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	<description>Chris Warren's Rather Neglected Website</description>
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		<title>EIFF Ticket Availability Checker 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s back! The old code has been dusted off and a few nuts and bolts tightened (thanks to the inclusion of the rather spacious Festival Theatre) &#8211; the unofficial  Edinburgh International Film Festival Ticket Availability Checker (2010 Edition).
Find out if the show you really want to see is sold out (or selling fast) without going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ixalon.net/2010/06/eiff-availability-checker-2010/</link>
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		<title>Gowalla Streetview Bookmarklet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to recommendations by friends I&#8217;ve been getting into the location-aware game Gowalla. The idea behind the game is you wander around, checking in to &#8220;spots&#8221; (i.e. locations) to add to your collection. Spots can be anything from landmarks to shops and when you check in you&#8217;re randomly awarded with collectable icons which you can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ixalon.net/2009/10/gowalla-streetview-bookmarklet/</link>
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		<title>PS3 and UK Catchup TV Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a week now since the official PS3-optimised BBC iPlayer went live and I pulled the plug on the unofficial PS3iPlayer.com (it&#8217;s still available for but no-longer maintained.) As a few sites(!) are reporting, PS3 users are now accounting for around 10% of everyone using the iPlayer over the Internet (i.e. excluding Virgin&#8217;s service [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ixalon.net/2009/09/ps3-and-uk-catchup-tv-services/</link>
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		<title>EIFF Ticket Availability Checker Mashup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the annoying things about the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) website at www.edfilmfest.org.uk is that you can&#8217;t tell if there are any tickets left for a screening until you&#8217;re half way through the ticket booking process. Even then, there&#8217;s no way to tell how close a screening is to being sold out, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ixalon.net/2009/06/eiff-ticket-availability-checker-mashup/</link>
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		<title>Edinburgh International Film Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time for another off-topic blog post!   This time on the 63rd annual Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF).
I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s my taste in films, the excellent work of the festival staff, or a general trend in filmmaking, but this year&#8217;s line up at the festival seems pretty spectacular. There&#8217;s been a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ixalon.net/2009/06/edinburgh-international-film-festival/</link>
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		<title>The Calman Commission Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First up, it&#8217;s pretty unusual for me to post about politics; I normally keep such thoughts to myself or moan about the general ineptitude of politicians to friends and colleagues, however I&#8217;m a keen follower of what&#8217;s going on regarding UK politics, as it has the opportunity to be an exciting time of change.
Today a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ixalon.net/2009/06/the-calman-commission-report/</link>
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		<title>PS3 VidZone Critique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night VidZone, an interesting new free service cropped up on the PS3, curtesy of the lovely people as SCEE and Rants Ltd.  VidZone in a nutshell is a music video channel where you choose the music; you queue up tracks from VidZone&#8217;s playlists, search by artist, song or genre, and build up your own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ixalon.net/2009/06/ps3-vidzone-critique/</link>
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		<title>Finishing Projects &#8211; The Tempest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I hit the big three-zero last weekend and instead of having an early mid-life crisis, I thought I&#8217;d try and hunt for some inspiration to actually push ahead with an exciting idea I had a few weeks ago.
I&#8217;ve been involved in and coded a lot of pet projects over the past 10 years, most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ixalon.net/2009/05/finishing-projects-the-tempest/</link>
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		<title>A Pretty Graph</title>
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		<link>http://www.ixalon.net/2009/02/a-pretty-graph/</link>
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		<title>PS3 iPlayer is back up (Warning: Slight rant!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the downtime (again!) &#8211; the changes the BBC have been making lately aren&#8217;t huge, but thanks to their obfuscation of the iPlayer&#8217;s Javascript files, the simple job of maintaining PS3 iPlayer becomes horrendously complicated.
Not only does the obfuscation make it difficult to write the required regular expressions (a way for programs to look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ixalon.net/2009/01/ps3-iplayer-is-back-up-warning-slight-rant/</link>
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