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	<title>Fear and Loathing on the Learning Curve &#187; Scribbles</title>
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	<description>Observations on life, tech and web design from a slightly misanthropic mind.</description>
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		<title>Hipstamatic and Rebooting a Hobby</title>
		<link>http://www.biggleszx.com/2010/07/hipstamatic-and-rebooting-a-hobby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As anyone who hasn’t been living in a sack for the last few years will be aware, the iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod) platform has become something of a popular hit, with an App Store that now comprises hundreds of thousands of apps for all purposes (both real and imagined) under the sun. I’ve owned an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jobhunting with Less Pain, Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve already had some great feedback from the first two parts of this article, so I’m pleased to be able to share the third and final part today.
Having read this far, you should have some idea about the processes required to set yourself up with an interview with a prospective employer for a job you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jobhunting with Less Pain, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first part of this article dealt with my motivations for writing it (very meta, eh?) and the basic steps you should take before starting out on the path to finding a new job — deciding what job you want, and preparing a CV that doesn’t suck.
The CV section alone turned into a colossal beast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jobhunting With Less Pain, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.biggleszx.com/2010/06/jobhunting-with-less-pain-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BigglesZX</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new influx of recruiter spam plopping into my inbox this afternoon prompted me to write a post I’ve been meaning to put together for a few months: a collection of my top tips for completing the job-hunting process with as little pain as possible.
This article ended up becoming a bit of a beast, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chickenhawk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BigglesZX</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading Robert Mason’s Chickenhawk, the latest in a line of exceptional books on war that I’ve been fortunate enough to have fall into my hands. My takeaway quote was the following passage — the cognitive dissonance of those who fight our wars never writ more succinctly.
The clerk, a young woman, took my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telegraph Turns to Fiction for Inspiration in iPhone Piece</title>
		<link>http://www.biggleszx.com/2010/06/telegraph-turns-to-fiction-for-inspiration-in-iphone-piece/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BigglesZX</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, Telegraph. We know what it’s like. The hotly-anticipated launch of what just about everyone now accepts will be the iPhone 4G (or at least, the 4th iteration under another name) is just around the corner, and the blogs and rumour sites have pretty much got the situation sewn up. You need to write something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Happy Coder</title>
		<link>http://www.biggleszx.com/2010/05/the-happy-coder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 08:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BigglesZX</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How did you finish work yesterday?
I was in a roof garden in central London, sipping champagne under the early evening sun with the rest of my office, because we delivered a major project on time, on spec and on budget.
The day before — Sunday — we worked from 2pm to 1am to square away the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySQL Troubleshooting Tip of the Day</title>
		<link>http://www.biggleszx.com/2010/05/mysql-troubleshooting-tip-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 09:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BigglesZX</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of our EC2–hosted database servers had to be rebooted last night, and when it came back up some of our database-driven sites were working, others weren’t. Upon further investigation I found the following message cropping up in mongrel_rails and phpMyAdmin logs:
Error No. 1033 Incorrect information in file: ‘&#60;filename&#62;’


A peek at phpMyAdmin’s database list showed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on the New Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 19:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BigglesZX</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the curious few: a smattering of detail on what went into this new theme.
For one reason or another I decided that I wanted to create a theme that emulated a newspaper layout (a small one, granted). That called for a columnar layout — not the most straightforward thing to achieve in HTML. Support does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flying Moses, what the devil’s going on?</title>
		<link>http://www.biggleszx.com/2010/05/what-the-devils-going-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 22:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BigglesZX</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahem, yes. So I got a bit carried away on a train the other day and decided to do a complete redesign of the good old blog. As always, it’s been terribly neglected of late, so I decided to change things up once again in an attempt to zap a bit of life into my [...]]]></description>
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