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		<title>SkypeAccess:  Nice idea, but &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EDINBURGH AIRPORT, YESTERDAY.
(1) Hey, cool, they have a Boingo hotspot with SkypeAccess!  Cheap Wifi here I come.

(2)  Meh.

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		<link>http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2010/03/08/skypeaccess-nice-idea-but/</link>
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		<title>Some links</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the UK this week, but here&#8217;s a little link round-up:
TuneGlue music map &#8211; try it with the name of your band-of-the-moment and see what it spits out
Hitmen old and new &#8211; Edward Lucas in the Economist argues that modern technology makes killing easier—but harder to get away with
Can a Russian Oligarch Save the British [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2010/02/21/some-links/</link>
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		<title>Compare and contrast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moscow, January 13, 2010:  My pal Luke Harding reports that James Cameron stands accused of &#8216;borrowing&#8217; from Russian Sci Fi author brothers Boris and Arkady Shrugatsky in creating the world of &#8216;Avatar&#8217;.
Luke further tells us that the sole surviving Shrugatsky, Boris, &#8217;shrugged off&#8217; the suggestion, denied accusing Cameron of plagiarism.  No harm done. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2010/02/08/compare-and-contrast/</link>
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		<title>Fanboi alert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple lost two sales today.
I&#8217;d been teetering on the brink of replacing my five-year-old MacBook Pro with a new one.  I don&#8217;t really need it, but the new ones are shiny.  My daughter is busily saving up every Pound, Ruble and Dollar she can, so that she can have a MacBook of her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2010/01/28/fanboi-alert/</link>
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		<title>Oh, the weather outside is frightful &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; but everything works.
It&#8217;s minus 25 out there today.  Rumour has it that this is the coldest Winter Russia&#8217;s seen since 1942.  Well Leningrad&#8217;s no longer under blockade, but it&#8217;s definitely pretty chilly.
Your face starts to go numb after a few minutes outside.  The skating rink on Red Square is practically deserted, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2010/01/27/oh-the-weather-outside-is-frightful/</link>
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		<title>Ch ch ch ch &#8230;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friends and former colleagues over at H&#038;K have just published their &#8216;What would the first 100 days of a Cameron government look like?&#8216;
The answer, of course, contains more questions and precious few predictions.  Nobody knows what&#8217;s going to happen in March, May or whenever, or what the outcome will look like.  
But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2010/01/21/ch-ch-ch-ch/</link>
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		<title>New kid on the block</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s all give a big blogosphere welcome for &#8230; Andrew Fairburn!
On their new blog at reputationspotlight.wordpress.com, Regester Larkin are looking at some interesting reputation management issues.  My friend and former H&#038;K colleague Andrew Fairburn (who&#8217;s always reminded me of Tiff Needell, although I&#8217;m not sure he knows that) is doing much of the writing. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2009/11/14/new-kid-on-the-block/</link>
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		<title>Barada Nikto!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  
Marvellous news from Amazon that the Kindle will shortly be available in &#8216;over 100 countries&#8217;, including here in Russia, in time for Christmas.  No blogs or browsing, though, and there&#8217;s no 3G here yet.
Just make sure you sign the Kindle License Agreement And Terms of Use.  Or Gort&#8217;ll get ya.
(you shouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2009/10/07/barada-nikto/</link>
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		<title>Just another Friday night in Moscow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moscow never ceases to surprise.  This was the scene at McDonald&#8217;s on Old Arbat late yesterday evening.  

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		<link>http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2009/09/12/just-another-friday-night-in-moscow/</link>
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		<title>Sorry &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; for being so silent for so long.
I&#8217;ll be back soon, I promise.


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		<link>http://jamesbarbour.org/blog/2009/09/09/sorry/</link>
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