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		<title>Science Fiction, the long and short of it</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery I read a passingly large quantity of science fiction, and was musing about some of the books I&#8217;ve been reading recently. One of the things that they have had in common is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robhogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5250470&amp;post=241&amp;subd=robhogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on epetitions&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: The Keep Our NHS Public petition is now live. Please sign and publicise it. A week ago, I posted some comments on the government&#8217;s new epetitions system. Among other things, I reflected that no progressive petitions had yet been allowed that reflect what I perceive to be the feelings of the general public about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robhogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5250470&amp;post=233&amp;subd=robhogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy, petitions and agendas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 16:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, the British government launched a new e-petitions site to replace the one that used to live at number10.gov.uk. The Guardian&#8216;s report of this was headlined Death penalty could be debated in Commons after e-petition calls, and a surprisingly similar story was later printed in The Metro. At least the latter story had been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robhogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5250470&amp;post=217&amp;subd=robhogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is open culture?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was around this time, a year ago, that my period of employment with a small Midlands-based software company came to an end. This company prided itself on its &#8220;open culture&#8221;. And it was open, for a certain value of openness&#8230; In other ways it was very closed, amounting to what felt, at times, more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robhogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5250470&amp;post=202&amp;subd=robhogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The cute of Cthulhu</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, for the first time, I read some of the stories of H.P. Lovecraft. Many writers have been influenced by him, and thought I should give the original a go. If you&#8217;re looking for visceral horror of the modern sort, they will probably disappoint. However, I found them to be very well written and intelligent, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robhogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5250470&amp;post=188&amp;subd=robhogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>tpuc.org, the British Constitution Group and the attack on Council Tax</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of my Facebook friends have recently been putting up links to posts on refusal to pay council tax, YouTube videos showing attempts to arrest judges for treason, and the like. However, there are grounds to be deeply suspicious of the organisations behind these activities, and I remain unconvinced that their cause is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robhogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5250470&amp;post=168&amp;subd=robhogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Let them hate, so long as they fear!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Oderint dum metuant&#8221;, was a favourite quote of the Roman emperor Caligula. More worryingly, it was also the original slogan of the nazi organisation and website Redwatch, which publishes the personal details of anti-racists, trade unionists and left-wingers, with the clear implication that their targets should live in fear. An interesting slogan for the police [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robhogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5250470&amp;post=158&amp;subd=robhogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memoirs of a wretched day in Dudley&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://robhogg.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/memoirs-of-a-wretched-day-in-dudley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so it wasn&#8217;t totally wretched. The thugs and racists of the EDL got the bad press, and so far as I am aware, no-one taking part in the Unit Against Fascism demo were beaten up or arrested. An improvement on Bolton, then. However, the anti-EDL demo was less than the &#8220;great success&#8221; that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robhogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5250470&amp;post=150&amp;subd=robhogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This drug policy is criminal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another member of the UK government&#8217;s drug committee board has resigned in disgust.. In his resignation letter, Eric Carlin says: &#34;We need to review our entire approach to drugs, dumping the idea that legally-sanctioned punishments for drug users should constitute a main part of the armoury in helping to solve our country’s drug problems. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robhogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5250470&amp;post=137&amp;subd=robhogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Timothy Leary and the ethics of hacking</title>
		<link>http://robhogg.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/timothy-leary-and-the-ethics-of-hacking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Free Software]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago, i attended a meeting entitled &#8220;Hack the Planet&#8221; at a local Linux User Group meeting, The talk was interesting, but the speaker persisted in confusing the different meanings of hacker. As the mainstream media will tell you, a hacker is one who breaks into someone else&#8217;s computer system, for pleasure or profit. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robhogg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5250470&amp;post=109&amp;subd=robhogg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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