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	<title>Upstart Blogger &#187; Personal</title>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s make this happen</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/lets-make-this-happen</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jo Beaufoix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Salmon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Joseph Salmon Trust]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many readers will already be aware of my long standing friendship with Jo Beaufoix. Jo is a great blogger and a great mum to 2 great little girls who also have a great father, the drummer in my band, Enormous. Jo is involved in a project that should be very close to everyone who has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Way of the Samurai blogger</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/the-way-of-the-samurai-blogger</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/the-way-of-the-samurai-blogger#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Procrastination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samurai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When one has made a decision to blog, even if it will be very difficult to succeed by advancing straight ahead, it will not do to think about doing it in a long, roundabout way. One&#8217;s heart may slacken, he may miss his chance, and by and large there will be no success. The Way [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t please all the people all the time</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/you-cant-please-all-the-people-all-the-time</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/you-cant-please-all-the-people-all-the-time#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The last week or so has been difficult for me, personally and professionally. Health issues destroyed the back end of last week and, despite a few signs that everything is ok, continue to linger. Playing, blogging and anything creative has, as a direct result, suffered a direct hit. Perhaps I should have listened to the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>The lost long weekend</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/the-lost-long-weekend</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/the-lost-long-weekend#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Income security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norovirus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once again the Norovirus hits Upstart Blogger HQ. Friday, Saturday, Sunday and the majority of today have all blurred into one long, and very sleepless, weekend. The ferocity of the Norovirus means that it can strike, without warning, at anytime. Prevention is pretty much impossible, unless you cut yourself off from the outside world and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The power of positive blogging</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/the-power-of-positive-blogging</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/the-power-of-positive-blogging#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What follows is a departure from the usual business here at Upstart Blogger. But, when you have read the next couple of paragraphs, I&#8217;m sure you will understand why I decided to write them. I&#8217;ve occasionally mentioned my good friends Jo and Graham. Graham is a drummer and his wife Jo is a blogger. They [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Losing thousands of email messages in the Gmail fog between accounts</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/losing-thousands-of-email-messages-in-the-gmail-fog-between-accounts</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/losing-thousands-of-email-messages-in-the-gmail-fog-between-accounts#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Email]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gmail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Apps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a big fan of Gmail. It allows me to manage my email across multiple devices via IMAP whilst giving me a spam solution that is truly mind boggling. And I mean that last statement as a sincere compliment. Google&#8217;s Gmail spam filters work perfectly. But there was always a slight problem. Sending an email [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Norovirus strikes back</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norovirus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday started off so well. But then, at around ten o&#8217;clock in the evening, everything started to fall apart. The Norovirus has returned. And, just like before, it is merciless in its attack. Twelve hours of violent vomiting later, at around ten the following morning, I managed to grab a couple of hours sleep before [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>If you are looking for niche for your blog here is one that will make you rich</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/if-you-are-looking-for-niche-for-your-blog-here-is-one-that-will-make-you-rich</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/if-you-are-looking-for-niche-for-your-blog-here-is-one-that-will-make-you-rich#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night our darling daughter, our 19 month old pride and joy, was unwell. Nothing serious, but as all new parents will tell you, it&#8217;s very easy for worry to turn into concern when your child is unwell. It&#8217;s not easy to stay calm and rationale when every fiber of your being is going into [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Good luck America</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/good-luck-america</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/good-luck-america#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The big day for America is finally here. The day of the most talked about and potentially most important election in modern American history. Even though the next 24 hours won&#8217;t be as important to me, sitting comfortably in the relative stability and safety of the United Kingdom, as it will be for the vast [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The importance of being earnest</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/the-importance-of-being-earnest</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/the-importance-of-being-earnest#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Professional blogging is a serious business and Upstart Blogger has a serious reputation. A reputation that I admired before I took the helm and one that I am proud of now I&#8217;m steering the ship. And it is for that reason that some recent feedback, some of it, frankly, vicious and contemptible, has left me [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Every blog needs a post like this</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/every-blog-needs-a-post-like-this</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/every-blog-needs-a-post-like-this#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The