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		<title>Dinner or tea, lunch or dinner &#8211; signs of class or the times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was pondering the words of the old advertising jingle1: I like a nice cup of tea in the morning, Just to start the day you see; And at half past eleven, Well my idea of heaven, Is a nice cup of tea. I like a nice cup off tea with my dinner, And a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alandix.com/blog/2012/02/08/dinner-or-tea-lunch-or-dinner-signs-of-class-or-the-times/</link>
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		<title>Lies vs. facts: the 26k benefits ceiling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the UK the government is proposing a ceiling on benefits of £26,000. This sounds a large figure, indeed it is the median income, so seems reasonable that someone out of work should not receive more than the average working person. The press is, of course, polarised on the issue, as is the Church of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alandix.com/blog/2012/01/29/lies-vs-facts-the-26k-benefits-ceiling/</link>
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		<title>If Kodak had been more like Apple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally Kodak has crumbled; technology and the market changed, but Kodak could not keep up. Lots of memories of those bright yellow and black film spools, and memories in photographs piled in boxes beneath the bed. But just imagine if Kodak had been more like Apple. I&#8217;m wondering about the fallout from the Kodak collapse. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alandix.com/blog/2012/01/22/if-kodak-had-been-more-like-apple/</link>
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		<title>Wikipedia blackout and why SOPA winging gets up my nose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nobody on the web can be unaware of the Wikipedia blackout, and if they haven&#8217;t heard of SOPA or PIPA before will have now.  Few who understand the issues would deny that SOPA and PIPA are misguided and ill-informed, even Apple and other software giants abandoned it, and Obama&#8217;s recent statement has effectively scuppered SOPA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alandix.com/blog/2012/01/18/wikipedia-blackout-and-why-sopa-winging-gets-up-my-nose/</link>
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		<title>tread lightly &#8212; controlling user experience pollution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When thinking about usability or user experience, it is easy to focus on the application in front of us, but the way it impacts its environment may sometimes be far more critical. However, designing applications that are friendly to their environment (digital and physical) may require deep changes to the low-level operating systems. I&#8217;m writing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alandix.com/blog/2012/01/14/tread-lightly-controlling-user-experience-pollution/</link>
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		<title>New Year and New Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a New Year and I am late with my Christmas crackers again! If you are expecting the annual virtual cracker from me it is coming &#8230; but maybe not before Twelfth Night :-/ The New Year is bringing changes, not least, as many already know, I am moving my academic role and taking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alandix.com/blog/2012/01/05/new-year-and-new-job/</link>
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		<title>changing rules of copyright on the web &#8211; the NLA case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wondering about the broader copyright implications of a case that went through the England and Wales Court of Appeal earlier this year.  The case was brought by  the NLA (Newspaper Licensing Agency) against Meltwater, who run commercial media-alert services; for example telling  you or your company when and where you have been mentioned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alandix.com/blog/2011/12/26/changing-rules-of-copyright-on-the-web-the-nla-case/</link>
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		<title>the problem with a gift – the Christmas we get we don&#8217;t deserve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Malaysia in early December was full of Christmas preparations. No nativity scenes as this is a Muslim country, but gingerbread houses, Santa Claus, and Christmas trees everywhere.  And always, in hotel lobbies, in restaurants, in shopping malls the sound of carols playing; not &#8220;Fairytale of New York&#8221; or &#8220;When a Child is Born&#8220;, but traditional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alandix.com/blog/2011/12/25/the-problem-with-a-gift-%e2%80%93-the-christmas-we-get-we-dont-deserve/</link>
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		<title>ignorance or misinformation &#8211; the press and higher education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised at poor reporting in the Mail, but it does feel slightly more serious than the other tabloids.  I should explain I have a copy of the Mail as it was the only UK paper when I got on the Malaysian Airlines plane in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday evening, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alandix.com/blog/2011/12/08/ignorance-or-misinformation-the-press-and-higher-education/</link>
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		<title>intellectual property issues in dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Had an active night of dreams last night, but my favourite point was in some sort of workshop, where we had clearly put slides on the web and someone said that we had had a &#8216;cease and desist&#8217; request concerning one of the slides.   They showed me the web page with the comment below.  Unfortunately, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alandix.com/blog/2011/11/20/intellectual-property-issues-in-dreams/</link>
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