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		<title>GlassDoor.com &#8211; See What Others Get Paid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever wondered how much people get paid at small, medium or large companies then this is the site for you and it&#8217;s completely free. You can view companies (over 11,000) generally or enter your own and see a lot more. What is quite surprising for example that at JP Morgan Chase a personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Wargames Rules Collection</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/free-wargames-rules-collection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started off doing table wargames with my father in the early 1970s. This was in Belfast, so an interesting time but I made many friends and became the N. Ireland wargames champion in 1979 (Really!). Back then there were far fewer sets of rules, but now with the internet you can find many. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full Books &#8211; Free Online Books</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/full-books-fre-online-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a bit of a curious site. Thousands of books and some magazines in text form. I haven&#8217;t checked out all the books but most that I have seen are out of copright. Eg works by Dickens. I&#8217;d hazard a guess that many originated in Project Gutenberg. A quick check on Google returns nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookcrossing &#8211; Send a Book on its way&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/bookcrossing-send-a-book-on-its-way/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/bookcrossing-send-a-book-on-its-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d heard of bookcrossing before but on Sunday actually found the first book I&#8217;d ever seen in a lift in the Brittania Hotel in Nottingham, left by a Dutch visitor. If you&#8217;re interested, it was by Daphne Du Maurier (no not Rebecca!) and I&#8217;ll update the Bookcrossing website later today. Not all books get journalled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ChanceChat &#8211; Talk with a Stranger</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/chancechat-talk-with-a-stranger/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/chancechat-talk-with-a-stranger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a bit of a strange idea- you enter age and gender and similar for whom you&#8217;d like to talk to and it connects you. Its nicely implemented but on the odd occasions I&#8217;ve tried it, I&#8217;ve found no one as the message above shows. It reminds me of the old joke &#8220;You&#8217;ve got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dropbox &#8211; Free File Synchronisation</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/dropbox-free-file-synchronisation/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/dropbox-free-file-synchronisation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excellent (free with optional subscription) file synchronisation service. After signing up, you download a setup exe (one for each of Windows, Linux and Mac) and create a folder or use the default one. The free subscription gives you 2GB of storage. You can then allow others to access your shared folder by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duels Free Online Fantasy Duelling Game</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/duels-free-online-fantasy-duelling-game/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/duels-free-online-fantasy-duelling-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t played this yet, so this is more of a preview. Duels is a free game where you battle other players one by one. You advance your duelist by battling others in the arena, collect and trade thousands of items and customise your avatar&#8217;s appearance and attributes all for free. Interestingly, you don&#8217;t fight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highlighting Book Tours For Authors</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/highlighting-book-tours-for-authors/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/highlighting-book-tours-for-authors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/09/11/highlighting-book-tours-for-authors/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an interesting idea. Authors (in the UK, USA, Australian and Canada) who are doing a book tour to promote their books can connect with audiences via this free site. Likewise the audiences can find out- it&#8217;s not the easiest thing to find out- where do you look for information about forth coming book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PLOS- making medical and scientific knowledge freely available.</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/plos-medical-science-freely-available/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/plos-medical-science-freely-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 21:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are living in interesting times and people who in the past acted as gatekeepers to information are finding it a little harder these days. In the past and present, medical and scientific literature is produced by scientists etc submitting papers. These are peer reviewed and if approved are published. They tend to be expensive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travian Post</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/travian-post/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/travian-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1847</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I&#8217;ve been attacked a few times but having joined a big clan TIE-II &#8211; currently 8th in the ratings) helps. If I notice an attack on me, I can request help and repulse the attacks (hopefully!) There&#8217;s a lot of resource management though not quite as much as Inselkampf. I&#8217;ve now got 4 villages. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Full Version of Command and Conquer</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/free-full-version-of-command-and-conquer/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/free-full-version-of-command-and-conquer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/09/05/free-full-version-of-command-and-conquer/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hard to believe but this came out in 1995, 12 whole years ago. If you&#8217;ve been stuck in a cellar since then or are not into computer games then you should know that this was the first (more or less- there was Dune 2 before it) of a whole new genre. Real time Strategy. Many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Project Gutenberg- Oldest Repository of E-Books</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/project-gutenberg-oldest-repository-of-e-books/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/project-gutenberg-oldest-repository-of-e-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/09/25/project-gutenberg-oldest-repository-of-e-books/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is probably one of the oldest as it originated back in my 2nd year at school in 1971. Michael Hart was given a lot of free (and very expensive back then) computer time and decided to try and store everything that could be stored electronically (and out of copyright). So the concept pre-dates the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missing You- Help Locate Missing People in the UK</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/missing-you-help-locate-missing-people-in-the-uk/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/missing-you-help-locate-missing-people-in-the-uk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/07/21/missing-you-help-locate-missing-people-in-the-uk/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For whatever reason, people go missing each year, around the world, in the UK. They might drop out, or have amnesia, opr more likely be involved in an accident or even be abducted. Whatever the reason, this site, which was launched in 1998 offers a FREE instant on-line message-posting service designed to help enable you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writer&#8217;s Questions and Answers</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/writers-questions-and-answers/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/writers-questions-and-answers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 19:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=2019</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to declare an interest in this site as I set it up earlier today! It&#8217;s a completely free place (no adverts) for writers to post questions and answer them on every aspect of writing. I&#8217;m a wannabe writer with aspirations above my humble station so this is a small step in that direction. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Mini City &#8211; Free Online City-Building Game</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/my-mini-city/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/my-mini-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[flash]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my mini city- not much to look at, but the more visitors it gets the higher the population becomes and then I can add industry, set up proper transport infrastructure, security, business and the environment. I&#8217;m not sure if they have to be unique visitors but would guess so or else repeat visits [...]]]></description>
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