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		<title>Upgrades Upgrades Upgrades</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2013/05/12/upgrades-upgrades-upgrades/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 06:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever changed something in your home and at work, expecting life or work to be much better afterwards, and then found yourself on a path of being forced to make several other changes &#8211; just to get the promised improvements to actually work, or to get back old functionality that mysteriously disappeared? I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intentionally Bad Usability</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2013/05/10/intentionally-bad-usability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 08:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We normally expect and look for simplicity in the use of a product. If it is difficult to use, we might exhibit frustration, not buy it again, or similar.  As a possible example, I was recently given a small pack of anti-histamines from Canada. Initially I was baffled by the blister packs; they appeared to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Keyboard to Dishwasher Experiment &#8211; Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 05:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I wanted to report on my latest experiment; using a dishwasher to help me clean a Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000.  There are many posts on the internet about this, and after some research, I decided to give it a try, as I had just inherited my keyboard from work. First decision was; How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spammer Templates</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2013/04/20/spammer-templates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Behaviour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although I generally consider email spammers &#8211; especially phishers &#8211; pretty evil, it is occasionally enjoyable to receive a spam email or comment which demonstrates how dumb they can be.  In this case, I received a comment on this blog which demonstrates nicely how some messages are created. The whole ltext of the comment was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saying Things Indirectly</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2013/03/23/saying-things-indirectly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I posted about Solving Problems Indirectly&#8230; and today I have a similar topic; saying, or communicating things indirectly. It&#8217;s best told with pictures: &#160; &#160; &#160; This is probably fairly subjective, but I find the &#8216;Thank you for not smoking&#8217; sign and the &#8216;It is against the law&#8230;&#8217; sign far more palateable than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solving Problems Indirectly</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2013/03/10/solving-problems-indirectly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More and more of late, I have noticed that the solutions people arrive at for problems are often very indirect.  I have started to suspect that it may be a characteristic of human behaviour, but perhaps it is just a characteristic of my current management at work.  Also, there may be room to consider this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Interview Questions Better</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2013/03/03/making-interview-questions-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing and the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written before about technical interview questions, especially of the tricky Brainteaser Interview Questions, and I wanted to take a moment to recount some recent experiences hiring a couple of DBAs. We&#8217;ve had a technical phone interview for some time, written by a colleague, but I think mostly trawled from an internet search of database [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not using New Media doesn&#8217;t make you a Ghost</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 11:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(but please still be enthusiastic) I have enjoyed and been very interested in several of Troy Hunt&#8217;s blog posts on security, and having had my attention drawn to one the other day, I found his post titled &#8216;The ghost who codes: how anonymity is killing your programming career&#8216;. I think his assertion is unfair. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concerns about Red-Green-Refactor</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2012/12/09/concerns-about-red-green-refactor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2012/12/09/concerns-about-red-green-refactor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never worked in an environment that practices Test Driven Development (TDD), but the little that I have read suggests that there are three phases: Red &#8211; The Test is written, and checked that it will fail properly; Green &#8211; The test code is rewritten so that is passes &#8216;by any means possible&#8217;; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Automated Builds</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2012/12/09/automated-builds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/?p=646</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The picture was taken in my office a few weeks ago. It is not faked. The output of an automated build system (Team City) is reporting how many days there have been problems with the build for; and the number of days is 42. I thought that the point of the automated build was to [...]]]></description>
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