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	<title>Gavin Orland &#187; Misc</title>
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		<title>Theodore Dalrymple on football</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To fail to recognise, or to pretend to fail to recognise, football&#8217;s  relatively lowly place on the scale of human accomplishment is to be  uncivilised – or, in the case of the dissimulator, to ally oneself with  enemies of civilisation, which is perhaps yet worse.&#8221;
- Theodore Dalrymple in this great essay
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		<title>Comments open</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few people have been e-mailing me and they&#8217;ve been courteous and polite so I&#8217;m activating all comment facilities on this site. If you have something interesting to add, feel free to comment.
I don&#8217;t have time to be wading through irrational ramblings, though, and I don&#8217;t take kindly to idiotic threats or abuse. Since I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The BBC&#8217;s self-destroying business model</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/the-bbcs-self-destroying-business-model/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/the-bbcs-self-destroying-business-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC is such a big organisation it&#8217;s difficult to generalise about it. I find it painfully politically correct, and therefore irresponsible, in its news reporting, I get tired of its constant religious bias and sickened by its payment of obscene salaries to essentially unskilled people who just utter inane banter. But that&#8217;s not to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hacker should obviously be tried in US</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/hacker-should-obviously-be-tried-in-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/hacker-should-obviously-be-tried-in-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the case of Garry McKinnon, he has admitted to hacking into 97 US government computers including those of the US Navy and NASA, where he stole and deleted data. This is electonic trespass on US territory and a crime against the US. He should obviously be extradited, as requested, and tried there, Asperger&#8217;s Syndrome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amusing sketch</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/amusing-sketch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/amusing-sketch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one of my favourite comedy sketches from the Nineties  
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		<title>How really to cook rice</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/how-really-to-cook-rice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/how-really-to-cook-rice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d think cooking rice like you have in Indian restaurants would be simple. I did. But when you look around the Net for instructions you find countless different methods, involving &#8220;absorption&#8221;, washing the rice multiple times, soaking it, straining it, frying it, all kinds of things. You try these methods and invariably end up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow on my birthday</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/snow-on-my-birthday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is snowing in London today on my birthday, making my Flash &#8220;masthead&#8221; above not so inappropriate for the time of year after all.   That&#8217;s English weather for you, global friends.
I was born on this date 35 years ago and was very ill as a baby. I have been extremely lucky regarding the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema: Spring Flowers</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/spring/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/spring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may look like winter in my &#8220;masthead&#8221; above, in fact it is of course spring. Here&#8217;s a more appropriate image, and perhaps one of these days I will get around to replacing the Flash! (Hopefully this will be before summer, or perhaps it will end up staying there all year round until it finds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin Day Lecture 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/darwin-day-lecture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/darwin-day-lecture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This evening I attended the British Humanist Association&#8217;s Darwin Day Lecture at University College, London, which was on this occasion given by Tim Lewens, a lecturer in Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge. You can see some photographs of the occasion here and some short video clips are on my Facebook page.
I will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nice quotation</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/nice-quotation-12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/nice-quotation-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If little labour, little are our gains;
Man&#8217;s fortunes are according to his pains.&#8221;
Robert Herrick
In other words, we must work hard to feel fulfilled, and a reward that comes easily is not much of a reward at all. In other words &#8211; &#8220;no pain, no gain&#8221;.
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		<title>Nice quotation</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/nice-quotation-10/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/nice-quotation-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.&#8221;
(Occam&#8217;s Razor)
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		<title>Article backlog</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/article-backlog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/article-backlog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran a word count today which revealed I have a backlog of more than 14,000 words of jotted thoughts which which will become articles.  Most relate to human nature. I wrote ten times this amount in my late teens and early twenties, and I only took time off to study philosophy formally and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No more TV</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/no-more-tv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/no-more-tv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There&#8217;s one called brightness, but it doesn&#8217;t work.&#8221;
Eugene P. Gallagher
I am pleased to report I have just cancelled my TV licence. I&#8217;ve done this because:

Most TV is rubbish.
The advertising one must tolerate between programmes is even worse.
If there is anything you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cloud Horizon</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/the-cloud-horizon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/the-cloud-horizon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons I love flying&#8230;

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		<title>Virgin on outstanding</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/virgin-on-outstanding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/virgin-on-outstanding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me start this post by mentioning how I will never forget the time David Dimbleby said how these days he gets to avoid &#8220;the horrors of flying and airports&#8221;. With this one remark he gave away the snobbery and privilege that taints his entire outlook on life (in another he declared what a delight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A visit to the hatter</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/a-visit-to-the-hatter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/a-visit-to-the-hatter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was 18 years old I bought a bowler hat. As is my way, I researched carefully before buying, and  finally located a shop called Bertie Wooster in Chelsea. The hat I bought was actually a riding bowler, with a hard shell. I wore it with pride around Durham, no doubt much to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some exam answers to avoid</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/exam-answers-to-avoid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/exam-answers-to-avoid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Passed on to me by my great brother Chris:



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		<title>A pleasant visit to Cheltenham</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/a-pleasant-visit-to-cheltenham/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/a-pleasant-visit-to-cheltenham/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just returned from a very pleasant trip to the English town Cheltenham, which proved itself to be something of a gem of the south-west.
I was training the staff of the Cheltenham Echo local newspaper. I could not have hoped for a nicer contact at the company and I stayed at a first class [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astrology</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/astrology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/astrology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Astrology is an insult to astronomy. It consists of writings of complete and utter fantasy mainly by effete and unscrupulous men, which are consumed mainly by credulous and insecure women.
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		<title>False proverbs</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/false-proverbs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/misc/false-proverbs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet again the truth needs to be spoken:
&#8220;Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.&#8221;
 &#8220;Those who are in glass houses shouldn&#8217;t throw stones.&#8221;
In fact, those who are in glass houses perhaps know more about stone throwing than anybody else, and the fact they might be in their own target group need not [...]]]></description>
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