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		<title>Audio illusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently got a Yoda toy from Macdonalds with one of their children&#8217;s meals, and it has a strange audio illusion. Most of the time when I listen to it, I hear &#8220;May the thwee be with you&#8221;. EB hears this all the time. But under some conditions that I have not been able to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbickers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=280699&amp;post=45&amp;subd=jbickers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Logitech G7 failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After being quite happy with a G5 mouse on my own PC, I got a G7 wireless mouse for John&#8217;s PC. Today it goes to the trash. It turns out that it&#8217;s not uncommon for these mice to freeze for a few seconds at a time, and that the problem is irreparable. The worst part [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbickers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=280699&amp;post=43&amp;subd=jbickers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Casanova&#8217;s Alibi and Other Stories (Rafael Sabatini)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This compilation of Rafael Sabatini stories about Casanova has been posted to Project Gutenberg Australia (text, zip). I was surprised to get this typed up and proofed relatively quickly, as I found Casanova unlikeable. The stories are: The Alibi The Augmentation of Mercury The Priest of Mars The Oracle Under the Leads The Night of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbickers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=280699&amp;post=41&amp;subd=jbickers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Plague of Ghosts and Other Stories (Rafael Sabatini)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has taken me months to get around to finishing this text, but I finally finished proofreading it recently and it has been posted to Project Gutenberg Australia (text, zip). It is a collection of short stories by Rafael Sabatini. My favourites are the ones featuring Capoulade. The stories are: The Risen Dead The Bargain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbickers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=280699&amp;post=37&amp;subd=jbickers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cellphones</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Sharp 903SH phone, which was imported from HK a couple of years ago, has stumbled into purgatory over the last few weeks. I had hoped that a new battery would fix it, and there is still a chance that reflashing the phone might get it working again, but I&#8217;ve had to get a new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbickers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=280699&amp;post=35&amp;subd=jbickers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sayonara Steelkeys</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My steelkeys 6G keyboard has been pushing for a replacement, and has finally got its way. For a few weeks now it has been occasionally going dead, or locking on a particular key, and giving the keyboard a little shake makes the LEDs light up all by themselves. The shake also fixes the keyboard when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbickers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=280699&amp;post=34&amp;subd=jbickers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Books by Herbert Giles</title>
		<link>http://jbickers.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/books-by-herbert-giles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight or nine years ago I read through several books about China by Herbert Giles, and typed them up. They were all proofed by Dagny. Back then three were too recent to be posted at the US Project Gutenberg site. They are fine for Project Gutenberg Australia, however, so I dug them out and sent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbickers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=280699&amp;post=32&amp;subd=jbickers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Columbus (Rafael Sabatini)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book is one that Emma found locally. It&#8217;s a romance about Christopher Columbus, set in the period leading up to his expedition west, and involves his entanglement with a woman forced to work for the Venetians. It was posted last July (text, zip).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbickers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=280699&amp;post=31&amp;subd=jbickers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tales of Twilight and the Unseen (Arthur Conan Doyle)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book completed Conan Doyle&#8217;s &#8220;Tales of&#8221; set. It was prepared from scans by Colin Choat, and posted in March (html, zip). These stories are about secrets or the unnatural, and the titles are: The Brown Hand The Usher of Lea House School B. 24 The Great Keinplatz Experiment Cyprian Overbeck Wells Playing with Fire [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbickers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=280699&amp;post=30&amp;subd=jbickers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tales of the Ring and the Camp (Arthur Conan Doyle)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following on from Conan Doyle&#8217;s Tales of Long Ago, which was prepared from a book that Emma found locally, Colin Choat at PGA was able to get scans for the rest of the volumes in the same set that had not already been posted. Tales of the Ring and the Camp (html, zip) was posted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbickers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=280699&amp;post=29&amp;subd=jbickers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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