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	<title>Gareth Jones</title>
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		<title>Using Jena as a SPARQL endpoint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been involved in a few projects at work over the last couple of years that have made use of Semantic Web technologies (triple stores, RDF, OWL, SPARQL etc). For most of these I&#8217;ve made of ARC, a really great PHP library by Ben Nowack for interacting with RDF and triple stores. As great as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.garethj.com/2010/01/using-jena-as-a-sparql-endpoint/</link>
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		<title>Wireless on a Dell Mini 10v in Ubuntu 9.10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I installed the Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix release candidate on my new Dell Mini 10v and the wireless didn&#8217;t work out of the box. I think this is because there isn&#8217;t an open source driver and Ubuntu doesn&#8217;t ship with proprietary drivers installed. Now the 9.10 has been released this problem may have disappeared, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.garethj.com/2009/10/wireless-on-a-dell-mini-10v-in-ubuntu-9-10/</link>
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		<title>Indicator applet API changes in Ubuntu 9.10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The API for the indicator applet has changed in Karmic and a little internal IBM Python application that I&#8217;ve written stopped working. Only a couple of minor changes were needed but trying to track down exactly what these were was not as easy a task as I&#8217;d have liked.
Creating the indicator
The class used to represent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.garethj.com/2009/10/indicator-applet-api-changes-in-ubuntu-9-10/</link>
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		<title>Building .deb packages for Python applications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Building .deb packages for Python applications
Recently I wanted to build a .deb package for an internal IBM application I was writing so that users could easily install it and also so we could distribute them through some internal repositories. This proved a bit harder than I expected so this is a quick summary of how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.garethj.com/2009/06/building-deb-packages-for-python-applications/</link>
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		<title>PackageKit presentation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday we had the pleasure of Richard Hughes joining us at Hursley to talk about PackageKit. I&#8217;ve heard of it but never quite bothered finding out any more than the name but having gone to the presentation I&#8217;m pretty glad. PackageKit is (yet another) attempt at making software updating/installation easier on Linux. There are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.garethj.com/2009/03/packagekit-presentation/</link>
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		<title>Building a RESTful Web application with PHP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve been putting together a Web application for a research project. I decided it was about time I really looked properly into REST so my Web interfaces are better structured. I won&#8217;t go into all the benefits here, you can read for yourself. Suffice to say it seems like a good approach to take.
This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.garethj.com/2009/02/building-a-restful-web-application-with-php/</link>
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		<title>Merging and converting OpenOffice and PDF documents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For my BSL level 3 course I have a variety of OpenOffice documents for different forms etc which make up the portfolio. I wanted a way to merge these into a single document but they each had different margins and all sorts; this meant doing it within OpenOffice was proving to be a pain. My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.garethj.com/2009/01/merging-and-converting-openoffice-and-pdf-documents/</link>
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		<title>Big Blue goes green</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received an IBM Thanks! award recently from Darren for helping out with the Feel Good Inc. Extreme Blue project. One of the choices was a &#8216;Recycled Office Pack&#8217; which sounded interesting and so I thought I&#8217;d go for that:

All items say things like &#8216;made from recycled paper and card&#8217;, &#8216;using sustainable timber&#8217; etc.
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		<link>http://blog.garethj.com/2008/09/big-blue-goes-green/</link>
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		<title>Going green&#8230; slightly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A simple thing but one that made me feel quite virtuous. I&#8217;ve written a very very simple script that turns off the screen whenever I lock the computer. Should save some energy every time I go to a meeting or off for a cuppa.
For anyone interested, it&#8217;s a Perl script which watches for the D-Bus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.garethj.com/2008/09/going-green-slightly/</link>
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		<title>Paying off that mortgage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a warning: I&#8217;m now going into sales-pitch mode. I do not work for the One Account but I think it&#8217;s brilliant (well, brilliant for me, I take no responsibility if you listen to me and end up huge great hole of debt). Having said that, I could get some money if you sign up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.garethj.com/2008/07/paying-off-that-mortgage/</link>
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