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		<title>The day we all became thieves&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chasman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want you to cast your mind back to a time when people made things in exchange for other people’s money... when you wanted a loaf, a horseshoe, a barrel and an arrow, you paid a visit to Messrs Baker, Smith, Cooper and Fletcher.

Go to a company called that now and you're more likely to find it full of lawyers.  Taking a loaf, horseshoe, barrel or arrow without payment or permission was theft, pure and simple.]]></description>
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		<title>When did we all stop caring?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chasman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polar bears are drowning and starving because of climate change.]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe David Cameron wants a dictatorship?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 16:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chasman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron: "Why do we want a system used by only Australia, Fiji and Papua New Guinea?" He's implying here that because only a few countries use it, it must be a bad thing.  Hmm... let's look for a system with more support.   Totalitarian dictatorship!]]></description>
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		<title>Make digital books cheaper than paper.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chasman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the time of writing the Amazon Kindle edition of Sarah Pain's book "Going Rogue" is selling for $14.09 and the hardback edition for $13.50.  Amazon's capitulation to Macmillan over selling eBooks (at a loss!) for $9.99 as a Kindle loss leader is a disaster for the customer and the planet...and all because the currently mythical iPad will apparently let publishers charge more... cheers Steve.]]></description>
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		<title>Belief: what trusted sources tell you.</title>
		<link>http://sixwordideas.com/belief-what-trusted-people-tell-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chasman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm not only talking about religion here I'm talking about everything.  The TV program QI (Quite Interesting) has a round called "General Ignorance" where they ask questions you think you know the answer to but virtually every "common knowledge" answer turns out to be either completely untrue, wildly inaccurate or superseded by the progress of human knowledge.]]></description>
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		<title>Reduce, reuse, recycle, relieve and reverse. #BAD2009</title>
		<link>http://sixwordideas.com/reduce-reuse-recycle-relieve-and-reverse-bad2009/</link>
		<comments>http://sixwordideas.com/reduce-reuse-recycle-relieve-and-reverse-bad2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chasman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change anthropogenic reduce reuse recycle relieve reverse BAD2009 carbon water renewable sustainable inexhaustible]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a re-print of my entry to Blog Action Day 2009 as it gives a backdrop to the topic for this year… if you want to enter, and I’d love it if you did, there’s a link at the end.  Climate change is a reality – to get that out of the way that’s my opinion.  I also believe it’s mostly anthropogenic – caused by humans.  There is a very direct correlation between our CO2 – check out these graph http://rainforests.mongabay.com/09-carbon_emissions.htm and you can clearly see the start of the Industrial Revolution.  If you argue it’s a coincidence I think you’re clutching at straws. Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle… The simplistic tagline for the whole movement but there are some bits missing here, it seems to me.  I think this should be changed to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Relieve and Reverse… Reduce By far the most popular strategy as it sounds so simple… turn off that light, buy a Class A fridge and ride to the shops on a bike made from coconut husks… let’s take a look a some figures. Power         25.9% Industry      19.4% Forestry      17.4% Agriculture   13.5% Transport     13.1% Waste &#38; Water  2.8% Source: http://bit.ly/rrtce With Power at the top of the list renewable are our salvation surely?  Well not exactly… for a start renewable does not always equal sustainable.  I’d love to know the percentage of readers are nodding sagely or scratching their heads at this point.  But it is, I assure you, true.  Renewable energy falls into two....]]></description>
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		<title>The rainbow bubble of inspiration burst.</title>
		<link>http://sixwordideas.com/the-rainbow-bubble-of-inspiration-burst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chasman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry I’ve been quiet for a while.  I had a run-in with twitter and the account was temporarily suspended (only a week to ten days while I appealed).  This meant I couldn’t participate for a couple of weeks but had another, unexpected and unpleasant side effect.  My creativity and enthusiasm evaporated.  I was really enjoying this project and several new ideas a day but twitter’s intervention for “aggressive following” really took the shine off things and put a damper on my mood. Their rules are undoubtedly necessary to prevent advertisers jamming the whole thing up but whatever algorithm they use seems to miss the point.  It appears to be based purely on the total number of people you follow with no reference to how many people follow you in return.  This is a critical detail.  If you’re doing something other people like (or, dare I say it selling something people want) they should leave well alone.  Over 80% of the people I engaged with for SixWordIdeas have followed back and joined in with the spirit of things.  To me that is an indication that we’re all enjoying the idea.  I’ve bounced back now and will be tweeting blog entries like this again for the foreseeable future.  Sorry to anyone who missed out on a re-tweet or a reply to a DM, I’ll try to go back over the backlog over the next couple of weeks. Namaste, Chas.]]></description>
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		<title>Why don&#8217;t politicians give straight answers?</title>
		<link>http://sixwordideas.com/why-dont-politicians-give-straight-answers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chasman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[honesty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why don't politicians give straight answers?  Could it be because we won't let them?]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a no ring, ping thing&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sixwordideas.com/turn-off-things-which-go-bing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chasman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think we should have an international No FNoise Day where we turn off all the things which ring, ding, bing, ping, zing and vibrate to get our attention. I spring cleaned the Notifications on my iPhone because it seems to spend all day alerting me to things I really didn’t need to know but even now it’s an all too frequent interruption. Then there’s the landline phones which ring all to frequently, alarms I set in my watch, the door knocker (which I shall treat as a bell for the purpose of this blog) and my WiFi detecting underpants (currently set to vibrate). I feel we need a little peace and quiet in our lives just one day a year… any takers?]]></description>
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		<title>Get things wrong: set a deadline.</title>
		<link>http://sixwordideas.com/get-things-wrong-set-a-deadline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chasman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I worked on Millennium Bug projects so I can appreciate a genuine deadline when I see one (let’s skip the fact it was either mostly a waste of time and money or a spectacular success which saved us all from disaster).  Given the collective legislative incontinence of governments worldwide there are often regulatory deadlines to be hit. But – let’s face it – most deadlines are set for an entirely different reason… money.  People get paid by the hour, week or month and the longer things take the more it costs.  It therefore, follows that to save money, you save time and to save time you set a deadline. Problem solved. Errrr… no.  This is where the problems start… You have the following levers to fiddle on any endeavour: People, Money, Time, Scope.  By setting the deadline you’ve locked one of your levers leaving only People, Money and Scope. The “resource pool” (People to you and me) is usually fixed so that lever is usually locked – or at least needing four or five people leaning on it to get it moving. Now we’re getting down to it – Money and Scope, plenty of room for adjustment there.  Think again.  All companies use budgets at every level so you can safely assume that once your estimates are in and the Project Budget is signed off that lever is super glued, end of. Scope.  That’s it… the only lever you have left.  But there’s great news, that lever moves really easily.....]]></description>
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