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	<title>Matthew Paul Thomas</title>
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		<title>Ubuntu and &#8220;desktop environments&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 09:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Computing &#038; Internet</category>
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	<category>Ubuntu</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are still many geeks who seriously think that "Gnome" and "KDE" and "XFCE" are acceptable words to use when communicating with ordinary people.]]></description>
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		<title>Translation from cranky-speak into English of a selected portion of Mark Pilgrim&#8217;s &#8220;Silly season&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 11:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["Y’all have fun. Play with your vendor-specific runtimes..."]]></description>
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		<title>A broken oven</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my girlfriend and I returned home from our New Year holiday, we discovered that the oven was broken. The stove elements worked, but baking and grilling didn&#8217;t.
Thinking that something had burnt out inside, we called an electrician. About 30 seconds after arriving, he had solved the problem. While we were away, there had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfection is</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n&#8217;y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n&#8217;y a plus rien à retrancher.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Terre des hommes, 1939


It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, [...]]]></description>
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