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799 posts total
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More Home Assistant Automations
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Firetoys TechPro Cathedral Fire Poi
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Farewell Grangemouth
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Pizza Oven Alarm
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West Highland Way Challenge Race Report
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Implementing Internal Reflux Control
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Playing with Fire
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Why I'm Convincing Myself Ultras Are Good Value
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Glasgow to Edinburgh Race Report
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Local Beauty
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The Hierarchy of Control in Practice
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Automation Team Bakeoff: My Ship Cake Adventure
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Parkrun Pacing
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Going for a walk
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Seven Hills of Edinburgh 2022
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Running with the Warriors
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Why I Stopped Running
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A Stored Energy Near Miss
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How Clean is my Electric Car
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Four Hours of Freedom
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Blinked
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Direct Vs Fastest
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Stop Touching Things
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Happy Groundhog Day
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Torturing/Testing Children
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Not That Bad
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The Darkest Day of 2020 is Now Behind Us
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Scrum
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Review: DO NOT sign up to Beer52
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Beyond Personal Productivity
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Writing a Multidisciplined CV
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Redundancy in the Air
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A Definition of Beer
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Changing Times
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Inactive TDC tag won't Delete
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Getting Started Again
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Interesting Times
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IChemE SMG AGM 2020
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A Complex Operation
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Past Interest
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Learning Again from Scratch
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Keep Pushing It
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Inbox Zero
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Plex Alert
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Alarming Sounds
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Doing it My Way
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Changing my Style
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Shift the Filter
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Test it Tuesday is not Enough
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Showing Your Support
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33.333333333
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More or Just More Aware
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IChemE Scottish Members Group - What now?
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Two Different Experiences
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A Different Type of Haircut
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COVID-19 vs Disastrous Dinners
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Getting Warmer
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Reflections of a Pause
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Pressing Pause
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Synchronising Wants and Commitments
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Not so Different
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Cooking with Science
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Life Without Two Wheels
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Vampire Overalls
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Over Consumption
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What I Don’t Know.txt
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You don't live once
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Stuck in Traffic
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Sugar Toxicity
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Missing Training
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Stuck in my Head
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Just get on with it!
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Getting the Better of the Weather
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How Do You Know If You Understand Something?
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Fixed It!
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Scottish IChemE Events and Survey
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Putting £26 million in Context
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Not so SMART Goals
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A Difficult Task
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Closing Time
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Focusing on the Controllable
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No Longer Married to a Foreigner
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No More No-Replies
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Typical Weather
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Taxed Again
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The Power of the Railways
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Some Hae Meat
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Can't Blame the Kids
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Taxed
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Racing to the Library
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A Walk in the Woods
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Physical Letters
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Reading Aloud
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Coffee Cups
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Who Wrote This?
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A Bad Bedtime Story
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When You Know the Answer
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You Know it was a Tough Workout When...
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No News
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Putting a Roof on Linlithgow Palace
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How Long Can You Gloat?
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My Problem with My Ring
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Cycle In The Dark
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Encouraging Meetings
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2019 Spending Review
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Enforced Breaks
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Necessary Naps
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Running Badly and Getting Lucky
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One Day Work Week
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How I Track Our Money
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It Wasn't All Bad
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Whodunit: New Year's Eve Edition
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A Summer's Morning in Winter
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A Visit to Blackness Castle
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Safety Systems Definitions
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Making the Most of My Time: Learning a Language
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An Unexpected Gift
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You Did Ask for a White Christmas
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Thanks for Keeping the Lights On
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More Smug
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An Advantage of Early Risers
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DCS, PLCs and SCADAs
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State of the World
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I'd Love to Help But
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It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Smugmas
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Making the Most of My Time: Going to the Gym
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Phished
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Stillness and Calm
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Deadbands
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Making the Most of My Time: Maintaining My Home Server
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Making the Most of My Time: Following News
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Silly Graphs
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Believing Signs
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Making the Most of My Time: Cycling to Work
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Deciding What Not To Do
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Filters
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Changing the Plan
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The Plan
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True Wealth
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Giving Tuesday
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Low Salt Salted Caramel
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Simultaneous Books
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Noise
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Buying Time
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Being Thankful for My Mistake
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Reviewing My Mistakes
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Travel Nerves
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Third One's a Charm
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Smartphones = Cigarettes
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Output Characterisation
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Forrest School
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Good Work Can Last
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Disastrous Dinners: Kegworth
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Jargon Overload
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Frosted Windscreens
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Relaxed Reading
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PV Tracking
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Recreational Rebuild
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Eleven!!!!!
