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	<title>The English Guy's Personal Blog</title>
	<link>http://www.richarddows.co.uk</link>
	<description>a witty tagline explaining that I write mostly anything I feel on here so you've been warned: caveat lector</description>
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		<title>The NHS Is Awful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a tale of woe. I&#8217;ve told it before. I&#8217;m sure others have told it too.
I called last week to get an appointment at the doctor&#8217;s. This was at maybe 11am. I was told there were no appointments left, but I could pre-book in advance. I inquired about that and they then said there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2010/03/11/the-nhs-is-awful/</link>
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		<title>Quick Joke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick joke before bedtime.
I was in the pub and they had a pub quiz. The question was, where on a women&#8217;s body is the curliest hair? Strangely I got it wrong &#8211; apparently the answer is Africa!
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		<link>http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2010/02/25/quick-joke/</link>
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		<title>Why Are Our Weather Services So Pitiful?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I suppose it&#8217;s difficult to imagine how a weather service can be so biased, perhaps other countries don&#8217;t have the same issues as we do? When you see it once you might not notice it, but if you watch the weather every day you&#8217;ll begin to see it. The vagueness of weather forecasting above Oxfordshire, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2010/02/21/why-are-our-weather-services-so-pitiful/</link>
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		<title>Russian Spam at GMail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why would russian spammers add a western email address to send their cyrillic email to?
Idiots.
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		<link>http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2010/02/10/russian-spam-at-gmail/</link>
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		<title>Belkin Bluetooth, Windows 7 BSOD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a weird problem tonight, freaked me out.
I hooked up my bluetooth adapter to transfer some stuff to my phone. Everything seemed ok. I fired up my skype and was talking to a friend when the screen froze. I rebooted but when it came back up it gave me a BSOD. I was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2010/02/07/belkin-bluetooth-windows-7-bsod/</link>
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		<title>Everyone Questions Toyota Recall, But Why?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently in the news, Toyota&#8217;s recall of millions of cars because of some fault with the accelerator pedal. It gets stuck in certain situations, and in several models.
On the TV the other day though, they were saying this really damages Toyota&#8217;s reputation, how are they going to recover and so on, but that to me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2010/02/04/everyone-questions-toyota-recall-but-why/</link>
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		<title>All Wintry Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The snow revisited this part of the world again last night. Paddy texted me asking if I&#8217;d seen outside and when I looked it was coming down thick. It&#8217;s pretty to see, makes me think of when I was a kid I suppose.
It had started to stick, and the cars were only just making a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2010/02/04/all-wintry-again/</link>
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		<title>Helpful HMRC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I called the HMRC today. I thought it would be one of those kinds of phone calls where they give you the run-around, you know the kind I mean, the sketch-type phone call that comedians get a great laugh from.
Quite the opposite.
The lady I talked to was helpful, told me what had gone wrong, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2010/01/28/helpful-hmrc/</link>
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		<title>So Tired of IE6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I, like many developers and designers out there, am so damned tired of IE6.
Can&#8217;t people move on and get themselves a decent modern browser? It is literally a click away. Opera and FireFox are so easy to install and get running, I installed Opera on a machine the other day and it was as simple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2010/01/16/so-tired-of-ie6/</link>
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		<title>Modem Dying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My modem is dying, I need to give it a decent burial and move on.
I got home tonight, and in fact for the past few days too, it wasn&#8217;t connected. There I am feverishly hitting the &#8216;connect&#8217; button on the admin backend and it won&#8217;t connect. Finally, after nearly two hours, it connects and I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2010/01/11/modem-dying/</link>
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