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		<title>BT (Bastards Telepunish) Woes</title>
		<link>http://blog.jezmckean.com/bt-bastards-telepunish-woes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 09:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My ISP, BT, have got my goat again. They&#8217;re punishing me by crippling my (already joke-worthy) download speeds, because I used a lot last week. So they&#8217;ll probably charge me for that (fair enough, I suppose). I understand that they need to provide a fair service to all their customers, but why does that have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Automatically Added Start Menu / Desktop Icons</title>
		<link>http://blog.jezmckean.com/automatically-added-start-menu-desktop-icons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just allowed Adobe (Acrobat) Reader to update itself, fair enough, though it is still remarkably slow to load on first use. I keep a clean desktop, with shortcuts only for the things I use on a regular basis (at least daily). I keep my Start Menu under control (am still using XP). I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You get what you pay for&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.jezmckean.com/you-get-what-you-pay-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PC World, TechGuys (PC Service Call), Parceline &#8211; One of them screwed up. The fianceé&#8217;s laptop died on a Thursday. It would POST, but it would simply restart itself before Windows started loading. It&#8217;s a Vista machine so I tried to use its self-repair options, but to no avail. I took it to work to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BT (&#8216;British&#8217; Tele-extortion) Woes</title>
		<link>http://blog.jezmckean.com/bt-british-tele-extortion-woes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BT have me in a head-lock. I get my phone and broadband service from them, and am charged, on average, £30 per month. This is not overly excessive, but I wanted to reduce it somehow, since I&#8217;ve been made better offers by Virgin Media. After digging through the website after looking at my online (paperfree) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I might leave my bank: The NatWest Card Reader</title>
		<link>http://blog.jezmckean.com/why-i-might-leave-my-bank-the-natwest-card-reader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have received in the post a Card Reader from NatWest. They have designed this device to beef up the security around the (excellent btw) online banking. The flaw? The fact that we will eventually have to take the damn thing everywhere you go. And the card of course. The whole point of online banking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ticketmaster Rip Off!</title>
		<link>http://blog.jezmckean.com/ticketmaster-rip-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 20:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just bought tickets for me and the gf to see Jimmy Carr in June. £18.50 each, seems okay. Total cost once Ticketmaster have added excessive fees and exorbitant postal charges: £46.75! That&#8217;s an extra 25%. Absurd, but we have no choice. UPDATE: Jimmy Carr was great! I even got a laugh myself when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communist Britain</title>
		<link>http://blog.jezmckean.com/communist-britain/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jezmckean.com/communist-britain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 08:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is being reported that private schools may be blackmailed into lending teachers to state schools. Private schools provide a service to those who can afford it, just like any business, but face the prospect of having to share their resources with those who can&#8217;t (or choose not to), with no input from the parents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFBO &#8211; Anti Fat-Bastard Order</title>
		<link>http://blog.jezmckean.com/afbo-anti-fat-bastard-order/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jezmckean.com/afbo-anti-fat-bastard-order/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting on a local train today, I watched as three larger-than-healthy people got on and found seats near me. The gran, mum and son struggled to sit at a table designed for four, while I sat at the table on the other side of the aisle. Gran was the smallest of the three, but had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brits Reputation</title>
		<link>http://blog.jezmckean.com/brits-reputation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst in Andorra snowboarding* for a week, I found that it was my fellow Brits who were the most annoying. It was a Brit who decided to leave his board in the middle of the learners&#8217; hill. After my gf&#8217;s polite request that it was moved to the side, and my subsequent equally polite request [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re Too Fat</title>
		<link>http://blog.jezmckean.com/youre-too-fat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC is today reporting on the suggestion that &#8216;Plus-Size&#8217; clothes tags should include obesity help-line numbers. I agree &#8211; it&#8217;s a fact that many &#8216;heavy&#8217; people are fat because of lack of will-power (rather than any of the rare relevant medical condition), and every encouragement guilt-inducing-method should be used to help them. Call me [...]]]></description>
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