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Another Cycling Advantage
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Not in Trouble
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Armistice
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Remember What?
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Electrical Engineering for Chemical Engineers
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Working with a Toddler
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Reading the Manual
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A Nice Pain
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Finally Attended the Fireworks
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Asking For It
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Saving Money
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Alarm Floods
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Happy birthday IKEA Edinburgh
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More Phantom Work
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Phantom Work
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Unhelpful Statistics
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Do Over the Last Week
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A Little Less Stupid
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Kinds of Alarm
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Rubbish but Active Days
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Yoga While Recovering
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Forgetting the Simple Solutions
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Thoughts After a Crash
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Working While Cycling
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When You Don't Want to Listen to the Proclaimers
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Alarms
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Fixed it in the End
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What is a channel?
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Speed Golf
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New Code Project
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Time Travel Touring
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Running With The Kenyans
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Override Control
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October's Disastrous Dinner
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Library Audiobooks
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Background Noise
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Happy with my Position
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Is it Worth the Time
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All I Want for Christmas
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The Cascade Loop
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Getting Drunk in Reverse
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What is a Mermaid?
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Alfa Laval Talk
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TV Tokens
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Mornings Like This
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One Way to Get Off Facebook
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The PID Loop
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Which Plug?
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Hazops Are Not a Panacea
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Phone to Check
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Lights On
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Faster by Foot
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Review: One Hour Investor
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What is a Control Loop?
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Wanted: Venue in Glasgow
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5 Year Steps
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Initially Useful
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The Curse of the Intermittent Fault
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Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells
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33 Seconds Can Make a Big Difference
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What is Partial Pressure?
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Staying in a Professional Lane
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Halfway There
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Comparing Yourself To Others
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Are You Digitally Skilled?
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Staring into the Crystal Ball
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New Ratesetter Returns
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Simple Saturdays: Introduction
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An Uncomfortable Encounter
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Uncertainties
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Hosting Quick Meetings
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The Dreaded Task
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Looking on the Bright Side
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The Other Central Park
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Following Your Own Rules
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The Yellow Balloon
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Advertising on a FIRE Blog
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Autumn Scottish IChemE Events
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Starting and Finishing the Same Day
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What Do you Think About When Running?
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My First Parkrun
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Rebuilding Good Habits
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Complicated but Clear
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Managerless Meetings
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Practice and the Real Thing
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Customer Acceptance
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Rose Tinted Hindsight
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Addictively Checking
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Cold Mornings
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Where are the Members of the IChemE Scottish Members Group?
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Empty House
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Two Hours: 4 Characters
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A Frustrating Phrase
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Clearly I am Doing This Wrong
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Being Irritated with Good Weather
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Waste of a Tidy House
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Onion Hack
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Thoughts on FIRE
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Trial and Error Cooking
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An Unusual Day
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Thunderstorms
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Learning to Freewheel
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Positive Unpopular Opinions
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Missing Mobile Phone Feature
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Science Fiction to Fantasy
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Wow
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Progress After a Pause
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Lost to Time
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Game Theory with Parents
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Misjudging Food
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Disastrous Dinners: Imperial Sugar
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Another Talk Down
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Some Things Don’t Change
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Sugar Manufacturing is Dangerous Stuff
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A different perspective of the moon landings
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My Little Monkey
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Guilty Cuddles
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Cycling with a Trailer
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No Phone
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Why Guard?
