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		<title>Irish Economics Made Simple</title>
		<link>http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/2009/07/26/irish-economics-made-simple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Teljeur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m frequently (too frequently, some might say!) posting on Boards.ie, particularly these days in the Politics section, where you&#8217;ll find no end of interesting ideas on a) Ireland and the EU and b) Ireland&#8217;s economy. Although there are some notably intelligent and articulate posters with some very interesting ideas and facts to present, there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reboot</title>
		<link>http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/2008/10/19/reboot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Teljeur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back. And with a bit of luck and more than a little effort, I won&#8217;t disappoint my long suffering readers (all none of you). Interesting timing too; a few short posts ago (and a year and a half ago) I was pondering the election and it&#8217;s probable outcome. Now, I&#8217;m feeling the recession personally, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source, and winding up Tadhg</title>
		<link>http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/2007/07/12/open-source-and-winding-up-tadhg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Teljeur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You're going to put up some shelves. So, you need a hammer, and you go to the hardware store...]]></description>
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		<title>Re-active</title>
		<link>http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/2007/07/12/re-active/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Teljeur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right, the site is back again, all is well. I'm going to try this again. Just to deal with the inevitable question(s), someone asked me to take down some photos of them and I since I didn't have the time, I took down the site instead. I've now taken down the photos. If you have a serious problem with a photo of you on the site, send me the exact URL and I will take it down. I won't like it, it will piss me off, but I will do it. I will obliterate it from my site, and I will replace it and the references to you with whatever I see fit. If it annoys me sufficiently, all this carry-on, I'm going to take down the site entirely and do something else.
<a href="/wordpress/2007/07/12/re-active/"><img class="thumbnailImage" src="http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/wp-content/images/2007/May/thumbnails/IMG_5202_2007-05-07_my-car.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="My new Opel Astra - it's no racehorse, but a 1.4 litre engine, allow wheels, electrics and extras and great condition make it a joy to drive. It's heavy and reasonably spacious. I'll have to do something about those 'L-plates' though. 7th May 2007 Click image to view larger version &#187;"  title="My new Opel Astra - it's no racehorse, but a 1.4 litre engine, allow wheels, electrics and extras and great condition make it a joy to drive. It's heavy and reasonably spacious. I'll have to do something about those 'L-plates' though. 7th May 2007" /></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Political analogy</title>
		<link>http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/2007/05/20/political-analogy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 17:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Teljeur</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/?p=121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned an analogy which I use for describing the choices we have in this election (as I see it, of course), and it's a relatively simple one. However, I laboured the point somewhat in the writing of it, and I realised there was a much simpler way of describing the dilemma I face in my voting strategy.

The problem is simple.]]></description>
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		<title>Fianna Fail back in government?</title>
		<link>http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/2007/05/18/fianna-fail-back-in-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 15:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Teljeur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So to Tadhg's second question, which was about Fianna Fail's chances for re-election. I think there's an even chance that Fianna Fail won't be back in government after the election. For those of you who don't know how this works here, Ireland has the highest number of elected representatives per head of population compared to almost anywhere else in the world.]]></description>
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		<title>They&#8217;re off! (and a good question answered)</title>
		<link>http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/2007/05/18/theyre-off-and-a-good-question-answered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 14:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Teljeur</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/?p=120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David remarked on how it took too long for me to write posts, and he's right. I do. I was a little surprised that he noticed, in a way, because a part of me always had this idea that David was really emoting with the sound made by the shapes of the letters in the text of my post, rather than reading all that shite and actually taking it in. Anyway, he let me know in his 'I'm a fucktard' manner but I like him so I figured I'd give it a go and start posting slightly more often. I need to edit before I start writing, that's really the big problem at the moment. And have more time. I'm posting this from Romania, and there's a kind of ban on me mucking about on the Interwebs after office hours.]]></description>
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		<title>Needs a title</title>
		<link>http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/2007/04/27/119/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Teljeur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I'm writing again.

