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3.  <title>planet davorg</title>
4.  <link rel="alternate" href="http://davorg.theplanetarium.org/" type="text/html"/>
5.  <subtitle>Aggregating Dave's stuff</subtitle>
6.  <author>
7.    <name>Dave Cross</name>
8.    <email>dave@dave.org.uk</email>
9.  </author>
10.  <updated>2013-05-21T21:03:14Z</updated>
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15.      <name>Dave Cross</name>
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38.    </p>
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40.  <title>dopplr: Edinburgh, United Kingdom</title></entry>
41.  <entry>
42.    <title>twitter: davorg: Bloody weird Mad Men this week!</title>
43.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://twitter.com/davorg/statuses/336925433239052288" type="text/html"/>
44.    <content type="xhtml">
45.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">davorg: Bloody weird Mad Men this week!</div>
46.    </content>
47.    <id>http://twitter.com/davorg/statuses/336925433239052288</id>
48.    <published>2013-05-21T19:24:17Z</published>
49.    <updated>2013-05-21T19:24:17Z</updated>
50.  </entry>
51.  <entry>
52.    <title>twitter: davorg: Yay! Sending messages to my @pebble through a Perl program. This makes me happy.</title>
53.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://twitter.com/davorg/statuses/336922875695079424" type="text/html"/>
54.    <content type="xhtml">
55.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">davorg: Yay! Sending messages to my @pebble through a Perl program. This makes me happy.</div>
56.    </content>
57.    <id>http://twitter.com/davorg/statuses/336922875695079424</id>
58.    <published>2013-05-21T19:14:07Z</published>
59.    <updated>2013-05-21T19:14:07Z</updated>
60.  </entry>
61.  <entry>
62.    <title>last.fm: Marthas &amp; Arthurs – Counting The Colours Til Friday (album version)</title>
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66.    <published>2013-05-21T17:11:54Z</published>
67.    <updated>2013-05-21T17:11:54Z</updated>
68.  </entry>
69.  <entry>
70.    <title>last.fm: Deacon Blue – Is There No Way Back To You</title>
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77.    <updated>2013-05-21T17:01:46Z</updated>
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79.  <entry>
80.    <title>last.fm: MGMT – Lady Dada's Nightmare</title>
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82.    <content type="xhtml">
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86.    <published>2013-05-21T16:57:15Z</published>
87.    <updated>2013-05-21T16:57:15Z</updated>
88.  </entry>
89.  <entry>
90.    <title>last.fm: Laura Marling – What He Wrote</title>
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92.    <content type="xhtml">
93.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">http://www.last.fm/music/Laura+Marling</div>
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95.    <id>http://www.last.fm/user/davorg#1369155187</id>
96.    <published>2013-05-21T16:53:07Z</published>
97.    <updated>2013-05-21T16:53:07Z</updated>
98.  </entry>
99.  <entry>
100.    <title>last.fm: Siobhan Donaghy – 12 Bar Acid Blues</title>
101.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Siobhan+Donaghy/_/12+Bar+Acid+Blues" type="text/html"/>
102.    <content type="xhtml">
103.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">http://www.last.fm/music/Siobhan+Donaghy</div>
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106.    <published>2013-05-21T16:42:23Z</published>
107.    <updated>2013-05-21T16:42:23Z</updated>
108.  </entry>
109.  <entry>
110.    <title>twitter: davorg: RT @Marthalanefox: Hello t3 mag - i work in tech but guess what? She doesnt make me want to buy you. Is this really modern face of tech? ht…</title>
111.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://twitter.com/davorg/statuses/336880006162694144" type="text/html"/>
112.    <content type="xhtml">
113.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">davorg: RT @Marthalanefox: Hello t3 mag - i work in tech but guess what? She doesnt make me want to buy you. Is this really modern face of tech? ht…</div>
114.    </content>
115.    <id>http://twitter.com/davorg/statuses/336880006162694144</id>
116.    <published>2013-05-21T16:23:47Z</published>
117.    <updated>2013-05-21T16:23:47Z</updated>
118.  </entry>
119.  <entry>
120.    <title>twitter: davorg: And now I've gone and given myself a bloody Disney earworm - o/` I can show you the world / Shining, shimmering, splendid o/`</title>
121.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://twitter.com/davorg/statuses/336876135084347393" type="text/html"/>
122.    <content type="xhtml">
123.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">davorg: And now I've gone and given myself a bloody Disney earworm - o/` I can show you the world / Shining, shimmering, splendid o/`</div>
124.    </content>
125.    <id>http://twitter.com/davorg/statuses/336876135084347393</id>
126.    <published>2013-05-21T16:08:24Z</published>
127.    <updated>2013-05-21T16:08:24Z</updated>
128.  </entry>
129.  <entry>
130.    <title>twitter: davorg: Picked up my new glasses at lunchtime. It's like a whole new world out there.</title>
131.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://twitter.com/davorg/statuses/336875683647193090" type="text/html"/>
132.    <content type="xhtml">
133.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">davorg: Picked up my new glasses at lunchtime. It's like a whole new world out there.</div>
134.    </content>
135.    <id>http://twitter.com/davorg/statuses/336875683647193090</id>
136.    <published>2013-05-21T16:06:36Z</published>
137.    <updated>2013-05-21T16:06:36Z</updated>
138.  </entry>
139.  <entry xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">
140.    <id>tag:github.com,2008:IssueCommentEvent/1738819854</id>
141.    <published>2013-05-20T13:51:58Z</published>
142.    <updated>2013-05-20T13:51:58Z</updated>
143.    <link type="text/html" rel="alternate" href="https://github.com/mysociety/theyworkforyou/issues/171#issuecomment-18148251"/>
144.    
145.    <author>
146.      <name>davorg</name>
147.      <email>dave@perlhacks.com</email>
148.      <uri>https://github.com/davorg</uri>
149.    </author>
150.    <media:thumbnail height="30" width="30" url="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/81b76985f3985e35492e25880493d045?s=30&amp;d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png"/>
151.    <content type="html">&lt;!-- issue_comment --&gt;
152. <span class="mega-octicon octicon-comment-discussion"></span>
153.  