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Green Waves can be Tiring
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Back in a Boat
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Playing in the Park
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Another Energy Supply Problem
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Proof that Distributed Control Works
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An Unexpected Visit
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Past Performance
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This is an Automated Post
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Kids Eating Preferences
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4th of July Picnic - on the 6th
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A Year of Blogging
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Happy 4th of July
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Thanks to Randolph Lalonde
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Easy Gym
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Back in the Office
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Fakeaway Cooking
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Parenting Slight of Hand Win
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Flagchaser Spotting
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I just can't win
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I Gave In & Bought a New Watch
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ABB Presentations
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Games Reflect Reality
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International Women in Engineering Day
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Energy Credits
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Simple and Silly Pleasures
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Attending the Royal Highland Show
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A Message to IChemE Scottish Group Members
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The First Tuesday After the Second Thursday in June
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Not Such a Busy Week
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Father's Day
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Weddings are Weird
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Holiday Booked
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A Cheat's Guide to Making Vegan* Cupcakes
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IChemE Group in Trouble
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Well That Didn't Work
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Suspicious Weather
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Taking Them Down With Me
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Our Adventure Book
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A Really Frustrating Afternoon
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Being a Unit of Measurement Part 2
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Never Trust Someone Who...
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The UK Home Office Has Renamed The Country
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Bloody Shocking
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Attributing to Mallace
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Assembling Furniture Around Kids
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Signup for July’s Disastrous Dinners
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One Job, Multiple Professions
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Two Tasks
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Same Road, Different Journey
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The EU Has Been a Good Fall Guy
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Looking Forward to Monday Morning
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Two Days for the Price of One
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Encouraging Good Security
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Overcoming Challenges
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Voting Tomorrow
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Alarms and HMI Presentation by Bill Hollifield
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Pretty Refinery
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Sleep Tight Little One
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An Alarming Moment
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No More FAT
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Fatigue vs Handovers
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Disastrous Dinners: The Smiler Accident
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What was I Thinking
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Voting for the EU Parliament in Scotland
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New Phone: Samsung Galaxy A40
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Going on an Adventure
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Scotrail’s Discount
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Note to Self: Don’t Delete Tools
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Connection Error
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Thoughts on Antifragile
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Spending a Bank Holiday in a Quiet Factory
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Partied Out
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Going to Nowhere
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Factory Acceptance Testing
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Being a Unit of Measurement
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Re-examining Exams
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Automated Lights
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Paying for Process Safety
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How is IChemE Involved with Process Safety
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Returned to Twitter
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Pedal on Parliament Weekend
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Deflated
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Side Effect of Energy Efficient Light Bulbs
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Sonder
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Home Made Balmoral Pies
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Who is an Engineer
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My First Clipless Moment
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Future Writing
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Code Golf at Work
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Admitting Defeat
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The Force of Fire
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A Morning of Mistakes
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Packing Silliness
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How we Celebrated Our Anniversary
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Shortcut to Firefox Reader Mode
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A Note on Banknotes
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Silence is Suspicious
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More on Hats
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Hat’s a Relief
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Ending Ending the Draft
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Clearing Out
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Disastrous Dinners: How a nuclear power plant interfered with food and drinks supplies
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Believing Instruments
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An Unexpected Sight
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Go West
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Hiatus
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Waiting On the Platform
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Ending Daylight Savings Time
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Where Did The Month Go?
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I Really Meant It!
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New? Really?
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Contribution and Effect
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Where Did The Week Go?
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Stop This Madness
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Reading Gymnastics
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Teaching Others
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Out of the Loop
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Done
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The End is in Sight
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Regen Weather
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Thoughts on The Blue Zones
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Night Off
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Not Quite All Day Breakfasts
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It Doesn't Get Old
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Cooking Alone
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What a Rush
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Financial 'Advice'
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One Shift Down
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After Midnight
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Last Day Before The Regen
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Bike Testing
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Paperwork is Pointless...
