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		<title>The H1N1 flu media scare mongering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I came down pretty hard with man flu, which is regular flu caught by a man that leads to constant and nonstop complaining about how he is likely to die at any moment because he feels so bad. Women seem largely immune to man flu as they (mostly) suffer with dignity and just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentalechoes.org/2010/02/the-h1n1-flu-media-scare-mongering/</link>
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		<title>The hope of illusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest moments in the history of 80&#8217;s cinema was the crane kick finale scene of The Karate Kid. It&#8217;s quite simply the most amazingly foolhardy move ever attempted in a desperate gambit against all the odds. The thing is, if this had&#8217;ve been a real life moment, Daniel Caruso (played by Ralph Machio) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentalechoes.org/2010/02/the-hope-of-illusion/</link>
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		<title>The past echoes the present; the lost photo collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The old photograph collection I have from the years of my 30&#8217;s has been buried in the back of a cupboard at the back of my flat for a time longer than I can remember. They never came out at all in the last few years, and I&#8217;d really forgotten that the albums filled with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentalechoes.org/2010/02/the-past-echoes-the-present-the-lost-photo-collection/</link>
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		<title>The complexity of culture; a discussion on cultural osmosis. Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the years that have passed living here in Europe there was an inexorable motion that I&#8217;ve only recently become aware of, you start off as a foreigner and then end up something else, something in between. It&#8217;s something every foreigner is aware of, no matter how long they live in an adopted country, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentalechoes.org/2010/01/the-complexity-of-culture-a-discussion-on-cultural-osmosis-part-2/</link>
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		<title>The complexity of culture; a discussion on cultural osmosis. Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been away home now around 13 years. It almost seems like another life time when I try to remember what it was like. Home for me was Brisbane, that nice big country town about two thirds of the way down the east coast of Australia. Lovely place really, but at the time it seemed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentalechoes.org/2010/01/the-complexity-of-culture-a-discussion-on-cultural-osmosis-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Educating the non gamer in the uneducatable; gaming!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The internet is here to stay, and that means so are MMO&#8217;s (MMORPG&#8217;s, MUSH&#8217;s, MUD&#8217;s, and any other M*&#38;^&#8217;s you can think of). You&#8217;d think then that with the internet being as mainstream as electricity and shampoo that everyone would know about MMO&#8217;s. Right?!
Wrong!
Just the other day I was chatting with a really close friend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentalechoes.org/2009/11/educating-the-non-gamer/</link>
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		<title>I hate email; or email spam that isn&#8217;t spam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days I&#8217;m becoming increasingly more frustrated with email as a communication tool. My inbox and related subfolders are absolutely FULL of stuff that isn&#8217;t spam, but which I&#8217;m starting to consider spam. Things like emails from social networks that you might have signed up for long ago but don&#8217;t use anymore, and no matter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentalechoes.org/2009/11/i-hate-email-spam-that-isnt-spam/</link>
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		<title>Weather imitating mood, imitating weather</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t work out if the fast moving weather outside is being influenced by my mood, or if my mood is being influenced by the fast moving weather. Every 20 minutes a cycle repeats itself starting with overcast rain that gives way to sunlight that returns to overcast rain. This reflects my own mood perfectly, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentalechoes.org/2009/11/weather-imitating-mood-imitating-weather/</link>
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		<title>The nature of change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it&#8217;s easy to lose yourself in the repetition of life; the comfortable turn of day-by-day existence for months on end that almost makes you feel like time is standing still. It&#8217;s like a cocoon that can give you an embrace of safety that on an unconscious level most of us want. You can almost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentalechoes.org/2009/10/the-nature-of-change/</link>
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		<title>My father; with age comes understanding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never gotten along with my father; we&#8217;ve never understood each other and we&#8217;ve always been very different people. When I was 13 he left, and thus ended the time when we would be in each others lives on a day to day basis. He tried his best to maintain some semblance of parental control [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentalechoes.org/2009/09/my-father-with-age-comes-understanding/</link>
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