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		<title>Holy Orders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, yesterday marked the day that the new Blasphemy law came into force in Ireland. It also marked the day when Atheist Ireland published 25 &#8220;blasphemous&#8221; quotes, in a supposed act of defiance. 

Atheist Ireland have gone about it in a very strange way; the url in their blog post is not a hyperlink, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2010/01/02/holy-orders/</link>
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		<title>Point Break</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, about 2 minutes after taking this photo; 

I slipped on the paraffin-laden solid granite pavement, everything went flying, and I ended up getting a very different kind of photo entirely;

That&#8217;s my right arm, and somewhere in there a minimally-deforming radial fracture that I don&#8217;t remotely have the training to actually see. Though I definitely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/12/28/point-break/</link>
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		<title>Con-science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting on a train, the Enterprise, moving along at about 140 kilometers per hour between Drogheda and Dublin. Something is causing practically every particle in my body to spark into a new life at a different position in space one instant to the next. 

For each one of those particles, there&#8217;s some chance it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/12/16/con-science/</link>
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		<title>Role Models</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Consciously, I&#8217;ve never been keen on the idea of role-models. Thinking it synonymous with hero-worship, it has always seemed a bit of an anti-pattern to me. Why try to emulate anyone?  There are enough people in the world behaving the same as someone else, being different and original is definitely more useful, even if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/12/13/role-models/</link>
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		<title>Period Pain 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised, though it&#8217;s been a while coming, I wrote that there&#8217;d be a followup on scheduling periodic tasks. 
The most important point to get is that for nearly all real-world use cases the actual time that a &#8220;scheduled&#8221; task runs at doesn&#8217;t matter. Tasks that have to occur at a specific time on Tuesday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/11/26/period-pain-3/</link>
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		<title>Period Pain part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about problems with periodicity but it was only half of the problem. But before moving on to the second half, it seems like a good time to post with some clarifications. 
I wrote that using some locally unique well-distributed value, such as a mac address, was better than choosing a random [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/09/27/period-pain-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Period Pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine it was your job &#8211; along with 1,000 other people &#8211; to pick a number between 1 and 60.  You can use any method you like (though you must use the same one), but if more than 30 of you choose the the same number, those of you who did would be shot. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/09/14/period-pain/</link>
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		<title>N+1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I rarely write introspective or meta blog posts, in fact I rarely even use the word &#8220;I&#8221; on this blog (one of the habits you should develop as a manager or team-member is to use the word &#8220;we&#8221; almost all of the time) &#8230; so I hope you&#8217;ll forgive this brief, obnoxious, self-centered, round-up of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/09/02/n1/</link>
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		<title>Fylde Alexander Guitar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost 6 months ago now, after a lot of trialling, some borrowing, and a serious think I order a new guitar. This time, it&#8217;s a Fylde Alexander guitar. It&#8217;s hand made, and now that it&#8217;s arrived &#8211; absolutely gorgeous and a joy to play. 

First things first though, I&#8217;ve managed to figure out how to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/08/18/fylde-alexander-guitar/</link>
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		<title>Hurling, the Musical</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that Riverdance is coming to a close, after 15 years as a raving success, we need another kitch Irish musical to uplift our times and kickstart an economic recovery. So, as an attempt, I give you &#8220;Hurling; The musical&#8221;, set to pipes, harps and the beat of a merry Irish heart.

Act 1:
When the curtains [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/07/18/hurling-the-musical/</link>
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