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		<title>Signs not words are the future</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an extended version of thge column posted in the Chronicle Canberra Tuesday 24 January 2012. From time to time I’ve come across articles in which writers forecast the end of handwriting becauser computers, mobile phones, tablets (keep that word in mind ) and voice recognition technology are pushing it to the point of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=donallan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7393146&amp;post=2546&amp;subd=donallan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An updated comment from Don</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me reply to Veronica a recent commentator by saying that all Allan Takes Aim blogs at donallan.wordpress.com are written by me, Don Allan ! I can assure Veronica and everyone else who might think a blog has been inspired by a cousin, uncle, auntie or any other relative that they haven’t; all are the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=donallan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7393146&amp;post=2530&amp;subd=donallan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Setting the ACT&#8217;s new political stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an updated version of the column published in this week’s Chronicle. Nine months from now the ACT will give birth to a new Assembly. A few of its Members will no doubt be recognised (subconsciously) for playing a role comparable to one described in the classic monologue “All the world’s a stage “ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=donallan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7393146&amp;post=2524&amp;subd=donallan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012 is my year of no resolutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published The Chronicle, Canberra, 10 January, 2012 Billions of people fall prey to Resolution Sickness, also known as making New Year Resolutions, the short term pandemic that strikes the world on January 1 every year. Because of its regularity this pandemic is now seen as more of tradition than a sickness although many a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=donallan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7393146&amp;post=2491&amp;subd=donallan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Site on Down Time</title>
		<link>http://donallan.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/site-on-down-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To all commentators I&#8217;d like to advise all potential contributors to donallan.wordpress.com that the site will be down for approximately six days. Don Allan Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=donallan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7393146&amp;post=2482&amp;subd=donallan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Day: the day that counts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On New Year&#8217;s Day when resolutions are all the go I, like many others, will make some but in the interests of personal safetey will keep them secret. Bear in mind that Hogmanay (to the uninitiated that means New Year&#8217;s Day)is the day most celebrated by Scots. Like many of my countrymen I shall do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=donallan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7393146&amp;post=2462&amp;subd=donallan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas: the universal day of the child</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published The Chronicle, Canberra, Tuesday 20 December, 2011 Although agnostic I like Christmas, as do most Canberrans. People who don’t, it seems to me, are people short of the spirit of giving and happy childhood memories that, at Christmas, overcome the sad memories such as periods of personal sickness, death of a sibling or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=donallan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7393146&amp;post=2425&amp;subd=donallan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A comment from Don</title>
		<link>http://donallan.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/a-comment-from-don/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again that while I’m always trying to think of ways to do things better I stress that videos etc are not what I do: I write. And not to confuse people, but Allan Takes Aim is the website and every blog has its own caption. Every blog [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=donallan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7393146&amp;post=2404&amp;subd=donallan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life, death and the boredom factor</title>
		<link>http://donallan.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/life-death-and-the-boredom-factor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the unabridged text of the article published Tuesday 13, 2011 in The Chronicle, Canberra. The Chronicle, best for Canberra&#8217;s community news is published every Tuesday. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, repetition is surely the ultimate form of boredom, a condition I experience many times as I surf the net, scan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=donallan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7393146&amp;post=2393&amp;subd=donallan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Fusion comes in from the cold Part II</title>
		<link>http://donallan.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/cold-fusion-comes-on-from-the-cold-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the full text of the article, abreviated for lack of space,published in The Chronicle, Tuesday, 6 December, 2011 Why do I, a non – scientist, believe in cold fusion? It’s not because I suffer from the martyr syndrome having been laughed at for my belief and been described as deluded and a cent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=donallan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7393146&amp;post=2344&amp;subd=donallan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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