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		<title>Gordon’s Alive! (but he’s dying a slow and painful death)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gordon had Ming but Adobe’s Flash has had to contend with a more powerful adversary in the Late Steve Jobs and he was equally merciless in his pursuit of wiping out his enemy. And after years of bitter fighting it seems Jobs has succeeded where Ming failed, bringing Flash to its knees &#8211; if we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re hired&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mixd.co.uk/?p=3300</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few months the Mixd team has steadily been growing and as a result we have been encouraging web designers and web developers of the future to get in touch. Those of you that regularly read the Mixd blog will know that we work closely with York College and the University of Leeds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternatives to the Royal wedding (29 April 2011)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you one of the people desperately looking for an alternative to the Royal wedding on Friday? Well, we&#8217;ve had a good search around the font of all knowledge that is the internet and are pleased to bring you a Mixd [sic] assortment of alternative things to do. Alternative things to do on Friday 29 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Usability; from cash points to the world wide web</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picture the scene if you will&#8230; I&#8217;m on my way out to meet my mates. Looking rather dapper if I do say so myself. We are off to see a club DJ, but I need an extra tenner for my ticket. I&#8217;m running well late. The taxi&#8217;s waiting. Now on with the story&#8230; I dashed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foursquare; a skeptic&#8217;s view</title>
		<link>http://www.mixd.co.uk/blog/foursquare-skeptics-view</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official, Foursquare has gone mainstream During a late summer trip to sunny Devon I experienced a number of firsts. Surfing, sampling the local cider and reading my girlfriend&#8217;s celebrity magazines. I can assure you I only read them to relieve the boredom of lounging! However, amongst the &#8216;what&#8217;s hot and what&#8217;s not&#8217; articles was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you switch off from your work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been involved with design and the creative industries for a little over twelve years now and one thing that hasn&#8217;t changed in this time is the expectation that people in our industry are available to do work day or night! Like so many designers and web developers out there I have worked through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>External website links. New window or not?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right. A big bug bear of mine! It has been a growing and annoying trend that links to external sites from one website to another open in a new browser window and it has been something that we advise our clients against&#8230; time and time again. Some common misconceptions are listed below with several facts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Chambers convicted for Twitter bomb &#8216;threat&#8217;‎</title>
		<link>http://www.mixd.co.uk/blog/paul-chambers-convicted-for-twitter-bomb-threat%e2%80%8e</link>
		<comments>http://www.mixd.co.uk/blog/paul-chambers-convicted-for-twitter-bomb-threat%e2%80%8e#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 21:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mixd.co.uk/?p=2157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You wouldn&#8217;t dare say the word &#8220;bomb&#8221; out loud whilst stood at an airport check-in desk&#8230; but would you dare Tweet the very same word? It turns out the answer should be &#8220;no&#8221; after today&#8217;s ruling against a South Yorkshire man who has been charged after joking on Twitter that he would blow an airport [...]]]></description>
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		<title>P..p..p..pick up a penguin</title>
		<link>http://www.mixd.co.uk/blog/pick-up-a-penguin</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mixd.co.uk/?p=1883</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was my niece&#8217;s birthday recently. My brother and I were gigging with our band in Wales the day before&#8230; of course, we had both forgotten to arrange a present and it was fast approaching 6pm on a Saturday! Rattling our male brains, we concluded that the perfect present (achievable within 24 hours via an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;and now for something completely different</title>
		<link>http://www.mixd.co.uk/blog/and-now-for-something-completely-different</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 11:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Academy Award-nominated actor, comedian, writer and film producer John Cleese comes to town next week as the keynote speaker at the Yorkshire International Business Convention to be held at the Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate on Friday 5 June 2009. He will be there on business and probably far more serious than you might expect. The [...]]]></description>
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