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		<title>The Wood Pigeon escapes me snapping him</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JUST OUTSIDE my tiny back yard is a tremendous Holly Bush &#8211; it was redolent with berries, just in time for Yuletide.
When I go out there, this huge Wood Pigeon sits there avoiding the thorns and snaffling up the berries.
It doesn&#8217;t care about me, it cares not for the thorns on the Holly Bush. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volesoft.com&blog=3057389&post=1480&subd=madmikemagee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I get IDed in Austin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAST WEEK I was in Austin, Texas. Home to a million bats &#8211; not all of which are evil, it seems. The atria are fantastic!
So I get to Austin TX airport on my way to Dallas and decide I&#8217;ll have a burger and a beer at the bar just opposite my &#8220;gate&#8221;.
You cannot buy an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volesoft.com&blog=3057389&post=1477&subd=madmikemagee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ashmolean opens tomorrow. North Parade refurbed</title>
		<link>http://volesoft.com/2009/11/06/ashmolean-opens-tomorrow-north-parade-refurbed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE ASHMOLEAN museum opposite the Randolph Hotel opens tomorrow, I&#8217;m looking forward to browsing through it at my leisure.
See this piece on TGD, here.
If you&#8217;re in Oxford, check out the Pitt Rivers museum too &#8211; it&#8217;s full of strange strange things like poppets and shrunken heads.
No shrunken heads in North Parade, where I live.  But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volesoft.com&blog=3057389&post=1474&subd=madmikemagee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>They do their atria so well in the USA</title>
		<link>http://volesoft.com/2009/11/03/they-do-their-atria-so-well-in-the-usa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SO FOR THE first time in must be 16 or 17 years ago, we find ourselves in Austin, Texas.
The last time here, it was with IBM and they still were waxing lyrical about OS/2, bless it.
This time it&#8217;s with AMD, and I&#8217;m esconced in the Hyatt Regency, which has an atrium to be admired, with [...]<br /><a href='http://volesoft.com/2009/11/03/they-do-their-atria-so-well-in-the-usa/'><img width='160' height='120' src='http://cdn.videos.wordpress.com/vNlVV4L7/vid-00010-20091103-1354_xvid_std.original.jpg' /> </a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volesoft.com&blog=3057389&post=1470&subd=madmikemagee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I meet Rabelais in Jericho</title>
		<link>http://volesoft.com/2009/10/27/i-meet-rabelais-in-jericho/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AT the Mind shop in Walton Street, Jericho, today I rediscovered an edition of Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais &#8211; a first limited edition of 750 copies, my copy is 411. It&#8217;s a very beautiful set of two volumes.
I snagged it. It only cost 20 quid. I think that I will have to contribute to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volesoft.com&blog=3057389&post=1466&subd=madmikemagee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hill and Knowlton screw up@Hackenflacks awards</title>
		<link>http://volesoft.com/2009/10/26/hill-and-knowlton-screw-uphackenflacks-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE FLACKENHACK  awards are some sort of PR gig where the booze runs out early.
I&#8217;ve been to one. Lest you have any doubts about this, PRs, generally speaking, despise journalists. Mike Hardwidge didn&#8217;t, and Bill Moores doesn&#8217;t, but they are totally exceptional.
At an Intel Developer Forum a few years back, my son was standing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volesoft.com&blog=3057389&post=1459&subd=madmikemagee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You got to search for the HTC Hero inside yourselves</title>
		<link>http://volesoft.com/2009/10/23/you-got-to-search-for-the-htc-hero-inside-yourselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MET MY son last night in the Coach &#38; Horses, Great Marlborough Street &#8211; a pub that holds many memories for me. I can&#8217;t tell you about them all.
In true rebellious spirit, Tazz is now a spinner trying to sell stories to us hacks. But he was greatly enthused by his HTC Hero phone.
It&#8217;s got [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volesoft.com&blog=3057389&post=1456&subd=madmikemagee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bosch Bosch! Bosch promotes kids&#8217; interest in science, engineering</title>
		<link>http://volesoft.com/2009/10/14/bosch-bosch-bosch-promotes-kids-interest-in-science-engineering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A PROJECT sponsored by the Royal Academy of  Engineering and sponsored by Bosch really captures our interest, a lot.
The Bosch Technology Horizons Award is an essay writing competition aimed at young people aged between 14 and 24. It&#8217;s in its fifth year.
The idea is that a short essay encourages the kids to explore engineering and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volesoft.com&blog=3057389&post=1454&subd=madmikemagee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This picture puzzles me</title>
		<link>http://volesoft.com/2009/10/13/this-picture-puzzles-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>madmikemagee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I CAN SING A rainbow &#8211; or in Hindi an Indradhanush. How come I took this pic and only just found it?

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		<title>Only in Oxford: an occasional series</title>
		<link>http://volesoft.com/2009/10/04/only-in-oxford-an-occasional-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>madmikemagee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WE HAVE IT ON very reliable authority that when Al Murray tips up at Borders later this month, the resident landlord will not be unrelated to the landlord of the Rose &#38; Crown on North Parade.

Oxford is always messing about with roads and pavements. Here&#8217;s a helpful piece of advice if you want to get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=volesoft.com&blog=3057389&post=1444&subd=madmikemagee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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