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		<title>Things we take for granted &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This will mean nothing to anyone reading but I will post anyway that today I am celebrating. The reason is that after 3 1/2 years of endless frustration, my Filipino partner now has an official birth certificate, driver&#8217;s licence and passport. I&#8217;m not sure what would happen in Australia if an adult went to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenalovell.com/blog/2011/06/11/things-we-take-for-granted/</link>
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		<title>Add Skype to the TechWreck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure plenty of people who know more about ICT than I do have already discussed ad nauseam the reasons why owners of great software seem compelled to keep fiddling with it so it gets ever-slower and more unreliable. The latest example is Skype, which has booted me out of conversations twice in recent weeks. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenalovell.com/blog/2011/06/08/add-skype-to-the-techwreck/</link>
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		<title>Time for a new economics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I say to my partner &#8220;Can I ask you a question?&#8221;, his answer is &#8220;OK but no math&#8221;. His struggle to comprehend the significance of numbers is a running joke between us (although in truth he exaggerates it), linked to his inability to grasp a budget as either an abstract concept or a practical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenalovell.com/blog/2011/05/30/time-for-a-new-economics/</link>
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		<title>Boorish ego-tripping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Americans have never been exactly self-effacing but as the US Empire totters, their egotism is becoming insufferably, loudly irrational. More and more frequently when I read Americans congratulating themselves yet again for their own extraordinary intelligence, virtue, courage, self-sacrifice etc I find myself shaking my head wondering &#8220;Do they really believe this crock of juvenile [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenalovell.com/blog/2011/05/29/boorish-ego-tripping/</link>
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		<title>Death by Microsoft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I use Skype almost every day. Once upon a time I thought it was great; more recently I&#8217;ve come to hate it. It&#8217;s fallen victim to the Firefox/iTunes &#8220;Hey let&#8217;s update again cos we haven&#8217;t done it for a week at least&#8221; trap. Every update seems to add pointless new features and make the whole [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenalovell.com/blog/2011/05/10/death-by-microsoft/</link>
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		<title>A dysfunctional polity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The excellent Mahablog makes this observation: A dead OBL is an achievement; a living one would soon turn into the Mother of All Bones of Political Contention. America is no longer a country that can sensibly discuss anything and come to rational decisions. If OBL were alive and in custody now, any decisions the President [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenalovell.com/blog/2011/05/08/a-dysfunctional-polity/</link>
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		<title>America at war</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never know how to take The American Spectator. It&#8217;s tempting to think it&#8217;s a kind of conservatively-slanted version of The Onion &#8230; you know, satire written so cleverly that unless you know it&#8217;s meant to be satire, you couldn&#8217;t really be sure if it was serious or not. Then other things hit you and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenalovell.com/blog/2011/05/06/america-at-war/</link>
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		<title>Memo to conservative pundits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guys this is just to confirm this week&#8217;s talking points: The US economy is in an appalling crisis. This is nothing to do with President George W Bush, who after all left office years ago. It is solely the doing of the incompetent buffoon Obama. The assassination of Osama bin Laden by our Heroic Navy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenalovell.com/blog/2011/05/06/memo-to-conservative-pundits/</link>
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		<title>Christians &#8230; honestly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whose side is the pope on anyway? While the Holy See pointed out the role Bin Laden had played in the &#8220;[promotion of] division and hatred between people,&#8221; they also pointed out that &#8220;a Christian never rejoices&#8221; in the death of a man. &#8220;Faced with the death of a man, a Christian never rejoices but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenalovell.com/blog/2011/05/03/christians-honestly/</link>
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		<title>And they ask why newspapers are dying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please understand that the following quotes have been written by what passes for a public intellectual in the contemporary mainstream media. They are not, as you might expect, from an obscure blogger, or even by an undergraduate doing work experience on the Lismore Northern Star. They are from a column in the New York Times [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenalovell.com/blog/2011/05/03/and-they-ask-why-newspapers-are-dying/</link>
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