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		<title>Why Allphones pissed me off</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2008/05/02/why-allphones-pissed-me-off</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 02:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past three weeks I&#8217;ve been getting calls on my mobile from 02 8986 3000 at least once per week day, sometimes twice or thrice. Every time I answer the call I hear &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, all operators are currently bu&#8221; and get cut off. Rather annoying! So they quickly get added to my phone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Howard and Rudd get on just fine!</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/11/09/howard-and-rudd-get-on-just-fine</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who says Howard and Rudd don&#8217;t get along? Google&#8217;s 2007 Australian Federal Election site allows you to view Australian election content in Google Maps.

The most useful information comes when you zoom in to see what the politicians are up to, and as you can see from these screen shotlets.

Unfortunately I can&#8217;t seem to get a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helpful support autoresponder</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/09/27/helpful-support-autoresponder</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When lodging a support ticket, it&#8217;s always nice to be informed of contact options should you need to follow up on an issue:
If you have any further queries please contact the  on  or via email to @company.com quoting your assigned incident number.
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		<title>How to reduce the volume of comment spam by 30-50%</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/09/06/how-to-reduce-the-volume-of-comment-spam-by-30-50</link>
		<comments>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/09/06/how-to-reduce-the-volume-of-comment-spam-by-30-50#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard was kind enough to offer his assistance in reducing comment spam on my site by 30-50%. He obviously doesn&#8217;t read my blog much, or he&#8217;d notice I don&#8217;t actually have a problem with comment spam, or perhaps he targeted me because a reduction of 30-50% of zero spam is an extremely achievable result. Or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They&#8217;re not alone!</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/07/15/theyre-not-alone</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just saw one of those &#8220;authorised by the Australian Government, Canberra&#8221; type Work Places adverts. The opening line went something along the lines of:
The biggest myth is that employees are alone and unprotected, but that&#8217;s just not true. They are not alone!
Read between the lines. Tell me why I laughed!
[Updated quote on July 16th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firefighters tied up and disciplined at bondage house</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/05/23/firefighters-tied-up-and-disciplined-at-bondage-house</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 23:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A spokesman for the Melbourne Fire Brigade commented on a fire at a bondage and discipline parlour in inner Melbourne that was under control in under 30 minutes:
&#8220;[firefighters] were tied up for some time but disciplined and controlled firefighting contained the blaze to one room on the second floor&#8221;
The Age
A spokesman with a sense of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troop reductions != Withdrawal</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/02/21/troop-reductions-withdrawal</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just heard our esteemed minister for foreign affairs, The Hon. Alexander Downer, MP, say that Tony Blair is not withdrawing his troops, he&#8217;s reducing the number&#8230;
I&#8217;m sorry he got cut off (it was only a news preview), because I&#8217;m so sure the rest of his sentence would have made sense!! Not!
]]></description>
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		<title>Free Hugs!</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2006/12/20/free-hugs</link>
		<comments>http://ben.dechrau.com/2006/12/20/free-hugs#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There I was, happily working away earlier last week, when I hit the keyboard combination that Stumbles. Stumbling, for those who haven&#8217;t heard of it, is clicking on the Stumble! button (or hitting the keyboard combination, that I don&#8217;t actually know, but just accidentally hit every now and then) which gets the Stumble plug-in to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP Beer</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2006/12/20/php-beer</link>
		<comments>http://ben.dechrau.com/2006/12/20/php-beer#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I was told about this thing called PHP Beer some time ago, and met up with about 12 people, most of whose names I&#8217;ve forgotten. At the risk of insulting those whose names I cannot remember (I&#8217;d like to blame the alcohol for that), I&#8217;d like to thank Yann, Marc, Louis Philippe, Nelson and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solitary confinement</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2006/12/14/solitary-confinement</link>
		<comments>http://ben.dechrau.com/2006/12/14/solitary-confinement#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow &#8211; it&#8217;s almost two weeks since my last post. While that&#8217;s not too unusual for me, I was hoping to be a bit more active while in Canada. A lot has happened&#8230;
We went to Saint-Donat, a small village north of Montreal, the weekend before last and stayed with friends who own a chalet up [...]]]></description>
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