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		<title>Thomas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met Thomas late one night in Durban in December 2011, while I was attending COP 17. The usually bustling streets had emptied, and he was stacking used fruit cartons on the corner of Joe Slovo Street. He gets 50 &#8230; <a href="http://lepageblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/thomas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lepageblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278346&amp;post=1075&amp;subd=lepageblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to &#8216;fix&#8217; a swollen MacBook battery</title>
		<link>http://lepageblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/how-to-fix-a-swollen-macbook-battery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deadly toxic vapours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laptop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macbook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swollen battery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If having your laptop&#8217;s battery swell up to the point where your trackpad and keyboard become unusable was a problem universal to all laptops – then presumably a Google search on the phrase &#8220;swollen laptop battery&#8221; would bring up all &#8230; <a href="http://lepageblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/how-to-fix-a-swollen-macbook-battery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lepageblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278346&amp;post=1036&amp;subd=lepageblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boycott South African Airways</title>
		<link>http://lepageblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/boycott-south-african-airways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proudly South African]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South African Airways]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The experience of Cory Kratz, friend of a friend: &#8220;South African Airways is without a doubt the most outrageous, heartless and cruel airline in existence. My husband died on 17 September, so I had to cancel a ticket that I &#8230; <a href="http://lepageblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/boycott-south-african-airways/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lepageblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278346&amp;post=1013&amp;subd=lepageblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Isn’t an inviolate comfort zone the whole point of modern civilisation?</title>
		<link>http://lepageblog.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/isn%e2%80%99t-an-inviolate-comfort-zone-the-whole-point-of-modern-civilisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living as if there&#039;s a future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xenophobia in Cape Town]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inviolate comfort zone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How do you react to discovering, again, that somewhere in your environment, other beings are really suffering? These are some of the reactions I think we sometimes dismal, sometimes wonderful beings may have or experience on realising, uncomfortably, that something &#8230; <a href="http://lepageblog.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/isn%e2%80%99t-an-inviolate-comfort-zone-the-whole-point-of-modern-civilisation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lepageblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278346&amp;post=135&amp;subd=lepageblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping your Mac fit, fast and cool</title>
		<link>http://lepageblog.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/keeping-your-mac-fit-fast-and-cool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple Mail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iceclean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imafish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Notational Velocity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[speeding up the Mac]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What, you say, the geniuses of Cupertino don’t do all the speeding up and fine-tuning of OS X automatically for me? No, they don’t. This is not a tech blog (much more interesting stuff here) and I am not a &#8230; <a href="http://lepageblog.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/keeping-your-mac-fit-fast-and-cool/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lepageblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278346&amp;post=977&amp;subd=lepageblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The revenge of Palmer pigweed&#8221;: GM crops spawn new super-weeds</title>
		<link>http://lepageblog.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/the-revenge-of-palmer-pigweed-gm-crops-spawn-new-super-weeds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[genetically modified organisms]]></category>
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		<title>Guess what the Chinese are up to now?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those evil, wicked, polluting Chinese &#8230; you&#8217;ll never guess what they&#8217;re doing now. Under their five-year plans, state-owned industry has strict pollution quotas. So what happens when they hit their pollution target before the end of five years? They shut &#8230; <a href="http://lepageblog.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/guess-what-the-chinese-are-up-to-now/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lepageblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278346&amp;post=974&amp;subd=lepageblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why geo-engineering is silly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our war on the atmosphere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Gates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geo-engineering is the term given to proposed attempts by human beings to change our global climate. Of course, we&#8217;re already causing the breakdown of a stable, human-friendly global climate through our carbon emissions, so proponents suggest geo-engineering as a way &#8230; <a href="http://lepageblog.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/why-geo-engineering-is-silly/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lepageblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278346&amp;post=970&amp;subd=lepageblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;South Africa unveils plans for world&#8217;s biggest solar power plant&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://lepageblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/south-africa-unveils-plans-for-worlds-biggest-solar-power-plant-environment-guardian-co-uk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Going greener]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big plans – bear in mind that this step establishes the infrastructure to support a large amount of solar generation &#8211; but doesn&#8217;t necessarily populate the &#8216;park&#8217; with actual panels and solar plants. Government continues instead to promise far more money &#8230; <a href="http://lepageblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/south-africa-unveils-plans-for-worlds-biggest-solar-power-plant-environment-guardian-co-uk/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lepageblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278346&amp;post=968&amp;subd=lepageblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What interests the public is not necessarily the public interest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in the Guardian by Carl Gardner argues that &#8220;Exposing celebrities&#8217; sex lives is not in the public interest&#8221;. &#8230; what&#8217;s the public interest in exposing the sex life of a golfer, footballer or motor-sport administrator, any more than &#8230; <a href="http://lepageblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/what-interests-the-public-is-not-necessarily-the-public-interest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lepageblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278346&amp;post=967&amp;subd=lepageblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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