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		<title>Aviva gets silly over rebranding</title>
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Aviva are getting aggressive with the big rebranding of Norwich Union to Aviva in the UK.
I&#8217;ve just received an email asking me to change all and any previous references of Norwich Union on any website I run to Aviva. 
Yeah, right.
And the email also included a copy of the logo, with an attached terms and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/15-05-2009/aviva-gets-silly-over-rebranding/</link>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s screwy spelling filter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[C&#8217;mon, Google - your spelling filters are getting silly!
I&#8217;m trying to do historical research on the &#8220;Picts&#8221;, an early Gaelic people of Scotland, but look what happens when I search for &#8220;Inverness Picts&#8221;:

It looks like Google thinks &#8220;Picts&#8221; is the same as &#8220;Pictures&#8221; and &#8220;Pics&#8221;!
Let&#8217;s not see Google dumbed-down in this way, please, thanks? :)
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		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/13-05-2009/googles-screwy-spelling-filter/</link>
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		<title>Google Adsense: 2 weeks late</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Noticed no Adsense payment into my account yet, so logging in, I checked the payment record - only to find that Google are going to be 2 weeks late paying out Adsense:

Google have been generally good at paying on time, so it raises eyebrows to see them late on payments for April - not least [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/04-05-2009/google-adsense-2-weeks-late/</link>
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		<title>Google is killing its user&#8217;s experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s recent changes have done everything to damage my experience as a Google user, and I can only hope Google realises their mistake.
Problem 1: Search suggestion
I don&#8217;t want &#8220;search suggestion&#8221; on by default for two reasons:
a) Sometimes in Firefox the autocomplete box won&#8217;t close, so I have to refresh the page so I can click [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/29-04-2009/google-is-killing-its-users-experience/</link>
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		<title>BBC releases Nuclear Attack script</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC has published it&#8217;s script of what would happen in the event of a nuclear attack on Britain:

BBC TRANSCIPT TO BE USED IN WAKE OF NUCLEAR ATTACK
This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service. This country has been attacked with
nuclear weapons. Communications have been severely disrupted, and the number of
casualties and the extent of the damage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/03-10-2008/bbc-releases-nuclear-attack-script/</link>
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		<title>Watch out for Wordpress .htaccess hack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just quick heads up for anybody who may have any older Wordpress installs running to check their .htaccess file hasn&#8217;t been hacked.
I had this happen to a major site a couple of weeks back, and a cursory look at some other sites found it occurring elsewhere.
In short, the original .htaccess file is replaced with one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/27-08-2008/watch-out-for-wordpress-htaccess-hack/</link>
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		<title>The Farce of easy A Levels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a surprise - A Level results continue to show record improvements, with record pass rates and record A grades awarded.
A Levels have become a farce - they are absolutely getting easier, and I know because I have 9 A Level passes over a 4 year period, and saw them getting easier as a student [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/14-08-2008/the-farce-of-easy-a-levels/</link>
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		<title>Miss Threadwatch? Time to rebuild it&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I began writing a post on Internet Business for June 28th, pointing out that Threadwatch had closed 1 year today.
I started to write about the standard of members there, the quality of stories, and how basically no other site has been able to replace it.
Simply put, no other news site I can think of focuses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/07-07-2008/miss-threadwatch-time-to-rebuild-it/</link>
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		<title>Thomson has multiple adwords accounts?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Noticed this on one of my sites while coding today:

How does Thomsonlocal get multiple Adsense listings for the same domain?
Multiple Adwords accounts, or a glitch with adsense itself?
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		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/05-07-2008/thomson-has-multiple-adwords-accounts/</link>
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		<title>Admiring other content networks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve taken the route of trying to be small publisher covering different niches, and sometimes can&#8217;t help but admire the strides some other sites have taken.
Of course, certain networks such as internet.com and ientry have been on webmaster radars for a long time, and give the impression of being somewhat corporate.
However, there are plenty of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/05-07-2008/admiring-other-content-networks/</link>
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