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	<description>Small thoughts, big ideas</description>
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		<title>Louis Prima&#8217;s 100th Anniversary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 100th anniversary of Louis Prima, a legendary singer and musician from the swing era. He is one of my favourite artists, and first performed in the 1920s. But his career only really took off in the 1940s, and in 1949, his partnership with singer Keely Smith, later to become his second wife, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lestmak.com/index.php/the-odd-spot/louis-primas-100th-anniversary/</link>
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		<title>Happiness Index</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So David Cameron has outlined his plans today to create a &#8220;Happiness Index&#8221; to measure how happy people in the UK are. The government (through the Office of National Statistics) will spend £2m compiling the index which will first appear in publication in 2012. Best that the ONS takes some advice to improve the results: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lestmak.com/index.php/the-odd-spot/happiness-index/</link>
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		<title>Revitalising?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so I had a new look for this blog and then I decided I wanted to change it. Let&#8217;s be simple, really. I love minimalism (even for someone who has far too many possessions that clutter space). It&#8217;s almost a year since I last wrote on here and if I were to leave this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lestmak.com/index.php/the-odd-spot/revitalising/</link>
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		<title>New look for this website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m giving a new look for this website. Sadly this site got hacked recently and if you&#8217;re using some browsers, it&#8217;s probably saying it&#8217;s a phishing site. And there was a plan that went out the window! Seriously, though, it&#8217;s a bit of a pain and I&#8217;ve had to do a lot of updates to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lestmak.com/index.php/life/new-look-for-this-website/</link>
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		<title>TOS #58: Anti-bac gel is good, hic!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You learn new things every day. No really. Now the benefits of anti-bacteral gels have been touted for quite some time, given the spread of the H1N1 virus. But what we didn&#8217;t know is that they apparently are a good ingredient in cocktails. The BBC reports of a prison who have banned the alcoholic gels [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lestmak.com/index.php/the-odd-spot/tos-58-anti-bac-gel-is-good-hic/</link>
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		<title>TOS#57: Pixar grants girl&#8217;s dying wish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s nice occasionally to see some humanity in a world that can be as ruthless about things, particularly when it comes to doing business. Pixar has had some of that to contend with, as its head man, a certain Steve Jobs, who is also CEO of Apple, has recently revealed that he had a liver [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lestmak.com/index.php/the-odd-spot/tos57-pixar-grants-girls-dying-wish/</link>
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		<title>A tale of two politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Step back a pace and there&#8217;s an uncanny coincidence that we shouldn&#8217;t but notice. Two political systems, different challenges, but tricky ones, nonetheless. The event that didn&#8217;t happen (according to China) Today, China tries its best not to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests. Over here, we&#8217;re all familiar with the video [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lestmak.com/index.php/life/a-tale-of-two-politics/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s been a while&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Indeed, it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve written much here. Like many things in life, things go in phases, and sometimes you just find that you don&#8217;t have as much time to do things as you used to. Like this blog. But there are good reasons why I haven&#8217;t written so much in the last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lestmak.com/index.php/life/its-been-a-while/</link>
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		<title>Refresh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, my site got hacked a few days ago. Hopefully, this fixes it!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lestmak.com/index.php/life/refresh/</link>
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		<title>Bucket List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to Tanja - yes, I&#8217;m bored&#8230; Place an X by all the things you&#8217;ve done and remove the X from the ones you have not, then send it to your friends (including me). (To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lestmak.com/index.php/life/bucket-list/</link>
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