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		<title>I don&#8217;t pimp my friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t care if you are UNICEF, I don&#8217;t pimp my friends. So I donate a fixed amount to UNICEF every month, it&#8217;s no big deal and I am not some playboy philanthropist. That being said, I do expect the minimum of respect from UNICEF for my gesture. Respect means, for example, not phoning me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Stephen Gately</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It doesn&#8217;t really touch me on a personal level that Stephen Gately has died, although it is always sad when someone dies and a tragedy when they go &#8220;before their time&#8221;. However, I did not know him personally, nor was I ever a Boyzone fan, so I&#8217;m not upset. I am irritated, though, by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vegetarian evangelism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t eaten meat since 1979. My reasons are sentimental. Basically, I am not prepared to eat anything I am not prepared to kill myself. However, I have never urged other people to give up meat. I&#8217;m not one of those whiners who is so insecure in their own beliefs that they have to try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the matter with blasphemy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 13:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to my post below, point 6.1.i of Article 40 of The Constitution of Ireland states: &#8220;The publication or utterance of blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter is an offence which shall be punishable in accordance with law.&#8221; However, the Supreme Court ruled in 1999 that this point could not be applied in a legal case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Blasphemers, get your licks in while you can</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I just woke up in the 1920s. The Irish Times on-line is reporting that Fianna Fáil (the Irish political party currently fucking up the country, if you&#8217;re not from Ireland) wants to make it a crime to blaspheme. Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern proposes to insert a new section into the Defamation Bill, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drop the tennis racquet and put your hands above your head</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to see the European Court of Justice bringing a little sanity to the security rules being applied to the airline industry. You can read a BBC article here about an Austrian tennis player who was thrown off a flight in 2005 for not surrendering his racquets, which airline staff had deemed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Orange has a bitter aftertaste</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have our broadband service with Orange (&#8220;Together we can do more&#8221;). We have been happy with the service and had not been thinking about changing provider. Yesterday Orange called us and said they wanted to give us a 10% discount because we had been with them a year. It was nice to see that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking a Privilege all the way to the bank</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of you will not be aware that I worked for a time running a recruitment programme for an IT company. Fuck it &#8211; it was EDS. It&#8217;s not like I don&#8217;t say it in my CV. Anyway, I was thrown into that with no experience. The person who was supposed to do it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, for God&#8217;s sake!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Panini&#8221; already is plural, people!]]></description>
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		<title>Childish nations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent events in Georgia have reminded me just how childish nations are. Various news articles have tried to explain Russia&#8217;s actions by stating that Russian pride has taken several severe knocks since the collapse of the Soviet Union, with many of its former subject nations rejecting Russia and joining the EU, applying to join NATO [...]]]></description>
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