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		<title>Gibberish</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2015 19:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it can be a pleasure to read words, it can also be painful. There is much about universities that is good. There is also much that appears to piss money away on nonsense, indulging foolish dreamers who should be told to leave and try to do something with their lives. The result: gibberish Extract [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>thelifescoop.com Sucks at credibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2015 22:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Spavin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know how some naysayers claim that the web is full of crap and that little on it is credible. I roll my eyes and decide that they&#8217;ve been looking in the wrong places. And then you stumble upon a piece of crap that reveals itself as crap with only the slightest investigation. Something about [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Has someone mentioned you on the web?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2015 21:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Spavin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not vanity to want to know when your name is mentioned somewhere on a web page. It is also not difficult to find out as it happens and be alerted in your email box. Google&#8217;s search engine has many little tricks under the sparse front page that serves as its metaphorical bonnet. Find [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Protect your domain name in New Zealand</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 04:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Spavin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It must be 23-years since New Zealand companies scrambled to register their name or product against a domain name. It&#8217;s time to scramble again because you can now drop the .org.nz, .co.nz and .net.nz and just have plain old .nz Hang on to the originals because they&#8217;re still perfectly usable but make sure your competitor [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile heaven</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2014 03:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Spavin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago I hit upon a mobile phone, calendar and contacts combination that was so close to perfect that it would have done me for some years. So I sold the phone and started again. I really liked that Nokia 920 mobile with wireless charger. It felt more like Apple&#8217;s build quality than some [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft &#8211; can you write software better than you write English?</title>
		<link>http://www.netco.co.nz/microsoft-can-you-write-software-better-than-you-write-english/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2013 21:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Spavin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most mission statements are mush. Read any corporation&#8217;s or (if you are having a really good day and want to make your self feel despondent) government department&#8217;s mission statement to realise how poorly the 26 letters of the alphabet can be organised. Platitudes, jargon, euphemisms and plain junk writing infest many if not most of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple iPhone fizzles</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Spavin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As mad as a nest full of loony Scientologists, Apple fan bois gather each September to stand and cheer and yell because Apple releases an updated version of the iPhone. Once revolutionary, the iPhone has struggled recently against Google&#8217;s free Android operating system. Korean conglomerate, Samsung, using Android,  has swept the floor with Apple in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Topstyle5 &#8211; a great editor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Spavin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Topstyle, the HTML, CSS and PHP text editor has been out now for some months in version 5 and it is the best editor of its type that I have used in nearly 20 years of developing web sites. I don&#8217;t say that lightly &#8211; I&#8217;m fussy as I sit on a keyboard 9 hours [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Pin a tail on it and call it weasel words</title>
		<link>http://www.netco.co.nz/unitednations-weasel-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Spavin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that struck me as a reporter in my previous life was that defensive explanations are often  inversely credible to the number of words that they contain. The best I ever read were years ago in Newsweek&#8217;s letter to the editor column. Someone would complain about a story&#8217;s slant or conclusion and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Assaults on English</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Spavin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it about English that bureaucrats and middle managers feel that they can destroy it by reassembling the 26 letters that they have available into gobbledygook and nonsense? At random, today, here are two examples of junk writing that should never have passed muster. The first comes from the Department of Conservation. It published [&#8230;]]]></description>
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