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		<title>Mystery of the disappearing people</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2007/06/14/mystery-of-the-disappearing-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All my housemates have finished their degrees, and have now disappeared for good. It seems that all my friends are dropping off the edge. I still have another year to go, and sitting here in an empty house that for the past two years has been home to some of the special people in my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life is a learning experience</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2007/06/13/life-is-a-learning-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since my exams I have had a lot to do, but much of it has been general admin stuff: not really inspiring. However, in the past few weeks I have had the opportunity to consider what really inspires me, and a few people have helped me through the thought process.
Last week I went to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of my exams</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2007/06/09/the-end-of-my-exams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It felt like it might never come, but here it is, finally! Eight exams later I can emerge from my procrastination state to complete the many tasks that have been waiting for this very moment.
Forms for stuff I am doing over the summer and a call to return off the bank wondering why I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bike project &#8211; progress update</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2007/05/10/bike-project-progress-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 23:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It was a while since I last posted an update on my bike project. On 1st May I had to give a presentation to a few folks in the Engineering department and this spurred me on to make some progress.

Over the past eight months many designs were come upon, some more sensible than others, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hockerton Housing Project</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2007/03/07/hockerton-housing-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we went on a uni trip to Hockerton Housing Project. It was organised by Colin, who in lectures has always seemed very enthusiastic about this housing development. After visiting for myself I can see why!
&#8220;The Hockerton Housing Project is the UK&#8217;s first earth sheltered, self-sufficient ecological housing development. Project members live a holistic way [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2007/02/09/bike-project-a-data-logger-on-a-budget/#comments</comments>
		<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>Freewheeling nowhere &#8211; my bike breaks again</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2007/01/12/freewheeling-nowhere-my-bike-breaks-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of second year, I bought a cheap new bike off ebay. As well as being brand new and dirt cheap, it was also rubbish.
For a term it got be to uni and back, and I even bought a trailer for it. It soon began to let me down after I snapped a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bike &#8211; Speed testing a recumbent and an upright</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2006/11/28/bike-speed-testing-a-recumbent-and-an-upright/</link>
		<comments>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2006/11/28/bike-speed-testing-a-recumbent-and-an-upright/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today me and John spent about 3 hours cycling as different speeds up and down Lakeside, measuring our speeds and distance travelled when we stopped peddling.
First we found a bit that was flat, or at least consistently uphill. Then we found a marker at the start of this flat patch where we would stop peddling.
Cycling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bike &#8211; creating a frame to see what it feels like</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2006/11/24/bike-creating-a-frame-to-see-what-it-feels-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today me and John bought some bamboo canes from Homebase, together with some cable ties and twine and made a frame around his upright bike.
We had a basic idea of what it would look like, but it is quite hard to think about where cross members shouldn&#8217;t be, as they tend to get in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bike trailer &#8211; a helping hand with the shopping</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2006/11/14/bike-trailer-a-helping-hand-with-the-shopping/</link>
		<comments>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2006/11/14/bike-trailer-a-helping-hand-with-the-shopping/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I moved back to uni, I visited Tescos and bought all the neccessary bits and peices of food for the next week or so. I came to cycle the 1.5 miles home, and found it a bit of a strugle. A large backpack with all my uni stuff in, and bags of food hanging [...]]]></description>
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