<img class="thumbnailImage" src="http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/wp-content/images/2007/April/thumbnails/IMG_4718_2007-04-06_dublin-docklands.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="" title="Dublin Docklands" />]]></description>
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		<title>andCurve boosted by site redesign, new content urged</title>
		<link>http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/2007/01/28/andcurve-boosted-by-site-redesign-new-content-urged/</link>
		<comments>http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/2007/01/28/andcurve-boosted-by-site-redesign-new-content-urged/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Teljeur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the title says it all, really. It also sort of gives away my reading of too much news and 'current affairs'; a world inhabited by teens, where people urge one another to do things, where things are boosted, a world where anonymous people make claims about issues, and where inevitably, Pat Rabbitte will claim that Fianna Fail and the rising tide of immigrants are to blame. I should stop, and in fact, I have a new hobby now.
<img class="thumbnailImage" src="http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/wp-content/images/2007/January/thumbnails/IMG_3471.jpg" width="346" height="520" alt="Myself, Kevin Teljeur, on Stephen's Day (Boxing Day) with my family. Photo taken by my brother. 26th December 2006." title="Myself, Kevin Teljeur, on Stephen's Day (Boxing Day) with my family. Photo taken by my brother. 26th December 2006." />

Read more below...]]></description>
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		<title>Biometric</title>
		<link>http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/2006/09/05/biometric/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Teljeur</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/?p=104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That last post didn&#8217;t exactly set the world on fire, did it? Well, this is more important.
I think.
Me, being very dark and serious as I consider dark and serious matters. I&#8217;m also trying to look a bit Polish, to get into the mood.
It&#8217;s not a new story, but I hadn&#8217;t gotten around to writing about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linkage!</title>
		<link>http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/2006/08/21/linkage-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/2006/08/21/linkage-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Teljeur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on a roll now.
Check this out:
Steorn website
Free energy! Energy that is free! Out of thin air! And how we love free stuff!
http://www.steorn.net/
I&#8217;m not going to repeat the basic claims being made, beyond that they claim to have invented a free energy generator. Energy from, basically, nothing. Read this on IrishEyes on what it&#8217;s about. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes</title>
		<link>http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/2006/08/02/know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Teljeur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You could have read back over some of the old posts, because I suspect you missed some of the more controversial statements altogether, buried within layers of articulate but verbose ruminations on this idea, that activity, the other place. And you can still go back and check, if you like. Why didn't you do that? There were some great photos. Comment below, if you can find the controversial statements.
<img class="thumbnailImage" src="http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/wp-content/images/2006/July/thumbnails/DSCF7951.jpg" width="470" height="470" alt="Me, Kevin Teljeur, giving the camera-man the finger." title="Me, Kevin Teljeur, giving the camera-man the finger." />]]></description>
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		<title>A bucket of nuggets</title>
		<link>http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/2006/05/01/a-bucket-of-nuggets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 02:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Teljeur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, shouts out to Maddy, who is one of my multitude of housemates and who has promised to have a look at my blog tonight, in between managing a restaurant and whatnot, so that was sort of an impetus to actually write some stuff which I&#8217;ve been meaning to put up for&#8230; weeks, months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linkage! Of the controversial kind&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/2006/03/29/linkage-of-the-controversial-kind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/2006/03/29/linkage-of-the-controversial-kind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Teljeur</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/?p=85</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, whooo! He doesn&#8217;t post for what seems like forever and a day, and then comes back again with links to stuff! As if anyone cares! Still, if you&#8217;re going to check out these links then prepare to possibly be offended. Yes, I have been busy, having all sorts of adventures and if you, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joining the Cunts</title>
		<link>http://www.andcurve.com/wordpress/2006/01/04/joining-the-cunts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Teljeur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was my first day back at work in 2006, and I proudly joined the aggressive cunts going to work. In fact, I was one of them, cursing the slowness and inefficiency of the fools in front of me. Had one of them keeled over, dead from exhaustion, I would have gladly stepped over his [...]]]></description>
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