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		<title>A song for the frustrated developer</title>
		<link>http://www.simonbattersby.com/blog/2010/03/a-song-for-the-frustrated-developer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Design and Build]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[browsers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Came across this little song this morning. Very funny and very true&#8230;&#8230;if a bit geeky.

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		<title>Loading a webpage in stages</title>
		<link>http://www.simonbattersby.com/blog/2010/03/loading-a-webpage-in-stages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Design and Build]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ajax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wordpress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I reworked my homepage this weekend and wanted to display the latest Wordpress blog post on it. No problem there. However, the initial response times for my blog are sometimes quite slow, and this then meant that the whole of my homepage was slow to display, because the page was waiting for the blog to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consultant buzzwords</title>
		<link>http://www.simonbattersby.com/blog/2010/02/consultant-buzzwords/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Project Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linkedin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Consultant-speak buzzwords have been around for a while, of course, but the one that really gets up my nose is &#8220;underpinned&#8221;. Often used when announcing some new development or innovation, it is somehow (deemed) far more impressive to say that it&#8217;s underpinned by this, that or the other. I thought that was what you did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The joys of IE6</title>
		<link>http://www.simonbattersby.com/blog/2010/01/the-joys-of-ie6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Design and Build]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[browsers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IE6]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linkedin]]></category>

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Find myself in an interesting situation at the moment &#8211; enforced usage of IE6 at work. Good reasons for this of course, one application used in this organisation will only work with IE6. Quite a common situation. 
What&#8217;s interesting is what doesn&#8217;t work in IE6 &#8211; including two websites for web design agencies I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blackberrys, naval signalling and thinking for yourself</title>
		<link>http://www.simonbattersby.com/blog/2010/01/blackberrys-naval-signalling-and-thinking-for-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Project Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linkedin]]></category>

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I&#8217;m reading this book about Scott&#8217;s expeditions to the Antarctic at the moment.
A bit of background information about the Royal Navy particularly interested me. It talks about communication between naval vessels in action. In Nelson&#8217;s time in the early 1800s it was very difficult, with the result that each captain had to rely on his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Involve the users</title>
		<link>http://www.simonbattersby.com/blog/2009/12/involve-the-users/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CRM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linkedin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the very first paid job I did, as a fresh-faced 18 year old, I was on the receiving end of some new technology. It was an interesting experience. 
The technology in question was a complex piece of machinery which automated the process of splitting up multiple carbon copies of orders for distribution to different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less is more</title>
		<link>http://www.simonbattersby.com/blog/2009/12/less-is-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Project Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not all problems can be solved by throwing more resources at them.
A few years ago I worked on a programme with three or four workstreams, with maybe 70 or so people in all. For various reasons, the requirements were relatively fluid, and because the programme was quite large, there was a danger of some design [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Empowerment and accountability on programmes</title>
		<link>http://www.simonbattersby.com/blog/2009/12/empowerment-and-accountability-on-programmes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonbattersby.com/blog/2009/12/empowerment-and-accountability-on-programmes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Project Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking last week about empowerment and accountability within a programme structure.
If a programme is going to deliver something of value to a business, the programme manager or director needs to be accountable to the rest of the business &#8211; fine. But the business also needs to give the programme the space and resources [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Websites that don&#8217;t work in Firefox</title>
		<link>http://www.simonbattersby.com/blog/2009/10/websites-that-dont-work-in-firefox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonbattersby.com/blog/2009/10/websites-that-dont-work-in-firefox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mutterings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linkedin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Name and shame time. In the last month or so I&#8217;ve tripped over several websites that don&#8217;t work at all in Firefox:

Vodafone Pay As You Go Top Up
Egg Money Manager
Yorkshire Building Society online savings application

The Vodafone one is particularly nasty as the problem is that the button to say &#8220;Pay now&#8221; or whatever it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turn your handwriting into a font</title>
		<link>http://www.simonbattersby.com/blog/2009/10/turn-your-handwriting-into-a-font/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonbattersby.com/blog/2009/10/turn-your-handwriting-into-a-font/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Design and Build]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I came across a great little webpage yesterday that will let you turn your own handwriting into a font:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy typographer. And the numbers look like this: 1234567890. It looks quite like my normal writing, maybe a bit neater. 
Snazzy or what?
I rendered the font for the web with [...]]]></description>
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