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	<title>Sean's blog &#187; Philosophy</title>
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	<description>Working nights with the thief of time</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>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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<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>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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<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>Pos Malaysia shipping quotes for e-commerce</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2010/02/23/pos-malaysia-shipping-quotes-for-e-commerce/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2010/02/23/pos-malaysia-shipping-quotes-for-e-commerce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I maintain some Malaysian shipping modules for the popular e-commerce software osCommerce which allow local e-shops to include up-to-date automatic shipping quotes from Pos Malaysia (Pos Laju and Pos Air Parcel) in the order total. If you run an e-shop, being able to pass on accurate shipping costs to your customers &#8211; compared with &#8216;free&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>District 9 is a better movie than Avatar</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2010/01/13/district-9-is-a-better-movie-than-avatar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I might never have watched District 9, but Jess came back from her sister&#8217;s house with a sack full of DVDs recently. Among the DVDs was District 9. I recognised the &#8220;No Humans&#8221; warning sign from the limited marketing I&#8217;d seen. I watched the movie on my laptop a couple of nights ago. When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unrequited love and Malaysia</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2010/01/07/unrequited-love-and-malaysia/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2010/01/07/unrequited-love-and-malaysia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Nut Graph asks this morning &#8220;Stay or leave Malaysia?&#8221;. I think they published an article on the theme of Unrequited Love not so long ago, but I imagine it&#8217;s a recurring theme for many Malaysians, or anybody who has ever lived here for long enough to develop an &#8216;attachment&#8217; to the country. The Nut [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=659</guid>
		<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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		<title>Who would Jesus bomb? Lucky find on YouTube</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2009/11/04/who-would-jesus-bomb-lucky-find-on-youtube/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2009/11/04/who-would-jesus-bomb-lucky-find-on-youtube/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=553</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Saw this on YouTube, liked it a lot. No more to say on the subject right now, than: watch it, experience an emotion, keep it to yourself. OK, you can tell me, as long as you don&#8217;t want an argument. I&#8217;m posting this purely for &#8216;liked it&#8217;. A lot. To save you the obvious search, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Code golf at Stackoverflow. Byte array substring searching.</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2009/10/25/code-golf-at-stackoverflow-byte-array-substring-searching/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2009/10/25/code-golf-at-stackoverflow-byte-array-substring-searching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=531</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know what I was searching for when I found this &#8216;code golf&#8217; challenge at Stack Overflow. The challenge was to find a substring of bytes in a byte array, returning the start position. It cost me half an hour or so, so I thought I&#8217;d post my attempt up for posterity. Many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everybody should question</title>
		<link>http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2009/02/13/everybody-should-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody should question When I first came to Malaysia in 2005, I was eager to find out more about the country I was going to live in, the country my wife was born in and soon our children were  to be born in. We were staying with in-laws for the birth of our daughter; they [...]]]></description>
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