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		<title>Why buy a 5 year old camera ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I probably should have started my 5D blogging with this post, but it&#8217;s only just dawned on me that it might not be a common thing for people to choose to do&#8230; When I started shooting with my 20D I was impressed with it&#8217;s low-light ability compared to 35mm film but after the novelty of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2010/07/19/why-buy-a-5-year-old-camera/</link>
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		<title>New &amp; Secondhand: Camera dealer recommendations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was intending to mention the dealers I bought the second hand gear from, mainly because the descriptions and packaging were excellent and they deserve to be credited, but I&#8217;ve also been asked a few more general photography purchasing related questions today and so have decided to compile a list of all the places I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2010/07/14/new-secondhand-camera-dealer-recommendations/</link>
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		<title>Full frame DSLR: depth of field and vignetting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently become the (very happy) owner of a second hand Canon EOS 5D, and despite the camera being 5 years old this year the difference between it and my previous Canon EOS 20D is stunning. One unexpected change was the difference in the depth of field at any given f-stop between a full-frame and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2010/07/13/full-frame-dslr-depth-of-field-and-vignetting/</link>
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		<title>European Court rejects Home Office appeal, Section 44 found illegal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well this was well buried in the normal media: European Court rejects Home Office appeal, Section 44 found illegal &#8211; British Journal of Photography. Excellent news, and not a moment too soon considering the latest inane activities in Romford: Young photojournalist detained for army cadet pics &#8211; British Journal of Photography. I can only hope [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2010/07/01/european-court-rejects-home-office-appeal-section-44-found-illegal/</link>
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		<title>opensolaris, ntpd, transparent routing and sendto problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been running an ntpd server as part of the UK pool since 2007 but since upgrading from OpenSolaris 2009.06 to snv_129, I&#8217;ve had a very poor score. So poor, that for more than a few weeks I&#8217;ve been dropped from the uk.pool.ntp.org CNAME The problem (after I fixed the missing ptys) manifest itself as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2010/01/11/opensolaris-ntpd-transparent-routing-and-sendto-problems/</link>
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		<title>aperture 2.1.4 hack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tweak the Info.plist if required in order to remove or reduce the CPU MHz limit, and then open up /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture file in 0xED and jump to the offset 0x6f9a80 and change the text in right hand pane from performRequirementsCheck to performLicenceCheck and then add five hex 0x00 in the left hand pane to make the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2009/08/29/aperture-214-hack/</link>
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		<title>does this mean i have to return my passport ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh dear. &#8220;You have failed the practice citizenship test. Questions answered correctly: 13 out of 24 (54%) Time taken: 02 minutes 46 seconds &#8220; Life in the United Kingdom &#8211; The Official Practice Citizenship Test does say it should take up to 45 minutes, but it&#8217;s flawed in so many ways it&#8217;s a joke. There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2009/08/12/does-this-mean-i-have-to-return-my-passport/</link>
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		<title>opensolaris zoneadm attach detach problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After getting so excited about figuring out what was up with the upgrade to 2009.06 I ran into another, more sticky problem. I rushed into reattaching the zones I&#8217;d had to detach to get beadm working by using: zoneadm -z zonename attach -F Oh dear: that was a bad idea. The zone appeared to attach [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2009/06/15/opensolaris-zoneadm-attach-detach-problems/</link>
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		<title>opensolaris 2008.11 to 2009.06 upgrade fails on beadm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New OpenSolaris release: Yay ! Updater fails on beadm create, and manual attempts also fail: Boo ! After a lot of grumbling Googling down plenty of dead-ends it appears that beadm in 2008.11 gets very upset when there are Zones attached. A set of zoneadm detach commands later and the updater completed without any problems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2009/06/11/opensolaris-200811-to-200906-upgrade-fails-on-beadm/</link>
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		<title>things to do in cambridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend at work has recently moved to Cambridge, and given that the weather has been improving a bit I put together a few things that might be interesting, and then realised that it wasn&#8217;t really specific to his needs and thought others might like to know too. So first up, Cambridge Botanic Gardens. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2009/05/01/things-to-do-in-cambridge/</link>
