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		<title>Putt&#8217;n on the Ritz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They don&#8217;t get much better than this. HT Three Quarks
Well for the umpteeth time, WordPress has spat out the &#8216;embedding&#8217; code I put into it.  But this link is fabulous. HT Three Quarks.

PS &#8211; I find on reviewing the site that it seems to have &#8216;embedded&#8217; when all I posted was the link &#8211; too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/19/puttn-on-the-ritz-ht-three-quarks/</link>
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		<title>Carlsen strikes</title>
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White to play


Carlsen vs J Smeets

33. ?
See game for solution.












From the Amberchess blindfold comp. I couldn&#8217;t work it out &#8211; and I could see!
And a nice little immortal game by Kasparov here.
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		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/19/carlsen-strikes/</link>
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		<title>Envious weeds rejoice</title>
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&#34;Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds&#34;. Miranda Devine opens yesterday&#8217;s column with a quote from  Shakespeare&#8217;s Sonnet 94. Apparently National Party leader Warren Truss has been quoting Shakespeare to make a point about the Prime Minister&#8217;s declining popularity.
A similar idea is captured by the Latin saying: &#34;Corruptio optimi pessima&#34; &#8212; &#34;the corruption [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/18/envious-weeds-rejoice/</link>
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		<title>What a free computer might do for a kid&#8217;s education: maybe not so much, but it all depends . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[3.  Home Computer Use and the Development of Human Capital by Ofer Malamud, Cristian Pop-Eleches  -  #15814 (ED HE CH)
This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate the effect of home computers on child and adolescent outcomes.  We collected survey data from households who participated in a unique government program in Romania which allocated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/16/what-a-free-computer-might-do-for-a-kids-education-maybe-not-so-much-but-it-all-depends/</link>
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		<title>I am not a genius: Entertaining interview with youngest ever world chess No. 1 Magnus Carlsen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SPIEGEL: Mr Carlsen, what is your IQ?
Magnus Carlsen: I have no idea. I wouldn’t want to know it anyway. It might turn out to be a nasty surprise.
If you enjoy a bit of chess, Amberchess could be your kind of tourney.  All games are over in about an hour and each day two games are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/16/i-am-not-a-genius-entertaining-interview-with-youngest-ever-world-chess-no-1-magnus-carlsen/</link>
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		<title>The evolution of political catchphrases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ &#34;Hug a hoodie&#34; &#8212; For years Conservative leader David Cameron has struggled to live down the catchphrase. In 2006 he made a speech about crime and young people in &#8220;hoodies&#8221;. While bad behaviour must be punished, he insisted, we also need to show a lot more love and understanding to those at risk of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/14/the-evolution-of-political-catchphrases/</link>
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		<title>Shining a light in the basement attic of responsible government</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



Justin Madden &#8211; boofhead, retired AFL hero, Labor Minister and perhaps soon to be unwitting definer of the bounds of Westminster democracy




A dispute has arisen in Victoria&#8217;s Upper House of Parliament which seems to show some promise of throwing legal light on a dim aspect of Australia&#8217;s evolved version of Westminster responsible government, namely whether [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/14/shining-a-light-in-the-basement-of-responsible-government/</link>
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		<title>The secretive inertia of government</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gather round and listen to this tale.
One of the promises made by the current government in opposition that they managed to get in place without much difficulty was the Lobbyists Register.  This was to make the whole lobbying process more transparent. Any firms wanting to lobby the parliament would have to register themselves, and their staff [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/11/the-secretive-inertia-of-government/</link>
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		<title>A pox on both your thetans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gutless. The government and the opposition joined forces in the Senate to vote down Senator Xenophon&#8217;s proposed inquiry into the Church of Scientology.
Both the ALP and the Coalition have folded like cheap garden chairs in the face of organised evil. Shame on both of them.
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		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/11/a-pox-on-both-your-thetans/</link>
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		<title>Classic radio anyone?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I probably won&#8217;t be there, but I must say this is coooool. Very cool.
An auction of old old radios. They&#8217;re little bundles of nostalgia these little guys. What about this one!
Or perhaps you&#8217;d like it in blue. Blue we can do. 
Joel&#8217;s, the auctioneer reckons they&#8217;ll go for around 1.5K.  Then again this cherry red Emerson AU [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/09/classic-radio-anyone/</link>
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		<title>A small pricing problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was at Toby&#8217;s Estate&#8217;s Wooloomooloo outlet when I became inordinately interested in the menu pricing.
From my notes (I did mean inordinately) :
Short Black/Ristretto : $2.20
Long Black/Piccolo Latte : $3.00
Latte/Flat White/Cappuccino : $3.50
Here&#8217;s my puzzlement. It&#8217;s clearly not marginal cost pricing.  Whilst the extra labour and milk obviously add a slightly greater [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/09/a-small-pricing-problem/</link>
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		<title>Social engineering with Tony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of the initial reactions to Tony Abbott&#8217;s maternity leave proposal have focussed on its political motivation, on how it squares with his personal ideology, and on reactions of the business lobby.
As far as the politics are concerned, it looks like standard Howard era populism, seizing on the winds of prevailing opinion. As for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/09/10563/</link>
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		<title>Down the memory hole (or how I went from man to mouse)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday I wrote:  &#34;It&#8217;s never been easier to check quotations&#34;. It&#8217;s time for an update. 
While checking some of my own words on Monday, I discovered that many of my old blog posts had been attributed to Danger Mouse and Admin. A part of my online identity had been sucked down the memory [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/08/down-the-memory-hole-or-how-i-went-from-man-to-mouse/</link>
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		<title>Migration Malaise, the Continuing Epic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Great Troppo Migration of 2010 continues to be approximately 10,000 times more stressful than planned.
The latest episode of madness was an attempt to more fully bring across user details from the previous database.

