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	<title>David North</title>
	<link>http://www.dnorth.net</link>
	<description>The scribblings of an Oxford-based geek</description>
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		<title>mod_wsgi delivers on the promise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been over a year since I deployed Django in production, and I wasn&#8217;t looking forward to it. Last time, I had a lot of trouble with mod_python, sessions and decimal objects refuising to pickle.
Thankfully, all this really seems to have grown up in the last year &#8211; mod_wsgi is now the recommended way of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2010/03/08/mod_wsgi-delivers-on-the-promise/</link>
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		<title>2010 will be a bad year for IPv4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2010 will be a bad year for IPv4 &#8211; this is exactly why I designated native IPv6 support as fundamental, not merely a &#8220;nice-to-have&#8221;, when setting up Splice last July. Hats of to Bytemark for supplying IPv6 with their hosting. I&#8217;m sure the fact that it&#8217;s excluded from their SLA is something that won&#8217;t be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2010/01/26/2010-will-be-a-bad-year-for-ipv4/</link>
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		<title>Manipulating Maildirs with Python</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My e-mail still isn&#8217;t as shiny as I&#8217;d like. In particular, my use of Exim Filters to sort incoming mail into folders lacks the ability to mark messages as read (although it&#8217;s still miles ahead of the dreaded Procmail). This would be handy for high-traffic mailing lists which I don&#8217;t have time to read on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2010/01/16/manipulating-maildirs-with-python/</link>
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		<title>Bogroll 0.2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, I hacked together a stateless RSS reader called Bogroll.
It&#8217;s been doing sterling service for me at news.dnorth.net ever since. Today, I&#8217;ve sorted out a 0.2 release with the following improvements:

Now caches etags/Last-Modified headers to avoid fetching a feed if it hasn&#8217;t changed since last time (thank you, Mark Pilgrim, for chapter 14 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2009/12/27/bogroll-0-2/</link>
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		<title>The end of the year as we know it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the turkey is (at least partly) eaten, the mince pies are disappearing fast, the wrapping paper has been picked up off the floor and the presents played with. 2009 is done.
It&#8217;s hard to say what I&#8217;ll remember 2009 most for, because it&#8217;s been such a packed year for me. Perhaps I&#8217;ll remeber it as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2009/12/26/the-end-of-the-year-as-we-know-it/</link>
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		<title>A narrow escape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s be honest about this. Looking back, I should have known better. Nevertheless, as I describe the problem that ate far too many hours of my weekend, judge for yourself whether I was entirely to blame for How It Went&#8230;
The problem
A friend of mine has a laptop. It&#8217;s about five years old, and it runs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2009/12/06/a-narrow-escape/</link>
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		<title>Thunderbird in &#8216;not actually useless&#8217; shocker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve long been of the opinion that Firefox and Thunderbird are a bit like democracy: aclaimed far and wide as major achievements and bastions of a civilised society, but actually, honestly, a bit crap in many ways. Sadly, we&#8217;re stuck with all three until someone manages to come up with some compelling alternatives.
If you&#8217;re reaching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2009/11/09/thunderbird-in-not-actually-useless-shocker/</link>
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		<title>Spotify on Linux problems?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear lazyweb, does anyone else find that Spotify mysteriously hangs at the &#8220;logging in&#8221; stage when run under Wine? This suddenly happend on both my Linux boxes after it had been working fine for weeks.
Various posts on the Ubuntu forums suggested firewall issues, but nothing had changed, and Spotify continue to work on Windows on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2009/10/15/spotify-on-linux-problems/</link>
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		<title>Ubuntu on the Advent 4211 ready for primetime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just installed Ubuntu Jaunty fresh onto a new ext4 partition on my Advent 4211 netbook. Am delighted to report that WiFi, suspend and hibernate all work flawlessly out of the box, so I can finally stop using Windows on this machine.
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		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2009/07/28/ubuntu-on-the-advent-4211-ready-for-primetime/</link>
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		<title>We all love miniturization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing what sort of shrinkage &#8211; both in size and price &#8211; you can miss if you&#8217;re not buying in a particular market. Yesterday, out for lunch with some friends, one of them showed off his latest toy, a 2GB USB drive. Which, as you can see even in these amateurish photos, is similar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2009/07/28/we-all-love-miniturization/</link>
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