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		<title>Electricity monitoring with Christmas lights and Arduino</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was my geeky Christmas project:

What&#8217;s happening in the video&#8230;
The red/orange lights flash faster when the electricity usage in my house increase. The green/blue lights flash faster when the electricity usage in my Mum&#8217;s house increases (though in the video, the usage stays at a constant level so the lights don&#8217;t speed up).
Initially, the lights [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2010/02/09/electricity-monitoring-with-christmas-lights-and-arduino/</link>
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		<title>Come to OggCamp10 &#8211; in Liverpool 1st-2nd May!</title>
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OggCamp10 is an unconference, which means that the schedule will be finalised on the day. So if you come along, you can not only have a say in that schedule but you can offer to be part of that schedule.
What to expect&#8230;
OggCamp10 isn&#8217;t just about software. You can offer to talk about anything at all. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2010/02/08/come-to-oggcamp10-in-liverpool-1st-2nd-may/</link>
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		<title>My new theme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a while I&#8217;ve wanted to update the theme of my blog but not really got round to it. So when I had a spare evening a couple of weeks back I did a bit of a search for free Wordpress themes and came upon the one that now graces the area around this post [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2009/12/07/my-new-theme/</link>
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		<title>A green quandry: my new car</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was inspired to blog about my new car by a post on the BBC Ethical Man blog that @monkchips just tweeted. The slight irony is that the post is about how the author had his lovely Saab taken away to see if he could make it in the world without a car. And I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2009/11/21/a-green-quandry-my-new-car/</link>
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		<title>OggCamp &#8211; Part 1: It&#8217;s all in the planning&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two weekends ago, we were back in Wolverhampton for the last ever LugRadio Live rock conference. After 5 years of the fortnightly LugRadio podcast, last Summer, the presenters called it a day and announced that LugRadio Live UK 08 (July 2008) would be the last ever LugRadio Live.
And then they agreed to do another last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2009/11/08/oggcamp-part-1-its-all-in-the-planning/</link>
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		<title>Greenpeace updated ranking of electronics companies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, after getting a Nintendo Wii, I wrote a post about its energy consumption and Nintendo&#8217;s place in Greenpeace&#8217;s electronics company rankings.
Greenpeace have updated their rankings&#8230;and Nintendo still holds bottom place. Pleased to see that Samsung and Nokia are still doing well (I have a Nokia phone and Samsung laptop and TV &#8211; part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2009/10/06/greenpeace-updated-ranking-of-electronics-companies/</link>
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		<title>Blogging the Hursley HantsLUG meeting for eightbar!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I published my first post (about the HantsLUG meeting at Hursley last Saturday) on the eightbar blog!
Eightbar (as in the IBM logo which is known as the &#8216;eight-bar logo&#8216;) is a community of people in and around IBM Hursley who are into cool, techie or creative things, either in work, out of work, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2009/09/16/blogging-the-hursley-hantslug-meeting-for-eightbar/</link>
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		<title>How do you help the user decide?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing that I often debate with developers is why the error message  &#8220;An unexpected error has occurred.&#8221; isn&#8217;t a good message. Afterall, to the developer, the error *is* unexpected; otherwise, they&#8217;d have created a better error message for it.
From the user&#8217;s perspective (who the software is written for, after all), they don&#8217;t want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2009/09/08/how-do-you-help-the-user-decide/</link>
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		<title>Come to LugRadio Live 2009, then OggCamp!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The LugRadio Live 2009 website is now available &#8211; register now for a ticket if you&#8217;re coming!
That&#8217;s on Saturday 24th October.
On Sunday 25th October (that&#8217;s the very next day!), you can roll out of bed  and into OggCamp (if you&#8217;re staying at the LRL official hotel, the Connaught),.

OggCamp is brought to you by a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2009/09/07/come-to-lugradio-live-2009-then-oggcamp/</link>
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		<title>Come to OggCamp! An unconference from UUPC and Linux Outlaws podcasts</title>
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OggCamp will happen in Wolverhampton on Sunday 25th October.
Why Wolverhampton? Well that&#8217;s where LugRadio Live 2009 (@lugradio) will happen too. On Saturday 24th October. See what we did?  
So, the Ubuntu-UK Podcast (@uupc) and Linux Outlaws (@linuxoutlaws) podcast teams will be at LRL on the Saturday (and probably the Friday night as well) so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2009/08/25/come-to-oggcamp-unconference-from-uupc-and-linux-outlaws-podcasts/</link>
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