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	<description>A blog about love, DIY, linguistics, politics, computer science, cooking, photography and anything else that interests me</description>
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		<title>Do people just give up?</title>
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Originally uploaded by morner [[больной]]


The Guardian is reporting this morning that &#8220;there were 32,300 fewer people receiving jobseeker&#8217;s allowance in February than in the previous month [...] The wider Labour Force survey measure, which also includes people out of work who are not claiming benefits, also fell, by 33,000 in the three months to January [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.widmann.org.uk/2010/03/17/2239/</link>
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		<title>Rotated maps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some years ago, a colleague of mine from Cartographic gave me a wonderful map: It showed Scotland and Ireland, but rotated so that Scotland was straight above Ireland, and with all place names in Irish and Scottish Gaelic.
I&#8217;m not sure why, but the usual way of displaying Ireland next to England makes me feel Ireland [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.widmann.org.uk/2010/03/16/2227/</link>
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		<title>Selling books on Amazon</title>
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Old stuff &#8211; garage sale
Originally uploaded by macinate


I own far too many books, so as an experiment, I decided to try and sell a few on Amazon to see whether it&#8217;s worth my while.
I put six books up for sale &#8211; fiction and non-fiction, hardbacks and paperbacks &#8211; a couple of weeks ago, but although [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.widmann.org.uk/2010/03/14/2212/</link>
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		<title>iScroll?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The problem with tablet computers is that they&#8217;re too big and too light at the same time: Too big to fit into a soft and safe pocket, and too light to make a hard case feasible.
So products like the iPad will probably break all the time unless people put them into big cases, in which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.widmann.org.uk/2010/03/13/2220/</link>
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		<title>Coalition stability and the UK</title>
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Coalition Pro/Con
Originally uploaded by Zi ツ


More and more people are pointing out that coalitions can lead to stable and successful governments, at least in continental Europe, the point being that one shouldn&#8217;t fear the so-called &#8220;hung parliament&#8221; that so many supporters of the two big parties dread.
I agree, and I actually think that it would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.widmann.org.uk/2010/03/12/2189/</link>
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		<title>En og et</title>
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Gender Bender Bricks
Originally uploaded by oskay


Léon hører normalt godt efter, så hvis man læser en bog om &#8220;et egern&#8221; eller &#8220;et får&#8221;, er der en god chance for, at han vil gentage artiklen korrekt, hvis man taler med ham om historien eller billederne.
Men det gik op for mig i forgårs, at hvis man stiller ham [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.widmann.org.uk/2010/03/11/2207/</link>
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		<title>The inevitable election date</title>
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ZAP! dance party @ Golden Bull Saturday May 6
Originally uploaded by gwen


The media today agree it is now inevitable that the general election will take place on 6&#160;May.
I&#8217;m not convinced.
It could well be that Brown thinks he&#8217;s going to go for the 6th, but when he has to make the announcement in April, he&#8217;ll check [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.widmann.org.uk/2010/03/10/2199/</link>
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		<title>The six regions of the US</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was 15, my parents went to Chicago and brought me back two books: Douglas Adams&#8217;s The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy and Regional American Cooking.
Both books have been important to me.
The former was for many years my favourite book, and if I hadn&#8217;t read it, I might have been much worse at English [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.widmann.org.uk/2010/03/09/2190/</link>
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		<title>A better way to elect the UK parliament</title>
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Live fra boksen
Originally uploaded by angermann


When people in the UK discuss alternatives to the current electoral system used for Westminster (first-past-the-post), they tend to look towards Ireland, Australia or possibly Germany, but never Scandinavia.
However, the system used there has many advantages, and indeed people there just take it for granted, so it must have got [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.widmann.org.uk/2010/03/08/2171/</link>
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		<title>Tschenkéli&#8217;s Georgian-German dictionary is in print again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great news!
The famed three-volume Georgian-German dictionary by Kita Tschenkéli (კიტა ჩხენკელი), &#8220;Georgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch&#8221;, which is the best bilingual dictionary of Georgian into any language, including English and Russian, is in print again!
When I studied Georgian in Tbilisi, my dad had to get all 2508 pages photocopied from the university library&#8217;s copy and sent to me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.widmann.org.uk/2010/03/04/2163/</link>
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