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	<description>Your all singing and breakdancing CEO and outside boxer</description>
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		<title>Preparing Your Website/Web App For Scalability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations, your server is melting.
This is a good problem to have (server heat is proportional to # of users). And it&#8217;s not so difficult to deal with if make a few preparations in advance.
After launching a number of web services and viral social media apps, some of which grew to hundreds of concurrent users and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mrkirkland.com/prepare-for-web-application-scalability/</link>
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		<title>Amazon s3 versioning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon now offers what I would  veritably call &#8220;indestructable fool proof&#8221; file storage. S3 already provides an extremely high level storage durability &#8211; multiple geographically separated copies of your data. Now Amazon have taken it a step further with versioning, so even if you accidentally delete your data it&#8217;s still safe.
The amazon S3 announcement [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mrkirkland.com/amazon-s3-versioning/</link>
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		<title>Cloud Computing Price Comparison</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apples and Lizards
I&#8217;ve just been researching the estimated cost of cloud computing on some of the various providers out there who want to absorb your servers into their clouds.
Doing this research has been like comparing apples to lizards. The providers all have their own way of billing you, and there&#8217;s a whole host of extra [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mrkirkland.com/cloud-computing-price-comparison/</link>
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		<title>Cyber Mercenaries For Hire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have one or two allegedly white hat friends and enjoy stories of lore and legend regarding their chivilarous and well contained sporting activites. However when it comes to professional cyber crime, I feel my Tokyo life is somewhat sheltered from the darker forces that glide through the veins and fibre cables of the internet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mrkirkland.com/cyber-mercenaries-for-hire/</link>
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		<title>Tate Modern, Brick Lane and negative utilitarians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just at the end of my trip to the UK, highlights include:

A visit to the Tate Modern


A stroll down Brick Lane with master painter Darvish Fahkr


 And lunch with &#8216;Philospoher&#8217; David Pearce



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		<link>http://www.mrkirkland.com/tate-modern-brick-lane-and-negative-utilitarians/</link>
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		<title>My Secret Voodoo SEO Technique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been on the fringe of the SEO industry for over 10 years now. I&#8217;ve have watched it change from the good old days of when keyword stuffing would get you at the top of AltaVista to the modern day which uses some of the worlds most sophisticated software and technology. 
And after experimenting, researching, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mrkirkland.com/simple-effective-seo-technique/</link>
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		<title>Make an impact, Customize your Twitter background</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Mr Kirkland has just launched Artweet, a handy little service for pimping your profile with a customized twitter background.
Even peeps with photoshopping ability will still find it a useful as you can create your own personalised background with mug shot, message and might in 3 clicks and a few taps.
It&#8217;s new so the paint&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mrkirkland.com/make-an-impact-customize-your-twitter-background/</link>
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		<title>Why are you still stressed from your work? not working smart eh?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re reading this, I&#8217;m guessing you&#8217;ve got a roof over your head, a non polluted water supply and do not need to dodge death escaping from lions/godzilla etc. every day. In fact chances are you have graduated to the higher ranks of Maslow&#8217;s hierachy of needs and maybe even some designer crockery in which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mrkirkland.com/why-are-you-still-stressed-from-your-work-not-working-smart-eh/</link>
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		<title>How to get excellent keyword search results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After many years of toil, sweat and sacrifice I believe I have finally unraveled the secret to obtaining long term &#8216;excellent&#8217; keyword search results.
Firstly, one needs to understand what &#8220;excellent keyword search results&#8221; actually means. And of course (as I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re wise enough to know without being told), they refer to the most amusing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mrkirkland.com/how-to-get-excellent-keyword-search-results/</link>
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		<title>My Current Top 5 &#8216;Healthy Work&#8217; Practices</title>
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Start the day with an important task &#8211; do this before you check your email/phone/SNS etc
You&#8217;re probably aware of how much time you fritter away swapping between email, work, text message, news etc. I fritter my time away too, however I make a point of starting the day with a focused and &#8216;important&#8217; task and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mrkirkland.com/my-current-top-5-healthy-work-practices/</link>
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