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		<title>Banker bonuses: a customer&#8217;s view</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Nicholson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far the debate on banker bonuses seems to have focused on two areas: the unfairness and inequality that the bonuses represent, and the value (or not) that they add to the businesses they run. The first represents the view of society as a whole, questioning whether anyone is worth a million-pound bonus on top of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.mattmags.com&amp;blog=19878113&amp;post=665&amp;subd=mattmags&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The nature of money (1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Nicholson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A stranger is staying at a hotel in a small town high up in the mountains for a few days. Shortly after his guest has eaten breakfast and left for the day, the hotel owner notices that he has left his wallet on the table. Business is bad, and the baker has refused to sell the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.mattmags.com&amp;blog=19878113&amp;post=644&amp;subd=mattmags&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Abba on the future of the book</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Nicholson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interactive fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I went to a talk last night by Tom Abba entitled &#8220;This isn&#8217;t the future of the book&#8221;. I was expecting something different &#8211; more to do with eBooks, iPads and Amazon &#8211; but what I got was altogether more interesting. Abba is a lecturer in New Media and Visual Culture at University of West [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.mattmags.com&amp;blog=19878113&amp;post=628&amp;subd=mattmags&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Azure</title>
		<link>http://blog.mattmags.com/2011/11/24/windows-azure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Nicholson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[HardCopy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of HardCopy magazine. Cloud computing is entering a new phase, moving beyond simple ‘servers in the sky’ to something rather more sophisticated and even more useful. Microsoft has thrown huge resources into this new arena and come up with Windows Azure. Of course cloud computing itself is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.mattmags.com&amp;blog=19878113&amp;post=602&amp;subd=mattmags&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The power of Apple</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Nicholson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HardCopy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kindle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What follows is my editorial from the Winter 2011 issue of HardCopy magazine: Just recently I discovered a couple of things that brought home to me just how much this industry is changing, and just how much Apple’s influence has grown. The first concerned Amazon’s Kindle. I have been using the Kindle eBook app for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.mattmags.com&amp;blog=19878113&amp;post=594&amp;subd=mattmags&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Darik&#8217;s Boot and Nuke</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Nicholson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you ever need to completely wipe a hard disk, so that all the data on it is erased, then you need Darik&#8217;s Boot and Nuke. I&#8217;ve used it a couple of times on computers that have reached the end of their time with me, but might still be useful to someone else, and it&#8217;s worked a treat. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.mattmags.com&amp;blog=19878113&amp;post=591&amp;subd=mattmags&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The benefits of competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Nicholson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What follows is my editorial from the September 2011 issue of HardCopy magazine: IBM launched the IBM PC in 1981, bringing the microcomputer into the office and simultaneously opening up a whole new market for IBM ‘clones’ from companies such as Compaq, Ericsson and Tandy. The IBM PC used Intel’s 8088 processor and introduced an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.mattmags.com&amp;blog=19878113&amp;post=583&amp;subd=mattmags&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Useful sites for writers (2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Nicholson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editors and proofreaders may be suprised to discover that there is an organisation devoted to their needs, namely the Society for Editors and Proofreaders. The society runs training courses, holds conferences and has a magazine called (rather cleverly) Editing Matters. It even includes a self-test in proofreading that you can run online to find out just how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.mattmags.com&amp;blog=19878113&amp;post=577&amp;subd=mattmags&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PSU failure and flashing green light? Find a hair dryer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Nicholson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psu failure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So how&#8217;s this for a nightmare situation: you turned the power to your server off last night, to allow some electrical work to be done. Next morning, you turn the server back on and&#8230; nothing happens: nothing lights up, none of the fans are turning, everything seems dead - except for a solitary green light flashing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.mattmags.com&amp;blog=19878113&amp;post=572&amp;subd=mattmags&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where the market fails (5) exploitation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Nicholson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market failure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final part in our occasional series on the shortcomings of the free market. This is an extract from a work in progress: The price mechanism, like justice, is blind. It operates regardless of the nature of the produce or of the consumer or supplier. It works just as efficiently when it comes to drugs, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.mattmags.com&amp;blog=19878113&amp;post=548&amp;subd=mattmags&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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