of new dishes. Quesedillas One of the great starters we had in Mexico was quesedillas. These generally had chicken, cheese and salsa in them. Cooked on a hotplate, basically a Mexican version of Cheese on toast. Having checked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/02/22/making-a-meal-of-it/</link>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t Be Long Now?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having trawled through old e-mails clearing up my inbox I came across the lyrics to a couple of songs. These were Tramp the Dirt Down and The Day That Thatcher Dies. At 83 it can&#8217;t be long now surely? One of the days where I smiled most was reading that her dementia was so bad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/02/17/cant-be-long-now/</link>
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		<title>Cycle Ride</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the weather finally clearing we managed to get out on the bikes at the weekend. The route map is: It was a pretty hard slog for two main reasons, lack of fitness and the gears not working correctly on bike. I was able to switch from 2 to 1 but not up again, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hae a pictur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reports from the weekend have a certain tanned celebrity and his acolytes handing out autographed pictures to kids in Glasgow. Laughing so hard. Trying and failing to find any way to describe the ridiculousness of this all whilst masking their identity and making it political&#8230; Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d218').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some other things have been taking up part of my time over the past two months, cowboy builders, craft fairs, work on other sites so I have a wee bit of a backlog of things to post. These include: At least 3, possibly 4 vodka reviews Spicy burger reviews, with pics, woo blog living up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/02/16/upcoming/</link>
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		<title>Happy Endings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest 3/£5 Grouchos acquisition to be watched was Happy Endings. At times it could be a bit of a slog at over 2 hours long, but it was well worth it in the end. It had a really unusual style. The introduction had the screen split in halves with textual detail of who was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/02/16/happy-endings/</link>
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		<title>Skins in Not Being Shit Shocker!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I had decided to give Skins one more go before giving up. Episode 3 had been an improvement on 1 and 2 (not hard to be honest) especially with the chilli love. Episode 4 started off pretty well and at one point I heard two lines of dialogue and realised holy crap, Genna asked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/02/13/skins-in-not-being-shit-shocker/</link>
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		<title>January Movies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having neglected to post up more details for further weeks, other films watched in January which I haven&#8217;t posted about included: Underworld 1 and 2 in preparation for the third. Hallam Foe TransAmerica Transformers (original, obviously) Smart People February saw Milk, which was amazing and I will write a review at a later date. Bookmark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victory is Mine!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we were walking up from Morningside to Marchmont and saw a fancy booze shop. Saw Blackwoods vodka in window, ooooh! Unfortunately it was £19! Outrageous but also, I later found out, discontinued. Crossed road and spotted Oddbins. Cogs started wheelin&#8217; so I popped in. Spotted a lone Reyka vodka reduced to £16.19. How many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/02/08/victory-is-mine/</link>
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		<title>Slumdog Millionaire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slumdog Millionaire looks set to sweep awards at every ceremony for the next few months. The rags-to-riches love story covering three time periods in the main characters lives is brilliantly shot, directed, cast and acted. It certainly lives up to the hype. If you enjoyed Boyles previous films &#8211; Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, 28 X Later, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/02/01/slumdog-millionaire/</link>
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		<title>Links Links Links</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently on UGS I started a thread to keep any UGSers blogs in one place as we kept posting all over the place when someone created one. I figure I can make an exception to the post a paragraph on every link rule to help support the bloggers in that community. Loads of random reads, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/27/links-links-links/</link>
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		<title>Old Fashioned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two posts in a row with Day One song names as titles! Reading the Grauniad on-line I note that I am apparently in the age group 50-65. Oh well. Yesterday was spent on the new bike, at the cinema seeing Underworld &#8211; Rise of the Lycans and then watching Being Human. It was quite amusing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/26/old-fashioned/</link>
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		<title>Trying Too Hard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favourite Day One* tracks was Trying too Hard given the hip soundtrack to Skins it really should have been used on Series 3 Episode 1. I really liked Series 1 and 2, there was a willingness to explore topics few other series would as well as quite good character arcs. With the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/23/trying-to-hard/</link>
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		<title>So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think that Graham Linehan* sums it up. * He of Father Ted, Black Books and IT Crowd fame. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d157').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/20/so-long-farewell-auf-wiedersehen-goodbye/</link>
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		<title>Demo in Dundee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dundee showed Solidarity with Gaza on Saturday. At least 500 and probably 800 people turned out at short notice for a march and demonstration on Saturday. Really lively vibrant demo, positive atmosphere. Some good speeches afterwards, some cringe worthy ones, I certainly do not support Hamas, I support the Palestinians right to resists, but that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/18/demo-in-dundee/</link>
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		<title>Get on yer Bike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying to get my work to enter the Cycle2Work scheme. Looks quite positive although it is on hold until the new office is complete around September. Unfortunately that&#8217;s the time of year I&#8217;d be least likely to start cycling seeing as it will be starting to have heavy showers. I figure if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/18/get-on-yer-bike/</link>
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		<title>The Astronaut&#8217;s Wife</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After checking imdb, I have watched twenty three movies with Johnny Depp in them. Some of them great (Donnie Brasco, Edward Scissorhands), some good, (Pirates of the Caribbean) some of them unwatchable dirge (Secret Window, The Brave, Dead Man, Pirates 2, Pirates 3 etc). Having picked The Astronaughts Wife up for one and two thirds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/15/the-astronauts-wife/</link>
