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	<title>When the stream becomes a river.... &#187; Kai&#8217;s lifestream</title>
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	<description>The blog of D Kai Wilson, and her lifestream</description>
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		<title>Backups ahoy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Object lesson number 1: Make sure your backup system works, even if you&#8217;re relying on an external drive. Object lesson number 2: there is NO PHYSICAL way to backup 200gbs of drive - ever - don&#8217;t let it get that far. Object lesson number 3: Copying something to a drive then deleting it from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spirit-tome.com/backups-ahoy/</link>
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		<title>Aleph day one</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So far, I&#8217;ve met Aleph herself (whether she&#8217;s a city, an avatar, or something else I dunno yet), Jlues, or Jules as he prefers to be known, been told about the Dreamless, and why drugs are important to *this* society, and can draw lots of paralells to some stories that I&#8217;ve thought about in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spirit-tome.com/aleph-day-one/</link>
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		<title>Nano day 0.5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m halfway through my &#8216;nano&#8217; day, and I&#8217;ve written close to 2k already - over a total of three hours of writing. It&#8217;s been fairly slow because I&#8217;ve discovered the downside of beta blockers - we&#8217;d been out picking (and picked!) my engagement ring and I began to feel as weak as a kitten. WE [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spirit-tome.com/nano-day-05/</link>
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		<title>Nano starter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(enjoy!)
Twelve years ago, when I was&#8230;young, I think, the world changed. Mental health became this&#8230;epedemic that threatened to overtake the resources we&#8217;d just clawed back saving the third world from the &#8216;food crisis&#8217; whose solution was right under our noses. It became &#8216;chemical imbalance, from the outside, in. We were overwhlemed by pollution, and people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spirit-tome.com/nano-starter/</link>
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		<title>Last minute nano checklist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have I set up my book in Liquid story binder? (check!) Have I set up every type of file and sorted it into a set of views based on my writing moods (check!) Do I have a playlist (check check) Do I have at least one plot (seven! - and no, that doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spirit-tome.com/last-minute-nano-checklist/</link>
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		<title>And this year&#8217;s nano is&#8230;..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d post the summary for this year&#8217;s Nano, though, it sounds very lame.
Something has shifted the world towards unfeeling. Numbness has crept into everyone, and at the same time, a study - created by a politician more interested in funding his psych company - suggested that everyone in the world needed to feel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spirit-tome.com/and-this-years-nano-is/</link>
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		<title>my daft cat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(quick note for my faithful readers - the quickest way to get a meaningful update out of me instead of &#8216;just twitter&#8217; is to ask nicely, not threaten never to talk to me again ;))
Kushie, who we adopted in June, is doing amazingly well. Since she started getting out last month, she&#8217;s shown some signs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spirit-tome.com/my-daft-cat/</link>
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		<title>Kai&#8217;s todo list this week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been spending the last few weeks trying to work out where my life is
going (and stopping it from going at breakneck speed), but I think I have it
under control now.  Well&#8230;ish.
Professional.
Three wordpress websites to design - I want to get these (permanently) off
the books, and I&#8217;m really keen to start writing.
At least three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spirit-tome.com/kais-todo-list-this-week/</link>
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		<title>John Barrowman talk at the Litfest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to see John Barrowman and his sister, the irrepressible writer Carole E Barrowman, at the literary festival this weekend. I really enjoyed the talk they gave, and I even managed to bring up the National Novel Writer&#8217;s Month (which I&#8217;ve passed on the information for) when there was an open Q&#38;A session.
They were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spirit-tome.com/john-barrowman-talk-at-the-litfest/</link>
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		<title>the 10,000 hour rule - does it hold any weight?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a suggestion circulating, that&#8217;s been repeated in several formats, but that summarises down to 10,000 hours of writing before we become &#8216;expert&#8217;. So, at 24 hours a day, it takes just over a year and three months to master parenthood after our first child (discounting instinct and natural ability). I would say most parents [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spirit-tome.com/the-10000-hour-rule-does-it-hold-any-weight/</link>
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