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	<description>Personal website for Andy Deakin</description>
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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>Troubleshooting gettext for php translation</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2009/04/18/troubleshooting-gettext-for-php-translation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was trying to deploy a translated peice of software on a newly installed server running debian, but whatever I did, the strings would not appear in the translated language.
A sample php page might look something like this:
&#60;?php
$locale = "fr_FR";
putenv("LC_ALL=$locale");
setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);
bindtextdomain("messages", "../locale");
textdomain("messages");
echo _("Name");
?&#62;
Eventually I figured out that the setlocale() command was returning false, which means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What country are you in?</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2009/03/31/what-country-are-you-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a web application that I have been working on recently, it has been necessary to answer the question: what country is lat,lon in?
There are a number of ways of determining this, but as a starting point I decided to find the boundary of each country from osm data as a set of polygons.
After extracting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Guitar Songs</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2009/01/01/simple-guitar-songs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy playing tunes on the guitar. People around me probably don&#8217;t appreciate the out of time and out of tune nature of my playing as much as I do, but that is their loss.
There are a few chords on the guitar that are easy to play, and these include A, Am, D, G, C, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victoria Sponge / Chocolate Sponge</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2009/01/01/victoria-sponge-chocolate-sponge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure most grandma&#8217;s bake cakes, but my grandma makes a particularly good sponge cake so I asked her for the recipe. I have no idea if this is the same as is found in other recipe books. Taste and see&#8230;
For 1 Cake
4 oz Marg/Butter
4 oz Caster Sugar
2 eggs, beaten
4 oz S R flour
Vanilla Essence
For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Onward Christian Centre Service Times</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/12/28/onward-christian-centre-service-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/12/28/onward-christian-centre-service-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I find it hard to believe that any organisation does not have a website, or at least some basic web presence in our internet-based age. So when I decided I would pay a local church a visit, I wanted to know when their meeting times were. I looked and looked, and whilst I found a [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Computer]]></category>
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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>Trip round Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/10/01/trip-round-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/10/01/trip-round-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have wanted to do some travelling for a long while now, and had earmarked October this year for travelling around Eastern Europe with John. We hadn&#8217;t planned anthing until two days ago when we sat down and figured out some plans. We found that it took around one hour to plan each day&#8217;s trip, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blowout and new tyres on my bike</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/04/05/blowout-and-new-tyres-on-my-bike/</link>
		<comments>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/04/05/blowout-and-new-tyres-on-my-bike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The tyres that I had on my red hybrid bike were getting a bit thin, and since pushing them to their limits the back tyre was showing the nylon threads. I decided it was time to get some new tyres, but as with most things kept putting it off.
When cycling to my sisters a week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nokia N95 and Ubuntu &#8211; Mobile Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/04/02/nokia-n95-and-ubuntu-mobile-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.handyandy.org.uk/blog/2008/04/02/nokia-n95-and-ubuntu-mobile-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since I had gotten rid of my T-Mobile contract for my laptop data card, when I needed internet on the move I needed to either rely on the browser and applications on my N95, or connect it to my laptop. Connecting in windows turned out to be harder than I expected, as the Nokia PC [...]]]></description>
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