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		<title>Lego losing it</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember playing with Lego as a kid? Do you remember how many buildings you could make out of one basic set? Hundreds &#8211; in fact, the limit wasn&#8217;t the set, but your own creativity, and the more you played with it the more creative you became. That&#8217;s all history now though: just try [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fifthdecade.wordpress.com&blog=660953&post=236&subd=fifthdecade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Small Business Server</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you own a small business with between 5 and 15 employees and need to buy a server. Which one should you get &#8211; Windows based or Mac OS X based? Let&#8217;s look at the costs involved, because lets face it, businesses need to make money, right?
I&#8217;m assuming that like most small businesses you can&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fifthdecade.wordpress.com&blog=660953&post=233&subd=fifthdecade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BBC F1 TV coverage &#8211; Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do the BBC compare to the job ITV did last year? ITV weren&#8217;t perfect, but the BBC weren&#8217;t that much different. So much for their &#8220;huge coverage&#8221; they promised. So what was it like?
All I can say is &#8220;Thank Goodness for Martin Brundle!&#8221; Without this giant professional of a commentator holding the ship together [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fifthdecade.wordpress.com&blog=660953&post=228&subd=fifthdecade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The next crash will be&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we tell people with unrealistic expectations that they live in a bubble, disconnected from the real world and only able to see it through a distorted film. Over the last ten to fifteen years or so most of us have lived in successive bubbles. Will we ever learn? Somehow I doubt it because the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fifthdecade.wordpress.com&blog=660953&post=224&subd=fifthdecade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Which mortgages were &#8216;foolish&#8217;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC website reports:
Banking minister Lord Myners has said banks were &#8220;foolish&#8221; to offer 100% mortgages, after Gordon Brown called for &#8220;prudent and careful&#8221; lending.
Er, no, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the cause of the current problem, although it certainly doesn&#8217;t help after things have gone wrong. But it surely didn&#8217;t start them on that track. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fifthdecade.wordpress.com&blog=660953&post=220&subd=fifthdecade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Since when did learning to read become a narrow pursuit?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh dear. The Pinko Professor&#8217;s at it again. Apparently, concentrating in Primary School in the UK on getting kids to be able to read and write restricts them too much, and doesn&#8217;t &#8216;develop&#8217; them enough as individuals.
Well Professor, how are kids going to be able to learn anything at all if they can&#8217;t read and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fifthdecade.wordpress.com&blog=660953&post=218&subd=fifthdecade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s not entirely new Middle East direction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, Senator Mitchell was duly despatched by the new President to the Middle East. He sorted out the Northern Ireland troubles, so he is given credit for a magic touch when it comes to these things. But in N. Ireland he spoke to both warring factions, In Palestine he will only speak to one. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fifthdecade.wordpress.com&blog=660953&post=214&subd=fifthdecade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to Peace in Gaza?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some excerpts of what I wrote during the last few days of the 13 day attack by Israel on Gaza. It&#8217;s a basic summary of news reports, official figures, analysis, and my own opinions. I support both the State of Israel and Palestinian Statehood, but this recent conflict shows up one side to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fifthdecade.wordpress.com&blog=660953&post=210&subd=fifthdecade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saving the American Auto Industry</title>
		<link>http://fifthdecade.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/saving-the-american-auto-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[US car makers are in the news right now as just the latest in a line of beggars knocking on Washington&#8217;s door. They&#8217;re asking for $37 billion in support from cheap finance because, as GM&#8217;s Rick Waggoner puts it, &#8220;We made mistakes, and because circumstances beyond our control pushed us to the brink,&#8221; referring to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fifthdecade.wordpress.com&blog=660953&post=208&subd=fifthdecade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Britain&#8217;s Parliamentary Democracy is slowly crumbling away</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the foundation stones of any healthy democracy is adherence to and respect for the rule of law, but it seems even at the the highest levels of British political life, liberties are being taken that affect all our freedoms.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fifthdecade.wordpress.com&blog=660953&post=206&subd=fifthdecade&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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