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		<title>Save the libraries!</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2011/02/save-the-libraries</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Save Our Libraries Day, a national day of protest, action and awareness raising against library cuts. I&#8217;ve been using libraries for almost my entire life. I can just about (albeit hazily) remember being 3 or 4 and going &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2011/02/save-the-libraries">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of geeks</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/07/in-praise-of-geeks</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favourite radio programmes is Laurie Taylor&#8217;s Thinking Allowed on Radio 4&#8230; it manages to hit a nice middle ground of eclectic, intelligent discussion without going full-on academic. A recent edition focused on the concept of fandom, specifically &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/07/in-praise-of-geeks">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Plum Pie</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/09/plum-pie</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A celebration of our finest humorous writer? At a distinguished bookshop in Mayfair? Plum Pie: The Life &#038; Work of PG Wodehouse With tours of Wodehousean Mayfair by a Lt-Col Murphy? How could a chap possibly miss such an opportunity? &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/09/plum-pie">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wholesomeness transcends cultural boundaries</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/07/camp-ques</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camp Quest, the summer &#8220;freethought&#8221; camp, has come to Britain and is running right now. Some of the froth in the media has been amusing (particularly the hilarious Dawkins sets up kids&#8217; camp to groom atheists in the Sunday Times) &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/07/camp-ques">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Infinite Summer</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/05/infinite-summer</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/05/infinite-summer#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 23:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.spaghetti-factory.co.uk/?p=426</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; or &#8220;why I love Twitter #237&#8243;. One of my Twitter friends (or followers, if you prefer) is the groovy solo bassist Steve Lawson. In one of his tweets he mentioned his namesake. I&#8217;m a nosey Twitterer, and regularly follow &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/05/infinite-summer">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Save Bletchley Park</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/02/save-bletchley-park</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.spaghetti-factory.co.uk/?p=349</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No idea whether these Number 10 petitions ever work, but this is a vitally important campaign&#8230; Saving Bletchley Park Would we ever have to petition the government to save the Cabinet War Rooms? No, of course not. In terms of &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/02/save-bletchley-park">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Preserve Auschwitz!</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/01/auschwitz-cash-crisis</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/01/auschwitz-cash-crisis#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cash crisis threat to Auschwitz (BBC) That&#8217;s worrying. I&#8217;m amazed that a site of such historical importance could ever find itself in such a precarious financial position&#8230; it&#8217;s on the UNESCO list of world heritage sites, and Poland is now &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/01/auschwitz-cash-crisis">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Does Satch have a case?</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2008/12/satch-vs-coldplay</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Guitar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although my days of listening wide-eyed to Joe Satriani are long gone (I haven&#8217;t really enjoyed anything he&#8217;s done since 1995) I was still pretty surprised to see his name appear on the BBC website. Satch vs Coldplay in plagiarism &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2008/12/satch-vs-coldplay">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Oliver Postgate 1925-2008</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2008/12/oliver-postgate-1925-2008</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2008/12/oliver-postgate-1925-2008#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bagpuss and Ivor creator dies (BBC) A man whose quirky, homemade short films can still take me to a nostalgic place where I&#8217;m eight years old, all is right in the world and there&#8217;s going to be lots of snow &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2008/12/oliver-postgate-1925-2008">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry to go on about this, but&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2008/11/more-brand-ross</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of my own plea to &#8220;JUST LET IT LIE!&#8221; I suppose this is a bit hypocritical, but I couldn&#8217;t resist recommending the responses of two of my favourite comedy writers to the Granddaughtergate Scandal&#8230; David Mitchell &#8211; How &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2008/11/more-brand-ross">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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