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		<title>eBay - report an unpaid item</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a post about my recent experience with eBay. A few weeks ago the gloom of the crisis caught me up. I wanted a pcmia wireless card for my laptop. I decided that instead of forking out my hard earned cash, I would earn that money first. I looked around and I found a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish icons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Icons are not what they used to be. Nowadays Johnny Rotten advertises a very British brand of butter.

Watching Mr. Lyndon promote butter is not that surprising. The guy is a living ad on two legs himself. He started his career as the perfect fit to a pret-a-porter band, Sex Pistols. That a marketing operation like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life in the UK in numbers I</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This may be the first series of randomly picked figures about the UK. Disclaimer: the quality and veracity of the numbers below is as good as the quality of the source.



16% of the population in London in 2001 declare to have no religion. The highest rates in England and Wales were Norwich (28%), Brighton and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sheerness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there a nice spot in the coast near London worth visiting?
I made a little of research with Google Maps and Panoramio. The isle of Sheppey, an island 62 km from London, seemed pleasant enough to try to drive there.
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it looked like a pleasant estuary and island in the east coast and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accents and other orthographic extravangaza</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://acuteaccent.com/?p=160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Accents are, in the eyes of native English speakers, an incomprehensible orthographic extravaganza. English orthography is like English food: simple and dull yet fit for its purpose, period.

In contrast to the easy English, the orthographic punctuation of European languages, full of funny characters like ü for German or ñ in Spanish seems too elaborate and, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Mile Island in 3D: feel the heat of a nuclear reactor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spanish media has recently published details of accidents at three nuclear power stations in Spain, the most serious in Ascó Unit I Nuclear Power Plant in Catalonia, Spain. Nuclear disasters all tend to develop the same pattern: authorities inform late and little to the public. Inevitably, the panic is followed by denial while the consequences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goddards Pie and Mash in Greenwich</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 23:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still remember a lunch in one of the last genuine Pie and Mash houses in East London only days before their closure a few years ago. The owners sold the popular business to a chain of hamburgers, Gourmet Burger Kitchen.


Goddard&#8217;s had been run by the same families for generations. Their affordable food was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Cliff, Franco, Ken Lee and other videoclips.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 11:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Franco (Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde) robbed Sir Cliff Richard (read Great Britain, one can&#8217;t say where one ends and where starts the other) of the Eurovision win in 1968. La Sexta, a Spanish television station, only recently aired a documentary claiming to uncover the vote-rigging.


A colleague at work and, however, friend, sent me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>delicious down - again and again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Just as I began to get used to search in delicious very much as I search in Google, I find that the service is getting pretty unreliable in the past few weeks.

The web site simply won&#8217;t load for hours or days, as far as I know. I am definitively starting to think about moving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madrid - Golf and Cruiser motorbikes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I left Madrid to work abroad a few years ago. I visit the city often, that is more than four times every year.
I find that Madrid is changing rapidly. For instance, foreign immigrants used to be rarely seen in my teenage years apart from the pioneering Chinese; now Sudamericanos, Romanians and Polish seem to be [...]]]></description>
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