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		<title>I&#8217;m quite liking so far</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so this is my first proper entry with MacJournal and despite the negative feedback I&#8217;ve read in the past, I&#8217;m actually quite liking it so far.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidmcmanus.com&amp;blog=845430&amp;post=433&amp;subd=mcmanus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Camping. The Good, The Bad &amp; The Sweary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Really enjoying our camping trip. Just a shame that Mad Jock McMad and his family of inbreeds has pitched up next to us. They are obviously homeless because he keeps shouting about the council and swearing endlessly at his wife and young children. So, a tranquil spot with hills and sea views &#8211; and a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidmcmanus.com&amp;blog=845430&amp;post=411&amp;subd=mcmanus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Private school</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I send my daughter to a private school. It&#8217;s a lovely, wonderful, happy place and every day I love the fact that she is there and in a class with just about 10 other girls. The school has the most perfect feeling of calm and caring. Mollie becomes a teenager this year and she has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidmcmanus.com&amp;blog=845430&amp;post=410&amp;subd=mcmanus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An entry from my iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I thought I&#8217;d try submitting something from my phone. Don&#8217;t really know why &#8211; I&#8217;m quite convinced that it will work &#8211; probably just to see how easy it will be. This just in&#8230; it&#8217;s easy. The biggest hassle of all is that I need to get up from my desk, deep within an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidmcmanus.com&amp;blog=845430&amp;post=409&amp;subd=mcmanus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time to rekindle the blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided to start the blog again. It has lapsed beyond any usefulness over the past year but I&#8217;m going to rectify that &#8211; starting today. I enjoy writing and spend rather a lot of my time doing it, so why not inflict submit some of it to a blog? Topics will, I am sure, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidmcmanus.com&amp;blog=845430&amp;post=407&amp;subd=mcmanus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Arundel Tomb</title>
		<link>http://davidmcmanus.com/2010/03/06/an-arundel-tomb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed armour, stiffened pleat, And that faint hint of the absurd - The little dogs under their feet. Such plainness of the pre-baroque Hardly involves the eye, until It meets his left-hand gauntlet, still Clasped empty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidmcmanus.com&amp;blog=845430&amp;post=397&amp;subd=mcmanus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Travels in ebook land</title>
		<link>http://davidmcmanus.com/2010/03/02/travels-in-ebook-land/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not content with spending a measly 90 percent of my day staring at one screen or another, last week I gave into temptation and bought an ebook reader. Wandering around Waterstones waiting for my daughter to finally settle on her choices, the four books I was clutching already feeling like a generous slice of Canadian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidmcmanus.com&amp;blog=845430&amp;post=393&amp;subd=mcmanus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the Virgin Media bait once again</title>
		<link>http://davidmcmanus.com/2009/12/28/taking-the-virgin-media-bait-once-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s coming up to the one year anniversary of my attempt to have a Virgin Media cable broadband connection into my house. Actually, the installation of the cable went perfectly smoothly, it’s just that it refused to carry a signal greater than one 100th of the advertised speed. My encountered shenanigans with the company were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidmcmanus.com&amp;blog=845430&amp;post=388&amp;subd=mcmanus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All aboard for a boring flight</title>
		<link>http://davidmcmanus.com/2009/12/28/all-aboard-for-a-boring-flight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the recent failed terrorist attack on a US aeroplane, if you have a trip to America planned for the new year, ready yourself for some unpredictable rules being applied at airport check-ins. According to reports at the time of writing &#8211; right between Christmas and New Year &#8211; some flights are actually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidmcmanus.com&amp;blog=845430&amp;post=386&amp;subd=mcmanus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Murdoch: he speak with forked tongue</title>
		<link>http://davidmcmanus.com/2009/10/20/murdoch-he-speak-with-forked-tongue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s campaign to put an end to free online news content has become well-known, having been given countless broadcasting minutes and newspaper inches (not least in this particular column) since the media giant said he intended to start charging to read his websites. His paid subscription model has yet to begin but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidmcmanus.com&amp;blog=845430&amp;post=385&amp;subd=mcmanus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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