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	<description>Accept the Contradictions</description>
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		<title>Opening a Door to reminiscence of times past</title>
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One of my favourite places in the whole world: Durdle Door, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset. 
Well actually, the Door itself I can take or leave, although I quite liked being able to catch sunset through it thanks to the fact that I was there on a very spring-like day in January. You can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contented.life.eu.org/articles/opening-a-door-to-reminiscence-of-times-past/</link>
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		<title>Terminal features wishlist: #1: Paste Intercept</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
A terminal program should have sufficient intelligence to recognise that, when (a) it is at a shell prompt, and (b) the user has just middle-clicked and sent hundreds of lines from the copy-paste buffer hurtling towards the shell prompt, the user may have made a mistake, the user&#8217;s mouse inadvertantly striking some object perhaps&#8230; and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contented.life.eu.org/articles/terminal-features-wishlist-1-paste-intercept/</link>
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		<title>Jesus Christ on Ayahuasca</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I looked at the sacred tea with its deep red colour, almost glowing with power, it occurred to me, probably not for the first time, that this would have made a lot more sense as the &#8220;wine&#8221; of the Last Supper, than actual wine. 
I was brought up as a Christian. But never fully [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contented.life.eu.org/articles/jesus-christ-on-ayahuasca/</link>
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		<title>M-Audio Xponent Woe - an update</title>
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You may have read my generally glowing review of the M-Audio Xponent. I&#8217;ve been meaning to update you all with some important news on that front. After I wrote the review, my Xponent developed a fault. I&#8217;d had it less than a month, and it had had only fairly light use, maybe 8-10 hours total.

One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contented.life.eu.org/articles/m-audio-xponent-woe/</link>
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		<title>M-Audio Xponent + Linux + mixxx</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Updated: 2007/07/27 - New section on LEDs. Update on mixxx SVN.

In case any of you who have read my review of the M-Audio Xponent are thinking of getting one and wondering &#8220;but will it work under Linux?&#8221;, the short answer is a resounding Yes!&#8230; except for the LEDs, so far. More on that later.


  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contented.life.eu.org/articles/m-audio-xponent-linux-mixxx/</link>
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		<title>M-Audio Xponent review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Update: After you&#8217;ve read this article, before you rush out and buy one of these, you should read this update (don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;ll link to it at the bottom of the page too.


It&#8217;s rare for me to suffer from &#8220;gear lust&#8221; but the M-Audio Xponent set my pulse racing when I discovered it on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contented.life.eu.org/articles/m-audio-xponent-review/</link>
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		<title>import_request_variables(): When will PHP stop being insecure by design?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Re Bugtraq post PHP import_request_variables() arbitrary variable overwrite.
This sort of thing really brings it home how the PHP core team still
don&#8217;t seem to really understand security&#8230; or would rather sacrifice it
in the name of backwards, very backwards, compatibility.
If you&#8217;re going to provide a function like import_request_variables()
to replace the blatantly-unsafe register_globals, how on earth can you
get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contented.life.eu.org/articles/php-import-request-variables-rant/</link>
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		<title>The greatest threat to our way of life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Police are calling for flag burning to be made illegal. Why? Allegedly because &#8220;Britain [has] come to be seen at home and abroad as soft on extremist demonstrators.&#8221; (my emphasis). 
Oh really? That&#8217;s why we&#8217;ve just had a successful prosecution of a demonstrator for inciting racial hatred. If demonstrators really are extremist, they can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contented.life.eu.org/articles/the-greatest-threat-to-our-way-of-life/</link>
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		<title>Belief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Do you believe in God?&#8221; she asked. The trouble is, &#8220;God&#8221; is such a loaded word/concept. So is &#8220;believe&#8221;. 
My current quest is for experience. Belief is, by definition, outside experience: it&#8217;s an attempt to explain experience &#8212; at best your own, at worst someone else&#8217;s &#8212; to cage it and control it. Having been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contented.life.eu.org/articles/belief/</link>
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		<title>Wine (a cautionary tale)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I poured a glass of wine and then returned to the slightly over-ambitious cooking project underway (sesame-crusted marlin steak with steamed broccoli and cauli and red leicester cheese sauce &#8212; only over-ambitious because it involved doing everything all at once (including washing up when I discovered I didn&#8217;t have basic implements like saucepans and wooden [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://contented.life.eu.org/articles/wine-a-cautionary-tale/</link>
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