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	<title>The Lair &#187; blather</title>
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	<description>Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup</description>
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		<title>did you really want that glass house?</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/10/did-you-really-want-that-glass-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or, things not to do with your organization&#8217;s incursion into social media.

People find out that you&#8217;re not very interesting. Or even worse, people tend to make judgments based on the content appearing in your social media profile.
Bonus points: hashtag spam on selected high value keywords. Dear god. Please stop. Now.

Once you establish that beachhead into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>tablogging</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/09/tablogging/</link>
		<comments>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/09/tablogging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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It’s frightfully hard to write a blog without feeling that it must do something: even the most humble blogger is encouraged to create a unique selling point, target a ‘laser-focussed niche’, embrace social media, spawn viral content, track stats, and have a dedicated marketing drive; they must teach and inspire, build ‘authority’, start a ‘conversation’, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the localized urban myth</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/08/the-localized-urban-myth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[srilanka]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lair.fierydragon.org/?p=528</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every culture, it seems, has a seemingly inexhaustible storehouse of axioms, homilies and quotes &#8211; usually translated as &#8220;rural wisdom&#8221;. Some of these homilies are grounded in science &#8211; for example, boil cassava roots in an open pot (to allow the toxic cyanides to evaporate).
Who the hell first discovered that? How many people died to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>checkpoint statistics</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/08/checkpoint-statistics/</link>
		<comments>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/08/checkpoint-statistics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lair.fierydragon.org/?p=522</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A small anecdotal, possibly unscientific experiment to record the checkpoint experience, as it were.
Experimental environment: reasonably modern (unfortunately coloured) car, four occupants. One occupant (namely, moi) can speak the native lingo. Everyone can speak English, albeit some with a strong accent. For reference, a couple of the occupants look unmistakably expat/foreign.
Duration: 1.5 days (essentially, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>not really a coincidence</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/07/not-really-a-coincidence/</link>
		<comments>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/07/not-really-a-coincidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lair.fierydragon.org/?p=520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So there was a partial solar eclipse going on today. Not that I really noticed &#8211; I was awake, but by the time I remembered, the celestial caravan had long since departed. This could well be the story of my life, in a sentence. I still vividly remember watching this eclipse, or at least the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>dredging up memories</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/04/dredging-up-memories/</link>
		<comments>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/04/dredging-up-memories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lair.fierydragon.org/?p=463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Been a while since I had this much free time to myself. And by free time, I really mean time that I should be spending putting the finishing touches to some work &#8211; but I&#8217;m choosing to do other things. First, books &#8211; and there is truly nothing nicer than being able to catch up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>pincher movement</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/03/pincher-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lair.fierydragon.org/?p=451</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So I have a new gadget. Have had it for a week or two now (has it just been a fortnight? It seems much longer, somehow) and I am getting used to the interface.
Or at least trying to. My distaste for the Mac OSX interface is well known. Just works isn&#8217;t good enough if I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the state of the economy</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/02/the-state-of-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/02/the-state-of-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[uk]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lair.fierydragon.org/?p=444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Freakonomics blog dissects arcana and tells us, among other things, that this whole economic thing is deceptively easy. Since everyone is a self-described economics expert these days, let me offer my anecdotal nugget of not-really-economic-wisdom.
Based on approximately the same time last year, London is doing anything between 66% and 80% worse, in an economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>we like</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/02/we-like/</link>
		<comments>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/02/we-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uk]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lair.fierydragon.org/?p=440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like to complain. This is well known. I can be the crankiest, most depressing person ever. My glass is always stolen; never mind half full or empty. I can be the black hole of negativity into which all things positive are sucked in, never to return (much like the dryer and my socks, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>and your superhero power is &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/01/and-your-superhero-power-is/</link>
		<comments>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/01/and-your-superhero-power-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[blather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[general]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lair.fierydragon.org/?p=435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Possessing fingertips which are impervious to all fingerprint scanners.
Since fingerprints and other personal information is gathered when you need to ask to travel to some countries; I submitted myself to the indignity of being treated a tad like a convicted felon. Only, try as he might &#8211; the operator simply could not get my fingerprints [...]]]></description>
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