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	<title>Ambrand.com</title>
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	<description>Is maith liom Corcaigh, Éire</description>
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		<title>Desert Island Discs Part Deux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Josef Locke
John McCormack
Jussi Bjorling
Beniamino Gigli
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		<link>http://ambrand.com/2010/02/23/desert-island-discs-part-deux/</link>
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		<title>You spelled my name wrong!, is it because I&#8217;m Irish?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My name is let us say John O&#8217;Shea, so my surname is


O&#8217;Shea

Note how

The first letter is Capitalised (of course)
There is an apostophe (no spaces either side)
The first letter of the Shea is capitalised

My surname is not

O Shea (makes it look like the O an initial of a middle name)
OShea (at least they capitalised the S)
Oshea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ambrand.com/2010/02/05/you-spelled-my-name-wrong-is-it-because-im-irish/</link>
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		<title>NameCheap.com convenient &#8216;errors&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever when you transfer a domain from one registrar to another it continues to appear in the control panel of the old/losing registrar?
I have many domains and my modus operadi is to login to the control panel of every registrar that I use once every quarter. I display the domains in order of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ambrand.com/2010/01/30/namecheapcom-convenient-errors/</link>
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		<title>Irish QUANGOs enjoy their monopolies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the early years of the two thousands I needed to sit a Driving Test. At the time the Dept of Transport had a monopoly on driving tests. The waiting list was about 6 months long. The Dept hada monopoly, and they knew it. It was illegal to drive without a licence, and of course [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ambrand.com/2010/01/30/irish-quangos-enjoy-their-monopolies/</link>
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		<title>and now for something from the 80s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



Billy Ocean - When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going (1985)
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		<link>http://ambrand.com/2010/01/27/and-now-for-something-from-the-80s/</link>
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		<title>I need a new job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this period of fiscal rectitude we (the royal we) all have one eye on the jobs page.
I have a background in Geography so I was excited to see this position advertised today&#8230;
Research Vacancies
Post Doctoral Positions, NUIM, Ireland
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Geovisual Analytics
The National Centre for Geocomputation at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth currently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ambrand.com/2010/01/27/i-need-a-new-job/</link>
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		<title>Sellers don&#8217;t make it hard for buyers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless you are selling gold at half price, then don&#8217;t make it hard for buyers to pay you.
In the Bricks and mortar world everyone knows this, but on the web some sellers aren&#8217;t testing the buyers experience or &#8216;eating their own dog food&#8217;.
I cannot count the number of times I have bought something on ebay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ambrand.com/2010/01/23/sellers-dont-make-it-hard-for-buyers/</link>
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		<title>Do Politicians read the electoral register?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I was a politician I would read through the electoral register for my area, or rather I would have one of my staff do so.
Why? well it might sound &#8220;political&#8221; (soc) but I don&#8217;t think I would reply to correspondence from non-constituents. After all why bother? they won&#8217;t be voting for me in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ambrand.com/2010/01/20/do-politicians-read-the-electoral-register/</link>
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		<title>Registration of Business Names Act, 1963</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone follow this act entirely?
Walk down any main street in Ireland and check if the name over the door is registered.
While I can understand Sole Traders not being familiar with the act, it is laughable that
a Limited company could think it can start trading as something other than its name and
not register a Business [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ambrand.com/2010/01/20/registration-of-business-names-act-1963/</link>
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		<title>Pitcairn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I first heard of Pitcairn Island in 2005. It is a fascinating place&#8230; 
Situated at latitude 25º04’ South and longitude 130º06’ West, lies Pitcairn
Island. This geographic location places it in the Pacific Ocean, midway
between New Zealand and Chile, on the west coast of South America. There
are three associated islands, making up the Pitcairn Group; namely,
Henderson, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ambrand.com/2010/01/20/pitcairn/</link>
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