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		<title>New Book out by Craig Murray</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After his spineless publishers gave in to legal threats from mercenary Tim Spicer, Craig Murray has pushed his latest book online for free. The Catholic Orangemen of Togo and Other Conflicts I Have Known is his autobiography from 1998 to 2002. It is also available to buy online through links on his site. Bookmark It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/12/new-book-out-by-craig-murray/</link>
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		<title>A Winner is Me!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the start of December I entered a competition on the SciFiNow blog It lists loads of prizes: VIP tickets to an exclusive Hellboy party Hellboy scarf Hellboy beanie the movie on DVD Cygnett MP3 player accessories pack I got an e-mail saying I had won a prize and thought woo, hope it&#8217;s the DVD, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/08/a-winner-is-me/</link>
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		<title>Zombie Cannibals Read the Guardian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Movies: First week of January 2009 Generally after making tea, doing dishes and catching up on random e-mails we settle down to a movie, anything from rom-com to horror to world cinema. So far the ones which I haven&#8217;t blocked out this year have been: Dead Creatures Catacombs All the Boys Love Mandy Lane Crime [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/06/zombie-cannibals-read-the-guardian/</link>
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		<title>Protests Continue Against Israeli Brutality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No doubt many people have seen the pictures of Orthodox Jews in New York protesting against the invasion which today resulted in the bombing of a school. What has not been as widely reported are the demos in Israel against the action One account described the slogans/banners and the hoops they had to jump through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/06/protests-continue-against-israeli-brutality/</link>
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		<title>Tanned Man Trousers More Dodgy Cash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seems a certain tanned celeb has taken some money from Silvio Berlusconi, owner of Endemol. A multimillionaire politician and media tycoon responsible for the harassment and mass fingerprinting of the Roma population in Italy and trying to make himself immune to prosecution for his corrupt terms in power. After taking a massive amount of cash [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/04/tanned-man-trousers-more-dodgy-cash/</link>
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		<title>A New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And it starts with the news that the Israeli military are bombing the shite out of Palestinians&#8230;again. Easy to see another election is looming. 96 years and 230+ wars (28 ongoing) after the war to end all wars. Israel have been blockading medical supplies to Palestine for months and one of their ships rammed a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/01/a-new-year/</link>
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		<title>Random Reads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I finally managed to pick up the much delayed issue of Buffy the comic, it was quite good. The cover art was amazing. I also grabbed Solomon Kane and the Underworld 2 parter, both of which were quite enjoyable although I think the Underworld story was covered in the second movie. I also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/12/18/random-reads/</link>
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		<title>Disaster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Glasgow and the shop that I used to buy SKYY no longer stocks it. In Edinburgh the next week and not only did the swanky hotel only have Vladivar (at four bloody pounds!), Oddbins have been having trouble buying in Reyka. If Brown&#8217;s ridiculous use of anti-terrorism laws against Iceland have stopped this beautiful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/12/18/disaster/</link>
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		<title>Proposition 8 the Musical</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Prop 8 &#8211; The Musical&#8221; starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more&#8230; by Jack Black Fantastic video starring Jack Black, Sarah Chalke and Neil Patrick Harris. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d103').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/12/11/proposition-8-the-musical/</link>
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		<title>Link: Strange Maps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Given they have just pushed out a mega update it seems a good time to link to Strange Maps. A really interesting site, especially if like me, you are a huge nerd. There are all sorts of maps, from fantastical ones to real ones of countries that don&#8217;t exist and micro-nations which existed for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/12/11/link-strange-maps/</link>
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		<title>Frightened Rabbit at Fat Sams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night we went to see Frightened Rabbit in Fattys. Attendance was probably around 200, with loads of under 18s for some reason I couldn&#8217;t understand, maybe Frightened Rabbit has a following with the teens? We just caught the end of the first support band not used to advertised doors times being accurate&#8230;They were quite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/12/11/frightened-rabbit-at-fat-sams/</link>
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		<title>Committee Rooms no.9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When in Glasgow on Sunday night and hunting for a place not fully booked Mike recommended the Committee Rooms in Glasgow. We popped in and it was pretty cool. Some nice pictures on the wall including the Battle of George Square. Barman asked what we wanted to drink and this exchange amused me no end. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/12/08/committee-rooms-no9/</link>
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		<title>More Whitewash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like the jury can&#8217;t decide on a verdict of unlawful killing after the execution of Jean Charles de Menezes. I remember the day unfolding and posting in the thread on UGS being sceptical about the numerous claims made by the Police: he was running, was challenged, had heavy clothing to conceal a bomb [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/12/02/more-whitewash/</link>
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		<title>Doff your Cap to yer Elders and Betters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the many reports Various news agencies have reported on EC President Jose Manuel Barroso talking about Britain and the Euro. I don&#8217;t mean this will happen tomorrow, I know that the majority (of British people) are still opposed, but there is a period of consideration underway and the people which matter in Britain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/12/01/doff-your-cap-to-yer-elders-and-betters/</link>
