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	<title>The Human Race - An Outside Point of View</title>
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		<title>The &#8220;Led-Met 3000 Feline-Lite&#8221;&#174;, with &#8220;Dual Mind-Shield&#8221;&#174; Technology</title>
		<link>http://icegiant.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/the-led-met-3000-feline-lite-with-dual-mind-shield-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tinfoil hat has long been the defense of choice when it comes to keeping out harmful government mind-control signals. However, a recent MIT study established that tinfoil hats actually amplify frequency bands which happen to coincide with those allocated to the United States government between 1.2 G/Hz and 1.4 G/Hz. According to the FCC, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=icegiant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550629&amp;post=83&amp;subd=icegiant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Webmaster Help Group Interviews</title>
		<link>http://icegiant.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/google-webmaster-help-group-interviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past few months have seen a number of interviews with the guys from the Google Webmaster Help Group. Summaries and links to all these informative interviews with this nice crowd of experts can now be found here. ***That &#8216;G&#8217; thingy at the top is copyright of Google, ok?***<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=icegiant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550629&amp;post=81&amp;subd=icegiant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Adam Lasnik Bucket Hat Changed My Life!</title>
		<link>http://icegiant.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/the-adam-lasnik-bucket-hat-changed-my-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a techie and writer I was caught in a rut; my life and career going nowhere fast. It&#8217;s funny how even the thankless task of saving the world from technological disaster on a daily basis can become a tedious drag after a while and so, stuck doing the same thing day in day out, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=icegiant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550629&amp;post=75&amp;subd=icegiant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google, the &#8216;Information Mugger&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://icegiant.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/google-the-information-mugger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 9th of June, an organisation few people had previously heard of, released a report branding Google as the worst offender on the web where user privacy is concerned. This in turn, prompted a rather heart-felt response from Google&#8217;s Matt Cutts in his personal blog.  This post is the result of a discussion thread, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=icegiant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550629&amp;post=74&amp;subd=icegiant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What if Windows Vista is forced on you?</title>
		<link>http://icegiant.wordpress.com/2007/05/20/what-if-windows-vista-is-forced-on-you/</link>
		<comments>http://icegiant.wordpress.com/2007/05/20/what-if-windows-vista-is-forced-on-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 00:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IceGiant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so maybe forced is too strong a word.  What if for instance, your CPU mount were to melt, taking the rest of your machine with it and leaving you with a choice of whether to install XP or Vista on your newly built machine (or of course, just to forget about the whole thing and buy an Apple instead)? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=icegiant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550629&amp;post=73&amp;subd=icegiant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tales of the Complament</title>
		<link>http://icegiant.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/tales-of-the-complament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, this is not a badly spelled post about flattering others. A Complament is the outcry of sheer misery and frustration when your customer phones you because his computer has fallen over for the Nth time due to a suspected PICNIC* error which you have as yet failed to track down.

*<strong>PICNIC</strong> = '<strong>P</strong>roblem <strong>I</strong>n <strong>C</strong>hair, <strong>N</strong>ot <strong>I</strong>n <strong>C</strong>omputer' - a.k.a. an <strong>ID-10T</strong> error or <strong>PEBCAK</strong> (<strong>P</strong>roblem <strong>E</strong>xists <strong>B</strong>etween <strong>C</strong>hair <strong>A</strong>nd <strong>K</strong>eyboard)

Anyway, as is usually the case, the user was wearing a sheepish expression and pleading complete innocence to any and all wrongdoing where the machine was concerned, despite the fact that, to paraphrase Monty Python, it had:
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		<title>On the credibility of Spammers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://icegiant.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/on-the-credibility-of-spammers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog is rapidly turning into a &#8216;small time&#8217; attempt to ridicule the tactics used by spammers and unethical SEOs; a case in point being an email which arrived in one of my boxes earlier today&#8230; &#8220;Fill out your registration form. Please!!&#8221; (pertaining to a supposed mortgage application form) Now, let&#8217;s for a moment assume I was actually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=icegiant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550629&amp;post=71&amp;subd=icegiant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SEO &#8211; There can be only one&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://icegiant.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/seo-there-can-be-only-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To use the worn-out quote from the 1986 classic Highlander&#8230; &#8220;There can be only one.&#8221; But, like so many of my posts, the point may not be immediately obvious, so please bear with me a moment. It&#8217;s been a hell of a month work-wise, so the blog posts have been sadly neglected, but&#8230; I guess [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=icegiant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550629&amp;post=70&amp;subd=icegiant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Curse of Internet Article Spamshiners</title>
		<link>http://icegiant.wordpress.com/2007/03/04/the-curse-of-internet-article-spamshiners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spammers have been called a carbuncle on the internet&#8217;s buttock. But are article spamshiners not merely making life difficult for themselves? Back in early December I posted a rant about &#8216;How to get it wrong with Article Marketing&#8216; which illustrated the sad decline in the overall standards of articles posted on the web as they are becoming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=icegiant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550629&amp;post=69&amp;subd=icegiant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SEO Magic vs. SEO Witchcraft</title>
		<link>http://icegiant.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/seo-magic-vs-seo-witchcraft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There&#8217;s a difference between magic &#38; witchcraft? I always thought they were one and the same. What the hell does it have to do with search engines anyway?&#8220; Ok, so this is a bit of an odd approach to a post about SEO, but a number of well known authors* have drawn quite a clear distinction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=icegiant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550629&amp;post=62&amp;subd=icegiant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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