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		<title>Spaghetti alle vongole in bianco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I were a condemned man, I&#8217;d request a large helping of Spaghetti alle vongole in bianco for my last meal. Vongole are clams, and in bianco means that it&#8217;s the white wine sauce version rather than the tomato-based version. The tomato one is perfectly nice; I just prefer the white wine version. There are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lasagne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On New Year&#8217;s Eve I cooked my tried and tested lasagne for our very good friends. It&#8217;s not the first time I&#8217;ve cooked it for them, and they&#8217;ve liked it every time I&#8217;ve cooked it, this time so much that they asked me what recipe I use. The answer is that I don&#8217;t: it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barenboim&#8217;s Three-ring Circus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you follow me on Twitter, it should be obvious that I didn&#8217;t enjoy the last of Daniel Barenboim&#8217;s Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle at the Festival Hall. My main purpose in going was to hear Schoenberg&#8217;s brilliant Variations for Orchestra, op. 31 rather than the piano concerto, which I expected to be lush, mannered and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2010/02/03/barenboims-three-ring-circus/</link>
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		<title>Why the Royal Opera&#8217;s New Tristan Should be Applauded, not Booed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I attended the premier of the Royal Opera&#8217;s new production of Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Antonio Pappano and directed by Christof Loy. As has become routine with this most conservative of audiences, the production team was loudly, yobbishly booed. This attitude disgusts me. First, it implies that Loy and his team have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2009/09/30/why-the-royal-operas-new-tristan-should-be-applauded-not-booed/</link>
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		<title>The Wire, Season Five</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I finished my second complete viewing of The Wire, and I&#8217;m more strongly convinced than ever that it is the best TV ever made. Enough has been written about how great the show is, and if you haven&#8217;t watched it, I urge you to do so immediately. It&#8217;s available from iTunes or on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2009/09/12/the-wire-season-five/</link>
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		<title>GrowlMail on Snow Leopard: A Temporary Fix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Update: Hunter Ford has taken the time to extend my very basic script so that it includes the details of the sender and an extract of the text of the mail in the Growl notification. Head over there and grab the new script: it's way better than mine.] If you use GrowlMail, you&#8217;ll be disappointed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2009/08/28/growlmail-on-snow-leopard-a-temporary-fix/</link>
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		<title>Karajan&#8217;s Last London Concert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just before Christmas last year, as I was putting the finishing touches to my family&#8217;s presents, I noticed a CD with Herbert von Karajan&#8217;s name on it. It was a recording of his final London concert, given on 6th October 1988 at the Royal Festival Hall, in which he and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra played [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2009/08/13/karajans-last-london-concert/</link>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s How the MPs&#8217; Expenses System Should Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It should be fairly obvious by now that the MPs&#8217; expenses scandal is both a genuine and big story. In my opinion &#8211; for what it&#8217;s worth &#8211; it&#8217;s the biggest political story since Thatcher&#8217;s resignation in 1990. The problem isn&#8217;t one that can be solved by simply paying a few of the questionable expenses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2009/05/14/heres-how-the-mps-expenses-system-should-work/</link>
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		<title>How Twitter Can Sort Out the #fixreplies #fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter changed the way that the @reply facility works overnight (UK time). Users are not happy, me among them. I can&#8217;t think how many people I now follow who I discovered through this mechanism. I&#8217;ve even met up with some of them face to face as a result of conversations started exclusively through Twitter. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2009/05/13/how-twitter-can-sort-out-fixreplies/</link>
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		<title>Why Charles Arthur Should Read Things Before Slagging Them Off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, my friend Shane Richmond sent me a draft of a blog post to comment on as he does from time to time. I thought it was excellent. Later, he published it on his Telegraph blog. It&#8217;s about how David Simon, creator of The Wire is an &#8216;amateur&#8217; TV producer, in the sense that he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2009/05/08/charles-arthur-should-read-before-slagging-off/</link>
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