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		<title>Making tough decisions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year has been the worse for tough decisions.
For a few years I ran an online news publishing arm of my business, but from April this year Google effectively killed it, along with all the other small news publishers.
All because Google wanted to send Google News visitors to brand websites for news.
While I do have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/20-12-2011/making-tough-decisions/</link>
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		<title>Jail for the poor, not for the rich</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s depressing to see that our legal system ultimately reserves prison for the poor, while the rich can get away with most anything except violent crimes without anything more than a slap on the wrist.
Remember the recent London Riots? Terrible stuff. Damage estimated to be around £200 million.
And then I read this on the BBC [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/25-08-2011/jail-for-the-poor-not-for-the-rich/</link>
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		<title>Google Adsense warns on comment spam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was surprised this week to receive a notification from Google Adsense, claiming my account was in policy violation.
There was no personalised address, just &#8220;Hello,&#8221; which made me immediately think it was spam.
However, it was sent to an email address I only use for managing Adsense, and the email specifically referenced the URL of one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/17-02-2011/google-adsense-warns-on-comment-spam/</link>
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		<title>World will not end in 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a Mayan elder, the world will not end in 2012:
2012 is not the end of the world, Mayan elder insists
And a nice quote pointing out that it&#8217;s just the end of a calendar date:

Its Long Count calendar begins in 3,114 BC, marking time in roughly 394-year periods known as Baktuns. Thirteen was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/18-01-2011/world-will-not-end-in-2012/</link>
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		<title>Cold weather chaos continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The travel chaos caused by the cold weather continues: Cold weather causes travel chaos
While Gatwick airport only closed temporarily, Heathrow was closed much of the weekend, motorways were closed or subjected to major delays.
The half-mile queue (8 hours waiting) around St Pancras station for rail tickets to Europe was astonishing to watch on the Telegraph [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/22-12-2010/cold-weather-chaos-continues/</link>
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		<title>Swine Flu on the rise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A disturbing report on the BBC website about a surge in Swine Flu problems - deaths and critical illnesses - apparently occurring at present:
Over 300 people in intensive care with flu

There&#8217;s been a dramatic rise in the numbers of people admitted to intensive care with flu, officials say.
Government figures show that 302 beds are now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/22-12-2010/swine-flu-on-the-rise/</link>
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		<title>Learning from failure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now here&#8217;s a really nice section on a website - gaming developers detailing their successes anf failures when developing games.
Generally it reveals a lot about the planning process, setting up goals, and trying to meet them - even still there are some interesting stories on how different companies appraised their success or failure.
GamaSutra: Postmortem
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		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/03-11-2010/learning-from-failure/</link>
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		<title>vbulletin affiliate plugin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve started selling a lot of my websites/domains, or simply killing the ones I see as having no future value, I&#8217;m getting more involved with affiliate work in order to try and raise the % revenue from affiliate income.
So far, an interesting start as I&#8217;ve already been dabbling - the big challenge, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/28-09-2010/vbulletin-affiliate-plugin/</link>
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		<title>Murdering my darlings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writers are sometimes faced with the task of having to remove sections of their work and characters from a book. No matter how much they love these sections, they must be removed or changed as demanded by the publisher, to make it ready for publishing.
The process is called &#8220;murdering your darlings&#8221;.
I&#8217;m going through a similar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/12-04-2010/murdering-my-darlings/</link>
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		<title>Keeping up with emails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always had a problem keeping up with my emails - it&#8217;s an organisational problem that&#8217;s being building up for a long time.
I prioritise client emails to respond to and always deal with those - but then there are all the other, non-client, emails I receive.
I usually end up opening a string of these other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ibrian.co.uk/17-11-2009/keeping-up-with-emails/</link>
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