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	<title>kalebeul &#187; 2005 &#187; October</title>
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	<description>anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun</description>
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		<title>The N340</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/31/the-n340/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the chariot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The notoriously dangerous N340 highway takes survivors halfway round Spain. How come no one seems to have written a cultural history?
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		<title>A Spanish codpiece</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/31/a-spanish-codpiece/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/31/a-spanish-codpiece/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fernand Braudel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Late Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of ball games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just read Beth Marie Kosir&#8217;s interesting paper on the British codpiece and thought I&#8217;d have a quick look through some Spanish stuff. The Hispanic bragueta (I guess it comes from the French braguette, which is actually not a combination of baguette and bragas, &#8220;knickers&#8221;) seems to have been used first (in the late 15th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romans, Christians, Catalans</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/30/romans-christians-catalans/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/30/romans-christians-catalans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[(Pre-)Roman]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of God]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I had the privilege of singing at Ferrari driver Marc Gené&#8217;s wedding reception, held in a neo-Renaissance palace (built 1940-50) called Bell Recó (something like &#8220;Beautiful spot&#8221;&#8211;it&#8217;s tucked away behind some absolutely splendid trees on a hillside up near Argentona). 
Apart from the kitchen, I found the building of interest principally because of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bin Laden not shacked up in ECB tower in Frankfurt</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/30/bin-laden-not-shacked-up-in-ecb-tower-in-frankfurt/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/30/bin-laden-not-shacked-up-in-ecb-tower-in-frankfurt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I only found out yesterday that people refer to €500 notes as &#8220;Bin Ladens&#8221;, not because they have his portrait on them, but because you never see them.
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		<title>Better a beach fag than a punk</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/28/better-a-beach-fag-than-a-punk/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/28/better-a-beach-fag-than-a-punk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; suggests Nando Caballero here. A certain Bakunin comments below that the same thing happened to us (coral de la guasa = &#8220;humorous choir&#8221;, kind of) during a July concert in Barcelona.  However, the highlight was not the hassle we did indeed get off the liberhairians, but a drunk who climbed on stage and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revenge of the Sith &gt; Chinese &gt; English</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/27/revenge-of-the-sith-chinese-english/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/27/revenge-of-the-sith-chinese-english/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Winterson.com (scroll) via MemeFirst.
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		<title>Watch out, watch out, there&#8217;s masons about!</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/27/watch-out-watch-out-theres-masons-about/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/27/watch-out-watch-out-theres-masons-about/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The right&#8217;s out on another freemasonry scare. The kind of paranoia popularised by Franco&#8217;s official historian (whose work is often quite as bad as anything produced by the left-wing historians who came to power in the 80s) and his mates may explain why at least three people try to run me down every time I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smallest concert hall in the world</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/27/smallest-concert-hall-in-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/27/smallest-concert-hall-in-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend once impressively tried to play the trombone in a London cab, but the prize goes to the small lottery kiosk containing a middle-aged woman several sizes larger who was dreamily squeezing away at her accordeon this afternoon. Her dog was crammed in there as well.
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		<title>New English version of regional government website still translated by Albanians and programmed by hamsters</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/27/new-english-version-of-regional-government-website-still-translated-by-albanians-and-programmed-by-hamsters/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/27/new-english-version-of-regional-government-website-still-translated-by-albanians-and-programmed-by-hamsters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gencat.net in English is sad, sad, sad (and the Catalan version also forgot the stylesheets). Don&#8217;t they do testing?
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		<title>English Pronunciation is available in several formats</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/27/english-pronunciation-is-available-in-several-formats/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/27/english-pronunciation-is-available-in-several-formats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been having problems with some vowels recently, so I wish this kind of stuff was available for more languages. The doggies and birdies are particularly welcome. (I once worked for an insufferably conservative company with a phenomenally rear-end approach to corporate comms. One day it was discovered that, rather than wait for the official [...]]]></description>
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		<title>English, lingua franca of the Swiss/Catalans/&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/26/english-lingua-franca-of-the-swisscatalans/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/26/english-lingua-franca-of-the-swisscatalans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what Urs Dürmüller of Berne University says, and Switzerland.isyours explains why in greater detail. English became popular in Brussels, partly because it was viewed as a neutral language, exempt from the rivalries of the supporters of Flemish and French (German princes were invited to take up Balkan thrones in the C19th for much the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A couple more English-language Spain blogs</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/25/some-more-english-language-blogs/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/25/some-more-english-language-blogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to Colin Davies it rains thrice as much in the winter in Galicia as in Manchester, but he still looks remarkably cheerful and Thoughts from Galicia is a great read. Per Svensson sounds like a man I could do with talking to right now: his Fundación Instituto de Propietarios Extranjeros is there to fight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Badalona bitàcola</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/25/badalona-bitacola/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/25/badalona-bitacola/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another blog with a strong local focus I just found. The author covers a number of things and is following the hilarious tale of how the local socialists got too big for their boots and tried to fix the Catalan football federation elections.
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		<title>Nakedpundit</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/25/nakedpundit/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/25/nakedpundit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[José Miguel&#8217;s out of the closet. I hope he&#8217;s wrapped up warm.
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		<title>On the run from the guiding mafia</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/25/on-the-run-from-the-guiding-mafia/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/25/on-the-run-from-the-guiding-mafia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never really thought of myself as a tourist guide, but the guilds do and they want to close people like me down. I&#8217;ll bet they made up half the scam stories, but I could identify with the Russian guide who allegedly mistook the Sant Adrià power station for the Sagrada Família.
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