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	<title>Alien Experiment Laboratories</title>
	<link>http://alienexperiment.paulglover.net</link>
	<description>Games and Fun Stuff for ZX Spectrum and Linux</description>
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		<title>Z88dk Wiki! Yay!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Z88dk now has a documentation wiki!
Flippin&#8217; sweet! :-)
And none other than Alvin Albrecht (he of Z88dk Sprite Pack fame) has the distinction of being the first commenter here, with a very helpful explanation of some of the things I was unsure of. Cheers, &#8217;tis much appreciated!
Blimey. I&#8217;d better try to do some work on this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alienexperiment.paulglover.net/20070525-z88dk-wiki-yay/</link>
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		<title>You may not believe it, but&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;there&#8217;s been some progress lately.
After quite literally not touching the project for months, I spent a solid few hours getting things knocked into shape to the extent that some code actually exists, builds to a Spectrum .TAP file, and runs without crashing.
All it does right now is initialize a bunch of stuff, including partially drawing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alienexperiment.paulglover.net/20070509-you-may-not-believe-it-but/</link>
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		<title>On this day in 1982&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sinclair Research Ltd. launched their latest computer: The Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
Happy 25th Birthday, Speccy!
(And maybe, at the rate I&#8217;m going, I&#8217;ll finish the current project in time for the Spectrum&#8217;s 50th birthday celebrations&#8230;)
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		<link>http://alienexperiment.paulglover.net/20070423-on-this-day-in-1982/</link>
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		<title>Experimental Gameplay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Erk. A month since I last posted. Has it really been so long?
Busy at work, busy at home, I&#8217;ve barely even touched a computer outside of work for about the last 2 weeks. Such is the fate of the hobbyist on a time budget.
This site, the Experimental Gameplay Project caught my attention recently. The idea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alienexperiment.paulglover.net/20070216-experimental-gameplay/</link>
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		<title>ListingCorp - SEO scammers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ooh, controversial title or what?
A few days back, I received a letter from the ListingCorp Website Listing Service, requesting payment of $65 for my annual listing. At first glance, it looks exactly like a bill (though it does state that it is &#8220;not a bill&#8221;, if you look closely; definitely a pseudo-legal CYA there, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alienexperiment.paulglover.net/20070116-listingcorp-seo-scammers/</link>
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		<title>Procrastination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8217;nuff said.
OK, maybe not quite. Work, Christmas, Life in general, and this is a fun project which isn&#8217;t intended to pay the bills, so it tends to fall off the bottom of the urgency queue now and then.
But at least my Linux box is working again. I used the Microsoft Way and freshly reinstalled the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alienexperiment.paulglover.net/20061231-procrastination/</link>
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		<title>Nothingness&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;is about what I achieved this week. My beautiful, shiny Ubuntu install (complete with AIGLX and Beryl 3D niceness) is currently resembling the raggedy old laptop it resides on, after XFS failed to live up to it&#8217;s reputation of being robust in the face of crashes and unplanned power-offs (which happened during my attempts to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alienexperiment.paulglover.net/20061217-nothingness/</link>
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		<title>Knuckling down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my (limited) spare time this week, I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of scribbling down of near-C-code on paper.
This is my normal M.O., and has been since 1985 when I&#8217;d scribble stuff down on the back pages of school exercise books during dull moments in class, then go home and implement the idea on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alienexperiment.paulglover.net/20061210-knuckling-down/</link>
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		<title>Finally some example code!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It took long enough (these things happened so much quicker before I got a life ;-) ) but here, at last, is some code making use of the most current version of z88dk and version 3 of Sprite Pack.
It&#8217;s mostly self-documenting, but there are a few places where it begs explanation, particularly when setting up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alienexperiment.paulglover.net/20061203-finally-some-example-code/</link>
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		<title>Z88dk and C gotchas - episode 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Still working on experimental stuff (partly to get the hang of Z88dk, and partly to scrape the rust off my underutilized C-coding &#8220;skillz&#8221; before doing anything important), I got stung by a nasty little gotcha.
I created a source file, 2player.c, which is expanding on the first bit of z88dk/Spritepack 3 code I wrote, to have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alienexperiment.paulglover.net/20061127-z88dk-and-c-gotchas-episode-1/</link>
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