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		<title>I do not want to be a banker any more</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>acute accent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, I never wanted to be a banker. The nearest I ever got to understanding the mind of a banking as a business was during my Master in Business Administration. The programme of my MBA included a last quarter of finance, business law, etc. I chose specializing in corporate finance. I had no idea what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ofwat to be rehauled</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep track of the updates of the Ofwat since since I wrote a post about the drought in London (in Spanish la lluvia en Londres no evita la sequía). I am curious about the new figures of leakage of water in London. If the investment in replacing the distribution system is effective they must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>XO-1 laptops cheap computers for children</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philippe Rieffel of the Geospatial Learning @ Primary School project shows a XO-1_Monty laptop. I took the picture at the State Of The Map conference in Girona, in Spain in July. The project Geospatial Learning @ Primary School provides a few children with laptop to learn geographical skills, and to contribute to the project Open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advanced errors by Virgin Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t need to enter the extension of a popular domain on the URL bar on Firefox, just the domain name. That is, if your broadband provider is not Virgin Media. If it is, then your browser will redirect to a URL like http://advancedsearch.virginmedia.com/assist.php?url=yourdomainname I seems to be powered by Yahoo. It&#8217;s just a search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The SEO of Quora</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>acute accent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quora do not want search engines to publish their content: its robots.txt blocks all indexable URLs, for instance http://www.quora.com/SEO. User-agent: * Allow: /$ Allow: /about/ Allow: /jobs Allow: /challenges Allow: /press Allow: /login/ Disallow: / Disallow: /log Disallow: /*/log Disallow: /home/global_feed It is not a surprise that a growing upstart tries to stand alone without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newspapers operate on different levels of reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>acute accent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Mitchell published last Saturday that &#8220;the press can&#8217;t stray too far from the truth or its legal bills get out of control&#8220;. That would not explain the success of &#8220;newspapers&#8221; that make a fortune out of libel for years and decades. They sell crap that is tolerated just for the same reason that junk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holland Spain World Cup final 2010 in pictures</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not easy being a Spaniard in London these days. Friends, acquaintances, neighbours, everyone congratulate &#8220;you&#8221; for the victory in the World Cup. I was introduced to someone who, when finding out that I am from Spain simply declared that &#8220;Spanish win everything&#8221;. Someone said that the Spanish players played dirty too because they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battersea power station from the Thames</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Battersea power station is more impressive seen from the river on a boat. Battersea Power Station is a giant coal-fired station built in the 1930&#8242;s. Despite burning 4,000 tonnes of coal every week and boasting a power of 509 MWatts, it only supplied a fifth of London’s demand of electricity. Abandoned since the early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portable music player Sansa Clip Plus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having used an iPod, I find that, in comparison, my Sansa Clip+ is in a planet of its own. What I like most about it: Good sound quality Best with a Sennheiser CX300 Drag and drop files on Linux, Mac and Windows No clunky software like Sony&#8217;s or Apple&#8217;s. I can mount my Clip+ by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The spirit of Dunkirk on the Thames</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thames River Boats is the only riverboat with scheduled services from Westminster to Kew Gardens. Perhaps because of the shallow waters of the river upstream of Putney, the company operates relatively small boats in comparison to the modern catamarans of the routes down to Greenwich. We rode on the Kingwood, a steamer made of wood [...]]]></description>
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