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	<title>Oregon, Auckland and Beyond!</title>
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		<title>Gangs hit the NZ recruitment trail (Killer Beez vs Bloods)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My source for this is reliable&#8230; and if this is for real then it&#8217;s pretty scary. Especially when there&#8217;s the Chinese Lantern Festival on and there will be more people than usual out and about in town. The good news is that the weather is foul so maybe those events will be quiet. Not good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opinion.wordpress.com&blog=6040&post=85&subd=opinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anger at bike trail</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest from the Westmere fun police &#8211; y&#8217;know, sometimes it&#8217;s nice to go for a small ride locally.
A dispute has erupted between residents and a mountain bike group over land at Western Springs.
The Underground Trailblazers have admitted they&#8217;re taking the law into their own hands by building trails in inner-city Auckland.
They say they&#8217;re fed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opinion.wordpress.com&blog=6040&post=84&subd=opinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just let the phone ring, dammit!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bought a new Panasonic cordless phone for my Mother at the weekend, charged it up and started working through setting it up.
The phone comes with 20 different ringtones but not one of them resembles an old fashioned phone ring!
It&#8217;s bad enough on mobile phones and I can understand that there is a whole industry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opinion.wordpress.com&blog=6040&post=83&subd=opinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What price would you put on your 20s?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were chatting yesterday about the young girls, frequently teens, who get pregnant deliberately. The common feeling in the group was that the social welfare payments were making young girls see motherhood as a career option and that the kids were poorly raised, and communally raised, with the responsibility being frequently handed over to elders.
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		<title>The Tamagottchi that wouldn&#8217;t die</title>
		<link>http://opinion.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/the-tamagochi-that-wouldnt-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 06:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having missed the Matchmaker when she appeared my daughter has been left with a Tamagotchi that can&#8217;t work and is decidedly post menopausal. We&#8217;re used to a steady turnover of &#8220;tamas&#8221; with each lasting about a week before they disappear leaving their offspring behind.
So, it seems incredibly unfair that she&#8217;s now left with this old [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opinion.wordpress.com&blog=6040&post=79&subd=opinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canvas Magazine&#8217;s Website of the Week</title>
		<link>http://opinion.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/canvas-magazines-website-of-the-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Perrott is a New Zealand Herald writer &#8211; here&#8217;s his website of the week

http://www.komar.org/cgi-bin/christmas_webcam
It was the great Christmas hoax of 2002, a bloke sets up a website and claims mouse jockeys can fiddle with his outdoor christmas lights via their keypads. And the world fell for it. Sucked in badly, bwahaha. But for some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opinion.wordpress.com&blog=6040&post=78&subd=opinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great Gossip but I just can&#8217;t!</title>
		<link>http://opinion.wordpress.com/2006/11/22/great-gossip-but-i-just-cant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has all the elements of a great scandal. A Wedding. The Bride is a lawyer. The Groom is involved in the planning. But they get offside with one of the companies involved and words are exchanged &#8211; via email.
The email gets sent to all and sundry and next thing you know it gets the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opinion.wordpress.com&blog=6040&post=77&subd=opinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An extraordinary triumph over disability</title>
		<link>http://opinion.wordpress.com/2006/11/08/an-extraordinary-triumph-over-disability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dick Hoyt is an amazing father who has acheived extraordinary things with, and for, his disabled son Rick. Their website is at Team Hoyt and there is an amazing article and video at http://cjcphoto.com/can/
The stories don&#8217;t tell of the frustration they must have felt, not only in getting resources, but in building a normal life [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opinion.wordpress.com&blog=6040&post=76&subd=opinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The bullshit about cot death</title>
		<link>http://opinion.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/the-bullshit-about-cot-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s not cot death itself &#8211; a tragedy that my heart can&#8217;t begin to imagine.
However the hype associated with cot death is immense. I remember standing outside my daughter&#8217;s room when I put her down for naps, terrified to leave for fear that she would be dead when I returned.
Then I did some research. Of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opinion.wordpress.com&blog=6040&post=75&subd=opinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LOL and I&#8217;ll knee you in the balls</title>
		<link>http://opinion.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/lol-and-ill-knee-you-in-the-balls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a site hosted locally and every so often I&#8217;ll get an instant message from the admin saying something like
server down
lol
Sorry, mate, I don&#8217;t see it that way. I&#8217;m just not &#8220;laughing out loud&#8221; over here.
Anyone else have people using lol and other slang totally inappropriately?
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