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	<title>Meall Dubh</title>
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	<description>a view from a dark hill</description>
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		<title>Shower, downpour, or drizzle?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d seen a number of adverts for aerated showers. The idea&#8217;s simple &#8211; just replace your existing showerhead (a five second swap) and you can significantly reduce your water consumption every time you shower. The claim is that aerated showers give the same &#8216;feel&#8217;, but use much less water. For around £20, it seemed a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/03/12/shower-downpour-or-drizzle/</link>
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		<title>Digging for victory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired partly by the Transition Town meeting last night &#8211; but more so by the lovely spring weather &#8211; we decided it was time to start turning the gravel bed at the back of the house into four productive raised beds for growing veggies. But what would we find under the stones? had the previous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/03/04/digging-for-victory/</link>
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		<title>Kendal &#8211; Transition Town no. 271(-ish)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a public meeting last night, Kendal was formally announced as the latest Transition Town (there are apparently around 270). South Lakes Action on Climate Change, a local pressure group, announced they had successfully passed the audit to achieve TT status. The town mayor and local MP were there to add their congratulations.
TT&#8217;s grew as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/03/04/kendal-transition-town-no-271-ish/</link>
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		<title>New features prove a hit with users of OpenOffice.org</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The OpenOffice.org Marketing Project produces daily statistics for the number of people downloading the software from our central download site. You can always see the latest version here &#8211; and an explanation of why this is a big underestimate of the number of people adopting OpenOffice.org here.
Today&#8217;s graph (saved on this blog &#8211; click on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/03/03/new-features-prove-a-hit-with-users-of-openoffice-org/</link>
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		<title>Wanted &#8211; a tea cosy for our house</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We bought our new house in January with the intention of &#8216;greening&#8217; it as a retirement project. We&#8217;d been reading resources such as the Green Building Magazine, the Green Building Bible, T-Zero, the Energy Saving Trust, etc. High on the list was improving the insulation of the walls. The house was built in the 1920s, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/03/01/wanted-a-tea-cosy-for-our-house/</link>
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		<title>A tale of two whys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four years ago, the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project put together some web pages to present the case for using OpenOffice.org, which we called Why OpenOffice.org? It&#8217;s a sign of the increasing level of worry in Microsoft that they have now produced their own Why Microsoft? pages.
The recent launch of OpenOffice.org 3.2 ahead of MS-Office has scored [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/02/19/a-tale-of-two-whys/</link>
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		<title>A small victory against the para-sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Accordingly, it is Ordered that the &#60;openoffice2009.com&#62;, &#60;openoffice-gratuit.com&#62;, &#60;openoffice09fr.com&#62;, &#60;openoffice-fr.com&#62;, &#60;openoffice-pt.com&#62;, &#60;openoffice-pl.com&#62;, and &#60;openoffice-nl.com&#62; domain names be TRANSFERRED from Respondent to Complainant..
With this ruling, Sun Microsystems has scored a victory against one operator of para-sites &#8211; sites which extract money from naive people searching for OpenOffice.org &#8211; a free download.
Unfortunately, it is only a small [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/02/17/a-small-victory-against-the-para-sites/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s been so long&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At last &#8230; we now have a temperamental but intermittently usable broadband connection at home &#8230; and so much has happened in the past month. The first ever face to face (f2f) meeting of the OpenOffice.org Community Council outwith a Conference &#8230; and OpenOffice.org 3.2 is announced to the community and to the world (after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/02/14/its-been-so-long/</link>
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		<title>3 weeks in Coventry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the evil tricks we used to play as kids was &#8220;sending someone to Coventry&#8221; &#8211; refusing to speak to them &#8211; a juvenile form of solitary confinement. Since moving house three weeks ago, I have been without broadband, and feel as if I have been &#8220;sent to Coventry&#8221; as far as taking part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/02/04/3-weeks-in-coventry/</link>
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		<title>OpenOffice.org in internet cafes threat to Microsoft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another week, another example of how Microsoft is being forced to react to the increasing adoption of OpenOffice.org as the 2010 office software of choice. Clearly worried by OpenOffice.org&#8217;s increasing market share, Microsoft has been forced to change its licencing terms in an attempt to hold on to its internet cafe business. Directions on Microsoft [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/01/12/openoffice-org-in-internet-cafes-threat-to-microsoft/</link>
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