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	<description>.: science : activism : social justice :.</description>
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		<title>PDF Spam</title>
		<link>http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2007/06/20/pdf-spam</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Carroll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The spam filtering setup on our server is pretty good &#8211; SpamAssassin with Bayesian filtering and the FuzzyOCR Plugin which I installed to deal with the rise of image-based spam last year. Still, a few email addresses that route to me are very public, and most days one or two spam messages get through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>moveon.org&#8217;s privacy violations</title>
		<link>http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2006/11/29/moveonorgs-privacy-violations</link>
		<comments>http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2006/11/29/moveonorgs-privacy-violations#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Carroll</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great privacy features now activated by default in Mozilla&#8217;s Thunderbird email client (which I thoroughly recommend) is that it blocks loading of remote images in emails. This is a good thing. Why? Well, spammers, fraudsters, and unscrupulous companies mass emailing their customers just love to know for sure whether or not their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Googling Your Genes?</title>
		<link>http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2006/03/28/whos-googling-your-genes</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Carroll</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environmental racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In their biannual Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy, the Coalition Against Biopiracy has dubbed Google Inc. Biggest Threat to Genetic Privacy for teaming up with J. Craig Venter to create a searchable online database of all the genes on the planet so that individuals and pharmaceutical companies alike can &#8216;google&#8217; our genes &#8211; one day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Won</title>
		<link>http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2006/03/24/we-won</link>
		<comments>http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2006/03/24/we-won#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Carroll</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2006/03/25/we-won</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The governments assembled at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meetings in Brazil today reached an agreed to stop the push towards commercialising so called &#8216;terminator&#8217; (sterile) seeds &#8211; a huge victory for the safety of the world&#8217;s food supplies: &#8220;This is a momentous day for the 1,4 billion poor people world wide, who depend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative PHP Cache (APC) on Debian</title>
		<link>http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2006/02/02/alternative-php-cache-apc-on-debian</link>
		<comments>http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2006/02/02/alternative-php-cache-apc-on-debian#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Carroll</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web dev]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2006/02/02/alternative-php-cache-apc-on-debian</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Update, March 9th: Be sure to read the comments!] The Alternative PHP Cache is a great way to improve the performance of webservers. I just finished installing it on mokey the server that runs this site and a number of others, primarily because of our increased use of a content management system called eZpublish which [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ban Terminator!</title>
		<link>http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2005/10/14/ban-terminator</link>
		<comments>http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2005/10/14/ban-terminator#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Carroll</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2005/10/14/ban-terminator</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For thousands and thousands of years, ever since agriculture began, farmers have been saving seeds to replant the following year. It&#8217;s a practice that is fundamental to the entire global system of food production, and for small scale and subsitance farmers, and Indigenous Peoples, in many cases their very survival depends on the ability to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Since Plugin</title>
		<link>http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2005/09/17/time-since-plugin</link>
		<comments>http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2005/09/17/time-since-plugin#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2005 07:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Carroll</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web dev]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the bottom of each post on this site, a wonderful little WordPress plugin adds how long it&#8217;s been since the post was made. It&#8217;s called Time Since. But there&#8217;s a bug in the example &#8216;how to use&#8217; code&#8230; actually a few, so I&#8217;m posting updated examples of how to use the plugin here in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Server Trouble</title>
		<link>http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2005/09/14/server-trouble</link>
		<comments>http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2005/09/14/server-trouble#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Carroll</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web dev]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Update: All websites and services are now back online. Contact me if you are experiencing any problems. We&#8217;ve had some fairly major server problems this week, as many of my colleagues (and many of my friends) who I share an online home with know. We suffered some website vandalism and consequently had to take the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>bash script to upload files from flash drive</title>
		<link>http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2005/09/04/bash-script-to-upload-files-from-flash-drive</link>
		<comments>http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2005/09/04/bash-script-to-upload-files-from-flash-drive#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2005 23:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Carroll</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://carroll.org.uk/?p=63</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a useful little bash script I just wrote to upload photos from my flash card reader onto my laptop. The script is specific to the flash card file system used by my Canon EOS 300D, but should easily be adaptable for other uses. It is Free Open Source Software and is released under the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Front Pages</title>
		<link>http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2005/08/29/todays-front-pages</link>
		<comments>http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2005/08/29/todays-front-pages#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Carroll</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://carroll.org.uk/?p=61</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Setting aside for a second the fact that most of what we get fed by the mainstream media is rubbish, one of my friends sent me an amazing link today (Thanks Dana.) It shows today&#8217;s front pages from hundreds of newspapers around the world, rolled together into a neat flash applet. Very clever, and quite [...]]]></description>
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