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	<title>The Pool Room</title>
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	<description>Where all the good stuff ends up.</description>
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		<title>The Chinese Silky Chicks Arrive!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a lot of searching, emailing and ringing local breeders looking for silky pullets, I finally found a lady up in Marulan with some chicks for sale. I originally didn&#8217;t want to get chicks because of the mucking around with heat lamps etc, but since it was the only way to get some silkies for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2008/07/the-chinese-silky-chicks-arrive/</link>
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		<title>How To Speed Up Microsoft Outlook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Repair your .pst file!

Rather than copy the instructions here, refer to How To Fix Your Broken PST File.

It&#8217;s not just for use when Outlook stops working - it&#8217;s a useful preventative action you should run occasionally to repair little problems before they become big problems. Anytime Outlook starts running slower than normal, give this a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2008/03/how-to-speed-up-microsoft-outlook/</link>
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		<title>How To Disable Yellow Print Confirmation Popups In Windows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Problem: When I send anything to my networked printer, Windows XP pops up a yellow confirmation bubble telling me the item printed. How can I turn that annoying option off?

The Solution: In Control Panel, choose Printers and Faxes. Click File, Server Properties, and select the Advanced tab. Near the bottom, uncheck the box for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2008/03/disable-yellow-print-confirmation-popups-in-windows/</link>
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		<title>Video: How To Make Compost (Milkwood)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another great video series from Milkwood, this one explaining how to make compost without too much effort.

Don&#8217;t these videos have great music? I also really like the way they use the &#8220;Benny Hill effect&#8221; of speeding up the video, so you get a good idea of what they&#8217;re doing without needing to sit around and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2008/03/video-how-to-make-compost-milkwood/</link>
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		<title>How To Stop Internet Explorer Opening Office Documents In The Browser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By default, Internet Explorer opens Excel and Word files within the browser window. This can be annoying if you want to work with them in the real applications. To get IE to always open these files using the correct application:


click Start >> Control Panel >> Folder Options
click on the File Types tab
find the XLS file [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2008/03/how-to-stop-internet-explorer-opening-office-documents-in-the-browser/</link>
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		<title>Video: Soil Food Web - And Nature&#8217;s Soil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Notes


Manzano Mountains, Central New Mexico, USA
Michael Martin Melendrez, founder of Soil Secrets
Michael is also well known for his coining the phrase and writing the first paper ever on the Soil Food Web titled &#8216;Soil Ecology and the Soil Food Web&#8217; in 1974
sugar maples, drop leaves to provide a protective mulch
we are told we need to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2008/03/video-soil-food-web-and-natures-soil/</link>
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		<title>Video: Fallen Fruit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting video about picking public fruit.


Fallen Fruit is a group that maps local fruit trees and encourages sharing through group plantings and &#8220;forages&#8221;
take people on walking forages to collect public fruit growing in the neighbourhood
fruit growing on public property or hanging over fences onto public property is &#8220;public fruit&#8221; and can be legally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2008/03/video-fallen-fruit/</link>
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		<title>Video: Edible Estates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch the video at KCET, Edible Estates.

Notes


why are people growing lawn?
Fritz Haeg converts homeowners&#8217; front lawns into working vegetable gardens
Descanso Gardens invited Fritz to build a demo garden to show people what he does
one third of the garden is planted as plain lawn
two-thirds is planted as an edible vegetable garden to show people how good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2008/02/video-edible-estates/</link>
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		<title>Video: How To Grow Figs From Cuttings (Milkwood)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just discovered the Milkwood site - &#8220;Two city kids quit their jobs, pull up stumps and journey to a remote, empty, block of land to start an ultra low impact lifestyle from scratch&#8221;. Now these are people I&#8217;d love to meet!

Kirsten Bradley and Nick Ritar are documenting their trials and tribulations via both traditional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2008/02/video-how-to-grow-figs-from-cuttings-milkwood/</link>
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		<title>Video: Permaculture Trio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This video is really three different views of permaculture gardens rolled into one. Notes below the video.

