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	<title>Only slightly bent</title>
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	<description>The bloggish website of Sami Makelainen.</description>
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		<title>Random thoughts of the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do basic meeting services still suck?

As if meetings weren&#8217;t destroying productivity badly enough these days, it&#8217;s amazing how basic meeting services can still continue to function so badly. For example, have you ever had a phone conference with more than two participants that wasn&#8217;t riddled with a bad connection, echos, interference, feedback noise or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundswell.fi/sim/2010/03/11/random-thoughts-of-the-day-24/</link>
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		<title>Review: Google Nexus One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a semi-work-related task, I&#8217;ve played around with Google&#8217;s Nexus One &#8220;superphone&#8221; for a while to get a feeling what the Google guys are delivering. As is the tradition with my light-reviews, some positives and negatives I discovered include the following:
The Good

It&#8217;s a well-constructed a good-looking device. Build quality seems to be good and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundswell.fi/sim/2010/03/07/review-google-nexus-one/</link>
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		<title>Review: iPhone 3GS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After being a 100% Nokia-user for almost 15 years, I bought myself an Apple iPhone 3GS some months back &#8211; primarily because the Nokia N97 is weighed down by the legacy of Symbian and the Nokia N900 doesn&#8217;t have 3G support at 850MHz, the best 3G network around here. I was initially hesitant on making [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundswell.fi/sim/2010/02/19/review-iphone-3gs/</link>
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		<title>Isn&#8217;t it strange&#8230; Notes on Australia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to note down some cultural impressions I&#8217;ve made about Australia; in particular, I will focus on a few things which strike me as somehow strange. Just to clarify, I treat these mainly as rhetorical questions as the reasons are clear enough for most of them.
Isn&#8217;t it strange..

.. that Australia has the biggest houses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundswell.fi/sim/2010/02/01/isnt-it-strange-notes-on-australia/</link>
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		<title>Great Ocean Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a terrible backlog of posts to do, but this thing called life nowadays seems to be interfering with blogging. Anyhow, a few weeks back we took a small road trip along the Great Ocean Road for a few days. A few selected photos follows.
Of course, the one thing that cannot be overlooked when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundswell.fi/sim/2010/01/15/great-ocean-road/</link>
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		<title>Scientific progress goes boink?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Borrowing the post title from the great Calvin &#038; Hobbes comic, that&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been wondering the past day or so. The Economist delved at length on the topic in their end-of-the-year double issue with the theme &#8220;Progress and its perils&#8221;. It&#8217;s a good issue, so pick up a copy or read what you can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundswell.fi/sim/2009/12/30/scientific-progress-goes-boink/</link>
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		<title>Traffic notes from a road trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend we went on our first real road trip here in Australia, driving the Great Ocean Road and back via the surrounding countryside. The trip was great and a few photos will follow later, but the topic of this post is some traffic-related thoughts stemming from the trip.
Australian roads unique how?

All cars built locally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundswell.fi/sim/2009/12/21/traffic-notes-from-a-road-trip/</link>
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		<title>Random thoughts of the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pun intended

Can somebody please explain to me why the Australian media has such an affinity &#8211; an obsession, really &#8211; to playing with words? There seems to be an editorial requirement that articles need to appear witty or have some clever (or not) wordplay in the headline. Some examples from this week:

Desal plant figures don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundswell.fi/sim/2009/12/07/random-thoughts-of-the-day-23/</link>
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		<title>Blackberry Bold experiences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I last played with a completely new phone platform, so I was semi-looking forward to getting a Blackberry Bold (9000) as my new work phone. As before, as the device has been reviewed by a zillion other sites already, I&#8217;ll focus on providing some personal experiences based on a couple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundswell.fi/sim/2009/11/20/blackberry-bold-experiences/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t trust the gurus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy a good management book as much as the next person &#8211; oh, wait, probably a bit more as I actually do enjoy reading them. Anyway, it shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise that they often promise a whole deal more than they can deliver, so I was happy to see The Economist taking a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundswell.fi/sim/2009/11/13/dont-trust-the-gurus/</link>
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