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	<title>Blog - Nick Jenkins</title>
	<link>http://blog.nickj.org</link>
	<description>Just another random blog</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:44:17 +0000</lastBuildDate>
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		<title>On Showbags</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So my partner went to the Royal Easter Show last Saturday, and returned after dark, totally exhausted, and with a sore back and sore feet from hauling lots of heavy showbags over a kilometer from the showbag hall to the carpark. On Sunday she proceeded to lay the contents of each bag out in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nickj.org/2009/04/24/on-showbags/</link>
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		<title>Email bankruptcy: the cop-out wuss option</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Declaring email bankruptcy has always seemed like a total cop-out to me. It says &#8220;I am helpless and incapable of handling the flows of information that I have selected for myself. Won&#8217;t someone save me from myself? Failing that, I will give up, and push the problem on to you &#8211; because if really want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nickj.org/2008/12/16/email-bankruptcy-the-cop-out-wuss-option/</link>
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		<title>Migrating email from Outlook to Evolution: Linux&#8217;s final frontier</title>
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At various times in Linux&#8217;s history, various things about Linux have really sucked:

Getting hardware to work used to really suck, and you used to have to patch the kernel and recompile your own kernel&#8230; and then the kernel got a lot better, and the hardware support got a lot better, and I haven&#8217;t had to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nickj.org/2008/09/10/migrating-email-from-outlook-to-evolution-linuxs-final-frontier/</link>
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		<title>Decent browsers on mobile phones: Are we there yet?!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brion Vibber summarises from OSCON on the future of browsers on mobile phones.
Some quick thoughts &#8211; capable smartphones are expensive (e.g. $350 to $1000), and the basic phones below that price point tend to be pretty limited and have small screens (but they&#8217;re cheap and fairly tough, so as an actual phone they work fine, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nickj.org/2008/07/25/decent-browsers-on-mobile-phones-are-we-there-yet/</link>
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		<title>Pronunciation of Dutch names vs anglo-Australian naming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gosh, Dutch names are hard to pronounce correctly. I just finished a business phone call to South Africa, and the person I was after had the surname of &#8220;Van Wyk&#8221;. My British/Australian upbringing tells me to pronounce that as &#8220;Van Wick&#8221;. So I did, and was met with complete and utter bafflement as to who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nickj.org/2008/07/22/pronunciation-of-dutch-names-vs-anglo-australian-naming/</link>
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		<title>Firefox T-shirt shipping madness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the Mozilla store has released new T-shirts for Firefox 3. I don&#8217;t particular like the new T-shirt logo, and I thought the old logo was better. What&#8217;s really insane though is the cost of international shipping.
Cost of one Firefox T-shirt: US$17 = AUS$17.80
Cost of one Firefox T-shirt with delivery to Australia: US$110.64 = AUS$115.65
My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nickj.org/2008/06/25/firefox-tshirt-shipping-madness/</link>
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		<title>NRMA feedback fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year to renew my car registration, and buy the accompanying compulsory third-party insurance. So I tried the NRMA, and price-wise their quote was okay, but I wanted it mailed to me in the post so that I can pay it closer to when I actually need it. Trying to tell the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nickj.org/2008/06/12/nrma-feedback-fail/</link>
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		<title>Response to &#8220;Where did all the PHP programmers go?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I&#8217;ll bite in response to this &#8220;Where did all the PHP programmers go?&#8221; blog post:
What I cannot understand is why people with more than one Bachelor Degree in Computer Science recommend using bubble sort.
Sounds wrong but harmless, as you don&#8217;t write a sort implementation from scratch in PHP. You write the comparators used for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nickj.org/2008/06/05/response-to-where-did-all-the-php-programmers-go/</link>
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		<title>OpenSSL Debian seeding problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OpenSSL Debian seeding problem &#8211; what a mess &#8211; installing the update itself is trivial, but the sysadmin time is in having to chase down and remove and regenerate weak keys generated by multiple packages, which in turn can have propagated to multiple machines, generated any time over the last year and a bit on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nickj.org/2008/05/14/openssl-debian-seeding-problem/</link>
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		<title>Proof of bot status</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I saw this comic:

&#8230;. and then today I tried to register for a forum, and got this:

&#8230; and clicking &#8220;Refresh Image&#8221; gave this:

&#8230; and of course I thought of the comic.
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		<link>http://blog.nickj.org/2008/05/13/proof-of-bot-status/</link>
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