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	<title>VirtualChaos - Nadeem's blog</title>
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	<description>I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf mutes ... or should I?</description>
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		<title>A Jewish American high school student wins MLK Jr. writing award for this essay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I read something that moved me as much as this short essay by an 11th Grader. 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Awards Prose: High School First Place Fighting a Forbidden Battle: How I Stopped Covering Up for a Hidden Wrong Jesse Lieberfeld 11th grade, Winchester Thurston I once belonged [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2012/01/20/a-jewish-american-high-school-student-wins-mlk-jr-writing-award-for-this-essay/</link>
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		<title>a thought &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2011/04/07/a-thought-5/</link>
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		<title>Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really love Diana Laufenberg&#8217;s passion. The central point in this talk is about finding ways to create rich learning projects that allow kids to fail as part of the learning process, try different solutions, explore, play, inquire, draw upon each others work, and LEARN. She articulates it beautifully here: the thing that you need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2010/12/16/diana-laufenberg-how-to-learn-from-mistakes/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;For Hecuba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd, Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2010/07/29/for-hecuba/</link>
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		<title>How to get people to pay for content</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey says people have never paid for content and never will. What they have paid for &#8212; and will pay for &#8212; is access to content. The lesson for product strategists: make more content available, on more devices, in the most convenient ways possible.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2010/06/27/how-to-get-people-to-paying-for-content/</link>
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		<title>Education is a global religion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education &#8212; and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world&#8217;s poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn. And this informal, disruptive new kind of school, he says, is what all schools need to become. This is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2010/06/27/education-is-a-global-religio/</link>
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		<title>Invictus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2010/06/21/invictus/</link>
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		<title>Derek Sivers: How to start a movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wonderful, brilliantly concise, 3 minute TED Talk by Derek Sivers. &#8220;If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow, and when you find a lone nut doing something great have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2010/04/03/derek-sivers-how-to-start-a-movement/</link>
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		<title>Death Note a modern take on Plato&#8217;s Gyges Ring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a discourse in Plato&#8217;s The Republic, the integrity of man is questioned and, perhaps, ultimately deemed to be fundamentally flawed: The Ring of Gyges is a mythical talisman that grants its owner the power to become invisible at will. Using the story of the ring, Plato&#8217;s Republic, explores whether a typical man would remain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/10/19/death-note-a-modern-take-on-platos-gyges-ring/</link>
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		<title>Karen Armstrong: Let&#8217;s revive the golden rule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being told I have to stay at home and rest is always difficult for me, I get bored very easily, so I thought I&#8217;d lye in bed and catch up with some feeds &#8211; when I came across the above talk. I&#8217;ve written about Karen Armstrong and the Golden Rule before, it was heartwarming to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/10/02/karen-armstrong-lets-revive-the-golden-rule/</link>
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		<title>Beyond Web 2.0 &#8211; How RDFa can help democratise data on the web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Publishing to the web has never been easier, with the proliferation of content management systems, online blogging platforms, microblogging, and more. However, publishing data is either the preserve of organizations prepared to manage their own IT, or requires individuals to sign up for one web 2.0 service after another. RDFa provides a straightforward means by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/09/18/beyond-web-2-0-how-rdfa-can-help-democratise-data-on-the-web/</link>
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		<title>Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don&#8217;t: Traditional rewards aren&#8217;t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories &#8212; and maybe, a way forward. A very useful and thought provoking talk, Dan does well in describing the difference between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/08/28/dan-pink-on-the-surprising-science-of-motivation/</link>
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		<title>Philip Zimbardo prescribes a healthy take on time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Psychologist Philip Zimbardo says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and future. He suggests we calibrate our outlook on time as a first step to improving our lives Interestingly enough having recently re-read George Lakoff’s Metaphors We Live By , Zimbardo&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/07/19/philip-zimbardo-prescribes-a-healthy-take-on-time/</link>
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		<title>Combining, minimising and distributing JavaScripts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent some time recently writing ant scripts to generate documentation, combine and minimise multiple javascript files into a single download. I thought I&#8217;d share what I have, in case others find it useful or can suggest better ways of doing what I&#8217;m trying to accomplish. Combining multiple JS files into a single file Here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/07/19/combining-minimising-and-distributing-javascripts/</link>
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		<title>rdfQuery 1.0 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I travelled down to Oxford last weekend to attend the rdfQuery Dazzle event. Fairly early on we decided that one of the things we wanted to achieve was to get v1.0 of rdfQuery released. This involved a fair bit work, not only did we need to get unit tests working across all the major browsers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/07/19/rdfquery-10-released/</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;re hiring &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are currently recruiting for a number of different positions at Talis, amongst these are several openings to join our development teams. Rob has already discussed the Web Application Technical Lead role, and I&#8217;ll like to mention that we are also looking for Senior Developers to join both our Platform and Education divisions. Senior Software [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/07/19/were-hiring/</link>
