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		<title>Release It!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Release It!, Michael T. Nygard A stunningly good book!  I really wish I&#8217;d read this book earlier.  If you are responsible for developing any kind of web system that needs to be up 24/7 then you must read this.  The book is full of  useful design patterns and anti-patterns, and I must admit the number [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.probablyrandom.com/2010/06/17/release-it/</link>
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		<title>Gone Tomorrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gone Tomorrow, Lee Child Another thrilling installment in the Jack Reacher series.   It&#8217;s great to be part of another episode in Jack Reachers life.  From witnessing a bizarre suicide on a let night subway to a full on conspiracy, with the men in dark suits out to track dowand silence Jack .  Brilliant.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.probablyrandom.com/2010/06/12/gone-tomorrow/</link>
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		<title>HTC Desire finally arrived</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1 month late but finally it&#8217;s here. After popping down to the Post Office to pick up the eagerly (and longley) awaited phone and being told that they didn&#8217;t have it! then &#8216;oh no here it is&#8230;&#8217; there was much relief and excitement! It&#8217;s a bit of a change going from a &#8216;proper&#8217; phone to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.probablyrandom.com/2010/05/23/htc-desire-finally-arrived/</link>
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		<title>Vodafone, do you want keep your customers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This would be a long rant about how poor the customer service has been, but quite frankly I&#8217;m just exhausted now. If you need to know: &#60;rant&#62; No one in the shop can actually change your address (tried 3 times) You can&#8217;t do it online (tried 3 times) The website doesn&#8217;t remember who you are, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.probablyrandom.com/2010/05/05/vodafone-do-you-want-keep-your-customers/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Genuine Advantage &#8211; Shot in the foot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ARRRGGHHH! is probably the best way of putting it. Why does Microsoft insist on telling me my copy of Office is not genuine?  I have an account on MSDN (Microsoft Developers Network) which says I can install Office, so I downloaded it, from Microsoft, got the key, from Microsoft, and installed it.  The next day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.probablyrandom.com/2010/04/27/microsoft-genuine-advantage-shot-in-the-foot/</link>
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		<title>Mind Hacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mind Hacks, Tom Stafford, Matt Webb To honest I was a little disappointed with this book. Possibly down to my expectation rather than the book itself.  I was hoping to learn some techniques to improve my memory and speed of thinking but that&#8217;s not what this is about.  There are 90 odd explanations of &#8216;phenomena&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.probablyrandom.com/2010/04/26/mind-hacks/</link>
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		<title>The Creative Habit, learn it and use it for life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Creative Habit, Learn it and use it for life, Twyla Tharp This really does show you a way to make being creative a part of your life.  Initially I was worried that his might be a little too dance orientated, there are references to it (she&#8217;s a choreographer and dancer) but you don&#8217;t need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.probablyrandom.com/2010/04/21/the-creative-habit-learn-it-and-use-it-for-life/</link>
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		<title>97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know When I bought this I was thinking it would help me design new systems&#8230; It won&#8217;t.  But&#8230; it provides amazing insight into what the role and the actual job of being a software architect is.  Which I actually found a lot more useful.  It was a bit odd [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.probablyrandom.com/2010/03/25/97-things-every-software-architect-should-know/</link>
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		<title>Rocket Surgery Made Easy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rocket Surgery Made Easy, Steve Krug If you design anything used by people and you&#8217;ve never done any user testing then you must read this! It sets out a simple way to get started on the road to user testing. I have done some user testing over the years both as facilitator and as observer, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.probablyrandom.com/2010/03/17/rocket-surgery-made-easy/</link>
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		<title>Linchpin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was horrified to think that Seth Godin was extoling the virtues of what I hated most, people who build themselves into a system making them selves indispensible... I was wrong.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.probablyrandom.com/2010/03/14/linchpin/</link>
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