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Making Contingencies
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Turning it Off and On Again
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Bike Truly Bust
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Get Ready for a Regen
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Kid's Yoga
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Dynamically Terrified
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Merrimack Valley Gas Explosions Part 5
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Merrimack Valley Gas Explosions Part 4
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Merrimack Valley Gas Explosions Part 3
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Merrimack Valley Gas Explosions Part 2
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Merrimack Valley Gas Explosions Part 1
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I Miss My G1
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Unexpected Meetup
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I Took a Rest Day
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Post (Speaking) Event Analysis
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Disastrous Dinners: King's Cross Fire
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A Meta Work Day
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Stuffed with Fluff
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I Reverted to Student Life for the Weekend
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Another HackerX Invitation
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Simple Technology
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Caring Too Much
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Advice to a 2nd Year Chem Eng Student
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Finding My Limit
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Fixing an Unintended Consequence
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An Unexpected Benefit of Computer Games
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Thanks to The Practical Stoic Podcast
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Thoughts on the Workplace Parking Levy
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Jobs Not Done
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Escaping from Passman
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The Easy Bit
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Blaming Tools
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Review: Banana Print
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Personal Algorithms
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Trusting the Algorithm
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The Name: Disastrous Dinners
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Security Checklist
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Computers Only Do
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Lunchtime Yoga
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Managing Personal Expectations
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Party Time
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Just Another Opinion
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Wasted Effort or Useful Research?
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A Good Rule
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Disastrous Dinners Quick Thoughts
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Disastrous Dinners Preparation
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Simple Words and Writing Simply
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Moving Rooms
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Friday Fun
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Person Who Changes Computers That Control Wet Stuff
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The Problem With Having a Good Dream
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Adding Search
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Phone on Strike
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Disastrous Dinners: First Event NEXT WEEK
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Cheeseless Pizzas
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Hills and Trailers
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Back to Play
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Two Day Recovery
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New Year = New Name
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Jack of All Trades
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Electricity Need to Knows
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Habits and Food
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Traditional Razors
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Giving the Young the Vote
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We Have a Pizza Oven
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Christmas Day
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Twas the Day Before Christmas
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Making Cookies
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The Darkest Days Are Over
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Little Tricks
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Nearly More Tidy
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Text with Feeling
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Over Optimised
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Working from Home
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DIY and Kids
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Long Walks
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Re-evaluating
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Safety Behaviours
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Learning to Walk
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ADHD and Triage
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Three Cogs
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Making Magic
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The Purpose of a Procedure
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Bad Weather
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Algorithms to Live By: Scheduling and Thrashing
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Mid Week Night Out
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Traffic
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300 Posts
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Review: Bitz and Bob
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Happy 1st of December
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Algorithms to Live By: No Yaks
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Traffic Fun
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Guaranteed Health
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Another Thrilling Chapter
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Eatymology
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Review: Galaxy Trucker
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Book It
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Recommendation: SMRT
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Happy Thanksgiving
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Congratulations - Now Stop It
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The Great Christmas Lie
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Disastrous Dinners Survey Responses
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The Joy of Going on Holiday
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When Endless Energy Ends
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Bullying Bosses
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Post Pension Workshop Calculations
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Pension Workshop
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The Secret to Cycling Fast
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Disastrous Dinners Responses
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After Dinner Comedians
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Cot Death
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Drinking Habbits
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No Internet
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My Fingerprints are Everywhere
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Disastrous Dinners Survey
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Ways to Make a Bang
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Teaching the Hypothesis
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Science with a 3-Year-Old
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The Joy of Running a Script
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7 Years at Grangemouth
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A Short Message to Your Leader Part 2
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We Also Have The Plague
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A Short Message to Your Leader
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Sunday Mornings
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Stop Rubbing It In
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Starting to Cleanup My Own Mess
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Habits and AI
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One Idiot Can Spoil a Day
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An Apology to RSS Feed Users
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Ending Inactivity
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Wanted: A Good Jacket with Pockets
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Disastrous Dinners
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Happy Birthday Little One
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XML Woes
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90% is Not Good Enough
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Morning Bell
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New(er) Laptop
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Picking Pumpkins
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Painting and Disasters
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Social Media
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An Old Acquaintance
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When Experiments Fail
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Getting Technologically Old
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Understanding Vs Solving the Problem
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90 Days
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Thursday Night Fever
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Lost
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The Day After the Gym
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Helpful Truck
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Removing Hacks
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Safety and Security
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Relief at Last
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Are You Sure?
