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	<title>A Mind Lost</title>
	<link>http://www.amindlost.co.uk</link>
	<description>The ramblings of a mind lost.</description>
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		<title>Twitter Tools: Call to undefined function curl_init()</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Changes to the requirements for apps connecting to Twitter have resulted in the update of the Twitter Tools plugin used in this and many other blogs to provide a twitter feed in the sidebar.  There is now a requirement for a a sequence of keys to authorize access to your twitter account.
Unfortunately, when I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amindlost.co.uk/?p=513</link>
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		<title>Reminder:  China is Huge!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, that&#8217;s a blindingly obvious statement.  But if a reminder was needed, an interesting fact reported here is that just two Chinese Internet Service Providers serve 20% of the world&#8217;s broadband users, and they&#8217;re still growing!  OK so it&#8217;s not a completely open market like in other countries but that&#8217;s still a huge proportion of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amindlost.co.uk/?p=509</link>
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		<title>UK Government Abolishes Compulsory Retirement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UK government has announced that businesses will no longer be able to insist that employees retire at 65.  At the moment, an employer is required to discuss retirement with the individual six months before their 65th birthday and while they can continue to work past that date with mutual agreement, the employer can insist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amindlost.co.uk/?p=506</link>
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		<title>MySQL Corrupt But Won&#8217;t Repair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I had a problem this week installing a second copy of WordPress on my server from which to run a personal blog.  The installation kept failing to access the database, pointing to a permissions problem.  Running a GRANT statement to give the correct privileges to the new database gave no error but on checking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amindlost.co.uk/?p=499</link>
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		<title>Am I no Longer a Geek?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I have just specced a new desktop for my desk at work and, for the first time in 20 years, I will be using a computer at home or work which I haven&#8217;t built with my own hands.  I bought an off-the-shelf Acer Veriton and all I need to do is put a dual-head [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amindlost.co.uk/?p=495</link>
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		<title>Bad Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t really post personal stuff on here as I&#8217;m very private, but I&#8217;m feeling unusually low today and need to unload a little. This post may even get deleted later if I change my mind.  Several things are weighing on me just lately:

Problems developing between my fiancee and myself.  Nothing  insurmountable because we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amindlost.co.uk/?p=481</link>
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		<title>SQL Server 2005: Missing Login Names After Restore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ As mentioned in earlier posts, as time permits I&#8217;m migrating an old SQL Server 7 installation over to a new SQL Server 2005 installation.  One of the things I came across was that even though I had Users, Roles and Permissions set up an looking OK, I was unable to run even a simple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amindlost.co.uk/?p=478</link>
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		<title>Olympics: Only VISA Accepted!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to this article today,  if you want to pay by card for London Olympic tickets and merchandise or withdraw cash from machines at Olympic venues, you will only be able to do so with a VISA branded credit/debit card! This is part of the sponsorship agreement between the London 2012 and VISA whereby VISA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amindlost.co.uk/?p=476</link>
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		<title>VirtualBox &#8211; Guest Additions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to take a quick look at Ubuntu 10.04 so I downloaded the latest VirtualBox VM software and grabbed the Ubuntu ISO so that I could just run a test on my local PC inside a virtual machine so I could play with it while doing other things.  I haven&#8217;t used VirtualBox for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amindlost.co.uk/?p=473</link>
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		<title>Typical American Response</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I see we are in typical American indignation mode at the moment.  How dare BP cause this environmental disaster on our doorstep. Lets call their CEO in and give him a dressing down.  Like any disaster, a long period of investigation is required.  It was BP&#8217;s operation but the rig was managed by Transocean, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amindlost.co.uk/?p=471</link>
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