The proximate cause of my woes has been that export/import tools built into Wordpress are, basically, crap. This is not a total [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/08/migration-malaise-the-continuing-epic/</link>
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		<title>Dust to dust: Autoantonymy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always nice to get a name for something that is rummaging round in one&#8217;s mind.  Autoantonymy has &#8211; believe it or not been doing that in my tiny brain for many years.  So I&#8217;m greatful to the great Three Quarks website for giving me the word (and grateful to Ingolf for telling us all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/07/dust-to-dust-autoantonymy/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;As Socrates once said &#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s never been easier to check quotations. With tools like Google Books and the Yale Book of Quotations there&#8217;s no need to publish spurious or out of context quotes.
But even today, books, newspapers and academic papers are full of quotes that are just wrong. Here&#8217;s an example from Catherine Lumby&#8217;s and Duncan Fine&#8217;s book Why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/07/as-socrates-once-said/</link>
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		<title>National information policy redux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some time now I&#8217;ve been arguing that we should do for information what we did for competition in the 1990s &#8211; adopt a national information policy in the image of national competition policy. National competition policy was a trawl through our economic institutions presuming that more competition was better than less and then requiring arrangements that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/07/national-information-policy-redux/</link>
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		<title>Create your own economy cover up shock! Troppo exposé</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of readers of this blog will be regular readers of Tyler Cowen. I&#8217;m not, but that&#8217;s just my taste. He often has interesting things to say and there are just too many such people in the blogosphere so he&#8217;s not on my feedreader. Anyway, Tyler Cowen is often a good read and a thoughtful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/06/create-your-own-economy-cover-up-shock-troppo-expose/</link>
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		<title>Esprit de l&#8217;escalier: how blogs can help government agencies and public servants do their jobs better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I participated in an enjoyable discussion on open government on Late Night Live last night. If one has been thinking about things for a long time and wants to get certain ideas across, it can be pretty challenging doing this effectively &#8211; which is to say without misunderstanding &#8211; on a panel program, though I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/05/esprit-de-lescalier/</link>
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		<title>Paul Krugman and the parallel universes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A great column by the great Paul Krugman &#8211; who should have got the Nobel Prize for Journalism.
So the Bunning blockade is over. For days, Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky exploited Senate rules to block a one-month extension of unemployment benefits. In the end, he gave in, although not soon enough to prevent an interruption [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/05/paul-krugman-and-the-parallel-universes/</link>
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		<title>Social Networking our way to Sadam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK &#8211; I posted the code, but the video didn&#8217;t embed. In any event, you can watch and read all about it at much greater length Slate:
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		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/03/social-networking-our-way-to-sadam/</link>
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		<title>Spoke too soon</title>
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Remember my famous catchcry, &#8220;Victory!&#8221;
The one in the post just below Nicholas on G2.0.
Yep. I trusted Wordpress to do the right thing. Silly me.
It thoughtfully dropped everyone&#8217;s email when migrating you to the new server. This means that the approach I&#8217;ve used previously &#8212; &#8220;here&#8217;s the link to reset your password, it will email you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/03/spoke-too-soon/</link>
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		<title>Government 2.0 openness as micro-economic reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Herewith a column of mine for Government News arguing that with Government 2.0 &#8216;open government&#8217; is making the transition from being essentially an agenda of constitutional hygiene and civil rights (perhaps regarded as an economic luxury) to being a micro-economic reform issue &#8211; though at the same time the arguments from constitutional hygiene and civil [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/03/03/government-2-0-openness-as-micro-economic-reform/</link>
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		<title>Troppo Migration, take 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to make a second attempt to migrate Troppo to the new server this weekend.
I have two alternative strategies to look at. One involves chopping bits out of Wordpress that prevent the export/import system from working in the way I want them to.
The other involves a few hours of tedious SQL munging.
You may see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/02/26/troppo-migration-take-2/</link>
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		<title>Crikey, Crikey Crikey!  Out it goes: It&#8217;s on again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi all,
I was going to take a breather from the crikey annual group subscription this year, but couldn&#8217;t help myself. I&#8217;m beleaguered with people asking me if I&#8217;m doing it again.  Because it&#8217;s not hard to do I&#8217;m doing it again.
Please email requests to join in with your name and email address to mwilliscroft AT [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2010/02/26/crikey-crikey-crikey-out-it-goes-its-on-again/</link>
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