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	<title>John Carling&#039;s Weblog</title>
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	<description>Isn&#039;t life wonderful!</description>
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		<title>Impartial reporting?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like two Labour MPs who are on the way out sent a text message to every other Labour MP. 
The media including the BBC seems to have managed to turn this into a story. For a while it was the main news item on the BBC. 
The BBC call this batch of text [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncarling.com/weblog/?p=175</link>
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		<title>Self service checkout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an article on the BBC website about self service checkouts. Personally I try to avoid these as I can imagine a dreadful future where there is one low-paid, very bored shop assistant per supermarket and banks of self service machines. The BBC article seems to think I want someone to speak to. Maybe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncarling.com/weblog/?p=171</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m left wondering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Supermarkets check to see what sells and then replace it. At least that is the theory. If it were true why would they ever run out of the stuff that  we want? 
I was reminded of this when I tried to buy semi-skimmed filtered milk the other day. It was the only sort of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncarling.com/weblog/?p=167</link>
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		<title>If anyone hasn&#8217;t noticed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 25th aniversary of the Bhopal disaster
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8390156.stm
It is estimated that 20,000 have died since the accident from gas-related diseases. Another 100,000 to 200,000 people are estimated to have permanent injuries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
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		<link>http://www.johncarling.com/weblog/?p=162</link>
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		<title>Local travel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m lucky to live in a town with excellent buses. The bus company recently won UK Bus Operator of the Year. 
One of the reasons this company is so good is the real time bus information provided at an increasing number of stops. Now you know how long you have to wait. 
Not all stops [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncarling.com/weblog/?p=158</link>
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		<title>Media’s self obsession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Philippines have just suffered a major flood and Samoa has experienced a tsunami. Labour are having their party conference.
Why then is the BBC main story ‘Brown loses Sun newspaper backing’? 
Who cares about this tabloid’s carefully planned campaign? Why is that the most important news item and why is it more important than Gordon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncarling.com/weblog/?p=156</link>
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		<title>Overheard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slightly baffled when I saw a dog wearing what looked like a 10 year old child&#8217;s stripped t-shirt. I was just thinking how unusual that was, especially given it was one of the hottest days we have had this year, when I overheard the owner talking to another woman:
&#8220;Anyway SHE should be ashamed of herself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncarling.com/weblog/?p=154</link>
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		<title>Expensive Expenses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[William Hague was on the latest Question Time and I have just noticed the headline on the BBC website &#8220;Hague warns MPs of &#8216;fraud risk&#8217; &#8220;.  That made me laugh.
People have a right to be represented by their MPs. It seems to me that failure to represent us is far more serious than an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncarling.com/weblog/?p=148</link>
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		<title>Talkng the economy down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tories have spent the last week indignantly spreading dirt about one of Labour&#8217;s &#8216;Advisors&#8217; spreading the same stuff. I wouldn&#8217;t mind too much but the Tories have a long and ignoble tradition of doing the same thing; the infamous demon eyes poster, for example. It is just slightly surprising that most journalists don&#8217;t want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncarling.com/weblog/?p=143</link>
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		<title>Free &#8211; why are people afraid of free?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many Content Management Systems (CMS) are free. That is, they are open source.  That means free to everyone I know. People like me develop them for fun. Some people develop them to do something meaningful. Others because then they become very employable. These CMS aren&#8217;t branded with anything other than your branding; they don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncarling.com/weblog/?p=140</link>
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