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	<title>Katnoodle: by Richard Cassidy</title>
	<link>http://www.katnoodle.com</link>
	<description>online journal and photography scrapbook</description>
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		<title>Sad, lonely people.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	In a world where people quote shopping as a hobby &#8230;

	Spend more time in the pub than with your family?
Beat your wife up?
Your children have no respect for you?
Inferiority complex?
Tiny knob?
Think your shit sports car is the bollocks?
Own lots of &#8220;driving music&#8221; compilations?
Run out of t-shirts that say &#8220;I&#8217;m a cock&#8221;?

	Better get on the dog [...]
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		<link>http://www.katnoodle.com/2008/03/16/sad-lonely-people/</link>
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		<title>Birthday Happy to Katnoodle!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Two today, well okay, last week, but still &#8211; hurrah!

	Nearly as many posts in as many years!

	




 
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		<link>http://www.katnoodle.com/2008/01/15/happy-birthday-to-katnoodle/</link>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t, won&#8217;t, shalln&#8217;t shipping bullshit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	From Amazon &#8230;

	
		Important Message &#8211; There is a slight problem with your order. (See below.)

	Oh, and what might that be? Not perchance the &#8216;slight problem&#8217; of you not wanting to sell me the product?

		We&#8217;re sorry. This item can&#8217;t be shipped to your selected destination. You may either change the shipping address or delete the item [...]
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		<link>http://www.katnoodle.com/2007/12/27/cant-wont-shant-shipping-bullshit/</link>
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		<title>Fuck my boots, it&#8217;s Siouxsie!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	As I appear to have outdone my normal low level of posting by writing nothing for months I now resort to posting YouTube videos!

	Having seen Siouxsie&#8217;s phenomenal performance on Later With Jools we&#8217;re off to see her live in Bristol.  

	So now, if you don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m on about, or you just want [...]
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		<link>http://www.katnoodle.com/2007/12/21/fuck-my-boots-its-siouxsie/</link>
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		<title>mssql last inserted id thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I&#8217;m currently doing some fantastically exciting (!) web work for a large national company who have the pleasure of using mssql &#8211; poor people.

	Mssql is like some horrible, deformed half cousin of MySQL.  It doesn&#8217;t have lots of useful features like LIMIT and so on.

	But one of the most annoying is the lack of [...]
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		<link>http://www.katnoodle.com/2007/08/20/mssql-last-inserted-id-thing/</link>
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		<title>Why do graphic/web designers end up as tech support?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The following story is reported by our man at the sharp end, Nick the Van (real name withheld for operational reasons!).

	Honcho: Why doesn&#8217;t the colour printer work?

	Designer/Tech: Is it plugged in?

	Honcho: Does it need to be?

	Designer/Tech: Seriously???

	Honcho: You said you installed a wireless network!

	There you have it, what more can I possibly add?



 
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		<link>http://www.katnoodle.com/2007/07/10/why-do-graphicweb-designers-end-up-as-tech-support/</link>
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		<title>Fucking Fucking Fucking Adobe CS3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I tried to remain calm and impartial but really &#8230;

	Not only is the fucking CS3 suite preposterously fucking expensive and fucking massive and takes a fucking eon to install and fails to fucking work if you have demo versions of CS3 apps installed which means you have to install the whole fucking thing from scratch* [...]
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		<link>http://www.katnoodle.com/2007/05/18/fucking-fucking-fucking-adobe-cs3/</link>
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		<title>iTunes DRM Lock In Myth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I had this tired argument the other day with yet another person who bought some crap 3rd rate MP3 player which doesn&#8217;t work with iTunes etc.

	So for the record here&#8217;s how it works:

	Apple&#8217;s iTunes store/DRM is not a lock in.  
It is both optional: users are not tied to subscriptions plans and can use [...]
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		<link>http://www.katnoodle.com/2007/05/16/itunes-drm-lock-in-myth/</link>
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		<title>Web stuff: acronyms and geek speak, accessibility and usability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The BBC often report some good stuff on technology and web sites.  As web design is my line of &#8216;work&#8217;, what follows is some comment on a bunch of reports I&#8217;ve been meaning to post for a while now.

	&#8220;According to research from Nielsen/NetRatings, people are buying cutting-edge technology but often don&#8217;t understand the terms [...]
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		<link>http://www.katnoodle.com/2007/05/08/web-stuff-acronyms-and-geek-speak-accessibility-usability/</link>
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		<title>Mac Basics: force quit an application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	I have been asked this a number of times recently and thought it was worth putting in here.

	There are two simple ways to quit a non-responsive application from the desktop.

	1 Press the &#8216;Cmd-Alt-Esc&#8217; keys to pop up the &#8216;force quit&#8217; window.  From here you can choose an application to force quit.  Very unhappy [...]
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		<link>http://www.katnoodle.com/2007/05/01/mac-basics-force-quit-an-application/</link>
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		<title>Happy Birthday to me (last month!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	Thanks Nick!




 
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		<link>http://www.katnoodle.com/2007/04/24/happy-birthday-to-me-last-month/</link>
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		<title>Vacuum Mail: Speed up Apple Mail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	If you, like me, have thousands of email messages in Apple Mail (on Tiger) and have found over the years it gets a little sluggish, then this handy tool may well fix it.

	Vacuum Mail by Leland Scott just plain works.  I won&#8217;t bore you with the gory technical detail other than it rewrites the [...]
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		<link>http://www.katnoodle.com/2007/04/18/vacuum-mail-speed-up-apple-mail/</link>
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		<title>iTunes - error storing your authorization and missing library!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	This might be handy for anyone who experiences what I&#8217;ve just been through.

	My iTunes library is stored on a shared disk (networked via an Airport Extreme base station) which works nicely.

	However, after trying to import a troublesome CD my machine refused to play any music purchased through iTunes Music Store and then, to cap it [...]
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		<link>http://www.katnoodle.com/2007/04/18/itunes-error-storing-your-authorization-and-missing-library/</link>
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		<title>I Love Rita (the Mac illustration app!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	... where have you been all my life

	

	Rita is quite an amazingly innovative (really!) illustration/drawing application for Mac OS X. It&#8217;s also the work of one guy, Niklas Frykholm, who appears to be sickeningly talented!

	It&#8217;s incredibly easy to use, has loads of funky drawing tools (hatching, highlights, freehand shapes and ovals), several mad drawing tools [...]
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		<link>http://www.katnoodle.com/2007/03/19/i-love-rita-the-mac-illustration-app/</link>
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		<title>Webcam&#8217;s for Macs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	Maccam is a fantastic application (driver) that supports zillions of unsupported, &#8216;pc&#8217; webcams on OS X.

	What does this mean?  It means you can buy any of the &#8216;PC only&#8217; cameras listed on Maccam and use them on your Mac, just like any other webcam.

	And you know what, it&#8217;s open source too, which means it&#8217;s [...]
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		<link>http://www.katnoodle.com/2007/01/20/webcams-for-macs/</link>
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