 

Forest Gardening with Robert Hart

Robert Hart was born on 1 April 1913, and died on 7 March 2000. He was a vegan (eating around 90% raw food) who took up farming at Wenlock Edge, in Shropshire.


garden is on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2008/02/video-permaculture-trio/</link>
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		<title>Video: The Permaculture Concept - Bill Mollison</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first post in my new category, Permaculture. I&#8217;m going to link to and provide notes for videos, books and other resources as I read and learn more. And maybe I&#8217;ll document some of my own projects when I get some time.

If you&#8217;re not sure what it is, Wikipedia has a good background [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2008/02/video-the-permaculture-concept-bill-mollison/</link>
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		<title>MacUpdate Promo - Great Mac Software, Dirt Cheap!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out the current MacUpdate Promo!

For 50 bucks, you get:


ForkLift - a nice-looking FTP client
RapidWeaver - web site publishing software
SwiftPublisher - for writing newsletters and creating gift cards (perfect for Xmas!)
Marine Aquarium - really cool fish tank screen saver
Xslimmer - reclaim disk space by removing the parts of applications not needed for your Mac&#8217;s architecture
MemoryMiner [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2007/12/macupdate-promo/</link>
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		<title>Samsung SyncMaster 940UX 19&#8243; LCD Supports Video Over USB</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting development. A company called DisplayLink has come up with a technique to send video over a USB link, rather than the conventional VGA or DVI. It doesn&#8217;t require an extra graphics card - it&#8217;s all done in the device driver.

Samsung&#8217;s SyncMaster 940UX 19&#8243; LCD is the first monitor to use the technology, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2007/08/samsung-syncmaster-940ux-19-lcd-supports-video-over-usb/</link>
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		<title>The Easy Way To Upgrade WordPress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As much as I love WordPress as a blogging platform, the plugin, theme and upgrade mechanisms have always seemed a little kludgy to me.

There&#8217;s too much diving into the filesystem, unzipping downloads, FTPing files and directories to specific locations, and in the case of upgrades, futzing around disabling and re-enabling plugins, backing up the database [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2007/08/the-easy-way-to-upgrade-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>Increase Productivity - Speed Up Your iPod Playback!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I listen to a lot of podcasts and audio books on my iPod - while driving to work, jogging, doing repetitive jobs, etc. But I&#8217;m a bit of a packrat, and the audio has been piling up faster than I can listen to it all.

Here&#8217;s a way to get through more audio: play it back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2007/08/increase-productivity-speed-up-your-ipod-playback/</link>
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		<title>Downloading YouTube Videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen a video on YouTube.com and wished you could keep a copy to watch again later? Or perhaps you&#8217;ve wished you could transfer it to your phone or iPod to show others?

TubeTV by Chimoosoft is what you need!

TubeTV is an app for Mac OS X that downloads the Flash .flv movies used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2007/08/downloading-youtube-videos/</link>
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		<title>Taskbar Shuffle - Windows Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it overly geeky to want to rearrange the order of the applications in your Windows taskbar?

I&#8217;ve installed Taskbar Shuffle to do this. You simply drag and drop to arrange their ordering.

On my PC at work, I tend to have many windows open at the same time - email, todo list, multiple telnet sessions, multiple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2007/07/taskbar-shuffle-windows-software/</link>
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		<title>Burning A DVD From A VIDEO_TS Folder On A Mac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a damaged DVD that skips badly and is unwatchable when played on a normal DVD player. I ripped it on the Mac (using Mac The Ripper - great program!), and the resulting VIDEO_TS folder seems to play back fine using DVD Player in OS X.

However, I wanted to be able to play it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2007/07/burning-a-dvd-from-a-video_ts-folder-on-a-mac/</link>
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		<title>Macs Better Than PCs In An All-Windows Environment?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some work-from-home solutions involve setting up a Virtual Private Network (VPN) that sends all your internet traffic via your connection to the corporate network. And since big companies like to lock things down, this means you can&#8217;t access your private email server, Flickr account, instant messaging app, etc while you&#8217;re connected to work.

A better way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2007/07/macs-better-than-pcs-in-an-all-windows-environment/</link>
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		<title>DNA Art?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the ultimate in personal gifts - give someone some art made out of DNA.

The question is, whose DNA would you use? Your own? Isn&#8217;t that a little arrogant? And how creepy would it be trying to get a sample of the gift recipient&#8217;s DNA without them knowing?!

There&#8217;s probably a market here for some celebrities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2007/05/dna-art/</link>
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