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	<title>Sean's blog</title>
	
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	<description>Working nights with the thief of time</description>
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		<title>Alan Turing (UK’s Gay Dad of Computing) 100th birthday</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2012/05/09/alan-turing-uks-gay-dad-of-computing-100th-birthday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 23:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wouldn&#8217;t have the career I love without Alan Turing; you wouldn&#8217;t have the Internet, and perhaps we wouldn&#8217;t now enjoy a comparatively free Europe. The UK chemically castrated Turing because he was gay. We drove him to commit suicide. Gordon Brown said &#8220;sorry!&#8221; There was a (possibly poorly advised) petition to have him posthumously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canvey Island’s Flood Warning Sirens to be Scrapped</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2012/05/01/canvey-islands-flood-warning-sirens-to-be-scrapped/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up on Canvey Island. I left it nearly 25 years ago but visit my parents there when I can. I like to read the Echo&#8216;s headlines email and was sad to see this one: Island’s flood sirens to be scrapped for good. This is an example of the siren subject of the article: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LEGO Mindstorms NXT Alpha Rex building instructions / plan</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2012/01/22/lego-mindstorms-nxt-alpha-rex-building-instructions-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2012/01/22/lego-mindstorms-nxt-alpha-rex-building-instructions-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I bought the LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 recently and was a bit disappointed to find that it didn&#8217;t come with printed instructions to build Alpha Rex &#8211; the robot on the box art. I searched for the instructions all over the web but couldn&#8217;t find them. The building instructions are available from within the Mindstorms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion-free state education in the UK</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/09/06/religion-free-state-education-in-the-uk/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/09/06/religion-free-state-education-in-the-uk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolehtics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1326</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We recently returned to the UK with two young children from a financially cavalier extended &#8216;babymoon&#8217; in Malaysia. Part of the impetus to move back again was my reluctance to put my children through the Malaysian state education system which emphasises racist division and religious practice, though possibly not in that order and with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look Ma, no files! Portable object persistence</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/08/19/look-ma-no-files-portable-object-persistence/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/08/19/look-ma-no-files-portable-object-persistence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted at JavaProgrammingForums.com Where can I store my application data? I see a lot of people starting threads because they&#8217;re struggling to persist (often) a little bit of data from one run of their Java application to the next. The offered solutions are often some kind of jiggery-pokery involving java.io.File. Not only is File [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Exchange data from Central Bank of Russia</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/07/29/foreign-exchange-data-from-central-bank-of-russia/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/07/29/foreign-exchange-data-from-central-bank-of-russia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[eCommerce]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shipping]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1299</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been re-jigging and polishing up some of the leftover code from spider.my and am now fairly happy with the way Shipping-Quote.net keeps its currency exchange rates up to date. I wanted to add another rates source just to fill things out a bit, so it seemed like a good idea to add rates from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IE8 javascript not running from script element in head</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/07/17/ie8-javascript-not-running-from-script-element-in-head/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/07/17/ie8-javascript-not-running-from-script-element-in-head/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1293</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After staring at other people&#8217;s solutions to this problem for a day or so, I finally realised what I was doing wrong and thought I&#8217;d better share it, just in case you also fail to see for several hours how you caused the problem. I have a page that works nicely in Firefox, Chromium, Opera [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Having your own printer is so last century: online printing services</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/07/15/having-your-own-printer-is-so-last-century-online-printing-services/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/07/15/having-your-own-printer-is-so-last-century-online-printing-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We needed to send a couple of small documents by post and realised &#8211; while we are in the &#8216;No Fixed Abode&#8217; phase of our Keep-It-Simple-Stupid plan to move back to the UK &#8211; that another thing we don&#8217;t have in our luggage is a printer. We&#8217;re currently using a friend&#8217;s house in a beautiful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trying out JBullet: IntBuffer is not direct</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/05/14/trying-out-jbullet-intbuffer-is-not-direct/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/05/14/trying-out-jbullet-intbuffer-is-not-direct/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 18:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been simulating the movement of a line-following robot in plain old Java recently, but wanted to try a few problems that need physics, so I downloaded JBullet &#8211; a Java port of the Bullet  Physics Library. It needs LWJGL &#8211; the Lightweight Java Game Library &#8211; to run its demos, so I installed that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LEGO Mindstorms RCX cable rot / decay</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/05/10/lego-mindstorms-rcx-cable-rot-decay/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/05/10/lego-mindstorms-rcx-cable-rot-decay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 04:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of the LEGO I have in the house must be 30 years old. It&#8217;s as good as the day it was first unwrapped. I have to admit to being disappointed when one of my two RCXes stopped responding to the IR tower. I was pleased the other one was still working just fine and [...]]]></description>
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