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	<title>benfrain.com - blog of writer and web designer Ben Frain. OSX, iPhone, Apple Mac, Windows 7, website design writing &#187; Rant</title>
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		<title>2011 MacBook Pro update. Apple &#8211; please ditch the optical drive!</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/02/2011-macbook-pro-update-apple-please-ditch-the-optical-drive.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2011/02/2011-macbook-pro-update-apple-please-ditch-the-optical-drive.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MacBook Air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MacBook Pro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Momentus XT]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve owned (and sold) just about every computer Apple has made since 2000. My current weapon of choice is the MacBook Pro. It&#8217;s the only solution when you need a bit of oomph but you also need to take it with you (I&#8217;ve tried but a Mac Pro won&#8217;t fit in my rucksack no matter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 WASN&#8217;T my idea!</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2009/11/windows-7-wasnt-my-idea.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2009/11/windows-7-wasnt-my-idea.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Warning: this post contains some profanity (sorry Mum). I&#8217;ll admit it, I initially thought Windows 7 was OK. In fact, fairly decent. However, the m0re I&#8217;ve used it, the more it has disappointed me. Windows it seems, regardless of the version number, will always be Windows&#8230; At first it was all zippy menus and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proof: The Americans won World War 2!</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2009/06/proof-the-americans-won-world-war-2.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2009/06/proof-the-americans-won-world-war-2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[HBO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War 2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a deliberately inflammatory post title but I can&#8217;t be the only person getting a little fed up with the dominance of Americans in any modern media relating to World War II. Take a look at this, a trailer for &#8216;The Pacific&#8217;, the latest HBO TV series from the Spielberg and Hanks stable (Saving Private [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Street View and the erosion of freedom</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2009/04/google-street-view-and-the-erosion-of-freedom.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2009/04/google-street-view-and-the-erosion-of-freedom.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Street View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[POLITICS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Does it surprise anyone that a government quango (UK&#8217;s Information Comissioner) has declared the use of Google street view is not a problem? It&#8217;s not like our present government has any slant towards surveillance and privacy intrusion is it? David Davis was right; there is a slow but certain erosion of freedom in this country. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RANT: Sometimes I just want to watch the earth burn&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2009/03/rant-sometimes-i-just-want-to-watch.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2009/03/rant-sometimes-i-just-want-to-watch.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Age of Stupid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here was today&#8217;s blue touch paper: an email from my local multiplex telling me about &#8216;The Age Of Stupid&#8217; &#8211; a new film, based around the premise of a man, one of earth&#8217;s surviving humans speaking to us in 2055 and asking why we didn&#8217;t do more to avoid the global catastrophe of climate change. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POLITICS: A VAT decrease will cost us millions</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/11/politics-vat-decrease-will-cost-us.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/11/politics-vat-decrease-will-cost-us.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VAT 15%]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the rumours are true, and our labour government goes ahead with the VAT reduction to 15% (they can&#8217;t go lower even if they wanted to thanks to our masters in Brussels) I feel convinced it will ultimately cost our country far, far more. Whilst the average UK consumer may save a few hundred pounds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV: I despair</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/11/tv-i-despair.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/11/tv-i-despair.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Top Gear]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have males been completely eradicated from the thoughts of producers? Apart from Top Gear, which serves as the last bastion of political in-correctness and male programming, just what is there for us to watch? The obligatory sport of course, but there is literally nothing else in the way of dramatic programming for us. As the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SPEED: Have we got it all wrong?</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/08/speed-have-we-got-it-all-wrong.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/08/speed-have-we-got-it-all-wrong.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motoring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speeding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like many motorists, I spend a great deal of time stuck behind other vehicles or simply slowing down for speed cameras and different speed zones. All the while the TV bombards us with messages: &#8216;Kill your speed, not a child&#8217;, &#8216;Think &#8211; stop!&#8217; etc. Meanwhile congestion continues to grow and we all get frustrated as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TECH: 96% of an Orange e-mail account is spam&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/08/tech-96-of-orange-mail-account-it-spam.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/08/tech-96-of-orange-mail-account-it-spam.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tech-tip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orange SMTP problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain2.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/tech-96-of-an-orange-e-mail-account-is-spam/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have Orange as an ISP you will already know what an absolutely obscene amount of spam you get delivered to your inbox. I&#8217;ve moaned about it before here Well, a report mentioned here reveals that &#8220;&#8230;of the emails received by consumers who use Orange as their ISP, some 96 percent was spam&#8221; Orange [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GLOBAL WARMING: Nelson&#8217;s gas guzzling HMS Victory?</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/08/global-warming-nelsons-gas-guzzling-hms.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/08/global-warming-nelsons-gas-guzzling-hms.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HMS Victory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nelson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled across another thorn in the man made global warming theory today when I read this short piece in the Telegraph newspaper. Good old Nelson (a big hero of mine) and other seafarers of his day kept detailed meteorological logs including pressure, wind speed, air and sea temperature etc. The men in white coats, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TECH: iPhone 3G &#8211; PAYG, how much?