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	<title>David North</title>
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		<title>Over-engineering and how it makes people&#8217;s lives worse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an acid test that we as engineers should always subject our creations to: do they make life better for the end user? &#8220;Better&#8221; is perhaps quite difficult to quantify, but you can always approach the problem from the opposite direction and see if you&#8217;ve made things worse. This is something British Gas&#8217;s man clearly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2011/12/27/over-engineering-and-how-it-makes-peoples-lives-worse/</link>
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		<title>2011 summarized</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a very busy year Still working for CFL and enjoying it very much Now living in a much nicer house (not damp! luxury!) Still helping balance the books for St Columba&#8217;s Oh, and let&#8217;s check on the outcome of that 2011 geek wishlist&#8230; That Debian Squeeze will release in Q1 2011 Granted, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2011/12/21/2011-summarized/</link>
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		<title>India diary, day 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In June/July 2010 I spent ten days travelling in Rajasthan, India with friends; this is my diary of the trip (full list of entries here). Got up at 9.30 and boarded my taxi to the terminal. Cheeky driver actually asked for his tip, but what the heck, he carried my case for me; better than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2011/12/21/india-diary-day-10/</link>
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		<title>India diary, day 9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In June/July 2010 I spent ten days travelling in Rajasthan, India with friends; this is my diary of the trip (full list of entries here). Rose early to find the storm over and a nice pleasant day forming outside. Walked into town and went to see an old palace, a throwback to the British empire, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2011/12/21/india-diary-day-9/</link>
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		<title>India diary, day 8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In June/July 2010 I spent ten days travelling in Rajasthan, India with friends; this is my diary of the trip (full list of entries here). Today, we drove back as far as Jodhpur, where we dismissed our driver at the airport; there was a slight argument as he tried to gouge us for a bigger [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2011/12/21/india-diary-day-8/</link>
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		<title>India Diary, day 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In June/July 2010 I spent ten days travelling in Rajasthan, India with friends; this is my diary of the trip (full list of entries here). The morning after our camel ride, we woke up on our camp beds in the desert, feeling surprisingly refreshed. After breakfasting on bananas and cake, we set off back to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2011/12/21/india-diary-day-7/</link>
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		<title>India diary, day 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In June/July 2010 I spent ten days travelling in Rajasthan, India with friends; this is my diary of the trip (full list of entries here). Day six of our epic trip, and we&#8217;re off on the third leg, travelling north to Jaisalmer, on the edge of the desert near Pakistan. It&#8217;s apparently likely to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2011/12/21/india-diary-day-6/</link>
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		<title>India diary, day 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In June/July 2010 I spent ten days travelling in Rajasthan, India with friends; this is my diary of the trip (full list of entries here). I was quite ill today and spent it in the hotel feeling sorry for myself. Still; I had company &#8211; K also feeling pretty ropey. Happily we were both feeling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2011/12/21/india-diary-day-5/</link>
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		<title>Repairing a Fitbug which has been through the washing machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reader, are you an idiot? Let me quantify that slightly. Are you the sort of person who gets up on a Saturday morning and puts a load of washing on without checking the pockets? And realises that your Fitbug is getting a wash it could have done without? I am. I&#8217;ve done this before, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2011/10/01/fitbug-washingmachine/</link>
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		<title>Christmas trains: co-incidence or conspiracy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having booked myself the obvious three days off work in December to join up the bank holiday weekends for Christmas and New Year, I thought I might as well book the train tickets back home too. Logged on to RSH (one of the few operators still willing to post you the tickets for free) and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dnorth.net/2011/09/26/christmas-trains-co-incidence-or-conspiracy/</link>
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