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	<title>Ben Dechrau &#187; Work Life</title>
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		<title>VPSLand Staff: illiterate, incompetent or just don&#8217;t care?</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2009/10/28/vpsland-staff-illiterate-incompetent-or-just-dont-care</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a customer of VPSLand&#8217;s for some years in one form or another. A friend recommended them when the Melbourne PHP Users Group was looking for a new server, he&#8217;d been with them for a while. I decided to get one for MooBox too.
Time passed, servers churned, and for the most I was happy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making comments more accessible</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2008/10/17/making-comments-more-accessible</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just going through a list of sites that link here and stumbled back upon Russ Weakley&#8217;s Anatomy of a comment. Having wanted to try and tick all his boxes for a while, I think I&#8217;ve managed to make my comments section a little more accessible.
Russ identifies these attributes of a comment:


Author name &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Cloud Computing Violate your Privacy and Security?</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2008/09/15/will-cloud-computing-violate-your-privacy-and-security</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to yesterday morning&#8217;s ABC Radio National show, cloud computing will pose a danger to your on-line privacy and security with people able to read your email, see what web sites you&#8217;ve visited and reconcile your on-line activities, banking details and buying habits. We&#8217;re also going to hear a lot about cloud computing in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The trend of me</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2008/09/11/the-trend-of-me</link>
		<comments>http://ben.dechrau.com/2008/09/11/the-trend-of-me#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m surprised I haven&#8217;t blogged about this yet, but as some of you know, I have this &#8220;vanity folder&#8221; in my RSS reader. It&#8217;s an idea I got from elsewhere quite some time ago, but essentially you search Google News, Google Blogs, Technorati, etc, for your name, domain name, company name and so forth. Each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you use a video camera, I need your help!</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2008/09/05/if-you-use-a-video-camera-i-need-your-help</link>
		<comments>http://ben.dechrau.com/2008/09/05/if-you-use-a-video-camera-i-need-your-help#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Work Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re interested in a new range of camera stabilisation equipment that I&#8217;m planning to develop then I need your help. Please complete this survey &#8211; it only takes 5 or 10 minutes.
Please fill in the answers as honestly as you can and don&#8217;t spare my feelings. It&#8217;s more important that I know the truth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never trust your users!</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2008/08/27/never-trust-your-users</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Time and again I see people do stupid stuff on the web. I&#8217;m talking about the developers. There&#8217;s this big fat rule in the world of web development: never trust your users to do the right thing.
This could mean asking the user if they&#8217;re sure that the want to delete an appointment from their calendar, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My most memorable job interview</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2008/02/04/my-most-memorable-job-interview</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Job interviews can be hard work. I&#8217;ve had quite a few in my time, and you need to do at least a little homework before submitting yourself to the scrutiny of others. Most of my interviews have been quite ordinary, with someone asking questions and someone else interjecting occasionally trying to trip me up.
My most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Installing PHP5.3</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2008/01/28/installing-php53</link>
		<comments>http://ben.dechrau.com/2008/01/28/installing-php53#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hosting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently installed PHP 5.3 in order to play with some of the new features and thought I&#8217;d share the steps I took with you. While it&#8217;s based on a clean installation of Ubuntu 7.10 Server, you might find this useful on existing systems too.
As ever, this guide is for educational purposes only. I offer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make someone feel good by blowing their trumpet</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2008/01/10/make-someone-feel-good-by-blowing-their-trumpet</link>
		<comments>http://ben.dechrau.com/2008/01/10/make-someone-feel-good-by-blowing-their-trumpet#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BarCamp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conference]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new year typically spawns lots of &#8220;Best of &#8230;&#8221; and &#8220;What happened in &#8230;&#8221; articles and blog posts. It&#8217;s a time of year to reflect on the past 12 months. It&#8217;s time to look at the highlights, sometimes the lowlights, and hopefully lock a few of those nuggets away for future use.
What I wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The PHP Anthology, Second Edition</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/10/16/the-php-anthology-second-edition</link>
		<comments>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/10/16/the-php-anthology-second-edition#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;m very excited! Some of you will know that I was asked to be an author on a book a while ago. I kept quiet about the details at first, but let slip to a few that I was updating a couple of chapters for the upcoming PHP Anthology (second edition). What I wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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