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		<title>Wake up before Apple just replaces M$?</title>
		<link>http://alecthegeek.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/wake-up-before-apple-become-an-m/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market
Now that there is an AppStore with applications in iTunes, why wouldn&#8217;t Apple move next to distribute all applications through iTunes
A very cogent comment from ionix5891 on /. warning us no to sleep walk into the arms of another monopoly power. As I said before, Steve Jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handy Hack: Enter the office lottery syndicate with Perl</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are asked to chose numbers for a lottery here is a rather inelegant hack to create some entries. Assume you need x numbers from a range of a to b inclusive then run this program as
./lottery.pl  a b x.
#! /usr/bin/perl
#

our %dup;

our $lower = $ARGV[0];
our $upper = $ARGV[1];
our $needed = $ARGV[2];

for (1..$needed) {
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		<title>Top Tip: Long flights across the Pacific</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in Australia it takes us over 14 hours to fly to America and there are a few little wrinkles and things you can do to help make the trip a bit easier. There are of course many, many, other sites on the intertubes with further suggestions:

Invest in some decent carry on luggage so you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Tip: Cygwin Perl has problems running with UNC path names</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When running Cygwin Perl using libraries that live on UNC paths (e.g. when running prove with the -l option) Perl will croak because it is unable to load the library. An example error message will look something like:
t/00.load.............Can't open perl script ""-I//server/sharename/work/mymodule/lib"": No such file or directory
The fix is to map the UNC path to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handy Hack: Force cpan utiltiy re-run the configure questions</title>
		<link>http://alecthegeek.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/handy-hack-force-cpan-utiltiy-re-run-the-configure-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When you first the cpan command line utility it asks you a rather tedious list of questions about your setup. Occasionally you need to go through it all again. Use the command &#8216;o conf init&#8216; at the cpan prompt to force this behaviour.
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		<title>An easy way to document process</title>
		<link>http://alecthegeek.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/an-easy-way-to-document-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a “Lightweight Ticket Process” ? « Alec the Geek
Document the process in some fashion. A process that is not documented can be very hard to talk about, agree and improve.
Following on from a brief twitter conversation with Kate this morning here is a simplistic example of how I currently document processes. The motivation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why don&#8217;t people take notes?</title>
		<link>http://alecthegeek.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/why-dont-people-take-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Keeping a log book « Alec the Geek
[record] All work and development related telephone calls, conversations and meetings
I am often disappointed how often people fail to takes notes during conversations and meetings. This seems to be such an elementary part of working with people, remembering the information they provide and decisions jointly made. However for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Having fun with robots on the Intertubes</title>
		<link>http://alecthegeek.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/having-fun-with-robots-on-the-intertubes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The British rail system has deployed a web based interactive robot, called Lisa, to help people with rail travel enquiries. Much innocent fun can be had if you are not busy. For example&#8230;
You asked:  Are you a train spotter?
Lisa says: I&#8217;m not a Train Spotter. But I do have some guidelines for railway enthusiasts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How not to live by your own rules (or are you *really* listening Steve Ballmer?)</title>
		<link>http://alecthegeek.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/how-not-to-live-by-your-own-rules-or-are-you-really-listening-steve-ballmer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Gates&#8217; 4 golden rules at Microsoft - Jun. 20, 2008
Gates&#8217; 4 golden rules
Fortune Magazine reports on Bill Gate&#8217;s supposed four core beliefs that Microsoft lives by, you can read them at the above link. However, as an outsider, I think there may be a little self delusion going on.

&#8220;Think of software as a utopian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take 2:What I add to Windows that helps make it better</title>
		<link>http://alecthegeek.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/take-2what-i-add-to-windows-that-helps-make-it-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Essentials to make Windows almost bareable « sinewalker
a list of what free software to install on top of Windows, and what adjustments to make, so that at least I don’t feel like I’m wearing a straight jacket
Some excellent ideas and suggestions from Sinewalker here. I posted my own list of Windows essentials back in 2002 [...]]]></description>
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