The Archive
This site has been running since 2000, when I started it up as a way to play around with various web-related technologies. In mid-2001 I had started a perl/XML based online diary.
When I threw away the bespoke CMS I had built up over the years to install WordPress in the mid 2000s I ported over the majority of the content from the diary into the blog.
November 2014
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Fri 14th: The “World” Series and such nonsense
September 2014
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Sun 21st: Voices
August 2014
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Thu 14th: Reality
May 2014
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Thu 29th: I love being married
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Fri 9th: The problem is adults
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Thu 8th: Something to look forward to
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Tue 6th: Committees
April 2014
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Mon 7th: Right more often than not
March 2014
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Sun 16th: Football Genius
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Mon 10th: Too Late
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Sat 1st: Censors
February 2014
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Wed 5th: Freedom of speech
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Sun 2nd: David Moyes – Record Breaker
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Sat 1st: Conventional
January 2014
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Thu 30th: Furious
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Wed 29th: Really listening
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Sat 11th: Get it over with
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Wed 8th: Before Netflix
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Fri 3rd: Pepsi
December 2013
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Fri 20th: Why don’t Dave play me?
November 2013
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Tue 26th: Outdoors
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Fri 22nd: Lost in translation
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Fri 8th: Patience
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Thu 7th: Happiness
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Mon 4th: Progress
October 2013
September 2013
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Fri 13th: Elite is looking dangerously good
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Fri 13th: Stupid People
August 2013
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Tue 20th: Behaving Wisely
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Sun 11th: Defeating Disney DRM
July 2013
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Sun 28th: What would we do about it?
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Mon 22nd: On Ambition
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Sat 13th: Resetting CEC on PlayStation 3
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Tue 9th: Easier
June 2013
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Sun 30th: “Keep Unread” in Tiny Tiny RSS
May 2013
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Sat 18th: On Having a Positive Attitude
April 2013
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Mon 29th: 2012-2013 Season: Progress?
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Sun 28th: I’m Not Addicted
March 2013
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Wed 20th: Discovery
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Wed 6th: On Football ‘Analysis’
February 2013
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Tue 12th: V (2009)
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Sun 10th: Taken 2
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Tue 5th: Customising XBMC CEC Support
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Mon 4th: Raspbmc CEC Adapter Settings
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Sun 3rd: Adventures in Pi
January 2013
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Thu 31st: Even Superman Plays Video Games
December 2012
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Mon 3rd: We’re All Going To Die
November 2012
October 2012
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Tue 2nd: Gary Neville – Who Saw That Coming?
September 2012
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Wed 26th: You Don’t Win Anything With Kids
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Mon 17th: TIE Fighter: The Movie
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Thu 13th: The Sun Front Page – “The Real Truth”
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Wed 12th: The Circus
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Tue 11th: “Gaymer”
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Sat 8th: Summer 2012 Transfer Window
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Thu 6th: Greenlight
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Wed 5th: Batman of Shanghai
August 2012
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Thu 30th: The Verge: Don’t Be A Hero
July 2012
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Mon 9th: Ninja Turtles Tribute
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Sat 7th: Blinky
June 2012
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Tue 26th: Mass Effect Extended Cuts
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Sat 23rd: A Piece of Gaming History Unearthed
April 2012
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Thu 5th: Mega Man X
March 2012
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Fri 30th: “Five reasons a world without used games might not be so badR...
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Wed 21st: Working with Gedcom
September 2011
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Thu 15th: Bash – Snip Leading Zeros
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Tue 13th: Linux – Partitions & Filesystems
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Fri 2nd: Parent Culture
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Thu 1st: Summer Clearout
August 2011
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Sat 27th: Come on Irene
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Mon 22nd: Adventures in RTP: Cheesecake Factory
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Sun 21st: Adventures in RTP: Arrival
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Thu 11th: Daily Mail Headline of the Year
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Thu 11th: Shoot the fucking lot of them
July 2011
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Sat 23rd: Finally. Someone gets it!
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Thu 21st: Gaming Recap – 11 July 2011
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Wed 20th: Repairing Windows 7 MBR without installation media
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Tue 5th: Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
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Sat 2nd: Modifying Mystique
June 2011
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Sat 11th: Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
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Thu 9th: Great News for AC Revelations
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Thu 9th: Doctor Who: The Anime
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Fri 3rd: Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper
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Thu 2nd: Hail to the King, Baby
April 2011
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Mon 25th: G.O.A.T.
