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		<title>Lifescan Ultra USB Meter Driver for 64 bit Windows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If, like me, you use a Lifescan blood glucose meter (I used an Ultra 2), you may want to take advantage of its ability to link to the LifeScan Diabetes Management Software. However, if, also like me, you’re running a 64-bit version of Windows you’ll find the USB driver Lifescan make available doesn’t work. So, ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acmevu.com/blog/2010/07/04/lifescan-ultra-usb-meter-driver-for-64-bit-windows/</link>
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		<title>I can still see clearly now &#8211; 5 years post LASIK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago I underwent LASIK eye surgery to correct my short-sightedness. I reported at the time that it had been a complete success, and I’m not going to change that opinion now. In fact it has possibly gotten even better. I was suffering a little from slightly blurred vision and occasional dry eyes during ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acmevu.com/blog/2009/11/15/i-can-still-see-clearly-now-5-years-post-lasik/</link>
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		<title>Scientology &#8211; More or less crazy than other religions?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been working on this post for a few days, the unfortunate timing with the death of John Travolta&#8217;s son is purely coincidental; I don&#8217;t think the fact he&#8217;s a Scientologist had anything to do with it. Recently, during a discussion amongst a few people, someone asked me how utterly bizarre the beliefs of ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acmevu.com/blog/2009/01/03/scientology-more-or-less-crazy-than-other-religions/</link>
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		<title>Windows Vista &#8211; How I cured its insomnia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have previously mentioned how Windows Vista really wasn&#8217;t that scary at all, however I was having one issue that was annoying &#8211; it just didn&#8217;t want to sleep automatically. It would sleep on demand quite happily, but there was no way I could make it sleep after any decent idle period. So I decided ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acmevu.com/blog/2008/10/05/windows-vista-how-i-cured-its-insomnia/</link>
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		<title>Windows Vista &#8211; Not so scary after all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the (many) draft blog posts I never got around to posting was entitled &#8220;Vista &#8211; Not so compelling&#8221;. In it I documented how Vista really didn&#8217;t offer anything that made me want to upgrade to it; in fact I thought of it as nothing more than a prettier version of XP that used ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acmevu.com/blog/2008/09/20/windows-vista-not-so-scary-after-all/</link>
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		<title>Go virtual to consolidate those servers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For several years I&#8217;ve been running Linux-based servers for hosting web sites and email, both for myself and several friends. These have worked remarkably well and served (pardon the pun) me well, but I felt it was time to change. For my day job I&#8217;m writing a fairly large-scale ASP.Net application, and I thought it ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acmevu.com/blog/2008/08/02/go-virtual-to-consolidate-those-servers/</link>
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		<title>Rapidswitch, consider yourself dropped</title>
		<description><![CDATA[78.129.202.0/24 is now permanently dropped into the bit-bucket, thanks to unrelenting comment spam spewage from this Russian cesspool. Technorati tags: blog spam, rapidswitch]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acmevu.com/blog/2008/04/18/rapidswitch-consider-yourself-dropped/</link>
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		<title>Farewell, Sir Arthur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are few authors who have had more influence on my life than Sir Arthur C Clarke, from his eminently readable hard sci-fi novels to more esoteric fare like his Mysterious World. I try, at least once a year, to read a couple of my favourite books, Rendezvous with Rama, and The Songs of Distant ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acmevu.com/blog/2008/03/19/farewell-sir-arthur/</link>
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		<title>Bye-bye Blasphemy Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, several hundred years late, the Law Lords have finally abolished the UK&#8217;s Blasphemy law, finally making it legal for me to say: &#8220;Jesus regularly enjoyed being gang-buggered by leprous hermaphrodite sheep molesters&#8221; However, it would probably be wrong of me to say: &#8220;Mohammed liked fucking 9 year old girls, even after marrying them&#8220; So ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acmevu.com/blog/2008/03/08/bye-bye-blasphemy-law/</link>
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		<title>Windows Home Server &#8211; Disaster Recovered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the (admittedly) cheap Samsung hard drives in my Home Server decided to start developing bad sectors and making noises like a coffee grinder. Needless to say, this is not the kind of noise you want to start hearing from a hard drive, especially one in a server. So, I had to start the ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acmevu.com/blog/2008/02/20/windows-home-server-disaster-recovered/</link>
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