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	<title>Random Musings of a Technohippy</title>
	<link>http://justinpeer.com/blog</link>
	<description>Thoughts on life, technology, sustainability and affordable housing.</description>
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		<title>Transparent Lobbying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I lived in the US, I was appalled at how commercial interests seem able to alter government policy at their will, corporations are now so powerful that senators have to bow down to them if they want the support of their workers to gain re-election. For a great insight into how it works, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://justinpeer.com/blog/?p=48</link>
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		<title>Brilliant quote.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the blogs I follow is by a remarkable young lady, named Jill Homer, living up in Alaska who&#8217;s feats of endurance cycling make my triathlon exploits seem like sunday afternoon outings. She has cycled the course of the Iditarod dog sled race, more than once. This summer she cycled the Great Divide mountain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://justinpeer.com/blog/?p=44</link>
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		<title>Yet more praise for Vodafone.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I posted and, once again, I&#8217;m singing the praises of Vodafone. My contract ran out a few weeks ago and I&#8217;ve been waiting to see what happened with my work before I renewed. I phoned Vodafone yesterday and asked how much they could get my monthly bill down to if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://justinpeer.com/blog/?p=42</link>
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		<title>$8k for 40 acres!</title>
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Over on my other site I&#8217;m blogging my project of building a tiny off-grid house and that has recently brought John Wells to my attention, as he&#8217;s also building a tiny, self-sufficient house but he&#8217;s out in Texas, where I lived for several years a little while ago. I&#8217;m enjoying reading about his adventures, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://justinpeer.com/blog/?p=37</link>
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		<title>Steve Jobs: &#8220;Whole Earth Catalog was Like Google in Paperback, But 35 Years Earlier&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t new, but I just ran across it the other day and it seemed relevant and interesting, especially where he says the Whole Earth Catalog (1967) was &#8220;…like Google in paperback&#8221;: Steve Jobs&#8217; Stanford commencement speech in 2005. Following is the last part of a very short speech:
&#8220;When I was young, there was an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://justinpeer.com/blog/?p=35</link>
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		<title>Is the UK becoming a police state?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of my best friends Denny &#38; Helen have recently set up this website in the aftermath of the recent G20 demonstrations. Both of them are politically active bloggers who decided to put together somewhere they could share their ideas and opinions beyond their regular blogs read by friends. The idea is to raise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://justinpeer.com/blog/?p=33</link>
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		<title>Oooh, Tim Burton does Alice in Wonderland!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You just know that Johnny Depp is going to be the Mad Hatter, and Helena Bonham-Carter will be the queen. Concept art linked here.
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		<link>http://justinpeer.com/blog/?p=30</link>
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		<title>Further to my last post,</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It now comes to light that Ian Tomlinson died from internal bleeding after being assaulted by a police officer, manslaughter charges have been brought. I saw the following picture today, a spoof on the posters that the Met have put up trying to make us paranoid and telling us to effectively spy and inform on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://justinpeer.com/blog/?p=21</link>
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		<title>Worrying trends in our supposed democracy.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After having planned to attend the demonstrations for the G20 conference, I ended up not being able to make it. Part of me is relieved given what went on but part of me is angry at myself for not going and standing there, if only to witness first hand just how far the powers of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://justinpeer.com/blog/?p=17</link>
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		<title>New Posts at Techwinter.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Put a couple of new articles up at Techwinter if you&#8217;re interested in my geeky opinions about design testing mobile devices and the loss of Twitter updates via mobile phone here in the UK.
J.
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		<link>http://justinpeer.com/blog/?p=15</link>
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