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	<title>the adventures of the tall guy</title>
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		<title>The things you can do on the net!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just discovered Facebook and am having hours of fun. This guy here is supposedly me, can you see the similarity?&#8230; You can find me at http://www.facebook.com/p/Steve_Penney/667306803<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbanblue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=406399&amp;post=165&amp;subd=urbanblue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And he&#8217;s back!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well for crying out loud, it&#8217;s been well over two months since I last updated this blog, and I have absolutely no excuses. Hmm, except for being exceptionally busy with the (not-so) new job. So here&#8217;s a run-down of the last nine weeks: - Family birthdays: my mother (8th May), my twin nieces (6th May), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbanblue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=406399&amp;post=163&amp;subd=urbanblue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NEVER shop at Ikea!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, from time to time shops give you service that is less than the expected level of customer satisfaction. That kind of thing never drives me to write a complaint, but I have just finished writing an extremely long and angry letter to the IKEA store in Kohoku. Last weekend Masaru and I went [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbanblue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=406399&amp;post=162&amp;subd=urbanblue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keep your hair on!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh&#8230; too late. Man on train I thought the wicked side of you might enjoy! hehehe&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbanblue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=406399&amp;post=161&amp;subd=urbanblue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Carry on…</media:title>
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		<title>Cherry Blossoms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that the majority of the Cherry Blossom trees in Japan don&#8217;t actually go on to produce any cherries at all? This weird revelation (which I only discovered this year) makes me wonder how they can actually be classified as cherry trees&#8230; hmm. Anyways, the whole world knows that the Japanese LOVE their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbanblue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=406399&amp;post=158&amp;subd=urbanblue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paddy&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://urbanblue.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/paddys-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St Patrick&#8217;s Day Parades. Do they actually have them in Ireland? Well anyway, they have them in the UK, in the US, and also (bizarrely) in Japan also. Not sure exactly how many Irish there actually were, but the flavour was decidedly Japanese, as shown here by the green rickshaws. Also lots of American military [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbanblue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=406399&amp;post=157&amp;subd=urbanblue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday to my Brother-in-law!</title>
		<link>http://urbanblue.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/happy-birthday-to-my-brother-in-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since there was a family birthday, and from May they&#8217;re gonna come thick and fast! But in the meantime, it&#8217;s the turn of my sister&#8217;s husband. Have a great day Mick, the weather&#8217;s pissy here so I hope it&#8217;s nice and sunny for you over there in the Motherland!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbanblue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=406399&amp;post=155&amp;subd=urbanblue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yuki-Matsuri in Sapporo</title>
		<link>http://urbanblue.wordpress.com/2007/02/12/yuki-matsuri-in-sapporo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just returned from the Snow Festival in Sapporo. This is a festival that I have wanted to go to ever since I came to Japan, and finally this year I did it. Sapporo is right in the north of Japan in Hokkaido, where the below minus temperatures ensure a winter full of deep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbanblue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=406399&amp;post=154&amp;subd=urbanblue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Arctic Palace</media:title>
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		<title>Where&#8217;d he go?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry! It&#8217;s been weeks since I added anything to the blog! I&#8217;ve been very wrapped up with work and various other shenanigens since the New Year, and there really hasn&#8217;t been a moment to sit down and write about anything! OK, a very belated New Year&#8217;s resolution. A Chinese New Year&#8217;s resolution maybe. I WILL [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbanblue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=406399&amp;post=150&amp;subd=urbanblue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Osaka</title>
		<link>http://urbanblue.wordpress.com/2007/01/02/osaka/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This being Japan&#8217;s second city, I always felt it was somewhere I should visit one day. So this year, I decided to take an impromtu visit seeing as one of my friends was already taking a holiday there. Only two hours and twenty minutes away by shinkansen (the famous bullet train), it&#8217;s a large and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=urbanblue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=406399&amp;post=143&amp;subd=urbanblue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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