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	<description>...a very inexact science</description>
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		<title>Why Oh Why Oh Why &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thespiralquirk.com/2010/06/23/why-oh-why-oh-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grumping]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many things I love about the &#8216;net is the ability to find &#8216;how to&#8217; video clips: watching a video tutorial is usually much better for me than simply reading how to do something. (Although I do still like to have a hard copy reference book to read through.) I&#8217;ve got used to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Years Without TV</title>
		<link>http://thespiralquirk.com/2010/06/22/five-years-without-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fractal Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grumping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just over 5 years ago, in an unexpected display of enthusiasm for gardening, my husband decided to help me get rid of an overgrown jasmine from the back wall of the house. Next thing I knew, he&#8217;d managed to sever the TV aerial cable &#8211; at which point he realised that there had been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Both A Statue And A Doofus</title>
		<link>http://thespiralquirk.com/2010/05/07/both-a-statue-and-a-doofus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 10:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grumping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Can I blame Election worries? No? oh well&#8230; You can upgrade Vista Ultimate to Windows 7, ie use the (cheaper) upgrade version of the OS software. What you can&#8217;t do is &#8216;upgrade&#8217; in the sense of over-writing the existing OS, it has to be a clean install. So why does sodding MS not say that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Days You&#8217;re The Pigeon &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thespiralquirk.com/2010/05/06/some-days-youre-the-pigeon/</link>
		<comments>http://thespiralquirk.com/2010/05/06/some-days-youre-the-pigeon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 19:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grumping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[.. most days, you&#8217;re the statue. Today, I have been the statue. Or should that be &#8216;statues&#8217;? Blocked drains and bolshy neighbours are always a good start. Especially when this has happened twice before, and every time I have to put in a lot of time and effort to prove that the fault is with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mars Bar Movies</title>
		<link>http://thespiralquirk.com/2010/05/02/mars-bar-movies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 14:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grumping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all been to the cinema, or sat at home, and been disappointed by a film for which we had high &#8211; or even just reasonable &#8211; expectations. Lately, I seem to be on a roll for having my expectations dashed. Take &#8216;Avatar&#8217; for example. I&#8217;d read enough to know that I didn&#8217;t have high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weeping, Wailing &amp; Gnashing of Teeth &#8230; and a smile</title>
		<link>http://thespiralquirk.com/2009/04/14/weeping-wailing-gnashing-of-teeth-and-a-smile/</link>
		<comments>http://thespiralquirk.com/2009/04/14/weeping-wailing-gnashing-of-teeth-and-a-smile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grumping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All of the above occurred recently. Oh, joy. We had a duff &#8216;net connection for weeks, yet BT kept telling me &#8211; after testing the phone line &#8211; that there was nothing wrong with it. Grump. I changed the microfilters. Then I changed the cables. Then I went to a lot of trouble to connect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some people are way too touchy</title>
		<link>http://thespiralquirk.com/2008/11/03/some-people-are-way-too-touchy/</link>
		<comments>http://thespiralquirk.com/2008/11/03/some-people-are-way-too-touchy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grumping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier tonight I came across a link to a photographer&#8217;s site where he&#8217;s displaying an amazing 17 gigapixel panorama of Yosemite. &#8220;Wow&#8221; I thought &#8220;I know a lot of the regulars on a photography forum I frequent would like to see that.&#8221; So today happens to be the day before the Election in the USA, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zero Credibility</title>
		<link>http://thespiralquirk.com/2008/07/13/zero-credibility/</link>
		<comments>http://thespiralquirk.com/2008/07/13/zero-credibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art in general]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fractal Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grumping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Orbittrap *big sigh* Yes, I broke my new vow to myself as a result of a comment made by a friend and went to read their latest post. Here&#8217;s a few of the adjectives that popped into my head while reading it: Pathetic Stupid Small-minded Desperate Disingenuous Deluded Nasty Malicious Odious Peevish Despicable Puerile Contemptible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flagellation, Necrophilia and Bestiality</title>
		<link>http://thespiralquirk.com/2008/04/25/flagellation-necrophilia-and-bestiality/</link>
		<comments>http://thespiralquirk.com/2008/04/25/flagellation-necrophilia-and-bestiality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fractal Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grumping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, it&#8217;s an old phrase (I believe it was even funny at one stage ) but will some people never stop beating the proverbial dead horse? The self-styled guardians of ethics and professionalism over at OT are still banging the drum about the Fractal Universe Calendar. Poor lovies haven&#8217;t had a reply from the publishers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I know I shouldn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://thespiralquirk.com/2008/03/18/i-know-i-shouldnt/</link>
		<comments>http://thespiralquirk.com/2008/03/18/i-know-i-shouldnt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fractal Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grumping]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thespiralquirk.com/blog/2008/03/18/i-know-i-shouldnt/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;but, like the proverbial trainwreck, it&#8217;s compulsive. And leaves one with a nasty taste in one&#8217;s mouth. OrbitTrap is, still, going out of its way to make mountains out of molehills and proving itself a master of misinterpretation, spin and delusion. It&#8217;s all very well people ignoring them but alternative views can, and should, be [...]]]></description>
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