154. <div class="time">
155.  <time class="js-relative-date" datetime="2013-05-20T13:51:58Z" title="2013-05-20 13:51:58">May 20, 2013</time>
156. </div>
157.  
158. <div class="title">
159.  <a href="/davorg">davorg</a> <span>commented</span> on pull request <a href="https://github.com/mysociety/theyworkforyou/issues/171#issuecomment-18148251" title="Fix JSON content-type">mysociety/theyworkforyou#171</a>
160. </div>
161.  
162. <div class="details">
163.  <a href="/davorg" class="gravatar"><img height="30" src="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/81b76985f3985e35492e25880493d045?s=140&d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png" width="30" /></a>
164.  <div class="message markdown-body">
165.    <blockquote>
166.      <p>Quoting Matthew Somerville <a href="mailto:notifications@github.com">notifications@github.com</a>:
167. Thanks for this, but this is old and currently unused code. I think
168. you want, as per my email…</p>
169.    </blockquote>
170.  </div>
171. </div>
172. </content>
173.  <title>github: davorg commented on pull request mysociety/theyworkforyou#171</title></entry>
174.  <entry xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">
175.    <id>tag:github.com,2008:PullRequestEvent/1738806454</id>
176.    <published>2013-05-20T13:33:01Z</published>
177.    <updated>2013-05-20T13:33:01Z</updated>
178.    <link type="text/html" rel="alternate" href="https://github.com/mysociety/theyworkforyou/pull/171"/>
179.    
180.    <author>
181.      <name>davorg</name>
182.      <email>dave@perlhacks.com</email>
183.      <uri>https://github.com/davorg</uri>
184.    </author>
185.    <media:thumbnail height="30" width="30" url="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/81b76985f3985e35492e25880493d045?s=30&amp;d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png"/>
186.    <content type="html">&lt;!-- pull_request --&gt;
187. <span class="mega-octicon octicon-git-pull-request"></span>
188.  
189. <div class="time">
190.  <time class="js-relative-date" datetime="2013-05-20T13:33:01Z" title="2013-05-20 13:33:01">May 20, 2013</time>
191. </div>
192.  
193. <div class="title">
194.  <a href="/davorg">davorg</a> <span>opened</span> pull request <a href="https://github.com/mysociety/theyworkforyou/pull/171">mysociety/theyworkforyou#171</a>
195. </div>
196.  
197. <div class="details">
198.  <a href="/davorg" class="gravatar"><img height="30" src="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/81b76985f3985e35492e25880493d045?s=140&d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png" width="30" /></a>
199.  <div class="message">
200.    <blockquote>Fix JSON content-type</blockquote>
201.      <div class="pull-info">
202.        <span class="octicon octicon-git-commit"></span>
203.        <em>1</em> commit with
204.        <em>1</em> addition and
205.        <em>1</em> deletion
206.      </div>
207.  </div>
208. </div>
209. </content>
210.  <title>github: davorg opened pull request mysociety/theyworkforyou#171</title></entry>
211.  <entry xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">
212.    <id>tag:github.com,2008:PushEvent/1738805259</id>
213.    <published>2013-05-20T13:31:19Z</published>
214.    <updated>2013-05-20T13:31:19Z</updated>
215.    <link type="text/html" rel="alternate" href="https://github.com/davorg/theyworkforyou/compare/69466938ab...8373e44268"/>
216.    
217.    <author>
218.      <name>davorg</name>
219.      <email>dave@perlhacks.com</email>
220.      <uri>https://github.com/davorg</uri>
221.    </author>
222.    <media:thumbnail height="30" width="30" url="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/81b76985f3985e35492e25880493d045?s=30&amp;d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png"/>
223.    <content type="html">&lt;!-- push --&gt;
224. <span class="mega-octicon octicon-git-commit"></span>
225.  
226. <div class="time">
227.  <time class="js-relative-date" datetime="2013-05-20T13:31:19Z" title="2013-05-20 13:31:19">May 20, 2013</time>
228. </div>
229.  
230. <div class="title">
231.  <a href="/davorg">davorg</a> <span>pushed</span> to <a href="/davorg/theyworkforyou/tree/master">master</a> at <a href="/davorg/theyworkforyou" class="css-truncate css-truncate-target">davorg/theyworkforyou</a>
232. </div>
233.  
234. <div class="details">
235.  <a href="/davorg" class="gravatar"><img height="30" src="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/81b76985f3985e35492e25880493d045?s=140&d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png" width="30" /></a>
236.  
237.    <div class="commits ">
238.      <ul>
239.        <li>
240.          <span title="Dave Cross">
241.            <img height="16" src="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/953cd990a43f233d5c723e55672ef012?s=140&d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png" width="16" />
242.          </span>
243.          <code><a href="/davorg/theyworkforyou/commit/8373e44268121852743581deaf83d07bbc54c21b">8373e44</a></code>
244.          <div class="message">
245.            <blockquote>
246.              Fix incorrect JSON content-type
247.            </blockquote>
248.          </div>
249.        </li>
250.      </ul>
251.    </div>
252. </div>
253. </content>
254.  <title>github: davorg pushed to master at davorg/theyworkforyou</title></entry>
255.  <entry xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">
256.    <id>tag:github.com,2008:ForkEvent/1738803410</id>
257.    <published>2013-05-20T13:28:38Z</published>
258.    <updated>2013-05-20T13:28:38Z</updated>
259.    <link type="text/html" rel="alternate" href="https://github.com/davorg/theyworkforyou"/>
260.    
261.    <author>
262.      <name>davorg</name>
263.      <email>dave@perlhacks.com</email>
264.      <uri>https://github.com/davorg</uri>
265.    </author>
266.    <media:thumbnail height="30" width="30" url="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/81b76985f3985e35492e25880493d045?s=30&amp;d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png"/>
267.    <content type="html">&lt;!-- fork --&gt;
268. <div class="simple">
269.  <span class="octicon octicon-git-branch"></span>
270.  
