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		<title>Are you getting these messages?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unsolicited messages from the Internet are a fact of life these days. A number of our clients keep getting emails similar to the one below.
 Naturally, something like this might draw your interest, but stop and think for a moment:

This is an automated message.  You have not been selected for a particular reason.  They have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Find your IP address</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you need to know the IP address that your PC has when it is connected to the Internet.

We sometimes use this for extra security for our hosting service, so that if you connect to it the service will confirm that you are connecting from an IP number that has already been validated.
If you need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forcing vertical scrollbar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We quite often want to force a browser vertical scrollbar on a page when we have pages that are shorter than the height of the screen.  
Why?  because we don&#8217;t want page elements &#8216;jumping&#8217; horizontally when a visitor transitions from a page without a vertical scroll to one that has (or vice-versa).  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blotdesign.com/writing/forcing-vertical-scrollbar</link>
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		<title>Your own website cartoons!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a great software facility that allows you to make your own cartoon movies using your own script.  Once you&#8217;ve created the movie you can send it via email, or publish it on your website or even YouTube.
It&#8217;s called Xtranormal.  People are using it for all manner of things - telling jokes, making [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blotdesign.com/writing/your-own-cartoons</link>
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		<title>3 reasons to make sure you&#8217;re on Bing!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft&#8217;s replaced their Live Search engine around 3&#189; months ago with Bing! - a completely new search engine.   Is your site listed?
We&#8217;ve noted that quite a few sites which rank highly on Google and Yahoo are nowhere on Bing! and if you read some of the Bing community forum posts, there are quite [...]]]></description>
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