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Fri 22nd: WWE All Stars
March 2011
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Tue 1st: Achievement Checklists
February 2011
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Tue 22nd: 100’000GS Awards – Most Surprising Game
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Fri 11th: Going for Gold
January 2011
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Mon 31st: Gaming Challenges for 2011
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Thu 6th: Final Fantasy XIII (Part 2)
December 2010
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Sat 11th: Final Fantasy XIII (Part 1)
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Thu 9th: Upcoming Games
November 2010
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Mon 15th: Best Laid Plans
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Sun 7th: Gay Tony
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Mon 1st: The Munsters
October 2010
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Sat 30th: On Prostitute Shaggers
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Mon 25th: Grinding of Gears
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Fri 15th: JUnit – Running Standalone
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Thu 7th: Crisis! What Crisis?
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Sun 3rd: Lost Odyssey
September 2010
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Tue 14th: Saint’s Row: Day 1
April 2010
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Sun 25th: Magic Trick
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Tue 20th: A Devil May Cry 4 Survivial Pack
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Mon 19th: Worth It?
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Mon 19th: The Truth. Exposed
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Sun 18th: Moving MediaMonkey to a Network Drive
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Thu 15th: X-COM
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Tue 13th: Happy Finish – Department of Hate
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Mon 12th: Seat Selection
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Thu 8th: Retro Games Destroy NYC
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Sat 3rd: All the Single Ladies. Except You!
March 2010
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Tue 30th: FML Notes: Judging Potential
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Mon 29th: Galactic Empire State of Mind
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Thu 18th: Dead Rising Survival Pack
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Wed 3rd: Jump in my Car
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Mon 1st: Parallel Career
February 2010
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Sat 27th: Best Snowball Fight, Ever
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Fri 26th: Laser Vision (Correction)
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Tue 23rd: Yank This As Hard As You Can
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Mon 15th: True of the Majority of Mankind
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Sat 6th: A Walkie-Talkie Preamble
January 2010
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Fri 22nd: Better than (an) average
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Sun 17th: The Tetris God
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Sat 16th: The Madness of Rafa
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Sun 3rd: Mirror’s Edge
December 2009
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Sun 27th: The Online Gamer
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Thu 17th: I Am a God
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Sat 12th: A Temporary Situation
November 2009
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Sat 21st: Classic Clarkson
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Wed 11th: Ex-soldier faces jail for handing in gun
June 2009
May 2009
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Sat 16th: Dark Night of the Soul
November 2008
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Tue 4th: Star Wars Force Unleashed Guide
October 2008
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Sat 25th: Team Fortress Pooh
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Sat 25th: What kind of gamer are you?
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Mon 20th: Font Conference
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Fri 17th: I’m getting a Gun
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Tue 14th: Liverpool Impersonations
September 2008
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Sat 20th: The Force that Binds…
July 2008
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Sat 26th: Yeah?
March 2008
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Thu 6th: Star Wars according to a 3 year old
February 2008
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Fri 22nd: Devil May Cry 4 S Ranking Requirements: Dante Must Die
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Fri 22nd: Devil May Cry 4 S Ranking Requirements: Son of Sparda
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Fri 22nd: Devil May Cry 4 S Ranking Requirements: Devil Hunter
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Thu 21st: Devil May Cry 4 Rankings
January 2008
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Sat 26th: 1’000’000 Online Credits
November 2007
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Sat 3rd: Master Pioneer
July 2007
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Sat 21st: My Forza Garage
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Wed 18th: Decision Time
April 2007
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Thu 19th: Monster Madness
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Fri 13th: The Flight Back
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Thu 12th: The Grand Canyon
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Wed 11th: The Wedding
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Tue 10th: Vegas Baby!
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Mon 9th: Arcade Heaven
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Sun 8th: Penn & Teller
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Sat 7th: Blue Man Group
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Fri 6th: Viva Las Vegas!
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Mon 2nd: Downgrading my PSP
March 2007
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Thu 29th: Wii-njury
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Wed 28th: It’s not a blog — it’s a diary
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Wed 28th: Birthday Boy
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Tue 27th: Democracy
February 2007
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Mon 26th: Lost Planet Target Mark Locations – Easy
May 2005
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Thu 26th: Never in My Wildest Dreams
February 2005
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Sat 5th: The Great Mystery of the Universe
July 2004
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Fri 2nd: Philosophy in the Boudoir: Piety
June 2004
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Tue 29th: Moving (Again)
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Thu 17th: In Rafa we Trust
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Thu 17th: Down. And Out?
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Fri 4th: Excessive Sun
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Thu 3rd: Big Brother
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Wed 2nd: A Special One?
May 2004
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Mon 31st: Rafa on his way?
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Sun 30th: Poor Miss Emin
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Thu 6th: Van Helsing
April 2004
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Tue 27th: Championship Manager: My Story
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Fri 9th: Missiles, aircraft? Same difference.
