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		<title>Shorten URLs and post to Twitter with PHP and cURL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the task of automatically &#8220;tweeting&#8221; when a new article was posted to one of the websites I had built, it turns out to be a pretty simple operation thanks to both Twitter and Bit.ly providing a straight forward API. An account with Bit.ly does have to be opened to obtain an API [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kriswillis.com/index.php/2009/10/09/shorten-urls-and-post-to-twitter-with-php-and-curl/</link>
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		<title>mt-daapd transcoding failed after upgrading to Jaunty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After upgrading my media server to Jaunty recently I noticed that I could no longer play FLAC files from within iTunes under OS X. I couldn&#8217;t figure out why this was happening, but to solve it I configured mt-daapd to handle the transcoding with a script rather than with ffmpeg.
There are a few small issues [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kriswillis.com/index.php/2009/07/26/mt-daapd-transcoding-failed-after-upgrading-to-jaunty/</link>
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		<title>Adding a printer within Ubuntu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of our office printers decided to die the other day, a Brother multi-function laser printer, which I recall took quite a lot of messing around to get it printing from Ubuntu and once it was set-up it always took a while to send pages to the printer. Sometimes, it printed just a bunch of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kriswillis.com/index.php/2009/04/01/adding-a-printer-within-ubuntu/</link>
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		<title>Overview of open tickets across multiple trac environments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently started using Trac internally for managing the ever growing list of projects that I have built and am responsible for maintaining. There is currently no feature within Trac for displaying a list of all the environments and how many open tickets each one has, and I&#8217;m guessing this is down to the fact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kriswillis.com/index.php/2009/02/26/overview-of-open-tickets-across-multiple-trac-environments/</link>
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		<title>Boss SD-1 not switching off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I hardly use my SD-1, due to my GT-8 having all of the overdrive settings I could possibly want, it was still annoying me that I had a faulty pedal sitting on my shelf. The problem I was experiencing was that the SD-1 was constantly stuck in its on position &#8211; Stomping on it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kriswillis.com/index.php/2008/09/27/boss-sd-1-not-switching-off/</link>
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		<title>SiI-3114 and Ubuntu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My media server was getting to the stage where it required some extra discs, so I purchased another pair of 500GB SATA disks and a SiI-3114 based PCI to 4-port SATA controller card to hook them up to as I was out of spare SATA ports.
Upon booting there was no sign of the cards BIOS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kriswillis.com/index.php/2008/09/18/sii-3114-and-ubuntu/</link>
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		<title>Replacing the microphone in a Blackberry 8800</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I accidentally spilled a cup of tea over my Blackberry. Fortunately, after drying it off most of it worked perfectly bar one of the most important components in a mobile phone &#8211; The microphone.
After doing a little research, it turns out that the mic is surface mounted to the keyboard PCB so to replace [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kriswillis.com/index.php/2008/08/10/replacing-the-microphone/</link>
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		<title>Logitech MX5000 and Ubuntu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I first bought my Logitech MX5000 combo it has never worked correctly on Ubuntu (back to 6.06 maybe&#8230;) after booting. The keyboard would work perfectly in the BIOS and even in GRUB, but as soon as I reached the (GUI) log-in screen my MX5000 would become unresponsive until I disconnected the USB Bluetooth receiver [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kriswillis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/logitech-mx5000-and-ubuntu/</link>
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		<title>IE6 Bug: H1 tags with background colours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just noticed an odd bug when viewing a H1 tag with a background colour under IE6 &#8211; There is no background colour until the H1 is taken out of view by scrolling it out of the viewport and then bringing it back again. Highlighting the text partially brings in some colour.
One solution for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kriswillis.com/index.php/2008/03/28/ie6-bug-h1-tags-with-background-colours/</link>
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		<title>Table joins in MySQL with no matches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I consider my understanding of MySQL around the intermediate level, but when writing table joins in the past I have always used the &#8216;equi-join&#8217; method:
SELECT t1.*, t2.`name` FROM t1, t2 WHERE t1.n = t2.n;
Now, when a record for t2.n doesn&#8217;t exist, a row will not be returned. To solve this problem in the past, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kriswillis.com/index.php/2008/02/17/table-joins-in-mysql-with-no-matches/</link>
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