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	<title>Snell-Pym &#187; alaric</title>
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	<description>Sarah and Alaric Snell-Pym living in interesting times</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Van calamity</title>
		<link>http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2010/02/02/van-calamity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alaric</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Jean]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Vehicles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, we attempted to go to Cheltenham in the van, as Sarah had a WoPoWriMo launch meetup to attend.

We're used to having to deal with ice on the hills leading out of our valley, as water from the farm fields tends to run off into the road; so if it gets cold, it turns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many Pockets</title>
		<link>http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2010/02/02/many-pockets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alaric</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As I have mentioned before, I have many pockets.

A few people have asked about this now, so here's a run-down on what's in them.





So, here's the coat of many pockets. It's quite lightly loaded, so I wear it all the time, pretty much. The pockets contain:


Solar-powered rechargable torch, in the pocket at the top right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haikus in git</title>
		<link>http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2010/02/01/haikus-in-git/</link>
		<comments>http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2010/02/01/haikus-in-git/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alaric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Poems]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I decided I'd write a haiku a day through February, for WoPoWriMo.

But I had to make it interesting, so I'm doing then in git, and letting GitHub publish them for me at http://alaricsp.github.com/wopowrimo/ using their pages system.

git is a system for looking after a bunch of files, keeping track of the 'history' - previous revisions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intelligence, Knowledge, Wisdom</title>
		<link>http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2010/01/03/intelligence-knowledge-wisdom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2010/01/03/intelligence-knowledge-wisdom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alaric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I see a lot of confusion between intelligence and knowledge. There's this cultural perception that a well-educated person is intelligent - and wise to boot. However, I've met plenty of people who are incredibly intelligent, yet know very little; or people who have memorised lots of information, but don't really understand it because they're not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High power LEDs</title>
		<link>http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2009/12/31/high-power-leds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2009/12/31/high-power-leds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alaric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alaric]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jean]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I've got a few 3W RGB LEDs that I've been meaning to play with, so over the Christmas break, I decided to hook 'em up to the bench PSU and have a play.



As I have but one variable bench PSU with current limiting, I could only easily light one LED at a time. I didn't [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BlackBerry</title>
		<link>http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2009/12/18/blackberry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2009/12/18/blackberry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alaric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alaric]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many moons ago I did some work writing apps for BlackBerries. I liked the things at the time; they seemed to be well-built, both from the hardware and software angles.

So when my mobile phone contract came up for renewal (meaning I can get a free new phone if I sign up for another two years), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Information Management</title>
		<link>http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2009/12/16/personal-information-management/</link>
		<comments>http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2009/12/16/personal-information-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alaric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ARGON]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the neat things computers have become able to do as they become more "personal" - eg, we spend more of our lives operating through them, and they become more portable - is personal information management (PIM).

I remember PIM apps in the early 1990s, running under MS-DOS. Quitting whatever you were doing and starting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On being oddly dressed</title>
		<link>http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2009/12/07/on-being-oddly-dressed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2009/12/07/on-being-oddly-dressed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alaric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alaric]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, I stood up in front of a hundred or so people and gave a five-minute talk on some software I've spent two years of my life writing. However, I wasn't particularly self-conscious about the fact that I was oddly dressed.

For me, clothes are about:


Keeping me warm
Carrying my stuff


It's not that their appearance doesn't [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heating an old house</title>
		<link>http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2009/12/06/heating-an-old-house/</link>
		<comments>http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2009/12/06/heating-an-old-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alaric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Building Maintenance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Metalworking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/?p=1891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarah feels the cold keenly, while I can usually just put on some more warm clothes to deal with British winters. But even I was finding it hard to work in my home office when the temperature went below ten Celcius; fingerless gloves still let me type, but numb fingers increase my error rate, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new laptop</title>
		<link>http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2009/12/05/a-new-laptop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2009/12/05/a-new-laptop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alaric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alaric]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To my great displeasure, my shiny MacBook Pro was stolen from the office in London!

So, I grabbed our finance guy and we went down to the nearest laptop shop and picked up the cheapest thing they had in the shop that would meet my needs: a Hewlett Packard Pavilion dv7.

The first step was replacing Windows [...]]]></description>
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