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	<description>A hodgepodge of ramblings by programmer/actor/director Nik Rolls</description>
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		<title>WP7 Small-text Tiles with PHP</title>
		<link>http://nikrolls.com/2012/05/13/wp7-small-text-tiles-with-php/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 12:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Rolls</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[live tiles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has worked with Windows Phone tile notifications should have found that while it&#8217;s great to be able to put text on the back of them, the font is very large and hardly useful for anything more than a few words. It would be great if we could easily choose a small font size, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Service Announcement Re: Windows Phone Toast/Tile Notifications</title>
		<link>http://nikrolls.com/2012/04/06/public-service-announcement-re-windows-phone-toasttile-notifications/</link>
		<comments>http://nikrolls.com/2012/04/06/public-service-announcement-re-windows-phone-toasttile-notifications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 02:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Rolls</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few nights I spent a while developing a notifications API, cross-platform but with Windows Phone as the testing bed. Many blogs and tutorials were read and were very helpful, but I noticed a concerning message on many of them. Windows Phone supports three types of notifications: Toast, Tile, and Raw. Toast notifications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Timestamp to DateTime Converter for Silverlight</title>
		<link>http://nikrolls.com/2012/04/03/timestamp-to-datetime-converter-for-silverlight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Rolls</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[c#]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[silverlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[silverlight toolkit]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nikrolls.com/?p=375</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working with DateTimePickers in Silverlight, with all my data coming from a PHP back-end. All times and dates in the API are served as timestamps, a value not automatically supported in C# and even less in XAML. With the help of a post on codeclimber.net.nz, I&#8217;ve written up a simple converter for use in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing ListPickerPage&#8217;s Lack of Formatting</title>
		<link>http://nikrolls.com/2012/04/02/fixing-listpickerpages-lack-of-formatting/</link>
		<comments>http://nikrolls.com/2012/04/02/fixing-listpickerpages-lack-of-formatting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Rolls</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[listpicker]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[silverlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[style]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toolkit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Silverlight Toolkit&#8217;s ListPicker control is a fantastic replication of the combo box used in the Metro UI, however it has one surprising omission: when you have enough items to give a full-screen view, it has no formatting on the list items! Apart from a highlight colour for the selected item, there is no margin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Worrying About Windows 8</title>
		<link>http://nikrolls.com/2012/03/10/stop-worrying-about-windows-8/</link>
		<comments>http://nikrolls.com/2012/03/10/stop-worrying-about-windows-8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Rolls</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 8 CP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nikrolls.com/?p=349</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As one of the first to download Windows 8, I have used it religiously as my primary operating system, and have to say I&#8217;m a big fan. I do have some gripes, however they&#8217;re minor and I can see the reason behind them. I&#8217;ll be posting a review of it soon, but until then here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Phone System Tray Tricks</title>
		<link>http://nikrolls.com/2012/03/06/windows-phone-system-tray-tricks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Rolls</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nikrolls.com/?p=312</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Windows Phone System Tray provides you with all the information a user could need to know about their battery and connectivity, and while the functionality is there to remove it from your own apps it&#8217;s important to ensure that you follow the styles used in the built-in Windows Phone applications. That means that all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Phone Silverlight Toolkit, Using Nuget</title>
		<link>http://nikrolls.com/2012/03/05/windows-phone-silverlight-toolkit-using-nuget/</link>
		<comments>http://nikrolls.com/2012/03/05/windows-phone-silverlight-toolkit-using-nuget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Rolls</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[silverlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nikrolls.com/?p=290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the first things you&#8217;ll notice when picking up a Windows Phone device is that an immense amount of thought and purpose has gone into the design of the user experience. From the bold typeface and infrequent use of images and iconography, all the way to the fine touches such as items tilting when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Air New Zealand Launches Smartest Travel Card Yet</title>
		<link>http://nikrolls.com/2011/11/22/air-new-zealand-launches-smartest-travel-card-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://nikrolls.com/2011/11/22/air-new-zealand-launches-smartest-travel-card-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Rolls</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[debit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[onesmart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nikrolls.com/?p=277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems Air New Zealand have been working on a brilliant top-secret project for a little while. The new Air NZ OneSmart card integrates not only their Airpoints card and the ePass tag (which enables wireless check-in at their domestic kiosks), they&#8217;ve also bundled it with a smart debit card on the other side, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide Awareness</title>
		<link>http://nikrolls.com/2011/05/25/suicide-awareness/</link>
		<comments>http://nikrolls.com/2011/05/25/suicide-awareness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 09:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Rolls</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Discussion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graphic design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suicide awareness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nikrolls.com/?p=257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Suicide takes 520 New Zealanders per year (that's 10 a week!) whereas the road toll is only 120. Millions of dollars are put into ad campaigns to lower the road toll, yet suicide remains taboo. Should the veil be lifted from suicide and should the government create an anti-suicide campaign similar to those that currently exist for driving and depression?]]></description>
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		<title>Setting Up Your Own DNS Server</title>
		<link>http://nikrolls.com/2010/12/20/setting-up-your-own-dns-server/</link>
		<comments>http://nikrolls.com/2010/12/20/setting-up-your-own-dns-server/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Rolls</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Hosting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bind9]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web hosting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I went through the process of setting up my own DNS server. As I&#8217;m hosting websites behind DSL I was getting sick of switching /etc/hosts files every time I was within my own network (only Cable prevents the need for this) and originally intended to set up an internal-only DNS server which would fall [...]]]></description>
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