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		<title>Magic Rescue</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2009/12/13/magic-rescue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I needed to recover some photos from a memory card which had been wiped clean. After some basic research, I installed magicrescue. It is a command line program for Linux, and worked very well. It was able to recover 448MB files from a 512MB memory card.
Installing was simple using synaptic package manager in Ubuntu 9.10, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>substr versus direct character reference in php</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/12/13/substr-versus-direct-character-referece-in-php/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In php there are a few ways to get a few characters from the middle of a string. One is to use substr:
string substr ( string $string, int $start [, int $length  ] )
another is by direct character reference:
string $chars = $string[0].$string[1];
When you only require a single character from a string, one would assume [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My new phone &#8211; a Nokia N95</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/02/16/my-new-phone-a-nokia-n95/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was that time of the year again when you eagerly await the time when you can ring up the phone company that supplies your contract and ask them what they can offer you as an upgrade. Or perhaps not. I&#8217;m not a big fan of talking to the phone networks as they tend to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vehicle tracking application</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2007/06/12/vehicle-tracking-application/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past few months I have been working on a project codenamed motortrace which is a piece of server software  which allows real time tracking of cars, caravans and other equipment. Previous journies can be viewed and animated on the map, and detailed reports generated. Driver mileage and speeds can be monitored and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radiused corners without resorting to images in CSS</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2007/03/25/radiused-corners-without-resorting-to-images-in-css/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<title>Channel four on demand &#8211; 4OD</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2007/03/13/channel-four-on-demand-4od/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After missing &#8220;The great climate change swindle&#8221; on channel 4 yesterday I decided I was going to watch it on 4OD, hoping that it might help me with an essay that I have to write for tomorrow as part of an energy studies course.
I visited the channel four website and find that they do not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Explorer on Ubuntu</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2007/02/17/internet-explorer-on-ubuntu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might well ask why – well, I design websites for a living, and unfortunately the majority of the world is uninformed and still use the inferior and buggy browser M$ Internet Explorer, on top of the expensive and buggy operating system M$ Windoze.
Often when I design, I get it looking right in firefox, then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bike Project &#8211; A data logger on a budget</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2007/02/09/bike-project-a-data-logger-on-a-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been wanting to do some coast-down tests on the recumbent bike for a while in order to find out the drag coefficient, but have been unable to collect the relevant data. What you need is speed against time &#8211; on a graph then the gradient would be accelleration, and the area under would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting rid of U3 malware on my memory stick</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2007/01/10/getting-rid-of-u3-malware-on-my-memory-stick/</link>
		<comments>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2007/01/10/getting-rid-of-u3-malware-on-my-memory-stick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I put my Sandisk Titanium cruzer in a Windows computer, I have to wait about 30 seconds for some U3 software to load. Most tied-down PC&#8217;s like the ones at uni do not allow this program to run correctly and so it is completely useless.
If there was a way to turn this off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>phpSANE &#8211; a total rewrite</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2007/01/05/phpsane-a-total-rewrite/</link>
		<comments>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2007/01/05/phpsane-a-total-rewrite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made a number of improvements to phpSANE a few years ago, but forgot to submit them back to the wider community. I was told by a few users that the new preview function was hard to use, so decided to improve it and share the code.
First of though, what is phpSANE? It is a [...]]]></description>
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