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		<title>Google New Year Easter Egg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah those wacky Google jokers. Click the &#8220;I&#8217;m feeling lucky&#8221; button and you get a countdown (in seconds) until the new year! 
Calling it an Easter Egg at this time of year seems a bit odd and yet&#8230;
Link
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		<link>http://portent.org/google-new-year-easter-egg/</link>
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		<title>Dropbox &#8211; Free File Synchronisation</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://portent.org/dropbox-free-file-synchronisation/</link>
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		<title>Travian Post</title>
		<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. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/travian-post/</link>
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		<title>A Gritty Performance &#8211; Live Sand Artistry!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is not about building sand castles but is a remarkable video of a live performance on &#8220;Ukraine&#8217;s got talent&#8221;. An artist called Kseniya Simonova tells a tale of love in World War 2 using just sand and her fingers and artistic talent.
She conjures up images in the sand with her fingers then wham they&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/a-gritty-performance-live-sand-artistry/</link>
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		<title>Over 1,200 Posts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been going around 3 years and now have over 1,200 posts on site. I could have published a book!
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		<link>http://portent.org/over-1200-posts/</link>
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		<title>Making URLs Longer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everytime I follow a tinyurl.com or bit.ly link I always wonder if there&#8217;s a nasty website waiting. By which I mean one that might try and infect my computer by downloading malware. Longurl.org does the opposite, it extracts information from the linked page so you can get a feel for what the link is pointing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/making-urls-longer/</link>
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		<title>Digging into your Name on the web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not unknown for people to put their name into Google and to search on it; nothing like vanity and a touch of narcism. This isn&#8217;t the first site to do it, googlism has been around for donkeys years.
This though, originally was an art project and has become a website.  It generates a sort [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/digging-into-your-name-on-the-web/</link>
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		<title>ChromeServer &#8211; Free Dynamic Websites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is for wannabe website creators. Creating static html websites is pretty old hat. You could do that in the 90s with people like AngelFire etc.
Now though it&#8217;s all about dynamic websites, where the stuff your browser receives (html, css and JavaScript) is generated on the fly. There&#8217;s no FTP needed, this does everything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/chromeserver-free-dynamic-websites/</link>
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		<title>A Wiki for Cruises</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A confession. this is a collaboration between a friend of mine Andy and myself so I&#8217;m not going to mention it again after this. I do more of the technical stuff.  
The wiki is for information about ship cruises around the world.  Not uncoincidentally a bunch of us are doing a cruise next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/a-wiki-for-cruises/</link>
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		<title>Sorry From Gordon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The internet has made political protest much easier though you need to get a big crowd behind you with over 100 websites out there. A few months back this appeared. 
Because Gordon Brown didn&#8217;t apologise to Congress when visiting the USA, so here&#8217;s your chance to email friends with an apology on his behalf! It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/sorry-from-gordon/</link>
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		<title>Travian Report 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s only three weeks since I joined but I&#8217;ve now moved up to position 2614 which is an improvement on 5622 that i was in the first report!
I got through the being picked on stage by building Crannies; these are secret stashing places. Most people attack to nick resources (Wood, Clay, Iron, Wheat) but if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/travian-report-2/</link>
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		<title>Human Powered Hovercraft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fifty years ago, the first hovercraft was invented here in the UK. I travelled on a commercial one in 1976 between England and France. It was fun and fast apart from the rough weather then.
Now, this project Steam Boat Willy, named presumably after the first Walt Disney Mickey Mouse Cartoon is a hand built leg [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/human-powered-hovercraft/</link>
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		<title>Fake or Real &#8211; Giant Waterslide Jump</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now here&#8217;s a video that has been viewed over a million times. It shows a man going down a giant water-slide, flying through the air and landing in an inflatable pool. 
It looks very good, isn&#8217;t very professional in production and you can see the man flying through the air (circled!)  the big question [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/fake-or-real-giant-waterslide-jump/</link>
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		<title>Photographic Quality Ballpoint Pen Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love it when you see somebody talented do something extraordinary with everyday objects. It gives me the hope that maybe, just maybe I could do that. Though deep in my heart I know I can&#8217;t and never will.
A point in question, this photograph and many others (Link goes via Google.com translation as original site [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/photographic-quality-ballpoint-pen-art/</link>
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		<title>Travian revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago I started playing Travian, a free browser game of expanding your village and attacking other players set in the time of Rome with you being one of three tribes (Romans, Gauls or Teutons). I got knocked out but eventually realised, I&#8217;d been playing blindfold with one arm tied behind my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/travian-revisited/</link>
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