</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/06/tech-iphone-3g-payg-how-much.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/06/tech-iphone-3g-payg-how-much.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech-tip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[O2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PAYG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most interesting development for the new iPhone 3G is the ability to purchase it on a Pay As You Go contract from O2 (UK only). However, how much does O2 intend to charge for the device? Given the original iPhone started out at £269 with a hefty 18 month contract and ultimately failed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POLITICS: Petition against the Lisbon Treaty</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/06/politics-petition-against-lisbon-treaty.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/06/politics-petition-against-lisbon-treaty.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisbon Treaty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Referendum]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain2.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/politics-petition-against-the-lisbon-treaty/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The EU is forging relentlessly ahead with the ratification of the Lisbon treaty. This despite the recent &#8216;NO&#8217; vote from EIRE which should have seen it dead and buried. If you have even the slightest belief in the concept of democracy let our deceitful government know your feelings by signing the following petition at No. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politics: EIRE &#8211; our final hope&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/06/politics-eire-our-final-hope.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/06/politics-eire-our-final-hope.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisbon Treaty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[POLITICS]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://benfrain2.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/politics-eire-our-final-hope/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After the, frankly despicable failure of our government to provide the referendum on the EU treaty/constitution (only an imbecile would argue any real difference between the two?) it promised us, our fate (saving the unlikelihood this court action pays off) is left in the hands of our friends just over the water. What a travesty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RANT: Ebay &#8211; the greediest company in the world?</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/04/rant-ebay-greediest-company-in-world.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/04/rant-ebay-greediest-company-in-world.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ebay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ebay Fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paypal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paypal Fees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What an absolute shower of bastards Ebay and Paypal are. I&#8217;m all for capitalism but their greed almost beggars belief ($7 billion in profits for 2007). When you look at their sellers fees it&#8217;s not hard to see how they are pocketing so much&#8230; For starters, take a look at their listing fees: If your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POLITICS: The global warming con</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/03/politics-global-warming-con.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/03/politics-global-warming-con.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Con]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iceage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newsweek]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the &#8216;consensus&#8217; of &#8216;experts&#8217; in the field are reported to have conclusive proof of man-made global warming I cast my mind back to middle school when we taught that the world was cooling and that the next ice age was coming. When I mention this factor, few seem to recollect this fact, especially the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RANT: Plastic Bloody Bags</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/03/rant-plastic-bloody-bags.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2008/03/rant-plastic-bloody-bags.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal bullshit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plastic Bags]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why is the BBC so intent on spending every single news bulletin of late telling us how many plastic bags are on the planet? And how much it&#8217;s harming the planet and how we are all going to burn in hell unless we take our plastic bags with us to the supermarket. What the hell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RANT: Get off the phone when you are being served!</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/12/rant-get-off-phone-when-you-are-being.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/12/rant-get-off-phone-when-you-are-being.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Manners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Phone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if this is a predominantly female thing or this has merely been my experience of the phenomenon. Every time I&#8217;m doing the weekly shop I&#8217;m stunned by the amount of women who do their entire shopping trip with a mobile phone seemingly glued to their ear. I suppose if people having long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WEB: Stupid sodding pop-up windows!</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/10/web-stupid-sodding-pop-up-windows.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/10/web-stupid-sodding-pop-up-windows.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Website Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irritation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure there must be plenty of other people who find these things INCREDIBLY annoying? I&#8217;m talking about the sort of pop-up that whenever there is a relevant word on a web page it appears double underlined. Then, if you are &#8216;lucky&#8217; enough to move your mouse over said word a stupid sodding Java box [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POLITICS: EU Referendum &#8211; Vote here!</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/09/politics-eu-referendum-vote-here.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/09/politics-eu-referendum-vote-here.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It doesn&#8217;t matter whether you want to be in the EU or not. The important factor is that democracy should decide. Gordon Brown thinks he knows better than asking the British people &#8211; unforgivable. One more EU referendum petition for you to sign, it&#8217;s the Sun newspapers&#8217;. Hardly the most arresting piece of literature but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POLITICS: The thin end of the wedge?</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/05/politics-thin-end-of-wedge.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/05/politics-thin-end-of-wedge.