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		<title>New magazine day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of the month again: SciFi Now Thursday! I started getting this about issue 6 (now 22) and it&#8217;s really good. The movie reviews are focused on SciFi/Fantasy/Horror/World Cinema type stuff so really covers most of my main movie interests. So far I haven&#8217;t noticed any signs of the reviews being biased by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/11/27/new-magazine-day/</link>
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		<title>Wii Fit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I bought Genna Wii Fit for Christmas (and it&#8217;s open now, so no surprise) and it&#8217;s surprisingly fun. We had been trying to find it for months and decided it may be more useful using it to track weight in the run up to Christmas than preventively on Christmas Day. Whether we will keep using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/11/27/wii-fit/</link>
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		<title>Link: spEak You’re bRanes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[spEak You’re bRanes is the excellent site which pokes fun at the paranoid, dangerous, delusional and the daft who inhabit the BBC Have your say comment section. If ever you need to complete the input-> process->output diagram with Daily Mail as the input this is your best bet. My favourite has to be the EUrophobe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/11/27/link-speak-you%e2%80%99re-branes/</link>
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		<title>Link: UGS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was an early member of UGS, having user number 37 until a database cockup a while back (Thanks KJ!). It originally started as a board about hip hop, then a well timed explosion of the Dundee music scene a number of years ago co-ordinated with the death of the Kerosene board due to Colin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/11/25/link-ugs/</link>
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		<title>Bookshops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I currently have a large pile of unread books which is fast depleting. When Oxfam bookshop in Dundee was open I would be in weekly and regularly spent £10 on a Saturday. This closed and so my pile of &#8220;growing faster than I can read them&#8221; is slowly in reverse. One reason for this was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/11/25/bookshops/</link>
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		<title>Thomas Paine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A book I have been slogging through for nigh on a year is Thomas Paine &#8211; social and political thought. I hadn&#8217;t been reading books for a while so to get back into it started taking them for the bus journey to work and back. Unfortunately this was probably a poor choice for reading early [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/11/25/thomas-paine/</link>
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		<title>Bad Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished the book Bad thoughts &#8211; a guide to clear thinking by Jamie Whyte. It was a really interesting and engrossing read. The book is split into a number of chapters, each dealing with a type of logical fallacies. These include &#8220;The right to my opinion&#8221; and &#8220;morality fever&#8221;. It is well written [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/11/25/bad-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>Link: Genna Delaney</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Realised I hadn&#8217;t put up the missus&#8217; website. We recently put the finishing touches to her new online jewellery shop too. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d39').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/11/10/link-genna-delaney/</link>
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		<title>Vodka Reviews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have started throwing up some quick vodka reviews. More will follow as I can be bothered. Some vodkas I haven&#8217;t had in a while so will need to buy again so as to take a picture of the bottle. Others I don&#8217;t want to buy again (Stoly I&#8217;m looking at your overrated ass). Tried [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/11/09/vodka-reviews/</link>
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		<title>Russian Standard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russian Standard has been heavily advertised in the media lately*. Tesco for a while were punting it at £25 for 2 litres which is pretty good. It has quite a nice flavour to it so I try to make sure I have a bottle in (although I don&#8217;t just now). Volume: 1L Alcohol: 40% Cost: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/11/09/russian-standard/</link>
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		<title>SKYY Vodka</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SKYY has been my favourite vodka for a while now. The other half brought me back a bottle from New York and it was gorgeous. Was a bit of a nightmare to find locally though, online it was costing £22 for a 70cl! On the recent holiday to Mexico I made sure to grab 2 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/11/09/skyy-vodka/</link>
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		<title>Smirnoff Black</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I picked up a bottle of Smirnoff Black a while back and finally popped it open. They market it as: Crafted in small batches, using a copper pot-still, a centuries-old distillation method, smirnoff black recaptures the rounded, lasting, uncompromising smootness once savoured by the people and the czars of old Russia. It was ok, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/11/09/smirnoff-black/</link>
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		<title>Link: Game Boom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine (Alan 2) has started a new gaming site called Game Boom. Giving him two old game reviews I wrote and will copy any future ones to that site too. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d14').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/10/13/link-game-boom/</link>
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		<title>Books Books Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I intend to post some short reviews of books and movies and the like. To start that off I nicked this meme from someones blog 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you love. 4) Strike out the books you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/10/12/books-books-books/</link>
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		<title>Link: Swearing in a Foreign Language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[swearing in a foreign language is the blog of a friend of mine. His most interesting post so far was assisted by me. Whoops, forgot I was filming and moved to take a portrait shot. He likes obscure bands. I&#8217;m sure his blog won&#8217;t suck. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d6').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/09/23/link-swearing-in-a-foreign-language/</link>
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		<title>It starts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After playing around for a while I finally started a blog. Part of the delay was finding a decent domain name. Most variations of my name are gone and I didn&#8217;t want one with my middle name too. Was pleasantly surprised to see agraham.org free, especially as most &#8220;alan graham&#8221; variants were gone. I thought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agraham.org/blog/2008/09/23/it-starts/</link>
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