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		<title>Nuclear Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is suddenly getting a lot of attention, thanks to a number of punts in the media by various celebrities. However, Twitter is not just celebrities subverting a pop culture phenomenon for marketing gain, or a zillion vacuous comments by teenagers with too much time on their hands. Surprisingly, Twitter is becoming useful.
Think of it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycia.net/2009/08/13/nuclear-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Cars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This must happen to other people, or I am singularly unlucky?
Yesterday in Warrington town centre, I went into town and parked in a completely empty car park &#8211; I mean, completely empty. Just me. I sauntered up to a space, if sauntering is possible on four wheels, and pulled in. While I was faffing about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycia.net/2009/08/12/cars/</link>
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		<title>Mac applications for academics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several people have been asking me about what useful applications there are on OSX for academic scientists, so I thought I&#8217;d write a short post summarising them. Hopefully this will give people a head start in doing science and scientific computing on their Macs. Not all the programs list are free, but they are all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycia.net/2009/08/04/mac-applications-for-academics/</link>
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		<title>Are German words longer than English ones?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many jokes about the Germans, but one of the few I can post here is that oft-told adage that at the present rate of increase, eventually the German language will consist of a single, extremely long word.
Ok, so that&#8217;s a bit mad, but a lot of people think that words in German are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycia.net/2008/11/24/are-german-words-longer-than-english-ones/</link>
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		<title>Torres is a floppy-haired, diving, git</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I finally made it to Anfield for the first time yesterday, for the Liverpool/Fulham Premiership game. Now, I&#8217;m neither a Fulham nor Liverpool supporter: my wife&#8217;s uncle has a Fulham season ticket but couldn&#8217;t make the game, so I went with my father-in-law. The atmosphere at Anfield is really great &#8211; you can see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycia.net/2008/11/23/torres-is-a-floppy-haired-diving-git/</link>
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		<title>Big Sister is Watching You &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a new parent, I am worried about the safety of my child, as any normal parent would be. I am also concerned about civil liberties and privacy. However, these two concerns are colliding together in various ways in our society right now, and you should be worried about it. Let me try to convince [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycia.net/2008/11/19/big-sister-is-watching-you-part-1/</link>
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		<title>New MacBook Pro from Apple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, after much hype and rumour, the new MacBooks are finally out, and many of the &#8216;wishlist&#8217; items are there in reality. You can see the whole announcement at Apple, including the usual Steve Jobs bit, and a quirky missive from Jonathan Ive, who is clearly enjoying being able to make new components. In particular, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycia.net/2008/10/14/new-macbook-pro-from-apple/</link>
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		<title>Partical Physics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[




Phew. It&#8217;s been a long couple of weeks, but I&#8217;m pretty much moved in now.
So, I&#8217;m apparently a lecturer in physics at Manchester University, and no longer employed by HM Govt. It&#8217;s been a busy couple of weeks to say the least, as I&#8217;ve been out of the university arena for some years. I&#8217;ve joined [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycia.net/2008/10/06/partical-physics/</link>
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		<title>Eating Blackberries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people have made fun of a recent comment made by one of John McCain&#8217;s aides, that the grizzled senator helped to invent the RIM Blackberry. Ok, so in reality Douglas J Holtz-Eakin (why do all these guys have names that sound made-up?) was pointing to McCain&#8217;s time on the Senate Commerce Committee, but it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycia.net/2008/09/17/eating-blackberries/</link>
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		<title>Bouncy Castle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was a rather surreal experience.
Now that the SRS has finally shut, and before the men with spanners start to dismantle the accelerator &#8211; some parts of which are over 40 years old &#8211; the site has been opened to staff (and the many ex-staff) for a full Sunday. It was a strange experience to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://corycia.net/2008/09/14/bouncy-castle/</link>
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