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		<title>WebDriver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Faster than a speeding bullet! Easier to maintain than something that&#8217;s really easy to maintain! Reliable! That&#8217;s what we want from our tests, but how do we get there? This presentation covers key strategies and patterns for writing test suites using WebDriver, a developer focused tool for web application testing similar in spirit to Selenium [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/06/14/webdriver/</link>
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		<title>Yusuf Islam, the Cat of Old</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You ever had one of those days when you get home from work, your tired, but you carry on working because there always seems far more to do than time to do it in? you feel like you want to find a way of picking yourself up out of whatever temporary rut you feel yourself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/06/11/yusuf-islam-the-cat-of-old/</link>
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		<title>Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not often I watch an anime, or any movie, that not only moves me but forces me to ask questions about society and our shared humanity. Jin-Roh is a title that has hovered around my awareness for years but I&#8217;ve never gotten around to watching it, at least not until today. It&#8217;s an exquisite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/05/25/jin-roh-the-wolf-brigade/</link>
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		<title>Anime Reviews: Afro Samurai Resurrection, plus more.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Afro Samurai:ResurrectionLast September I reviewed Afro Samurai which was one of the best anime&#8217;s I&#8217;d seen in a long time. By the end of the first movie Afro had avenged his father and found a life of peace. In this sequel that peace is shattered by the arrival of a woman from his past (Sio, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/05/25/anime-reviews-afro-samurai-resurrection-plus-more/</link>
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		<title>&#8230; i&#8217;m married :)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people have been mailing me and asking why I haven&#8217;t blogged in a few months, and where I have been. Well in short I took a month off to get married to Sadia We are both very happy . I&#8217;ve started putting pictures of our wedding into a set on flickr here, as well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/05/19/im-married/</link>
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		<title>Seth Godin on the tribes we lead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so. This is a great talk by Seth Godin, here&#8217;s how he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/05/19/seth-godin-on-the-tribes-we-lead/</link>
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		<title>Lifes too short &#8211; write fast code!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ABSTRACT This is the second talk that follows-up on the 14 best practices from YSlow and &#8220;High Performance Web Sites&#8221;. The first talk presented three new best practices: Split the Initial Payload, Load Scripts Without Blocking, and Don&#8217;t Scatter Inline Scripts. The most important of these is loading external scripts without blocking other downloads and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/03/19/lifes-too-short-write-fast-code/</link>
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		<title>Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he&#8217;s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together. This is an inspiring talk by Tim that goes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/03/16/tim-berners-lee-the-next-web-of-open-linked-data/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Sixth Sense&#8221; &#8211; Wearable Tech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This demo &#8212; from Pattie Maes&#8217; lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry &#8212; was the buzz of TED. It&#8217;s a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine &#8220;Minority Report&#8221; and then some! Think Microsoft Surface without the table! This is amazing. The basic idea is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/03/12/the-sixth-sense-wearable-tech/</link>
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		<title>Anime Reviews &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seem to have watched a lot of anime over the last few months. Here&#8217;s a couple of brief reviews: Guyver: The Bioboosted ArmourThis new 26 part collection is a modern makeover of the original classic 1980&#8242;s anime series. Based on Yoshiki Takaya&#8217;s popular manga. The remake boasts a wonderful soundtrack with stunningly stylized animation and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/02/22/anime-reviews/</link>
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		<title>2009 an update &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During a conversation with a certain cat loving friend of mine earlier on in the week it was suggested to me that its been a while since I&#8217;ve blogged anything other than short pieces highlighting bits of news or content out there on the web. She&#8217;s absolutely right. So here&#8217;s an update on 2009 so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/02/22/2009-an-update/</link>
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		<title>The Palestinian Perspective: What the world looks like from the West Bank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ABSTRACT When I first visited the Palestinian territories, I was afraid I would have to hide my identity as an American and possibly wear a headscarf. To my surprise, I was warmly welcomed exactly as I was, and after more than two years living and working there, it remains one of my favorite spots on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/02/22/the-palestinian-perspective-what-the-world-looks-like-from-the-west-bank/</link>
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		<title>Drop-in JavaScript Performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Browsers are continually upgrading &#8211; providing new features from the latest specifications. We&#8217;ll look at modern JavaScript and DOM techniques that you can easily drop in to your applications for instant speed-ups. This is a great tech talk by John Resig that covers features in upcoming browsers such as new javascript engines in the major [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/02/15/drop-in-javascript-performance/</link>
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		<title>Linked Data and Scientific Publishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tim Berners-Lee gave a talk at TED2009 on Linked Data. The slides for the talk can be found here. TED have not made this talk available for viewing yet. However part of the focus of the talk was around linking raw scientific data with existing linked data sets already out there. I&#8217;ll post a link [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2009/02/08/linked-data-and-scientific-publishing/</link>
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