271.  <div class="title">
272.    <a href="/davorg">davorg</a> <span>forked</span> <a href="/mysociety/theyworkforyou" class="css-truncate css-truncate-target">mysociety/theyworkforyou</a> to <a href="/davorg/theyworkforyou" class="css-truncate css-truncate-target" title="davorg/theyworkforyou">davorg/theyworkforyou</a>
273.  </div>
274.  
275.  <div class="time">
276.    <time class="js-relative-date" datetime="2013-05-20T13:28:38Z" title="2013-05-20 13:28:38">May 20, 2013</time>
277.  </div>
278. </div>
279. </content>
280.  <title>github: davorg forked mysociety/theyworkforyou to davorg/theyworkforyou</title></entry>
281.  <entry xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">
282.    <id>tag:github.com,2008:PushEvent/1738434686</id>
283.    <published>2013-05-19T19:53:44Z</published>
284.    <updated>2013-05-19T19:53:44Z</updated>
285.    <link type="text/html" rel="alternate" href="https://github.com/davorg/politicalweb/compare/97247ad5b5...59b018bbfc"/>
286.    
287.    <author>
288.      <name>davorg</name>
289.      <email>dave@perlhacks.com</email>
290.      <uri>https://github.com/davorg</uri>
291.    </author>
292.    <media:thumbnail height="30" width="30" url="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/81b76985f3985e35492e25880493d045?s=30&amp;d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png"/>
293.    <content type="html">&lt;!-- push --&gt;
294. <span class="mega-octicon octicon-git-commit"></span>
295.  
296. <div class="time">
297.  <time class="js-relative-date" datetime="2013-05-19T19:53:44Z" title="2013-05-19 19:53:44">May 19, 2013</time>
298. </div>
299.  
300. <div class="title">
301.  <a href="/davorg">davorg</a> <span>pushed</span> to <a href="/davorg/politicalweb/tree/master">master</a> at <a href="/davorg/politicalweb" class="css-truncate css-truncate-target">davorg/politicalweb</a>
302. </div>
303.  
304. <div class="details">
305.  <a href="/davorg" class="gravatar"><img height="30" src="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/81b76985f3985e35492e25880493d045?s=140&d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png" width="30" /></a>
306.  
307.    <div class="commits pusher-is-only-committer">
308.      <ul>
309.        <li>
310.          <span title="davorg">
311.            <img height="16" src="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/81b76985f3985e35492e25880493d045?s=140&d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png" width="16" />
312.          </span>
313.          <code><a href="/davorg/politicalweb/commit/59b018bbfcb040de5f498609eadc22505d41ef00">59b018b</a></code>
314.          <div class="message">
315.            <blockquote>
316.              Fix typos.
317.            </blockquote>
318.          </div>
319.        </li>
320.      </ul>
321.    </div>
322. </div>
323. </content>
324.  <title>github: davorg pushed to master at davorg/politicalweb</title></entry>
325.  <entry>
326.    <title>davblog: OpenTech 2013</title>
327.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/realdavblog/~3/y1tqLYE5w7o/opentech-2013.html" type="text/html"/>
328.    <content type="html">&lt;div class="plus-one-wrap"&gt;&lt;g:plusone size="small" href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2013/05/opentech-2013.html"&gt;&lt;/g:plusone&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday was the (almost) annual &lt;a href="http://www.opentech.org.uk/2013/"&gt;OpenTech&lt;/a&gt; conference. For various reasons, the conference didn&amp;#8217;t happen last year, so it was good to see it back this year.&lt;/p&gt;
329. <p>OpenTech is the conference where I most wish I could clone myself. There are three streams of talks and in pretty much every slot there are talks I’d like like to see in more than one stream. These are the talks that I saw.</p>
330. <p><strong>Electromagnetic Field: Tales From the UK’s First Large-Scale Hacker Camp (<a href="http://twitter.com/russss">Russ Garrett</a>)</strong><br />
331. Last August, Russ was involved in getting 500 hackers together in a field near Milton Keynes for a weekend of hacking. The field apparently had better connectivity than some data centres. Russ talked about some of the challenges of organising an event like this and asked for help <a href="https://www.emfcamp.org/">organising the next one</a> which will hopefully take place in 2014.</p>
332. <p><strong>Prescribing Analytics (<a href="https://twitter.com/otfrom">Bruce Durling</a>)</strong><br />
333. Bruce is the CTO of <a href="http://www.mastodonc.com/">Mastodon C</a>, a company that helps people extract value from large amounts of data. He talked about a project that crunched NHS prescription data and identified areas where GPs seem to have a tendency to prescribe proprietary drugs rather than cheaper generic alternatives.</p>
334. <p><strong>GOV.UK (<a href="https://twitter.com/tomskitomski">Tom Loosemore</a>)</strong><br />
335. Tom is Deputy Director at the <a href="http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/">Government Digital Service</a>. In less than a year, the GDS has made a huge difference to the way that the government uses the internet. It’s inspirational to see an OpenTech stalwart like Tom having such an effect at the heart of government.</p>
336. <p><strong>How We Didn’t Break the Web (<a href="https://twitter.com/1jh">Jordan Hatch</a>)</strong><br />
337. Jordan works in Tom Loosemore’s team. He talked in a little more detail about one aspect of the GDS’s work. When they turned off the old DirectGov and Business Link web sites in October 2012, they worked hard to ensure that tens of thousands of old URLs didn’t break. Jordan explained some of the tools they used to do that.</p>
338. <p><strong>The ‘State of the Intersection’ address (<a href="https://twitter.com/billt">Bill Thompson</a>)</strong><br />
339. <a href="http://www.thebillblog.com/2013/05/the-state-of-the-intersection-my-opentech-talk/">Bill’s talk</a> was couched as a warning. For years, talks at OpenTech have been about the importance of Open Data and it’s obvious that this is starting to have an effect. Bill is worried that this data can be used in ways that are antithetical to the OpenTech movement and warned us that we need to be vigilant against this.</p>
340. <p><strong>Beyond Open Data (<a href="https://twitter.com/agentgav">Gavin Starks</a>)</strong><br />
341. Gavin has been speaking at OpenTech since the first one in 2004 (<a href="http://www.xcom2002.com/nc04/">even before it was called OpenTech</a>) and, as with Tom Loosemore, it’s great to see his ideas bearing fruit. He is now the CEO of the <a href="http://www.theodi.org">Open Data Institute</a>, an organisation founded by Tim Berners-Lee to the production and use of Open Data. Gavin talked about how the new organisation has been doing in its first six months of existence.</p>
342. <p><strong>Silence and Thunderclaps (<a href="https://twitter.com/hubmum">Emma Mulqueeny</a>)</strong><br />
