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	<description>Rather keen on kilts!</description>
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		<title>Word Origins: Blancmange</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The word blancmange derives from Old French blanc mangier. The name &#8220;whitedish&#8221; is a modern term used by some historians, though the name historically was either a direct translation from or a calque of the Old French term. Many different local or regional terms were used for the dish in the Middle Ages:
 English: blancmanger, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blancmange.net/2008/06/26/word-origins-blancmange/</link>
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		<title>Thinkpad T61p Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The laptop was ordered configured with Home Vista with the intention, upon receipt, of installing XP Pro.  It&#8217;s not as simple as reformatting the drive and installing the older more benign OS.  The laptop arrives with the system restore data installed on a hidden hdd partition.  This seems to have become acceptable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blancmange.net/2008/04/12/thinkpad-t61p-notes/</link>
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		<title>Blancmange Function</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The Blancmange function, also called the Takagi fractal curve (Peitgen and Saupe 1988), is a pathological continuous function which is nowhere differentiable. The iterations towards the continuous function are batrachions resembling the Hofstadter-Conway $10,000 sequence. The first six iterations are illustrated below. The dth iteration contains N+1 points, where N=2^d, and can be obtained by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blancmange.net/2008/02/28/blancmange-function/</link>
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		<title>Javascript: Select box navigation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, you have this form object such as the one illustrated below.
&#60;form&#62;
&#160;&#160; &#60;select class=&#34;button&#34; size=&#34;1&#34; id=&#34;idname&#34;&#62;
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#60;option&#62;Section I &#60;/option&#62;
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#60;option&#62;Section II &#60;/option&#62;
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#60;option&#62;Section III &#60;/option&#62;
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#60;option&#62;Section IV &#60;/option&#62;
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#60;option&#62;Section V &#60;/option&#62;
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#60;option&#62;Section VI &#60;/option&#62;
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#60;option&#62;Home &#60;/option&#62;
&#160;&#160; &#60;/select&#62;
&#60;input type=&#34;button&#34; class=&#34;button&#34; 
&#160;&#160;onclick=&#34;selectOption(&#039;idname&#039;, URLarray)&#34; value=&#34;Go&#34; /&#62;
&#60;/form&#62;

You could attach a routine written specifically for that object.  Or you could initialize an array with the values [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blancmange.net/2006/11/29/javascript-select-box-navigation/</link>
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		<title>Revising the ubiquitous Billgatus iconograph</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The original creator of BillGatus apparently used an image capture of a video featuring the The Best of Both Worlds sequel to the of Star Trek: Next Generation episode, Q Who?, where Q had unceremoniously flung the Enterprise into a very distance and uncharted sector of the universe populated by the rather ominous borg collective, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blancmange.net/2006/11/27/revising-the-ubiquitous-billgatus-iconograph/</link>
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		<title>Blancmange.net</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An olde domain that used to be the home of The Memory Hole is now adrift, but not at sea.  Not to worry, as olde school ties will be maintained with links, at the side, to the latest material added to TMH
The root directory, for the longest time, simply featured a spectacular dolphin image [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blancmange.net/2006/11/17/blancmangenet/</link>
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