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		<title>Pricing done wrong: PowerDVD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An example of how people in Cambridge get it, and how the people behind the PowerDVD pricing model most definitely do not.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mertner.com/allan/?p=139</link>
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		<title>How to write amazing software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During most of my day, I work at Tideway Systems where we produce software that helps companies get a grip on their IT infrastructure &#8211; particularly their servers rather than their desktops.
Over the past few years, we have evolved a process for making the software we write highly valuable to our users and do so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mertner.com/allan/?p=134</link>
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		<title>eBook publisher insanity!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[eBooks must be cheap to succeed - right now, they can cost more than the same book in hardback!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mertner.com/allan/?p=120</link>
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		<title>Define Word for Firefox 3.5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is the same every time a new version of Firefox is released: plugin authors need to check whether their extensions work with the new version, and then create a new package that includes the flags to say it indeed works.
So far, so good.  But the next step, after uploading the package to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mertner.com/allan/?p=116</link>
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		<title>Precentages are simple.  No, really.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think percentages are simple.  Take 100%, for example: it means everything.  And 0% means nothing.  50% is about half. 
Per cent of course means &#8220;per hundred&#8221;, so 27% is just a short way of saying &#8220;27 per hundred&#8221;, or 27/100, or 0.27.  Really, is that hard?
In Britain, it seems to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mertner.com/allan/?p=111</link>
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		<title>Can I have a blog, dad?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My 6-year old son wants and gets his own blog.  Is it a good idea? Time will tell.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mertner.com/allan/?p=99</link>
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		<title>Spam Control now supports mailcatch.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New version of Spam Control for Firefox, now with Mailcatch.com support]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mertner.com/allan/?p=94</link>
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		<title>Cheap backups that work!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have decided to take a new approach to backing up my most precious, irreplaceable personal data.  Things like my pictures, documents, drawings, source code, presentations, etc.  If I lose this, I can&#8217;t get it back, ever, which makes backups particularly important&#8230;
The irreplaceable stuff needs to be backed up somewhere that will last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mertner.com/allan/?p=88</link>
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		<title>Updated Spam Control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just finished a new version of Spam Control, v0.2.3, which includes the ability to hide categories of email addresses from the pop-up menu (leaving it as uncluttered as possible). This version also fixes a bug where the list of domain prefixes or suffixes is empty.
Download Spam Control 0.2.3 here.
If you like it, please [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mertner.com/allan/?p=87</link>
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		<title>Mysterious outbound calls?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My phone calls the same 0870 number every night, for 5 seconds.  It costs me £4.20 per month, and I don't know why it's done - help!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mertner.com/allan/?p=86</link>
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