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Tue 6th: The End of the Road
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Tue 6th: A Certain Lack of Qualities
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Mon 5th: Not that solid
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Mon 5th: USA
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Sat 3rd: Andrew’s Wedding
March 2004
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Tue 30th: Starsky & Hutch
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Sun 28th: 24
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Mon 1st: Bloody Blatter
February 2004
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Sun 29th: Mysterious Sales
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Sat 28th: Recursive Reality
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Thu 26th: Spies & Lies
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Tue 24th: A Shining Example
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Sun 22nd: Priorities
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Fri 20th: Fat Tax
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Thu 19th: Substitution-a-thon
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Wed 18th: Illegal Buttons
November 2003
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Sun 9th: Liverpool 1-2 Man Utd
October 2003
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Sat 25th: New depths
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Thu 23rd: Help Help I’m Being Repressed
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Thu 23rd: Conclusive proof that God exists
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Fri 17th: Obey
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Wed 15th: Liverpool – Olimpia Ljubjana
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Fri 10th: Forced Carnel Knowledge
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Sat 4th: Arsenal 1-2 Liverpool
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Fri 3rd: Seduction
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Thu 2nd: To Change Man
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Wed 1st: Only Saints and the Insane
September 2003
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Tue 30th: One Desire
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Mon 29th: Society’s Solution to Loneliness, Lust and Laundry
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Thu 25th: Regardless of Taste
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Thu 18th: JoeX WinAmp Skins: Part 2
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Wed 17th: JoeX WinAmp Skins: Part 1
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Mon 15th: A Finite Series of Errors
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Wed 10th: A Sincere Response
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Fri 5th: Quiet Desperation
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Mon 1st: The ‘p’ Phenomenon
August 2003
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Sun 31st: Diarrhea
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Sat 30th: To Avoid Arguments
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Fri 29th: Ego-less Polymorphous Perversity
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Thu 28th: A Typical Successful Married Man
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Wed 27th: Happy Boredom
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Tue 26th: The Shore of Zen
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Mon 25th: Despair
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Sun 24th: Unhealthy
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Wed 13th: Go to Russia
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Tue 12th: Be Patient
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Sat 9th: Another Generation
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Fri 8th: No Complaints
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Wed 6th: Change
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Tue 5th: A Normal, Lonely Adult Life
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Mon 4th: Very Friendly
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Fri 1st: Never Without Misery
July 2003
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Wed 30th: Ecclesiastical Aplomb
June 2003
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Wed 11th: A Victim of Anything But Circumstance
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Tue 10th: Mediocre
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Thu 5th: You Can’t Go Home
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Wed 4th: Catch-22
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Tue 3rd: Live Forever or Die in the Attempt
May 2003
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Sat 31st: Outlandish Claims
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Sat 10th: Reason, Weakness and Chance
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Wed 7th: In My Place
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Sun 4th: Such Utter Loneliness
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Thu 1st: They Know It
April 2003
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Sat 12th: Reason and Accountability
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Tue 8th: The Nothingness to Which I Aspire
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Mon 7th: Duller Than Flesh
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Sat 5th: There is nothing
March 2003
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Fri 21st: Operation Ironic
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Fri 14th: No Excuses
January 2003
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Sat 11th: It is a Trap
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Tue 7th: These Happy, Reasonable Voices
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Sun 5th: A Terrible Witness
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Sat 4th: The Odd Thing
December 2002
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Tue 17th: Stupid White Men
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Mon 9th: A Little on the Dark Side
August 2002
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Mon 26th: Protection
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Sun 25th: The Usual Dilema
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Fri 23rd: Wank Biscuit
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Wed 21st: A Sad, Used Tampon
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Mon 19th: My Theory
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Sat 10th: Something’s Changing
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Mon 5th: Too Lazy
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Sat 3rd: A Boredom So Monumental It Humbles
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Thu 1st: The Best Way to Live
May 2002
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Thu 9th: Realistic Expectations
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Wed 8th: How to Keep Him
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Tue 7th: How to Get His Attention
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Mon 6th: His Bad Points
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Wed 1st: His Good Points
April 2002
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Tue 30th: His Attitude Toward Women
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Mon 29th: What He Fears
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Sun 28th: What He Needs
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Sat 27th: What He Thinks He Wants
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Tue 23rd: What He’s Like
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Sun 7th: True Friends
March 2002
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Tue 12th: The Fall
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Thu 7th: So I stop
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Tue 5th: ‘Glad to’ve met you’
February 2002
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Thu 28th: Real Ugly Girls
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Wed 27th: Girls. Jesus Christ
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Fri 22nd: Sex Rules
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Thu 21st: Crumby Stuff
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Sat 2nd: Catholic Boys
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Fri 1st: Go Drinking
December 2001
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Mon 31st: Try To Care
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Sun 30th: Like A Lyric From a Song