343. Emma has two contradictory-sounding ideas. <a href="http://mulqueeny.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/the-silent-club/">The Silent Club</a> is about taking time out in our busy lives to sit and be still and silent for an hour or so; and then sending her a postcard about what you thought or did during that time. <a href="http://mulqueeny.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/business-card-thundercla-and-you/">The Thunderclap</a> is a way to get a good effect out of that stack of business cards that we all seem to acquire.</p>
344. <p><strong>Thinking Pictures <a href="https://twitter.com/paul_clarke">Paul Clarke</a>)</strong><br />
345. Paul takes very good photographs and used some of them to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_clarke/sets/72157633512139475/">illustrate his talk</a> which covered some of the ethical, moral and legal questions that go through his mind when deciding which pictures to take, share and sell.</p>
346. <p><strong>1080s – the 300seconds project (<a href="https://twitter.com/300_seconds">300seconds</a>)</strong><br />
347. The <a href="http://300seconds.co.uk/">300 seconds project</a> wants to get more women talking at conferences. And they think that one good way to achieve that is for new speakers to only have to talk for five minutes instead of the full 20- or 40-minutes (or more) that many conferences expect. The Perl community has been using Lightning Talks to do this with great success for over ten years, so I can’t see why they shouldn’t succeed.</p>
348. <p><strong>Politics, Programming, Data and the Drogulus (<a href="https://twitter.com/ntoll">Nicholas Tollervey</a>)</strong><br />
349. Nicholas is building <a href="http://ntoll.org/article/ppdd">a global federated, decentralized and openly writable data storage mechanism</a>. It’s a huge task and it’s just him working on the project on his commutes. Sounds like he needs a community. Which is handy as the very next talk was…</p>
350. <p><strong>Scaling the ZeroMQ Community (<a href="https://twitter.com/hintjens">Pieter Hintjens</a>)</strong><br />
351. Peter talked about how the ZeroMQ community runs itself. Speaking as someone who has run a couple of open source project communities, some of his rules seemed a little harsh to me (“you can only expect to be listened to if you bring a patch or money”) but his underlying principles are sound. All projects should aim to reach a stage where the project founders are completely replaceable.</p>
352. <p><strong>The Cleanweb Movement (<a href="https://twitter.com/floppy" target="_new">James Smith</a>)</strong><br />
353. I admit that I knew nothing about the <a href=" http://cleanweb.org.uk">Cleanweb Movement</a>. Turns out it’s a group of people who are building web tools which make it easier for people to use less energy. Which sounds like a fine idea to me.</p>
354. <p><strong>Repair, don’t despair! Towards a better relationship with electronics (<a href="https://twitter.com/restartproject">Janet Gunter and David Mery</a>)</strong><br />
355. Janet and David started the <a href="http://therestartproject.org/">Restart Project</a>, which is all about encouraging people to fix electrical and electronic devices rather than throwing them out and buying replacements. They are looking for more volunteers to help people to fix stuff (and to teach people how to teach stuff).</p>
356. <p><strong>CheapSynth (<a href="https://twitter.com/fakedavegreen" target="_new">Dave Green</a>)</strong><br />
357. Dave Green has been missing from OpenTech for a few years, but this was a triumphant return. He told us how you can build a <a href="http://www.cheapsynth.com/">cheap synth</a> from a repurposed Rock Band game controller. He ended his talk (and the day) by leading the room in a rendition of Blue Money.</p>
358. <p>As always, OpenTech was a great way to spend a Saturday. Thank you to all of the organisers and the speakers for creating such and interesting day. As I tweeted during the day:</p>
359. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Being at @<a href="https://twitter.com/opentechuk">opentechuk</a> always makes me embarrassed that I’m not getting more done. Which is, I suppose, the point of it :/</p>
360. <p>— Dave Cross (@davorg) <a href="https://twitter.com/davorg/status/335735163411648512">May 18, 2013</a></p></blockquote>
361. <p> </p>
362. <p>But I spent yesterday hacking on something. More on that later.</p>
363. &lt;div class="crp_related"&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Related Posts:&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2012/08/the-chances-of-anything-going-to-mars.html"     class="crp_title"&gt;The Chances of Anything Going to Mars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2010/09/opentech-2010.html"     class="crp_title"&gt;Opentech 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2012/08/gullible.html"     class="crp_title"&gt;Gullible&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2011/12/did-twitter-censor-godisnotgreat.html"     class="crp_title"&gt;Did Twitter Censor #GodIsNotGreat?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2011/12/hitchens-last-laugh.html"     class="crp_title"&gt;Hitchens&amp;#8217; Last Laugh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/realdavblog/~4/y1tqLYE5w7o" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content>
364.    <summary type="xhtml">
365.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Yesterday was the (almost) annual OpenTech conference. For various reasons, the conference didn’t happen last year, so it was good to see it back this year. OpenTech is the conference where I most wish I could clone myself. There are three streams of talks and in pretty much every slot there are talks I’d like [...]<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2012/08/the-chances-of-anything-going-to-mars.html" class="crp_title">The Chances of Anything Going to Mars</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2010/09/opentech-2010.html" class="crp_title">Opentech 2010</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2012/08/gullible.html" class="crp_title">Gullible</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2011/12/did-twitter-censor-godisnotgreat.html" class="crp_title">Did Twitter Censor #GodIsNotGreat?</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2011/12/hitchens-last-laugh.html" class="crp_title">Hitchens’ Last Laugh</a></li></ul></div></div>
366.    </summary>
367.    <author>
368.      <name>Dave Cross</name>
369.    </author>
370.    <id>http://blog.dave.org.uk/?p=3209</id>
371.    <published>2013-05-19T14:32:21Z</published>
372.    <updated>2013-05-19T14:32:21Z</updated>
373.    <category term="tech"/>
374.    <category term="open data"/>
375.    <category term="open source"/>
376.    <category term="opentech"/>
377.    <category term="politics"/>
378.  </entry>
379.  <entry>
380. <id>tag:search.cpan.org,2013-05-14:DAVECROSS:Number-Fraction-2.00</id>
381.  
382. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://search.cpan.org/~davecross/Number-Fraction-2.00/"/>
383. <updated>2013-05-14T14:55:19Z</updated>
384. <author>
385. <name>Dave Cross</name>
386. <uri>http://search.cpan.org/~davecross/</uri>
387. </author>
388. <content>
389. Perl extension to model fractions
390. </content>
391. <title>cpan: Number-Fraction-2.00</title></entry>
392.  <entry>
393.    <title>listal: Midnight's Children</title>
394.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.listal.com/movie/midnights-children" type="text/html"/>
395.    <content type="xhtml">
396.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a href="http://www.listal.com/movie/midnights-children" title="Midnight's Children"><img src="http://i2.listal.com/image/5052779/50full.jpg" style="float:left;"/></a>
397. <a href="http://www.listal.com/movie/midnights-children" title="Midnight's Children">Midnight's Children</a>
398. </div>
399.    </content>
400.    <id>http://www.listal.com/movie/midnights-children</id>
401.    <published>2013-05-12T12:44:49Z</published>
402.    <updated>2013-05-12T12:44:49Z</updated>
403.  </entry>
404.  <entry>
405.    <title>listal: Star Trek Into Darkness</title>
406.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.listal.com/movie/untitled-star-trek-sequel" type="text/html"/>
407.    <content type="xhtml">
408.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a href="http://www.listal.com/movie/untitled-star-trek-sequel" title="Star Trek Into Darkness"><img src="http://i2.listal.com/image/5064060/50full.jpg" style="float:left;"/></a>
409. <a href="http://www.listal.com/movie/untitled-star-trek-sequel" title="Star Trek Into Darkness">Star Trek Into Darkness</a>
410. </div>
411.    </content>
412.    <id>http://www.listal.com/movie/untitled-star-trek-sequel</id>
413.    <published>2013-05-12T12:44:27Z</published>
414.    <updated>2013-05-12T12:44:27Z</updated>
415.  </entry>
416.  <entry>
417.    <title>books read: A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)</title>
418.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/612835295?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=rss" type="text/html"/>
419.    <content type="xhtml">
420.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
421.      
422.      <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10572.A_Clash_of_Kings?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=rss"><img alt="A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)" src="http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1358254974s/10572.jpg"/></a><br/>
423.                                      author: George R.R. Martin<br/>
424.                                      name: David<br/>
425.                                      average rating: 4.38<br/>
426.                                      book published: 1999<br/>
427.                                      rating: 0<br/>
428.                                      read at: <br/>
429.                                      date added: 2013/05/11<br/>
430.                                      shelves: currently-reading<br/>
431.                                      review: <br/><br/>
432.                                      
433.    </div>
434.    </content>
435.    <id>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/612835295?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=rss</id>
436.    <published>2013-05-11T12:05:13-07:00</published>
437.    <updated>2013-05-11T12:05:13-07:00</updated>
438.  </entry>
439.  <entry>
440.    <title>books read: The Poisoned Island</title>
441.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/542226973?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=rss" type="text/html"/>
442.    <content type="xhtml">
443.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
444.      
445.      <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17324736-the-poisoned-island?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=rss"><img alt="The Poisoned Island" src="http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1359983107s/17324736.jpg"/></a><br/>
446.                                      author: Lloyd Shepherd<br/>
447.                                      name: David<br/>
448.                                      average rating: 4.50<br/>
449.                                      book published: 2013<br/>
450.                                      rating: 0<br/>
451.                                      read at: <br/>
452.                                      date added: 2013/05/11<br/>
453.                                      shelves: currently-reading<br/>
454.                                      review: <br/><br/>
455.                                      
