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		<title>Rome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We recently got back from Europe.  I took quite a few notes but most of them haven&#8217;t made it to the posting stage yet.  Here&#8217;s one of our destinations at least. I&#8217;m hoping to get around to doing the rest. Thank the gods for Roman fountains. The oppressive summer heat has tourists like us scurrying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Fart at a Dinner Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago I asked this question on Twitter: What are the best three volumes of poetry published in New Zealand in the last five years? And when asked to define ‘best’ I said ‘Most remarkable, most inventive most new. On the front line, but not avant-garde.’  My motivation was to pull together a manageable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matt.geek.nz/2010/05/a-fart-at-a-dinner-party/</link>
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		<title>Fast Failure in the Kitchen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not a very good cook. Home economics was my worst class at intermediate. As a teenager in the kitchen I wouldn&#8217;t make anything more complicated than a sandwich or microwaved nachos.[1] The one time I did try &#8211; when I had an inexplicable craving for coconut ice &#8211; I attempted to follow a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matt.geek.nz/2010/04/fast-failure-in-the-kitchen/</link>
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		<title>Hotel Dystopia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ugh, we just had the worst night’s sleep. After our trip to Akaroa, which I will write about over the next few days, my wife and I stayed a night in Christchurch in a central city hotel. Although this hotel offers a recharging station for your electric car, there is no hotel parking: apparently in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matt.geek.nz/2010/04/hotel-dystopia/</link>
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		<title>Perfect Currencies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you were to arrive in New Zealand with two $100 bank notes, you could go to a shop in the airport, use one of those notes to purchase something for $11.20, and, assuming the clerk broke the note in the most efficient way possible, you would have in your possession an example of every [...]]]></description>
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