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	<description>An infuriatingly infrequently updated reflection on the Internet, the US, and life in general</description>
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		<title>How to avoid learning perhaps a little too much about Kieren&#8217;s life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned about a month ago how I was considering setting up a second blog so I could more easily separate my personal and professional life. And yesterday, twice, I was reminded that there is a bit of an unusual overlap when I spoke to two people: one, the spokesman for a company I regularly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2006/11/16/how-to-avoid-learning-a-little-too-much-about-kierens-life/</link>
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		<title>Ha! PC World Oxford finally gets it in the neck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just seen an article in the Oxford Mail entitled &#8220;Watchdog criticises PC World&#8221;. 
Hy heart leapt as I started reading: &#8220;Staff at a computer store in Oxford have been accused of failing to diagnose basic computer problems and overcharging for repairs.&#8221;

The PC World branch in Botley Road misdiagnosed a computer with a loose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2006/11/10/ha-pc-world-oxford-finally-gets-it-in-the-neck/</link>
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		<title>Interviews with the Nominet Board candidates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two Board positions going at UK registry Nominet that will be decided on Wednesday (27 September) at the company&#8217;s annual general meeting in London.
Last week, Nominet announced that there were six candidates and released a statement from each. Despite the extremely tight time period (for example postal votes have to be with Nominet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2006/09/24/recorded-interviews-with-the-nominet-board-candidates/</link>
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		<title>The St Ebbe&#8217;s Residents&#8217; Association and its eerie parallels with Internet governance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, as I was scrabbling around by the front door in the dark with a torch and a piece of fuse wire, my letterbox started juttering away behind me. Even the postmen manage to deliver before 9pm, so I was intrigued. And sure enough it was the latest newsletter (number 6 this year) from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2006/09/12/st-ebbes-residents-association-and-its-impact-on-the-internet/</link>
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		<title>Speak go unheard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The animal rights protest group [tag]Speak[/tag] is still protesting although it is becoming increasingly obvious that the organisation is not much beyond one man&#8217;s bitter fury.
Speak leader Mel [tag]Broughton[/tag], who writes emotive and heavily biased accounts of the organisation&#8217;s various actions for its website, has been banned from entering Oxford after he was arrested in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2006/09/11/speak-go-unheard/</link>
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		<title>Sniffy Oxford Internet Institute holds IGF meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been reminded, by one of the main speakers, that the [tag]Oxford[/tag] Internet Institute is holding an evening discussion over the [tag]IGF[/tag] tomorrow evening, followed by an all-day invite-only event on the Friday.
In fact, I wasn&#8217;t even reminded. I had a vague notion of there being an [tag]OII[/tag] event on [tag]Net governance[/tag] in my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2006/08/30/sniffy-oxford-internet-institute-holds-igf-meeting/</link>
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		<title>Hot air balloon trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, at the ungodly hour of 6am, I finally embarked on my first hot air balloon trip, flying directly over Historic Oxfordâ„¢, and landing in a field next to an army dump 10 miles west, just over the M40 near Brill.


The trip was a pressie for my birthday (12 August) last year. But last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2006/08/23/hot-air-balloon-trip/</link>
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		<title>Oxford Wi-Fi article in Guardian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have an article in The Guardian today that I&#8217;ve been wanting to write for nearly a year: free Net [tag]wireless[/tag] access in coffee shops.


For the life of me I haven&#8217;t been able to figure out why more businesses don&#8217;t offer free Net access. It really is a low overhead for something that will get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2006/08/17/oxford-wi-fi-article-in-guardian/</link>
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		<title>Speak beginning to lose the plot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Animal rights group Speak&#8217;s behaviour is becoming increasingly bizarre. Actually, to be accurate, the pieces written on its website &#8211; almost certainly written by leader Mel Broughton &#8211; are becoming increasingly bizarre.

There is a report on the Oxford Encaenia ceremony where five protestors were arrested that reads as if there was a riot on Broad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2006/07/06/speak-beginning-to-lose-the-plot/</link>
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		<title>Speak slammed for misleading quote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The [tag]animal rights[/tag] group [tag]Speak[/tag] has just been censured by the Advertising Standards Authority for a &#8220;misleading and inaccurate&#8221; quote it attributed to the chairman of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), Sir Michael Rawlins.
The [tag]ASA[/tag] received a complaint from [tag]NICE[/tag] saying that the quote &#8211; which appears on the front of leaflets the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2006/06/21/speak-slammed-for-misleading-quote/</link>
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