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	<description>a view from a dark hill</description>
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		<title>The Family Office revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As expected, my first attempt at a Family Tree for Star/Open/LibreOffice has resulted in some useful feedback (thank you), so here is a new version of the chart (and I suspect it may not be the last revision&#8230;).]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2012/02/the-family-office-revisited/</link>
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		<title>The Family Office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When a 16 year old German started work on a word processor in 1984, I bet he had little idea of the software dynasty he was founding. At one stage there were at least six distinct descendants, all claiming to offer something special to computer users looking for an alternative to Microsoft&#8217;s Office software. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2012/01/the-family-office/</link>
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		<title>Applying a HandBrake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems every new piece of technology brings a new problem. When we decorated our living room recently we bought a new Panasonic flat screen telly and a blu-ray disc player, thereby introducing us to the wonderful world of HD TV and being able to see every hair on the polar bear in Frozen Planet (yes, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2011/12/applying-a-handbrake/</link>
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		<title>What can be so bad about Sustainable Development?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Government tries to redefine sustainable development to meet its own agenda]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2011/10/what-can-be-so-bad-about-sustainable-development/</link>
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		<title>Elephants never forget &#8211; why can&#8217;t computers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If computers have so much memory, why are they so good at losing things? Say you are working on a great masterpiece &#8220;War and Peace Revisited&#8221; over several weeks. Why is it that every time you do &#8216;File -&#62; Save&#8217;, the computer immediately forgets everything you have done, except the very latest version? It doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2011/08/elephants-never-forget-why-cant-computers/</link>
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		<title>Summer time &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we had our first day of blue skies and unbroken sunshine since May 1st, and our solar PV system installed last November recorded a new high for a day&#8217;s energy generated &#8211; 25.67kWh, beating the May 1st figure of 24.08kWh. What&#8217;s interesting is that the peak power in the middle of the day in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2011/07/summer-time/</link>
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		<title>Travellers&#8217; tales from Palestine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across two accounts of American tourists in Palestine &#8211; the first one filled me with despair; the second one with hope. See what affect they have on you. The first was an account of a &#8220;mission&#8221; to Israel by Americans For A Safe Israel (AFSI) (do watch the embedded video). I should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2011/06/travellers-tales-from-palestine/</link>
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		<title>FiT for purpose?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just submitted the quarterly meter reading of the electricity produced by our solar PV system so we can receive our Feed In Tariff (FiT) payments. The good news is that &#8211; thanks to a sunny April &#8211; the system is on track to meet its design output for the year. The bad news is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2011/06/fit-for-purpose/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a name?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During my time working in IT in big corporates, I would occasionally come across places where the use of open source software was &#8216;against company policy&#8217; for one reason or another. I refrained from asking them to investigate their firewalls, routers, digital cameras, printers, photocopiers, etc. etc., but I did occasionally ask them which webservers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2011/06/whats-in-a-name/</link>
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		<title>The process of peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless you&#8217;re well versed in Irish history, it&#8217;s hard to appreciate the significance of the Queen&#8217;s visit to Ireland that ended yesterday. The history of Britain&#8217;s occupation of Ireland goes back four centuries, with many of the familiar elements of colonial domination: the seizure of land by settlers with an alien language and religion; callous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2011/05/the-process-of-peace/</link>
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