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		<title>Paying by card</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2011/04/15/paying-by-card</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2011/04/15/paying-by-card#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I pay for my shopping at a staffed checkout in Tesco, I don&#8217;t have to tell the checkout operator what kind of card I&#8217;m using, be it a debit or credit card, etc.  I stick my card in the chip and pin machine, enter my pin, and the rest is handled by the clever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pet hates</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2011/04/14/pet-hates</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2011/04/14/pet-hates#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/?p=1085</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted for a few months, not because I have nothing to talk about, but because I don&#8217;t have a loyal readership who wait with baited breath for daily&#8211;or even hourly&#8211;updates on what&#8217;s happening in my world.  I suspect the vast majority of people who stumble upon my journal are looking for something else, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HTC Desire, Android 2.2 and MMS</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2010/09/05/htc-desire-android-2-2-and-mms</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2010/09/05/htc-desire-android-2-2-and-mms#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/?p=898</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Without going into boring details, I have replaced my trusty (but failing) Sony Ericsson W995 with a new phone.  The W995 was a marvellous beast, with a lovely feel to it, but it had simply become too unreliable. I have replaced it with an HTC Desire.  It has a lovely big touch screen, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The measure of customer service</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2010/06/27/the-measure-of-customer-service</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2010/06/27/the-measure-of-customer-service#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[email]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/?p=724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once in a while you realise you have a need for a Miscellaneous Arbitrary Item that you don&#8217;t possess, and wish to obtain one quickly, for (almost) immediate use. The other day I experienced this phenomenon, and in my case the Miscellaneous Arbitrary Item was a tape measure.  While in abundance in our hose, spring-loaded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EA&#8217;s Spore alienates non-US gamers</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2010/02/15/eas-spore-alienates-non-us-gamers</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2010/02/15/eas-spore-alienates-non-us-gamers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ea]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[simcity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/?p=650</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a huge fan of the SimCity series of games, having cut my teeth on SimCity on the BBC Micro.  I wasn&#8217;t particularly good at it (being around 11 or 12 years old) until around 4-5 years later, in 1993, I started playing SimCity 2000 on the Atari ST, at which point the gameplay became isometric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Halloween!</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/10/31/happy-halloween</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/10/31/happy-halloween#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[halloween]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[photo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/?p=615</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no point in having a dog if you can&#8217;t occassionally dress him or her up. Ever since Oliver was a puppy, we&#8217;ve taken almost every opportunity to stick him in a t-shirt or dress him up as Santa.  Seeing as he &#8216;enjoys&#8217; it so much, we have taken to dressing him up for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I hate my LG Viewty</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/07/06/i-hate-my-lg-viewty</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/07/06/i-hate-my-lg-viewty#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/?p=565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m nearing the end of the 18-month O2 contract I took out with my Viewty. With new technology reaching obsolescence after only a short life, why post about something that is so old? Because when the Viewty first came out, people seemed to be falling over each other trying to be the first to review [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comes in threes</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/03/19/comes-in-threes</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/03/19/comes-in-threes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bad luck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blue screen of death]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/?p=411</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They say that bad luck comes in threes. I don&#8217;t know who They are, but why did They have to say it? Why not twos? Or &#8220;bad luck comes accompanied by no other instances of bad luck whatsoever&#8221;? Anyway, following the tragic and catastrophic failure of my UPS, and the terminal affliction suffered by my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take this broken wing mirror</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/03/18/take-this-broken-wing-mirror</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/03/18/take-this-broken-wing-mirror#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/?p=409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For quite a few weeks, the left-hand wing mirror on my car has been making a rather unsettling clicking/knocking noise every time it folds out. And at lunchtime today it decided it was finally going to give up the ghost. It folds in, but doesn&#8217;t fold out. Repairing it shouldn&#8217;t be too difficult, or so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citroen&#8217;s Snow Motion</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/03/10/citroens-snow-motion</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/03/10/citroens-snow-motion#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ice]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/?p=401</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love TV adverts. They mostly treat viewers like idiots, and yet those idiots still buy the products they&#8217;re advertising. Whoever invented advertising was a genius. A particular Citroen advert is my latest pet hate. After some snow about a month ago (complete with the obligatory country-grinding-to-a-halt phenomenon), Citroen have decided that so snow-covered is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An overdue update</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/03/05/an-overdue-update</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/03/05/an-overdue-update#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nik & Charlie]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/?p=395</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot has happened in the several months that have passed since I last had time to write a blog entry. The fruit of over a year of preparation took place in late December: our wedding. It was the perfect day, and it went with no hiccups, no problems, and no disappointments. It feels like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today: Blog Action Day</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2008/10/15/today-blog-action-day</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2008/10/15/today-blog-action-day#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/?p=339</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, contrary to my expectations, Google continued working as normal today, with no strange or spurious results. This is either due to Google&#8217;s relevancy algorithms, or Blog Action Day (BAD) not being used to boost website traffic to otherwise irrelevant sites. Or maybe it&#8217;s just because today received very little publicity. It seems BAD relied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold calling</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/12/19/cold-calling</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/12/19/cold-calling#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[nokia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/12/19/cold-calling/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Me: Hello? Sales Rep: Good afternoon, I&#8217;m calling from CMS. Me: Ok hi. Sales Rep: How are you this afternoon? Me: Fine thanks. Sales Rep: That&#8217;s right. Me: &#60;silence&#62; Sales Rep: You have been selected to receive a free Nokia mobile phone. Me: Do you know who I am? Sales Rep: No. Me: &#60;hangs up&#62;]]></description>
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		<title>The Space Time Continuum</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/11/08/the-space-time-continuum</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/11/08/the-space-time-continuum#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/11/08/the-space-time-continuum/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea what the space time continuum is, but it sounds like something that could explain why my days are currently 43.5 hours long. Well&#8230;.that&#8217;s what they feel like anyway. I&#8217;m winding down at work in time for holiday next week. Having been uber productive and finished all I was supposed to, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Working Lunches&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/10/03/working-lunches</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/10/03/working-lunches#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another day of hum drum at the office, punctuated only briefly by glimpses of hysteria brought on by an incredibly hot office, and gallons of &#8220;Fanta: Fruit Twist&#8221;. Had a visit today from my 2 best friends (Butch &#38; Greengrass) from the old days down the road who cheered me up no end, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas comes but once a year&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/09/14/christmas-comes-but-once-a-year</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/09/14/christmas-comes-but-once-a-year#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[december]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[turkey]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/09/14/christmas-comes-but-once-a-year/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;sadly in online retail, it just never leaves. I&#8217;m having a mare of a time working with mismanaged data and bungled images in order that in October, I can flick a switch and start selling turkeys. It&#8217;s totally ruining my &#8220;real-life&#8221; Christmas too, as by 25th December, I won&#8217;t be able to look at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend work</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/09/12/weekend-work</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/09/12/weekend-work#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[microsoft]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/09/12/weekend-work/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No matter how appreciated it might be, or how necessary it may seem, working on a Saturday is never a good idea. For a start, you never get a Saturday back in return; if you work Monday to Friday, you can only get one of those days given back to you. Plus, of course, there&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reinvention</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/08/15/reinvention</link>
		<comments>http://www.nikrivers.com/2007/08/15/reinvention#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Typical of my chameleonic website, its appearance has changed yet again. It seemed I had more ideas for art and layout than I did for content. And I had less time and inclination to maintain such a monolithic beast. A chameleon-beast. Although not only has the outside of the website changed, but its inside has [...]]]></description>
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