start of a new month seems like an appropriate time to address a few issues that have been bubbling away under the surface for a little while. As anyone who works for themselves will already know, it&#8217;s all too easy for deadlines to slip, for email to become unmanageable and, inevitably, for mistakes to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Witness</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/witness</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/witness#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 07:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I have the pleasure of being called as a witness in an ongoing court case. To cut a long story short, a friend of mine is suing his previous employer for breach of contract. I witnessed a conversation between my friend and his previous employer where the contract was clearly breached. Much as I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hello Italy</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/hello-italy</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/hello-italy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 11:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No, I haven&#8217;t decided to whisk the family away for weekend break to Italy. In fact, the reverse is more accurate. Italy, it would seem, has come to me. In the last few days my traffic logs have shown a huge increase in the amount of visitors from Italy. Upstart Blogger has always been an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Earthquake</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/earthquake</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/earthquake#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At approximately 1.00 am this morning Upstart Blogger HQ was hit by an earthquake which according the the news this morning measured 5.2 on the Richter scale. Earthquakes of that size are so rare that my first thought was that we had a poltergeist zooming around the house. Either that or some sort of skydiving [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>How many bloggers do you know in the offline world?</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/how-many-bloggers-do-you-know-in-the-offline-world</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/how-many-bloggers-do-you-know-in-the-offline-world#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the blogosphere&#8217;s rocket like growth over the last few years I&#8217;m convinced that we are still at the beginning of it&#8217;s development. My reasoning for this is based on the amount of people that I know in the offline world who are bloggers. I know five bloggers in the real world. Five. And that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>That was the week that was</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/that-was-the-week-that-was</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/that-was-the-week-that-was#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As weeks go the last seven days have been terrible. Viruses have attacked our health and miscreants have attacked our website. Thankfully, eight days later, things are a lot calmer. I&#8217;ve got a lot of email to catch up on and plenty of comments that need approving and replying to. If you&#8217;ve sent me an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Become a truly decadent blogger with this amazing piece of kit</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/become-a-truly-decadent-blogger-with-this-amazing-piece-of-kit</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/become-a-truly-decadent-blogger-with-this-amazing-piece-of-kit#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The astonishing work of art you see above is a hand made fully functional computer keyboard, turned out by Richard Nagy and proudly displayed on his website Data Mancer. Each keyboard is custom made for it&#8217;s owner and every one is absolutely unique. The one in the photograph is called Von Slatt, others have similarly [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Upstart Blogger is under attack</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/upstart-blogger-is-under-attack</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/upstart-blogger-is-under-attack#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hosting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Upstart Blogger is currently all over the place, little bits scattered here and there. Things could get a little shaky around here until everything is fixed and nailed down. It&#8217;s going to be tricky but thankfully the hosting super heroes at AN Hosting are on the case. More news when I get it.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The attack of the Norovirus</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/the-attack-of-the-norovirus</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/the-attack-of-the-norovirus#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post was written on Monday lunchtime and posted with a date stamp of the previous day. It relates to what happened on Sunday and is also explains why Sunday&#8217;s post is being written today. On Friday our house was attacked by the Norovirus. If you are not aware of this nasty bug here is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>One month later</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/one-month-later</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/one-month-later#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like only yesterday that I unveiled the 2008 plan for Upstart Blogger. After 31 days I&#8217;m pleased to report that traffic is up. Unique visitors are up 11%, page views are up 32%, RSS subscribers are up 27% and Upstart Blogger&#8217;s Technorati rank has jumped from 344 to 264 making the 250 club [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cease and desist</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/cease-and-desist</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/cease-and-desist#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I received my first ever cease and desist order from a website owner who feels I am currently causing him financial loss in my recent post about scams. The order demands that I delete the post and make no further mention of it, nor it&#8217;s content, in any subsequent blog posts, nor on any [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mixing business and personal blogging</title>
		<link>http://www.upstartblogger.com/mixing-business-and-personal-blogging</link>
		<comments>http://www.upstartblogger.com/mixing-business-and-personal-blogging#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The personal blog is the passionate beating heart of the internet. Without personal blogs the internet would be a dull and dry place, monopolized by business and corporations, and generally not a very nice place to spend time. What does this mean for bloggers who blog about a particular topic, or those who blog to [...]]]></description>
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