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	<title>Sean's blog &#187; Breaktime</title>
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	<description>Working nights with the thief of time</description>
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		<title>LEGO Mindstorms NXT Alpha Rex building instructions / plan</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2012/01/22/lego-mindstorms-nxt-alpha-rex-building-instructions-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bought the LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 recently and was a bit disappointed to find that it didn&#8217;t come with printed instructions to build Alpha Rex &#8211; the robot on the box art. I searched for the instructions all over the web but couldn&#8217;t find them. The building instructions are available from within the Mindstorms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion-free state education in the UK</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/09/06/religion-free-state-education-in-the-uk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently returned to the UK with two young children from a financially cavalier extended &#8216;babymoon&#8217; in Malaysia. Part of the impetus to move back again was my reluctance to put my children through the Malaysian state education system which emphasises racist division and religious practice, though possibly not in that order and with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look Ma, no files! Portable object persistence</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/08/19/look-ma-no-files-portable-object-persistence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted at JavaProgrammingForums.com Where can I store my application data? I see a lot of people starting threads because they&#8217;re struggling to persist (often) a little bit of data from one run of their Java application to the next. The offered solutions are often some kind of jiggery-pokery involving java.io.File. Not only is File [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LEGO Mindstorms RCX cable rot / decay</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/05/10/lego-mindstorms-rcx-cable-rot-decay/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/05/10/lego-mindstorms-rcx-cable-rot-decay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 04:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of the LEGO I have in the house must be 30 years old. It&#8217;s as good as the day it was first unwrapped. I have to admit to being disappointed when one of my two RCXes stopped responding to the IR tower. I was pleased the other one was still working just fine and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BrickOS on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/04/27/brickos-on-ubuntu-10-10-maverick-meerkat/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/04/27/brickos-on-ubuntu-10-10-maverick-meerkat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1259</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BrickOS was an integral part of some work I did many years ago and I&#8217;ve been trying to dig the code up recently. It seems as though it fell out of the Ubuntu repositories some time ago (in as legos before the name change), so I&#8217;m currently installing the source package from the BrickOS sourceforge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power from the sun (and gun): Bandar Dataran Solar</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/03/18/power-from-the-sun-and-gun-bandar-dataran-solar/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/03/18/power-from-the-sun-and-gun-bandar-dataran-solar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1206</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago when I wrote about how I thought Malaysia should generate electricity from the sun, I realised that the picture that I carry in my head might not be the same as a reader might form in their own. Worse, I dashed off an image of how I think a &#8216;residential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar power in Malaysia &#8211; the residential area solar roof</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/03/15/solar-power-in-malaysia-the-residential-area-solar-roof/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/03/15/solar-power-in-malaysia-the-residential-area-solar-roof/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Part two&#8217; has some better images that should make things a bit clearer! I keep suggesting this as a &#8216;real&#8217; solar power alternative whenever someone says (as they invariably do) that solar power cannot produce enough energy to compete with traditional sources. Alternative power sources are in the news at the moment, as Japan&#8217;s earthquake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiwan (&#8216;Animals&#8217; in Bahasa Malaysia) at wossis.com</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2010/07/24/haiwan-animals-in-bahasa-malaysia-at-wossis-com/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2010/07/24/haiwan-animals-in-bahasa-malaysia-at-wossis-com/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haiwan is a copy of the Animals flashcards with Bahasa Malaysia sound clips and flashcard captions. It has been a very long time since I touched wossis.com, and I can&#8217;t help thinking that it shows! I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of work on the Spinneret Java web server, including API changes &#8211; so the next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ministry of Tourism Poll: Penang Botanical Garden Arches</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2010/06/14/the-ministry-of-tourism-poll-penang-botanical-garden-arches/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2010/06/14/the-ministry-of-tourism-poll-penang-botanical-garden-arches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s plenty of &#8216;information&#8217; available in Malaysia, and just a few people publicly questioning its quality. The Ministry of Tourism is conducting a poll on its website to see whether people want to keep the arches being built at the Penang Botanical gardens (Warning: abysmal Flash site). Anil Netto (who isn&#8217;t keen on the arches) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu 9.10 on Pentium MMX 233MHz (very old PC!)</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2010/02/15/ubuntu-on-pentium-mmx-233mhz-very-old-pc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the old computers that end up on my desk is a Pentium MMX 233MHz PC from &#8230; I don&#8217;t know, the dawn of time, probably. It can&#8217;t have been made any later than late 1990s. I use it for testing code behaviour on low-resource systems. It did have Slackware on it, but I found [...]]]></description>
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