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		<title>Looking for a small, light, quality camera? &#8211; II</title>
		<link>http://martinbudden.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/looking-for-a-small-light-quality-camera-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Budden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Panasonic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samsung]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Camera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M43]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just over a year ago I wrote a blogpost Looking for a small, light, quality camera?, which collected together the size and weights of lightweight quality cameras. The focus was on mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras. Things have moved on since then: manufacturers have released new cameras and lenses. I&#8217;ve repeated the exercise with today&#8217;s crop [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinbudden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1814537&amp;post=1360&amp;subd=martinbudden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time for real-realpolitik</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Budden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[idealism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[realpolitik]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Realpolitik is politics defined as politics based on practical and material considerations, rather than based on ideological or ethical considerations. Realpolitik has been practiced, to varying degrees, by the West since before the term was coined. It has been predominant since the end of the World War II. Realpolitik has resulted in various nefarious practices, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinbudden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1814537&amp;post=1340&amp;subd=martinbudden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NASA names best and worst sci-fi movies of all time &#8211; or not?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 23:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Budden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[popular science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sci-fi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A front page article in this week&#8217;s Sunday Times stated that NASA had named 2012 the most absurd science-fiction film of all time. In a follow-up article on page nine, the Sunday Times stated that NASA had recently held a conference at the JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) to highlight the good and bad scientific practices [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinbudden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1814537&amp;post=1322&amp;subd=martinbudden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Browne Report and graduate tax</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Budden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Browne report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[straw man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tuition fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[university]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Browne report, Securing a Sustainable Future for Higher Education, has just been published. The almost universal view among commentators is that Lord Browne has conclusively argued the case against a graduate tax. In this blogpost I argue that the Browne Report has done no such thing. Rather it has set up a straw man [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinbudden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1814537&amp;post=1301&amp;subd=martinbudden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient stones from Olduvai</title>
		<link>http://martinbudden.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/ancient-stones-from-olduvai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Budden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[100 objects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olduvai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paleolithic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stone age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been listening to the BBC&#8217;s A History of the World in 100 Objects narrated by the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor. Inspired by the programme, I visited the British Museum. I was particularly interested in seeing two objects from the cradle of humanity, the Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania: the Olduvai [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinbudden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1814537&amp;post=1270&amp;subd=martinbudden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contador – cheat or bad meat?</title>
		<link>http://martinbudden.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/contador-%e2%80%93-cheat-or-bad-meat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Budden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clenbuterol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug test]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tour de France]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alberto Contador has tested positive for the banned substance clenbuterol. Contador claims that the positive test result was a result of food contamination and that he did not deliberately take the drug. In this blogpost I do the pharmacokinetics calculation to see if Contador&#8217;s claim is feasible. My calculation is limited to this specific test [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinbudden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1814537&amp;post=1182&amp;subd=martinbudden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Blair pledges book proceeds to Royal British Legion</title>
		<link>http://martinbudden.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/tony-blair-pledges-book-proceeds-to-royal-british-legion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Budden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let me ask you one question, Is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness? Do you think that it could? I think you will find, When your death takes its toll, All the money you made Will never buy back your soul. Bob Dylan &#8211; Masters of War Tagged: Blair, War<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinbudden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1814537&amp;post=1172&amp;subd=martinbudden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The First Amendment and religious freedom</title>
		<link>http://martinbudden.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/the-first-amendment-and-religious-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Budden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill of rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the First Amendment in full: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Commentators tend to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinbudden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1814537&amp;post=1080&amp;subd=martinbudden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Young Rewired State and government electricity wastage</title>
		<link>http://martinbudden.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/young-rewired-state-and-government-electricity-waste/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Budden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waste]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently peripherally involved in Young Rewired State 2010. This was a week long event for young developers aged 15 to 18 and was held across the UK. The idea was simple: the young developers had five days to create an application or website based on a theme that interested them &#8211; the only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinbudden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1814537&amp;post=1122&amp;subd=martinbudden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Online Copyright Infringement and DEA consultation – my response</title>
		<link>http://martinbudden.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/online-copyright-infringement-and-dea-consultation-%e2%80%93-my%c2%a0response/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Budden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copyright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DEA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Economy Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Economy Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OFCOM]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ofcom sought views on a code of practice called “the Online Copyright Infringement Initial Obligations Code” as outlined in its document Online Infringement of Copyright and the Digital Economy Act 2010. The consultation page is here. The consultation document is here. My response: Question 3.5: Do you agree with Ofcom’s approach to the application of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinbudden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1814537&amp;post=1047&amp;subd=martinbudden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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