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		<title>PC World Scam</title>
		<link>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/08/23/pc-world-scam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Science and Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA["Advertising Standards Authority"]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA["false advertising"]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA["PC World"]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA["Toshiba A300"]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA["Trading Standards"]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Currys]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dixons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Laptop]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PC World has what it calls a Collect@Store deal for some of its offers. When I tried to pick up a Toshiba A300-1bz laptop, it turned out that the only laptops the offer applies to are ex-display or refurbished. The Currys website says that: the PC World website doesn&#8217;t, which is sharp practice at least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top tip: miles, kilometres, Fibonacci</title>
		<link>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/08/13/top-tip-miles-kilometres-fibonacci/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Science and Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[maths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a useful observation: The Golden Ratio is roughly the same as the ratio between miles and kilometers. As successive terms in the Fibonacci sequence approximate the Golden Ratio, the sequence comes in handy for quick conversions.
Here are the first 20 terms:


F0
F1
F2
F3
F4
F5
F6
F7
F8
F9
F10
F11
F12
F13
F14
F15
F16
F17
F18
F19
F20


0
1
1
2
3
5
8
13
21
34
55
89
144
233
377
610
987
1597
2584
4181
6765


Using the Fibonacci, we approximate 987 miles (F16) as 1597 km. Google&#8217;s conversion tells [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transcendental IPO</title>
		<link>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/07/01/transcendental-ipo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/07/01/transcendental-ipo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Science and Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[e]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[transcendental]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Google went public, its IPO announced a intention to raise $2,718,28,183. The transcendental number e is, of course, roughly  2.71828183&#8230;.
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		<title>Snakes of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona</title>
		<link>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/06/28/snakes-of-colorado-utah-new-mexico-and-arizona/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/06/28/snakes-of-colorado-utah-new-mexico-and-arizona/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Science and Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[World and Travel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[colorado]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[snakes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As we&#8217;re off to Denver shortly for a tour of the &#8230; what do you call the area &#8230; the Southwestern States? The Mountain States? Well, anyway, we&#8217;re probably going to be taking in bits of  Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona. 
A couple of years ago two black bears ran right past us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Epiphenomenalism</title>
		<link>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/05/14/epiphenomenalis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/05/14/epiphenomenalis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 22:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Science and Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I saw the original of Caspar David Friedrich&#8217;s painting, Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer&#8216;, (&#8217;The wanderer above the sea of fog&#8217;), or a painting very like it, several years ago, in a travelling exhibition in Edinburgh titled, &#8216;The Romantic Spirit in German Art&#8217; (which I&#8217;d misread as, &#8216;The Romantic Shirt in German Art&#8221;).

This particular Romantic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rheumatoid Arthritis Rah Rah Rah</title>
		<link>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/04/19/rheumatoid-arthritis-rah-rah-rah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/04/19/rheumatoid-arthritis-rah-rah-rah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So, Friday the GP told me I did have rheumatoid arthritis after all &#8230; after a practice nurse told me over the phone my blood test had been negative for the rheumatoid factor (RhF) antibody. In fact I have a high RhF measure. My appointment with a consultant rheumatologist should be dropping through the letterbox [...]]]></description>
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