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		<title>Basic string searching in MySQL table columns</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/04/29/basic-string-searching-in-mysql-table-columns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I ended up doing a spot of file structure reorganisation on the web server for www.johnhennessy.co.uk and needed to correct some file pointers in entries on my outdoors blog. Rather than grabbing a plugin from somewhere, I decided to edit the posts table directly. First, I needed to select the affected observations and this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Removing a column from a MySQL data table</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/04/19/removing-a-column-from-a-mysql-data-table/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My trying out WordPress 3.0 in advance of its final release has brought me errors on the links management page. After a spot of poking around the TRAC, I found that the bug already has been reported and that the cause is an extraneous column in the *_links table called link_category. The change in taxonomy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investigating the real-time web</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2010/01/10/investigating-the-real-time-web/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Admittedly, I have been keeping away from Twitter and its kind for a while now but the current run of cold weather in the Britain and Ireland has alerted me to its usefulness and I have given the thing a go. With public transport operator website heaving over the last week, the advantages of microblogging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DePo Masthead</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/11/06/depo-masthead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a place on WordPress.com where I share various odds and ends about public transport in the U.K. It&#8217;s called On Trains and Buses and I try not to go tinkering with the design side of things too much. You only have the ability to change the CSS and my previous experience of doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing how things develop</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/10/07/seeing-how-things-develop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=1071</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that I do out of curiosity and self-interest is to keep tabs on what is happening with development versions of software that I use. It is for this reason that I always have a development version of WordPress on the go so as to ensure that the next stable version doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes, things do get missed&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/09/18/sometimes-things-do-get-missed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a user of Textpattern, I should have a vested interested in any developments in that venerable web platform. However, the latest release came out at the end of August unbeknownst to me and that&#8217;s with an entry on the Dev Blog. Those blog entries come irregularly so that might have been how I missed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investigating Textpattern</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/03/09/investigating-textpattern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=642</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the profusion of Content Management Systems out there, open source and otherwise, my curiosity has been aroused for a while now. In fact, Automattic&#8217;s aspirations for WordPress (the engine powering this blog) now seem to go beyond blogging and include wider CMS-style usage. Some may even have put the thing to those kinds of uses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suffering from neglect?</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/03/06/suffering-from-neglect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=764</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been several recorded instances of Google acquiring something and then not developing it to its full potential. FeedBurner is yet another acquisition where this sort of thing has been suspected. Changeovers by monolithic edict and lack of responsiveness from support fora are the sorts of things that breed resentment in some that share [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episodes of poor performance</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2009/01/15/episodes-of-poor-performance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologytales.com/?p=715</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few days, I have been noticing from various that this blog isn&#8217;t performing as I would want it. The first hint was a comment on a tuxmachines.org mention for a recent entry (thanks for the support, by the way) that the link wasn&#8217;t working as it should have been. Add to this various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work locally, update remotely</title>
		<link>http://technologytales.com/2008/12/04/work-locally-update-remotely/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a trick that might have its uses: using a local WordPress instance to update your online blog (yes, there are plenty of applications that promise to edit your online blog but these need file permissions to the likes of xmlrpc.php to be opened up). Along with the right database access credentials and the ability [...]]]></description>
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