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RACI Matrix
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Glueing for the Future
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Writing While Angry
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Unu Jaro de Esperanto
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Preflight Briefings
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A Bit of a Cheat
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Home at Last
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Still in America
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Farewell America - At some point.
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Blogging in a Different Timezone
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Where Did You Find Those?
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Recap: The Checklist Manifesto
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American Best By Dates
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American Steam Rail
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Language Trouble
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Bumps in the Road
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Mystic Aquarium
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Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road
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Kilts at Weddings
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Thoughts on Good and Bad Procrastination
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Transatlantic Flight with 2 Kids
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Ready Player One
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A Quick Turnaround
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Rest
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Expired
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EMF Day 3
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EMF Day 2
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EMF Day 1
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The Trip to EMF
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HackerX Invitation
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The Last Day
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Three in Three
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The Magic of a Nap
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And Relax
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Fully Appreciated
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jQuery be Gone
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Lunch and Learn: Triton Security Incident
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Shoot for 80%
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No Errors ≠ No Problems
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On Cardboard Boats
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Doing Nothing is Tiring
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Temperature Control
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Plex and Subsonic Media Servers
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Learning From Remote Workers
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Access Denied
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First Run Post Summer Break
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Thanks to... Let Me Google That
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Not Beaten This Time!
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Stale Alarms
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What is an Alarm?
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A Quick Response
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31 Days
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English is a Really Stupid Language
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Review: Coleman Rocky Mountain 5 Plus Family Tent
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Dyslexia and Me - Today
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Dyslexia and Me - Cycling Metaphor
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Dyslexia and Me - Past
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Life as a Workplace Nomad
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The Return of the Comments
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In Less Praise of.. Books
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In Praise of.. Podcasts
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Why am I doing this
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Last Good Value from PI
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Thanks to.. DisasterCast
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What is a Bloated Site
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Python and Pandas
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Packing Up the Office
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Tourist in My Home Town
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Wattage of a Petrol Station
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Afraid of a Few Drops of Rain
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What Does a Control Engineer Do?
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The 3 Ss
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We Have (More) Grass!
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Fun with the Sewing Machine
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Two Parties, Similar Outcome
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Out of context
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Typeup of Proof Testing Webinar
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Waistcoats are Cool
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Using Stereo in Podcasts
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Vanessa Sutherland - Trevor Kletz Memorial Lecture
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What is Drama?