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 18:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Armed Forces]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My elder brother mailed me the following link British Army may turn to foreign bullets I find such a development extremely worrying. We are in the UK, after all, an island nation. Is it not bad enough that we source a vast percentage of our food from abroad (thanks to the shambolic way the current [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POLITICS: Long haul flights responsible for global warming on Mars</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/05/politics-long-haul-flights-responsible.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/05/politics-long-haul-flights-responsible.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 19:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mars]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first question after reading this story was &#8216;Mmmm, How will Gordon Brown tax us for this?&#8217; I refer to this story on the National Geographic. Evidence presented from NASA indicates that the ice caps of Mars are also melting. Of course, the obvious implications of such a discovery makes two scenarios possible&#8230; 1. Mars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POLITICS: speakout.co.uk &#8211; time for a referendum on Europe?</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/04/politics-speakoutcouk-time-for.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/04/politics-speakoutcouk-time-for.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brussels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good old Paul Sykes. Not only has he helped bankroll the UKIP party some time back, he has also invested in the &#8216;speakout&#8217; campaign. This campaign is pushing for a referendum on returning 7 key powers back to Britain from Brussels. Anyone with a passing interest in the UK should take the time to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POLITICS: Politics Idol</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/04/politics-politics-idol.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/04/politics-politics-idol.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question to contestant, &#8220;Why do you want this?&#8221; Reply from contestant &#8220;It&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve ever wanted to do&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s the reply most uttered by pop star wannabes on Pop Idol and the like. A phrase so vacuous and common it produces little more than a roll of eyes from anyone but the most kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RANT: TV &#8211; Help! My dog is fatter than me!</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/03/rant-tv-help-my-dog-is-fatter-than-me.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/03/rant-tv-help-my-dog-is-fatter-than-me.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC3 this one I think. It was basically about owners of dogs that feed them so much they are overweight. There is simply no excuse for this. If you are feeding an animal that much, that it can barely move, has trouble breathing &#8211; you may as well be kicking it about or stubbing your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RANT: Most annoying advert?</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/03/rant-most-annoying-advert.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/03/rant-most-annoying-advert.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know the one I mean? Halifax. Those BLOODY irritating songs. It started, in a mildly amusing fashion with Halifax &#8216;poster boy&#8217; Howard, in his bottle top glasses singing along to a well known ditty. But now &#8211; NO! Enough is enough. I mean, just how irritating is the latest? That iceberg shaped girl doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV/POLITICS: The Great Global Warming Swindle</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/03/tvpolitics-great-global-warming-swindle.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/03/tvpolitics-great-global-warming-swindle.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Channel 4]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many months I have been a little worried at the accepted &#8216;story&#8217; for global warming. By this I mean the almost evangelical crusades of seemingly all and sundry telling the populace that Global Warming is the product of man. Or, more specifically his carbon emissions. The propaganda surrounding this theory is so wide and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POLITICS: The real reason labour are pushing for road tolls?</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/02/politics-real-reason-labour-are-pushing.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/02/politics-real-reason-labour-are-pushing.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU Roadmap]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, make you own mind up but as ever, it seems there are plenty of things no-one is acknowledging&#8230; Take a look at this post on the EU Referendum site for information. The bottom line: a question as to whether the current government merely wants to introduce road toll charges to bolster the gulf in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOOTBALL: England &#8211; get some stability in the line up!</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/02/football-england-get-some-stability-in.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/02/football-england-get-some-stability-in.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having watched the Spain Vs England friendly last night (quite rightly won by Spain) it seems obvious to all but McClaren that there needs to be some stability in the squad. McClaren should decide on a formation (4 4 2 would be favourite but whatever), pick a core of 15-16 players and get them playing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POLITICS: BBC racist? Do they deserve our licence fee?</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/01/bbc-racist-do-they-deserve-our-licence.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/01/bbc-racist-do-they-deserve-our-licence.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ethnicity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is it purely coincidence that in BBC news items the ethnicity of characters are specifically omitted? The cynical can quite easily argue that the BBC has its own agenda and is attempting social engineering. In the following story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/6253449.stm the BBC fails to mention that the assailants were all asian. Yet, when the shoe is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POLITICS: EU trying to ban &#8216;violent&#8217; computer games</title>
		<link>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/01/eu-trying-to-ban-violent-computer-games.html</link>
		<comments>http://benfrain.com/notepad/2007/01/eu-trying-to-ban-violent-computer-games.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benfrain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Video game violence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is there no area of our daily lives the EU doesn&#8217;t want to poke its nose? I came across this story on the Macworld UK site and was horrified. Banning violent computer games &#8211; do they really think that is the solution to the world&#8217;s ills? Do they not recognise sick people are sick people? [...]]]></description>
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