456.    </div>
457.    </content>
458.    <id>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/542226973?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=rss</id>
459.    <published>2013-05-11T12:04:05-07:00</published>
460.    <updated>2013-05-11T12:04:05-07:00</updated>
461.  </entry>
462.  <entry>
463.    <title>perl hacks: What New(ish) Perl features Do You Use?</title>
464.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PerlHacks/~3/3b-eyaslLKE/" type="text/html"/>
465.    <content type="xhtml">
466.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Over on LinkedIn, someone asked me “What core PERL[sic] features do you use regularly that are new since 95?” It’s hard to be sure as the perldelta files only seem to go back to 1997 (for example, when were <tt>qw(...)</tt>, <tt>q(...)</tt> and <tt>qq(...)</tt> added?), but here’s a quick list off the top of my head.</p>
467. <ul>
468. <li><tt>my</tt> was, of course, added in 5.0. But 5.004 added the ability to use it in control expressions – <tt>while (my $foo = &lt;&gt;)</tt> – and in foreach loops – <tt>foreach my $foo (@foos)</tt></li>
469. <li><tt>use VERSION</tt></li>
470. <li>Regex extensions – <tt>(?&lt;=RE)</tt> and similar. Oh, and <tt>qr/.../</tt></li>
471. <li>Data::Dumper (added in 5.005)</li>
472. <li>Unicode support – first added in 5.6.0 and improved in every release since</li>
473. <li><tt>our</tt></li>
474. <li>Three-argument open</li>
475. <li>Omission of intermediate arrows in data structure lookups – <tt>$foo[$x][$y]</tt> instead of <tt>$foo[$x]-&gt;[$y]</tt></li>
476. <li><tt>use warnings</tt></li>
477. <li>Memoize</li>
478. <li>Test::More and Test::Simple</li>
479. <li><tt>say</tt></li>
480. <li>defined-or</li>
481. <li><tt>use base</tt> (or, more recently, <tt>use parent</tt>)</li>
482. <li>yada-yada operator</li>
483. </ul>
484. <p>Have I missed anything obvious? What new Perl features do you use most?</p>
485. <div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/2011/10/modern-core-perl/" class="crp_title">Modern Core Perl</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/2012/09/learning-from-bad-code/" class="crp_title">Learning from Bad Code</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/articles/rtfm/an-introduction-to-the-perl-documentation/" class="crp_title">An Introduction to the Perl Documentation</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/2012/10/dbic-vs-dbi/" class="crp_title">DBIC vs DBI</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/articles/perl-com/changing-hash-behaviour-with-tie/" class="crp_title">Changing Hash Behaviour With Tie</a></li></ul></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PerlHacks/~4/3b-eyaslLKE" height="1" width="1"/></div>
486.    </content>
487.    <summary type="xhtml">
488.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Over on LinkedIn, someone asked me “What core PERL[sic] features do you use regularly that are new since 95?” It’s hard to be sure as the perldelta files only seem to go back to 1997 (for example, when were qw(...), q(...) and qq(...) added?), but here’s a quick list off the top of my head. [...]<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/2011/10/modern-core-perl/" class="crp_title">Modern Core Perl</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/2012/09/learning-from-bad-code/" class="crp_title">Learning from Bad Code</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/articles/rtfm/an-introduction-to-the-perl-documentation/" class="crp_title">An Introduction to the Perl Documentation</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/2012/10/dbic-vs-dbi/" class="crp_title">DBIC vs DBI</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/articles/perl-com/changing-hash-behaviour-with-tie/" class="crp_title">Changing Hash Behaviour With Tie</a></li></ul></div></div>
489.    </summary>
490.    <author>
491.      <name>Dave Cross</name>
492.    </author>
493.    <id>http://perlhacks.com/?p=753</id>
494.    <published>2013-05-10T12:47:08Z</published>
495.    <updated>2013-05-10T12:47:08Z</updated>
496.    <category term="Programming"/>
497.    <category term="features"/>
498.    <category term="modern perl"/>
499.    <category term="perl"/>
500.  </entry>
501.  <entry>
502.    <title>listal: Iron Man 3</title>
503.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.listal.com/movie/iron-man-3" type="text/html"/>
504.    <content type="xhtml">
505.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a href="http://www.listal.com/movie/iron-man-3" title="Iron Man 3"><img src="http://i2.listal.com/image/5053667/50full.jpg" style="float:left;"/></a>
506. <a href="http://www.listal.com/movie/iron-man-3" title="Iron Man 3">Iron Man 3</a>
507. </div>
508.    </content>
509.    <id>http://www.listal.com/movie/iron-man-3</id>
510.    <published>2013-05-05T12:29:33Z</published>
511.    <updated>2013-05-05T12:29:33Z</updated>
512.  </entry>
513.  <entry>
514.    <title>books read: A Universe from Nothing</title>
515.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/546708750?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=rss" type="text/html"/>
516.    <content type="xhtml">
517.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
518.      
519.      <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15950484-a-universe-from-nothing?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=rss"><img alt="A Universe from Nothing" src="http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1354734740s/15950484.jpg"/></a><br/>
520.                                      author: Lawrence M. Krauss<br/>
521.                                      name: David<br/>
522.                                      average rating: 3.78<br/>
523.                                      book published: 2012<br/>
524.                                      rating: 0<br/>
525.                                      read at: <br/>
526.                                      date added: 2013/05/02<br/>
527.                                      shelves: currently-reading<br/>
528.                                      review: <br/><br/>
529.                                      
530.    </div>
531.    </content>
532.    <id>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/546708750?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=rss</id>
533.    <published>2013-05-02T23:41:32-07:00</published>
534.    <updated>2013-05-02T23:41:32-07:00</updated>
535.  </entry>
536.  <entry>
537.    <title>perl hacks: Articles</title>
538.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PerlHacks/~3/DNTjsqWxS1M/" type="text/html"/>
539.    <content type="xhtml">
540.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>I’ve been writing articles about Perl for a number of years. Because I have written for many people, the articles are currently spread out over a lot of different sites. I’ve decided to do something about this.</p>
541. <p>There’s now a new <a href="http://perlhacks.com/articles/">articles</a> section on the site and over the next few weeks I plan to pull all of my Perl articles together in that section.</p>
542. <p>Currently, it just contains the seven articles that I wrote for <a href="http://perlhacks.com/articles/perl-com/">perl.com</a>. If you read them, please bear in mind the fact that they are all around ten years old and may well no longer reflect current best practices.</p>
543. <p>This coming weekend is a long weekend in the UK. This means that I may well find the time to republish a lot more articles.</p>
