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		<title>Midnight Sun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
&#1084;&#1077;&#1073;&#1077;&#1083;&#1080;In lieu of any guitar-related content, have a bit of booze news: there&#8217;s a pretty good porter currently available in Tesco called Midnight Sun.  It&#8217;s all roast caramel and chocolate notes (can&#8217;t belive I used the word &#8220;notes&#8221; there) and is just what the doctor ordered now the weather&#8217;s turning cold.  Recommended.  Between this and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retrospec</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, and in other news I&#8217;ve recently been reliving my Spectrum days and playing Head Over Heels, which I found over at Retrospec.  Their implementation of rent a car bulgariaManic Miner is also very good.
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		<title>A new source of gas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, there&#8217;s now a new source of gas in the house:

Because of which, updates might appear on this blog even more rarely than my usual less than prolific rate.  I&#8217;ll leave you with this thought about hearing development that occurred to Derek and I whilst we enjoyed beer and take-away curry in James&#8217; honour.  Isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funkysimon.com/2008/11/09/a-new-source-of-gas/</link>
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		<title>Scale fatigue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on the ideas shown in a video I found on youtube:

The melodic minor use is quite interesting; playing the minor a fifth away from a dominant seven chord I&#8217;d heard of (so playing E melodic minor over A7), but the other use that&#8217;s shown, where you play the seventh mode of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funkysimon.com/2008/10/14/scale-fatigue/</link>
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		<title>Paring down chords</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While browsing Amazon I discovered a jazz guitarist called Fareed Haque, who has a few lessons on his website.  One of them that caught my interest is about &#1083;&#1072;&#1085;&#1076;&#1096;&#1072;&#1092;&#1090;how to play jazz chords; I&#8217;m interested in voicings of chords with a reduced number of notes, firstly for ease of playing, and secondly because between me, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funkysimon.com/2008/10/03/paring-down-chords/</link>
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		<title>Theme change: Retromania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t adjust your eyeballs, it&#8217;s just a theme change.  This time I&#8217;ve gone for Retromania, made by Jay Hafling.
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		<title>Excess baggage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s often been said by those of us in Casa that this band needs lights.  This ranges from a need for small clip-on lights so that people can read their pad of music (the horn section complains that their parts are more complicated than the rhythm section&#8217;s, because they&#8217;ve got, like, notes and stuff?  So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funkysimon.com/2008/09/10/excess-baggage/</link>
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		<title>Cambridge 209</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve been listening to Cambridge&#8217;s community radio station, Cambridge 209, during my daily commute.  I do this not through some act of local solidarity, but mainly because the Jukebox show doesn&#8217;t have a DJ, it just plays music.  No talking, no adverts and rarely any station idents, plus the most unpredictable playlist I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funkysimon.com/2008/09/04/cambridge-209/</link>
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		<title>Barge chase</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canal boat chase ends in capture after 8 days.
Inspector Harry Graham, head of the thirty-strong pursuit team, blamed an initial delay on the need to get permission from British Waterways to exceed the 4mph speed limit. ‘When we got the necessary clearance, we found our boat would only do 4mph anyway. So we decided on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funkysimon.com/2008/09/04/barge-chase/</link>
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		<title>Chrome EULA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well well, google released a new browser.  I just downloaded and installed it and was blown away by the speed of the thing.  My Yahoo mail loaded so much faster than in my usual browser (Firefox 3.0.1), and general performance seems to be better than FF.  All good, until I was looking around online and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.funkysimon.com/2008/09/03/chrome-eula/</link>
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