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Thu 27th: Just Decoration
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Sun 16th: There’s Nothing Left
November 2001
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Mon 5th: A Person Like Other People
October 2001
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Thu 18th: Moonlight and Sunshine
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Wed 3rd: Reduced To A Couple
September 2001
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Sun 30th: Untruth
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Fri 28th: To Kill Several Hundred Million People in a Few Seconds
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Wed 26th: Power
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Mon 24th: Moment to Moment
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Fri 21st: The Future
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Sun 16th: The Best Books
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Sat 15th: Too Intelligent
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Fri 14th: An Unconquerable Instinct
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Thu 13th: Poverty and Ignorance
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Tue 11th: Consequences
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Mon 10th: Corrupt to the Bones
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Sun 9th: I Absolutely Believe In God
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Sat 1st: Ruin
August 2001
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Thu 30th: To Cherish the Serpent That Devours Us
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Mon 27th: Disappointed
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Sun 26th: The Most Surprising Things
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Sat 25th: Sex is Mathematics
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Wed 22nd: The Emptiness of Another Week
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Fri 17th: A Slow, Purposeful Erasure
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Tue 14th: A Small and Lively Gerbil
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Sun 5th: Interfering with Play
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Thu 2nd: First
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Wed 1st: We’ll Discuss the Options Later
July 2001
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Tue 31st: Kenwood
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Mon 30th: Darkest Depths of Human Terror
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Sat 28th: Women’s Tears
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Thu 26th: Just a European Lover
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Wed 25th: A Hollow Sham
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Mon 23rd: A Parasite Princess
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Sun 22nd: Nothing
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Sat 21st: The Man In the Street
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Fri 20th: It Should Be On TV
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Thu 19th: ‘Cos You Are Scum
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Tue 17th: Because You Have Something To Say
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Mon 16th: I Should Get Out More
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Sun 15th: Dying Is Not Sad
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Sat 14th: His Biggest Mistake
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Fri 13th: Dominate in His Turn
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Sun 8th: Swear
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Sat 7th: Five Attempts
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Fri 6th: Too Many Times
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Thu 5th: When You’ve Got Nothing
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Wed 4th: The Challenge
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Tue 3rd: The Freeman
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Mon 2nd: Confession Time
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Sun 1st: Sesame Street
June 2001
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Sat 30th: Unreal Tournament Tournament
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Fri 29th: The One About Rebecca
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Thu 28th: A Job Offer!
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Wed 27th: Hidden
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Tue 26th: Big Brother
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Mon 25th: The One with the Presentation
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Sat 23rd: Victims?
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Fri 22nd: Three O’Clock
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Thu 21st: The One About the Garden
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Wed 20th: So Little Time
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Tue 19th: Capped
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Mon 18th: Night at the Station
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Sun 17th: Two Options
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Sat 16th: Dull
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Fri 15th: Axe-murderers
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Thu 14th: To Be Deficient
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Wed 13th: Knives Out
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Tue 12th: Your One Defining Moment
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Mon 11th: Who is JoeX?
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Sun 10th: It Comes Soon Enough
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Sat 9th: That Permanent Contradiction
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Fri 8th: The Donut Factory
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Thu 7th: First Contact
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Wed 6th: IPAT
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Tue 5th: It’s For Charity
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Mon 4th: XMLy
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Sun 3rd: Keep Smiling
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Sat 2nd: Fresh
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Fri 1st: A First Taste of Glory
May 2001
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Thu 31st: Shite
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Wed 30th: Sniper
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Tue 29th: Four Hours
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Mon 28th: To The Pub!
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Sun 27th: Raw
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Sat 26th: Cracked Eggs Dead Birds
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Thu 24th: … Which Was Nice
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Tue 22nd: No Point
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Mon 21st: Not the Break I Had in Mind
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Sun 20th: Charlton Hammered
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Fri 18th: Faith in Your Friends
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Thu 17th: A Bit Shocked
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Wed 16th: 5-4
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Tue 15th: When Liverpool Ruled the World
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Mon 14th: Man-at-Arms
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Sun 13th: Central Eating for Piss Heads
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Sat 12th: Arsenal 1-2 Liverpool
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Fri 11th: AD2 Day 4
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Thu 10th: Nofuture.org.uk
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Wed 9th: 15 Million Square Feet
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Tue 8th: AD2 Day 1
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Mon 7th: Spaced … Completely
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Sun 6th: Boil-in-the-bag Perversion
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Sat 5th: Bank Holiday Betting
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Fri 4th: Major Dilemma
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Thu 3rd: 23.8 grams
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Wed 2nd: A Dink
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Tue 1st: An Eventful Game