544. <div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/articles/" class="crp_title">Articles</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/2011/10/modern-perl-in-linux-format/" class="crp_title">Modern Perl in Linux Format</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/articles/cgi-programming/" class="crp_title">CGI Programming</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/articles/rtfm/" class="crp_title">RTFM</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/articles/template-toolkit/" class="crp_title">Template Toolkit</a></li></ul></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PerlHacks/~4/DNTjsqWxS1M" height="1" width="1"/></div>
545.    </content>
546.    <summary type="xhtml">
547.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">I’ve been writing articles about Perl for a number of years. Because I have written for many people, the articles are currently spread out over a lot of different sites. I’ve decided to do something about this. There’s now a new articles section on the site and over the next few weeks I plan to [...]<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/articles/" class="crp_title">Articles</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/2011/10/modern-perl-in-linux-format/" class="crp_title">Modern Perl in Linux Format</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/articles/cgi-programming/" class="crp_title">CGI Programming</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/articles/rtfm/" class="crp_title">RTFM</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/articles/template-toolkit/" class="crp_title">Template Toolkit</a></li></ul></div></div>
548.    </summary>
549.    <author>
550.      <name>Dave Cross</name>
551.    </author>
552.    <id>http://perlhacks.com/?p=625</id>
553.    <published>2013-05-02T13:34:07Z</published>
554.    <updated>2013-05-02T13:34:07Z</updated>
555.    <category term="Articles"/>
556.    <category term="articles"/>
557.    <category term="perl.com"/>
558.    <category term="writing"/>
559.  </entry>
560.  <entry>
561.    <title>perl hacks: Moose Course This Saturday</title>
562.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PerlHacks/~3/Mhp2jM8xCVM/" type="text/html"/>
563.    <content type="xhtml">
564.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>I’m running another <a href="http://perlschool.co.uk/">Perl School</a> this Saturday (6th April). This time the subject is <a href="http://perlschool.co.uk/courses/object-oriented-programming-with-perl-and-moose/">Object Oriented Programming with Perl and Moose</a>. I ran a two-hour taster version of this course at the London Perl Workshop back in November, but this is the full six-hour version. Tickets are £30 each.</p>
565. <p>The course is run at Google Campus on the outskirts of the City of London. There’s a full list of topics and a booking form <a href="http://perlschool.co.uk/courses/object-oriented-programming-with-perl-and-moose/">over on the Perl School web site</a>.</p>
566. <div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/2012/09/perl-school-3/" class="crp_title">Perl School 3</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/2012/12/perl-school-3-2/" class="crp_title">Perl School 3</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/2012/10/perl-school-2/" class="crp_title">Perl School 2</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/2012/08/perl-school/" class="crp_title">Perl School</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/talks/" class="crp_title">Talks</a></li></ul></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PerlHacks/~4/Mhp2jM8xCVM" height="1" width="1"/></div>
567.    </content>
568.    <summary type="xhtml">
569.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">I’m running another Perl School this Saturday (6th April). This time the subject is Object Oriented Programming with Perl and Moose. I ran a two-hour taster version of this course at the London Perl Workshop back in November, but this is the full six-hour version. Tickets are £30 each. The course is run at Google [...]<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/2012/09/perl-school-3/" class="crp_title">Perl School 3</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/2012/12/perl-school-3-2/" class="crp_title">Perl School 3</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/2012/10/perl-school-2/" class="crp_title">Perl School 2</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/2012/08/perl-school/" class="crp_title">Perl School</a></li><li><a href="http://perlhacks.com/talks/" class="crp_title">Talks</a></li></ul></div></div>
570.    </summary>
571.    <author>
572.      <name>Dave Cross</name>
573.    </author>
574.    <id>http://perlhacks.com/?p=570</id>
575.    <published>2013-04-02T12:19:55Z</published>
576.    <updated>2013-04-02T12:19:55Z</updated>
577.    <category term="Training"/>
578.    <category term="london"/>
579.    <category term="moose"/>
580.    <category term="perl school"/>
581.    <category term="training"/>
582.  </entry>
583.  <entry>
584.    <title>listal: Cloud Atlas</title>
585.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.listal.com/movie/cloud-atlas" type="text/html"/>
586.    <content type="xhtml">
587.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a href="http://www.listal.com/movie/cloud-atlas" title="Cloud Atlas"><img src="http://i2.listal.com/image/4561970/50full.jpg" style="float:left;"/></a>
588. <a href="http://www.listal.com/movie/cloud-atlas" title="Cloud Atlas">Cloud Atlas</a>
589. </div>
590.    </content>
591.    <id>http://www.listal.com/movie/cloud-atlas</id>
592.    <published>2013-03-17T12:38:09Z</published>
593.    <updated>2013-03-17T12:38:09Z</updated>
594.  </entry>
595.  <entry>
596.    <title>davblog: Liverpudlian MPs</title>
597.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/realdavblog/~3/s5hOpyUcgEw/liverpudlian-mps.html" type="text/html"/>
598.    <content type="html">&lt;div class="plus-one-wrap"&gt;&lt;g:plusone size="small" href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2013/03/liverpudlian-mps.html"&gt;&lt;/g:plusone&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Back in the day, when I grew up on my Liverpool council estate every member of Liverpool City council was Conservative. The city had eight Conservative MPs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
599. <p>This is Nadine Dorries <a href="http://conservativehome.blogs.com/majority_conservatism/2013/03/from-nadinedorriesmp.html">writing on Conservative Home</a> a couple of days ago. She should really learn that if she doesn’t check her facts, then someone else will. You’ll be shocked, I suspect, to hear that this information is less than completely true. To me, it looks like Liverpool never had more than six Tory MPs while Dorries was growing up there.</p>
600. <p>Dorries was born in 1957. So let’s look at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPs_elected_in_the_United_Kingdom_general_election,_1955">1955 general election</a> and see which MPs were elected in Liverpool then. Liverpool has nine MPs, six of which are Tory. None of the seats changed hands in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPs_elected_in_the_United_Kingdom_general_election,_1959">1959</a>. In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPs_elected_in_the_United_Kingdom_general_election,_1964">1964</a>, however, the Tories lost four seats, taking their total down to two. This number remained constant in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_United_Kingdom_general_election,_1966">1966</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPs_elected_in_the_United_Kingdom_general_election,_1970">1970</a>. The Tories lost another seat in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPs_elected_in_the_United_Kingdom_general_election,_February_1974">February 1974</a> and remained steady on only one seat in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPs_elected_in_the_United_Kingdom_general_election,_October_1974">October</a>. Finally, in 1979 (when Dorries is 22 – so I’m not sure it still counts as while she was growing up) the Tories doubled their number of seats to a rather unimpressive two.</p>