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BBQs and Cycling
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Steam Heating on Ceres
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Appologies for the delay
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When Helping Hurts
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What Happens when you Kick a Radiator Pipe
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Howto: Fix Car Doors Not Staying Locked
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Thoughts on Today's Fire
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Clockwork at Work
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APC vs Toddlers
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Habitica
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Five Years Ago Today
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Dictionary Fail
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pH Problems
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Viso: How to Split Lines
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Review - Stitch Master
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Eilidh Doyle Talk
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The Keil Centre - Presentation
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Dynamic Alarms
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At Least the House hasn't Burnt Down
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Times When Tracks Does Not Work
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My Day* in Court
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Sweaty on a Train
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JWF: Clamp on Flow Metering Technology
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An Extra Benefit of Self Driving Cars
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A Sneaky Way to Update Terms and Conditions
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The problem with the EMF Camp Schedule
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National Women in Engineering Day 2016 Webinar
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Implementing Safety
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The Problem With the EU Referendum
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10 Ways Control Systems Lie
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Review - Athleteshop
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Quick Thoughts on the IChemE 2016 AGM
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Keeping a Personal Log with Rednotebook
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I'm Giving a Talk
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Cheating at Work
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Cycling in to Waverley Station
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Dyslexia Simulator
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Mangled Brain
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Training for the Training Course
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Switching Brains
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What is a TAR
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Moving to Pelican
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New Site for 2016
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Trapped and Trailers
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Cutting it Fine
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Stamp Duty Rates, Old vs New vs Scotland
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Yes Because
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A Health and Safety Perspective of Cycling Safety
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Skipping a gtk.Assistant Page Using set_forward_page_func()
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Graduate Recruitment
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Sudo = Please
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Phone Dialer
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Impress Update
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MythTV Setup
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Introducing IMPRESS
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Looking for a Name
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Javascript Time Entry Field
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More Fun with ImpAmp
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ImpAmp on the eeePC
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First Impressions of my eeePC.
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Waiting in for a Parcel (Again)
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Trigger onKeydown Without Activating Firefox Quick Search
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General Introduction to LaTeX
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The Ubuntu Challenge
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ImpAmp's Birthday
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Welcome
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Me vs Car
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Power Cut
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Can't Fill a Suitcase!
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What Did You do Over the Summer?
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My Sister the Actor
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Awake at All Hours
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Working at Hight (of a different kind)
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Paying for gas
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Free Internet
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The Joys of Living at Home
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See what thought did
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Prisons and Addicts
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Deflating Experience
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BBC Top 100 Books:
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TV cards and rich thieves
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Removal of Red Wine
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Rulers and Downloading
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Class Test Fun
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Don't You Just Hate it When...
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Nuclear Bombs Kill
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Films, So Many to Chose From
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Hair Removal
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Dear Mr Green Nissan
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Off the front of the Treadmill
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Alistair Marshall Stage (Mis)Managing
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Bright Spark
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Lab Fun
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I am not a person, I am MANY numbers
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When was the Last Time I was Pig Headed?
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A Day of Cleaning
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Naked at Christmas
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Twas the Night Before Christmas
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Cars and Balls
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A Day of Fixing
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Ladders
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How to Punch Holes Through 35mm of Paper
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Black Bitch Explained
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Black Bitch
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Doors
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kaylee and EdLUG
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A Cybernetic Organism
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Whilst Revising
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Last Imps and Christmas Music
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Once Again I am Drunk in Charge of a Keyboard
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That Will Teach Me
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Kaylee's First Day
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More Names and Linux
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Laptop Names and Procrastination
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Battering Things
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After More Debates and Voting
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Unwanted Attention
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Too Many Questions
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Further Reading
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Dentist Travels
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I Don't Exist! (Bloody Gas Companies)
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War Equation
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Minor Irritants
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Cycle and Walking
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Beyond the point of tiredness
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Self and Hasty
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The 'I hate Windows' Itch
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Taking It Easy After Giving Blood
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The Vampires at KB
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Computers and Vampires
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(Sorry)
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My Name is Alistair and...
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Names & Drinks
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PAIN!
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Legs Sore!
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Off Days
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Pubs
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Shopping
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Pharmaceutical Companies and Fraternities
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Transforming Back into a Student
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Timetable, Orange Juice and Cheese Lovers
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Punching Moving Heads and Other Non-exiting Stuff
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Bugs, Supervisors and Sisters (Same Things I Suppose)
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CUW (part 2)
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CUW (part one)
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Overtime etc
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Yay I Have the Day Off Work
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Neighbors
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Note to Anyone that Actually Cares
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Towels, Heads and Pinball
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Bills and My Conscience
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Bills and My Conscience
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Being Selfish
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A Noisy Neighbour