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		<title>new theme for mobile viewers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a huge fan of CSS and intelligent use of it such as removing images, background colours and scaling down font sizes for print, but some things need more work. If you&#8217;re looking at this site from an iPod Touch, iPhone or Android device, you should now get a much more compact &#8216;just-the-facts&#8217; style view, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2009/04/27/new-theme-for-mobile-viewers/</link>
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		<title>aperture 2.1.3 hack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New version &#8211; new offset. Things are getting trickier now as I only have one machine that needs this hack, and that doesn&#8217;t have a live network connection which slows down the whole process somewhat. Having said that, tweak the Info.plist if required in order to remove or reduce the CPU MHz limit, and then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2009/04/19/aperture-213-hack/</link>
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		<title>Good enough for Amazon, good enough for me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon blocks Phorm adverts scan: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7999635.stm I hadn&#8217;t previously bothered to do this, as it seemed to be too early to say how Phorm would turn out and the implementation of the opt-out is so braindead and full of marketing BS that it just made me angry. Yeah, I want to ban all search engines [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2009/04/15/good-enough-for-amazon-good-enough-for-me/</link>
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		<title>opensolaris, pkgsrc, db4 and libtool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been tinkering with OpenSolaris 2008.11 and pkgsrc and have found what looks like a vi/vim typo in libtool-1.5.26 when trying to build the db4 database. In case anyone else has been tripped up by this whilst using pkgsrc (complaints that .lai files can&#8217;t be found when it should be looking for a source [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2009/02/06/opensolaris-pkgsrc-db4-and-libtool/</link>
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		<title>the house of arguments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Excellent conversation with the eldest, E: E: You know that house on the TV where they have all those arguments ? N: Big Brother ? E: No, the Houses of Parliament]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2009/01/28/the-house-of-arguments/</link>
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		<title>extending soulver ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a rather neat screenshot of this Mac OS X calculator program over at the Soulver website. Particularly, it shows that it can (like Google) take plain English questions, such as: What is 20% off $35? which is rather neat, and would make a mockery of most of what my Maths homework consisted of if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2009/01/21/extending-soulver/</link>
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		<title>solving cambridge congestion (and increasing inner-city trade)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cambridge has a traffic problem. It&#8217;s not the worst in the country I&#8217;m sure, but it&#8217;s problematic enough that various expensive and almost certainly fatally flawed schemes have been proposed, and some even mostly built as a result. Whilst something as drastic as a one-way inner ring road would certainly be bold, it&#8217;d also be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2009/01/13/solving-cambridge-congestion-and-increasing-inner-city-trade/</link>
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		<title>dvd is the new cd (or: GB are the new MB)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a purely personal milestone, but today marks the first time I&#8217;ve ripped a DVD (store bought) to a video file without watching the film itself. I&#8217;ve been slowly going through my film collection and encoding them so I can put the bulky boxes into a crate and store them out of the way &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2008/12/29/dvd-is-the-new-cd-or-gb-are-the-new-mb/</link>
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		<title>halfords: how not to run an online reservation system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m probably a little naive given that I work in computing, but after the number of years that Argos have managed to run a nice and simple online reservation/order system I&#8217;d have thought it was a simple thing to copy. It&#8217;s not. Having reserved a bike for my eldest at Halfords one Sunday morning last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2008/12/02/halfords-how-not-to-run-an-online-reservation-system/</link>
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		<title>what the dickens ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An extract from an email I&#8217;ve just received: &#8220;As we are trying to have a carbon free Christmas this year&#8230;&#8221; So, no Coal as a gift this year ? Bah. Humbug.]]></description>
		<link>http://minimal.cx/2008/11/26/what-the-dickens/</link>
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