601. <p>So Liverpool never had more than six Tory MPs – al least not while Dorries was growing up there. But she thinks that she can just throw a fact into an article like that and people will just accept it’s true.</p>
602. <p>You should never trust a word that Dorries writes. She has frequently been proven wrong on details like this.</p>
603. <p>p.s. Tim Fenton has <a href="http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/nadine-dorries-pants-on-fire.html">run this analysis too</a> and has reached similar conclusions. And, surprise surprise, he finds that her claims about the council are nonsense too.</p>
604. &lt;div class="crp_related"&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Related Posts:&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2010/10/she-writes-fiction.html"     class="crp_title"&gt;She Writes Fiction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2011/10/dorries-on-humanism.html"     class="crp_title"&gt;Dorries on Humanism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2010/10/dorries-round-up.html"     class="crp_title"&gt;Dorries Round-Up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2010/06/iain-dale-talks-balls.html"     class="crp_title"&gt;Iain Dale Talks Balls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2010/11/obsession.html"     class="crp_title"&gt;Obsession&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/realdavblog/~4/s5hOpyUcgEw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content>
605.    <summary type="xhtml">
606.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Back in the day, when I grew up on my Liverpool council estate every member of Liverpool City council was Conservative. The city had eight Conservative MPs. This is Nadine Dorries writing on Conservative Home a couple of days ago. She should really learn that if she doesn’t check her facts, then someone else will. [...]<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2010/10/she-writes-fiction.html" class="crp_title">She Writes Fiction</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2011/10/dorries-on-humanism.html" class="crp_title">Dorries on Humanism</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2010/10/dorries-round-up.html" class="crp_title">Dorries Round-Up</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2010/06/iain-dale-talks-balls.html" class="crp_title">Iain Dale Talks Balls</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2010/11/obsession.html" class="crp_title">Obsession</a></li></ul></div></div>
607.    </summary>
608.    <author>
609.      <name>Dave Cross</name>
610.    </author>
611.    <id>http://blog.dave.org.uk/?p=3089</id>
612.    <published>2013-03-16T11:31:45Z</published>
613.    <updated>2013-03-16T11:31:45Z</updated>
614.    <category term="politics"/>
615.    <category term="dorries"/>
616.    <category term="politic"/>
617.  </entry>
618.  <entry>
619.    <title>davblog: Doctor Who News</title>
620.    <link rel="alternate" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/realdavblog/~3/L1qIsS6yyus/doctor-who-news-2.html" type="text/html"/>
621.    <content type="html">&lt;div class="plus-one-wrap"&gt;&lt;g:plusone size="small" href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2013/03/doctor-who-news-2.html"&gt;&lt;/g:plusone&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m getting bored of the number of media outlets who are taking the slightest of comments that someone makes about the upcoming Doctor Who anniversary special and spinning it into a story packed full of completely unsubstantiated nonsense. Headlines like &amp;#8220;No Doctors To Return For 50th Special&amp;#8221; which, when you read them turn out to be based on the fact that Colin Baker hasn&amp;#8217;t had a phone call from Steven Moffat.&lt;/p&gt;
622. <p>Obviously it’s good for the show that it gets all of this publicity and I don’t, for one second, expect the production team to do anything to put a stop to it. They’ll tell us what they want us to know when they want us to know it. Not a moment sooner.</p>
623. <p>But in the meantime, anyone who has ever appeared in Doctor Who has to watch what they say for fear of it being overhead by a tabloid journalist and being used to reinforce what ever story the journalist wants to write.</p>
624. <p>In an attempt to counter this, I’ve set up <a href="http://whonews.tv/">whonews.tv</a>. The plan is that I’ll read these stories, extract the actual facts that they are based on and explain what we can actually believe based on those facts. Forensic analysis of entertainment news, I suppose.</p>
625. <p>I’ve also got a page where I list the best current information we have about <a href="http://whonews.tv/what-we-know/">what is actually happening for the show’s 50th anniversary</a>. I’ll try to keep that up to date as more details emerge over the coming months.</p>
626. <p>Oh, and there’s at Twitter account too – <a href="http://twitter.com/whonews50">WhoNews50</a>. You might want to follow that.</p>
627. <p>Let me know if you find it useful.</p>
628. &lt;div class="crp_related"&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Related Posts:&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2012/07/doctor-who-series-7.html"     class="crp_title"&gt;Doctor Who Series 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2011/05/watching-the-press-notes.html"     class="crp_title"&gt;Watching the Press &amp;#8211; Notes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2010/11/web-site-links.html"     class="crp_title"&gt;Web Site Links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2012/08/gullible.html"     class="crp_title"&gt;Gullible&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2011/04/neil-gaiman-explains-doctor-who.html"     class="crp_title"&gt;Neil Gaiman Explains Doctor Who&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/realdavblog/~4/L1qIsS6yyus" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content>
629.    <summary type="xhtml">
630.      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">I’m getting bored of the number of media outlets who are taking the slightest of comments that someone makes about the upcoming Doctor Who anniversary special and spinning it into a story packed full of completely unsubstantiated nonsense. Headlines like “No Doctors To Return For 50th Special” which, when you read them turn out to [...]<div class="crp_related"><h3>Related Posts:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2012/07/doctor-who-series-7.html" class="crp_title">Doctor Who Series 7</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2011/05/watching-the-press-notes.html" class="crp_title">Watching the Press – Notes</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2010/11/web-site-links.html" class="crp_title">Web Site Links</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2012/08/gullible.html" class="crp_title">Gullible</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/2011/04/neil-gaiman-explains-doctor-who.html" class="crp_title">Neil Gaiman Explains Doctor Who</a></li></ul></div></div>
631.    </summary>
632.    <author>
633.      <name>Dave Cross</name>
634.    </author>
635.    <id>http://blog.dave.org.uk/?p=3086</id>
636.    <published>2013-03-10T16:22:02Z</published>
637.    <updated>2013-03-10T16:22:02Z</updated>
638.    <category term="media"/>
639.    <category term="drwho"/>
640.  </entry>
641. </feed>
642.  

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