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	<title>kalebeul &#187; 2004 &#187; February</title>
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	<description>anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun</description>
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		<title>catalan supercomputer</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/29/catalan-supercomputer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe the inclusion of magic word &#8220;Linux&#8221; in the announcement calmed them down, but I&#8217;m still a bit surprised that neither the opposition nor the wild-eyed crazies of the decentralisation lobby have yet cried foul over the government&#8217;s surprise announcement, two weeks before the elections, of a &#8364;70M plan to install an IBM one-room 40-teraflop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>diffusion and variation in bogus money laundering</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/28/diffusion-and-variation-in-bogus-money-laundering/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/28/diffusion-and-variation-in-bogus-money-laundering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Zaid Khan, a merchant in Doha, Qatar with cancer of the esophagus, has contacted me again this morning to talk about the future of his fortune. This sudden wave of fatal stomach ailments amongst the Middle East&#8217;s HNW individuals leads me to wonder why no folklorists seem to be tracking the way these stories spread [...]]]></description>
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		<title>so do 20.2 or 5.5% of spaniards not know what email is?</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/28/so-do-202-or-55-of-spaniards-not-know-what-email-is/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/28/so-do-202-or-55-of-spaniards-not-know-what-email-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of sewing machines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The headline figure this morning is 20%, but the survey (.doc) asks the question twice and the other answer is different. First there&#8217;s question 3:

I&#8217;m going to read you a list of apparatus and new technologies that are being used more and more frequently in Spain. Tell me, please, of each one whether you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>empirialism</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/27/empirialism/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/27/empirialism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2004 23:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, if only empirialism weren&#8217;t such a well-established (260 ghits) misspelling of imperialism! For what would suit those evangelical empiricists better?
Word found in the comments section of swampman Chappell&#8217;s blog, currently awaiting recolonisation.
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		<title>yo</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/27/yo/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/27/yo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2004 23:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That insolent colonial, John Chappell, has launched an all-out assault on this house, suggesting that I perform the work of a yeoman:
1a. An attendant, servant, or lesser official in a royal or noble household. b. A yeoman of the guard. 2. A petty officer performing chiefly clerical duties in the U.S. Navy. 3. An assistant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(illustration for previous post)</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/26/illustration-for-previous-post/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/26/illustration-for-previous-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of decorating with pictures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The scan below (100K) is of the front cover of Gil de Rusena&#8217;s El Memorialista Catal&#224;, cited in the previous post. All I know of the artist, &#8220;Robert&#8221;, is that he worked for Salvador Bonavia and other publishers on a number of other books, including folklore collections. Bonavia&#8217;s old shop is just down the road [...]]]></description>
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		<title>political writing</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/26/political-writing/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/26/political-writing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Taking the view that the plain folk of Catalonia were illiterate and uncouth to a degree that would lead to ridicule in more cultured lands, Catalan language evangelists at the turn of the nineteenth century launched a barrage of self-help books. These guides taught business and social forms that will be familiar to English-speaking readers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Binman</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/25/binman/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/25/binman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mrs Rodr&#237;guez opens her front door, walks down the street to the large public waste container, jacks open the lid with her foot, and screams in terror as a very dirty man inside reaches to take her bags. Who needs state-run recycling?
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		<title>rosetta, stoned</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/25/rosetta-stoned/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/25/rosetta-stoned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Orthodox history has for long held that the Rosetta Stone is a celebration of Greek colonialism in North Africa. No longer, for Shaheen Abou-Alfoutouh has now proved conclusively that, according to some laws he just invented but hasn&#8217;t written down yet, and because there are already enough sailors in Athens called Rosetta, the British Museum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>inquisition manual</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/23/inquisition-manual/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/23/inquisition-manual/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of God]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Normally I&#8217;ll read any kind of rubbish, but this has got me defeated and puzzled. It&#8217;s a collection of instructions dating from 1484 to 1576 on how to run an inquisition (there&#8217;s some Torquemada in there) that belonged to one Doctor Mart&#237;n Y&#225;nez de Padilla. However, not only are there no bloodstains on the pages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>if you have to kiss a trombonist, kiss the drunk one</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/22/if-you-have-to-kiss-a-trombonist-kiss-the-drunk-one/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/22/if-you-have-to-kiss-a-trombonist-kiss-the-drunk-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2004 22:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lie as they may, the truth is that all wind players share mouthpieces. So what&#8217;s your best risk mitigation strategy if you have to kiss a musician? Here&#8217;s some useful info:

Potential risk of salivary-mediated viral hepatitis type B transmission from oral exposure to fomites.
Osterholm MT, Max BJ, Hanson M, Polesky HF.
Twelve grade school and junior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daisy, Daisy, give me your serpent, do!</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/22/daisy-daisy-give-me-your-serpent-do/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/22/daisy-daisy-give-me-your-serpent-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2004 22:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Of the chariot]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the proudest memories of my musical career is of a mission undertaken on behalf of the Dutch nation to a Swedish folk festival, at which a programme of James Last covers was performed to accompany the wobblings of a display team of penny-farthing riders. Some believe that the deep affinity that exists between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>me too</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/21/me-too/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/21/me-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2004 22:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Calcutta Telegraph is generally acknowledged to be the Indian daily with the best Polish coverage, and so it is this evening, with a story about Polmos, a Zielona G&#243;ra vodka producer facing prosecution for handing out a free English course with each bottle. Said Renata Durda of the state Agency for Solving Alcohol Problems:
Nad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>speaking as a professional burglar&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/21/speaking-as-a-professional-burglar/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/21/speaking-as-a-professional-burglar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2004 19:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I just love all these social networks on which people tell you what they own and eventually where they live and what they do on Saturday night. I just wish they wouldn&#8217;t list all the crap I can get on P2P.
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		<title>Suggestion for EU official language policy</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/21/suggestion-for-eu-official-language-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/02/21/suggestion-for-eu-official-language-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Irish opposition parties are trying to stir up the nationalist vote with a proposal to get Irish (ca 0.2M fluent speakers) adopted as an official EU language. I know when I&#8217;ve lost an argument, and I hereby renounce everything I have said on this subject in the past. Let&#8217;s make every European tongue (including the [...]]]></description>
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