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	<title>Francis Sedgemore</title>
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		<title>Olympic torch relay? I&#8217;d rather clean my toilet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 10:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s to the enterprising Truro roast pork seller who attempted to rename her market stall &#8220;Olympigs&#8221;, and fell foul of branding rules. This praise comes from a vegetarian! Otherwise, the Olympic torch relay through England&#8217;s southwest, or, for that matter, anywhere else in these benighted and economically stagnant isles, is of no interest to me. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook flops</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 18:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After all the hype, it took no more than a couple of days of trading for Facebook&#8217;s share price to fall below its flotation value. That&#8217;s quite funny, but absolutely hysterical is the following comment from market analyst Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights &#038; Strategy, as reported by the BBC… &#8220;The market is just not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just switch the damn thing off!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an exquisite example of middle-class angst, the Observer yesterday ran a piece by Open University professor John Naughton, who discusses the curse of the ‘always on’ connectivity of office computer and smartphone messaging. I don&#8217;t mean to be hard on Naughton, for I broadly agree with the thesis that the so-called &#8220;cycle of responsiveness&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple iCar prototype revealed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 11:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The late Steve Jobs, mobile phone salesman of the Parish of Cupertino, had dreams of building a car, according to Apple board member Mickey Drexler. Jobs&#8217; iCar never saw the light of day, but if it had, the magical vehicle would have grabbed 50% market share, says Drexler. Here we reveal an early prototype of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burn the Wapping Witch!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must admit to a twinge of schadenfreude on hearing the news this morning that former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been charged along with her husband Charlie and diverse others with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. This is a serious criminal allegation which could lead to a substantial prison sentence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thames cable car &#8211; sick bags advised</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I was cycling around the London docklands, on the day that the passenger gondolas for the new Thames cable car were first being tested. I have followed with interest the construction of the so-called &#8220;Emirates Air Line&#8221;, which is recently re-elected Tory mayor Boris Johnson&#8217;s latest vanity project. Seeing the cars installed and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leveson Inquiry (part 9,999) &#8211; With friends like this, who needs enemies?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 12:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tory nobs need no help in public portrayal as prats, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped former News of the Screws editor and News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks stabbing her close friend David Cameron in the back with a reference today at the Leveson Inquiry to the prime minister&#8217;s understanding of ‘textspeak’. Next, Rupert Murdoch uses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This hairdresser killed fascists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 15:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[English Jew, Second World War soldier, football fanatic and hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, co-founder of the Brownshirt-bashing 43 Group, is no more. A sad loss to humanity, following a life well lived.]]></description>
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		<title>The Interwebs: a reflection of a sad, sick world?</title>
		<link>http://sedgemore.com/2012/05/the-interwebs-a-reflection-of-a-sad-sick-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been said by many, myself included, that blogs, pseudoblogs and other Internet discussion forums bring out the worst in people. That is, in an environment inhabited by vicious trolls with silly monikers, in which no-one knows you&#8217;re a dog, there is a tendency to unleash one&#8217;s inner wanker. The rest is good business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A penguin named Francis</title>
		<link>http://sedgemore.com/2012/05/a-penguin-named-francis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 17:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somebody at EUMETSAT in Darmstadt with too much time on their hands, and an overactive imagination straining under the crushing weight of an international civil service bureaucracy, this afternoon input the following search string into Google… &#8220;francis sedgemore virtualised emperor penguin&#8221; Peculiar, maybe, but at least they had the decency to use proper European spelling.]]></description>
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