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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>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/08/19/look-ma-no-files-portable-object-persistence/#comments</comments>
		<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>Trying out JBullet: IntBuffer is not direct</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/05/14/trying-out-jbullet-intbuffer-is-not-direct/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 18:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been simulating the movement of a line-following robot in plain old Java recently, but wanted to try a few problems that need physics, so I downloaded JBullet &#8211; a Java port of the Bullet  Physics Library. It needs LWJGL &#8211; the Lightweight Java Game Library &#8211; to run its demos, so I installed that [...]]]></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>Set up Malaysian ISO 3166-2 zones for osCommerce / Zen Cart</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/01/19/set-up-malaysian-iso-3166-2-zones-for-oscommerce-zen-cart/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2011/01/19/set-up-malaysian-iso-3166-2-zones-for-oscommerce-zen-cart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Spider.my]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=1065</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The standard &#8216;zones&#8217; facility of osCommerce has an attribute &#8216;zone_code&#8217; which at first glance looks as though it might support a standardised shipping quotation system, but osCommerce comes with a database populated with zone codes that are not at all standard. The kinds of codes that are present in the database are what a person [...]]]></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>On-screen ruler for Ubuntu: screenruler</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2010/05/13/on-screen-ruler-for-ubuntu-screenruler/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2010/05/13/on-screen-ruler-for-ubuntu-screenruler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 15:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=895</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note to say I&#8217;ve found one of those surprisingly useful features of a graphical desktop that really does make sense. I was thinking about calculating the positions of some elements on a web page and providing some relative or absolute positions to prevent &#8216;resizing salad&#8217;. The first thought that struck me was [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2010/02/15/ubuntu-on-pentium-mmx-233mhz-very-old-pc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=754</guid>
		<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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		<title>DVD player died, Ubuntu / NVIDIA TV-Out saves the day!</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2010/01/05/dvd-player-died-ubuntu-nvidia-tv-out-saves-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2010/01/05/dvd-player-died-ubuntu-nvidia-tv-out-saves-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The complaints from the kids were finally overwhelming. Their VCDs and DVDs kept &#8216;sticking&#8217; and restarting, but seemed to play OK in our PCs. I couldn&#8217;t bear the thought of replacing the DVD player, I can&#8217;t help thinking it&#8217;s next week&#8217;s antique. We have an old LG TV for the kids. We&#8217;re not confident about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tremulous, free open-source 3D team FPS</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2009/12/13/tremulous-free-open-source-3d-team-fps/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2009/12/13/tremulous-free-open-source-3d-team-fps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tremulous is my favourite waste of time. I must have lost months of productivity (if you can call the hours after midnight productive) to this game. It&#8217;s an online, 3D team First Person Shooter (FPS). That means when you start up the game program, it shows you a list of games running on the Internet, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Removing the &#8220;powered by WordPress&#8221; attribution text</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2009/12/11/removing-the-powered-by-wordpress-attribution-text/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a request for help with English grammar from a member of a forum I often visit, so had a quick peep at his website. It looked great, nice copyright message and all. He seemed to be suggesting that it was all his own work, so I had a quick look at the page [...]]]></description>
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