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<body><outline text="That &lt;a href=&quot;http://dannyayers.com/2007/07/19/if-not-why-not&quot;&gt;Danny Ayers&lt;/a&gt; character is spreading all sorts of seditious thoughts about HTML. And they are &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt;! Of course, they are completely &quot;unpragmatic&quot; and I'm sure they will be &quot;considered harmful&quot;. This is, of course, an inconvenience. The fact that it's reasoned and true is a good reason why the people who make the decisions will ignore it utterly." created="Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:44:27 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SImhkapRuIs&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt; video of the NYC explosion." created="Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:32:47 GMT"/><outline text="Might there be something afoul with public-private partnerships? As a completely unqualified layman, they seem to lack either the checks of either government or the market. Since the man who helped pioneer public-private partnerships is now running the fracking country, should it not be a black mark against him that Metronet, the PPP charged with maintaining the Tube network, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.transportbriefing.co.uk/story.php?id=4221&quot;&gt;has collapsed&lt;/a&gt;. A particularly distressing part of the article was this from Jo Valentine from the business lobbying group London First: &quot;The planned upgrade to the Victoria Line before 2012 is also vitally important, to ensure a positive visitor experience for the Games.&quot; You know what, &lt;em&gt;screw&lt;/em&gt; The Games? How about fixing the shit that actually matters for the people using the network outside of the two week period when this blasted, expensive folly takes place? Public-private partnerships are an accounting trick that avoids the unpopularity of government making a decision as to whether a service is to be run privately or publicly." created="Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:27:06 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/nparish/847892174/&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is an interesting picture of the current scenes in New York City. My first reaction was &quot;oh no, not again&quot;. I'm relieved that it's not what it could have been. &lt;em&gt;Phew&lt;/em&gt;." created="Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:19:00 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/rachelc/tags/explosion/&quot;&gt;Rachel Clarke&lt;/a&gt; has photos of the explosion in Manhattan, which happened at around 5:56pm Easern Time. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/18/new.york.explosion/index.html&quot;&gt;CNN&lt;/a&gt; have reported three people have been injured." created="Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:17:17 GMT"/>
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