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		<title>The effect of the Jolie Effect</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 23:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media lit up with the news &#8211; Angelina Jolie had written her story about having a double mastectomy. Journalists clambered to find a local source with the same story, to air a piece on the evening news that was a little more relevant than just retelling Hollywood news. They were quick to label &#8216;the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctaspley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2231069&#038;post=1041&#038;subd=ctaspley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So I cried at my daughter&#8217;s cross-country, before she raced.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 23:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yup, that&#8217;s a big heart on my sleeve title right there. It may even come as a surprise to my loving husband who was standing right next to me. Gotta love sunglasses. My daughter is 7. Cross country running (or any running or even walking for that matter) is not her favourite thing. She takes [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctaspley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2231069&#038;post=1016&#038;subd=ctaspley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Xero Personal &#8211; I think I love you</title>
		<link>http://ctaspley.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/xero-personal-i-think-i-love-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 07:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[bank]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personal finances &#8211; there&#8217;s an interesting topic for you. My wonderful melancholic detailed husband has a magical budget spreadsheet that magically shows us earning more than we spend. Problem is, his lovely wife has no visibility of that when she is actually spending. And I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;m a reckless spender at all, but my [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctaspley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2231069&#038;post=979&#038;subd=ctaspley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Truths from the campfire</title>
		<link>http://ctaspley.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/truths-from-the-campfire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Life in general]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delete Candy Crush. It&#8217;s a time-wasting distraction. Social media is very anti-social. It&#8217;s ok to embrace a community of like-minded people in cyberspace, but not at the expense of the people who are actually in the same room with you. Use Facebook &#38; Twitter for sharing life moments with and engaging people, not for living [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctaspley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2231069&#038;post=976&#038;subd=ctaspley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On going backwards and forwards, and things that are free.</title>
		<link>http://ctaspley.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/on-going-backwards-and-forwards-and-things-that-are-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t say that today was the best &#38; the worst of days. I&#8217;ve had better (read: wedding day, birth of two healthy girls etc), so it wasn&#8217;t really a red letter day in that respect. And I&#8217;ve had worse (money, rental stress, money, dog dying, money), so it wasn&#8217;t really a day to cry [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctaspley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2231069&#038;post=971&#038;subd=ctaspley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Logo not appearing on invoice &#8211; Unleashed software / Xero</title>
		<link>http://ctaspley.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/logo-not-appearing-on-invoice-unleashed-software-xero/</link>
		<comments>http://ctaspley.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/logo-not-appearing-on-invoice-unleashed-software-xero/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a client who uses Unleashed Software for inventory management and invoicing. It integrates with Xero. They called us today to say that their company logo was appearing on some but not all of their computers, which are a mix of Macs &#38; PCs in different locations &#38; countries. Wary of the old &#8216;Quicktime [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctaspley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2231069&#038;post=902&#038;subd=ctaspley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Customer Service &#8211; you are doing it right!</title>
		<link>http://ctaspley.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/customer-service-you-are-doing-it-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, another chance to write a non-ranty blog post! I love it! With Miss 7 at home on school holidays, I&#8217;ve been running some errands with her in tow. Today I had two great examples of customer service from the most unlikely of places &#8211; the Family Assistance Office and Westpac bank! 1 &#8211; Insider [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctaspley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2231069&#038;post=876&#038;subd=ctaspley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A new start, because it&#8217;s Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://ctaspley.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/a-new-start-because-its-wednesday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scuff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[choices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[success]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Easter long weekend makes Tuesday feel like Monday. Except this Tuesday was the last day with Tony&#8217;s parents visiting AND both of our girls at home. So now Wednesday feels like Monday. The good news is that Friday is now only 2 sleeps away! Why can&#8217;t weeks work like this more often? The alarm went off [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctaspley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2231069&#038;post=872&#038;subd=ctaspley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vodafail by another name: 3 Mobile demands payment during overseas trip.</title>
		<link>http://ctaspley.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/vodafail-by-another-name-3-mobile-demands-payment-during-overseas-trip/</link>
		<comments>http://ctaspley.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/vodafail-by-another-name-3-mobile-demands-payment-during-overseas-trip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brace yourselves &#8211; this is a rant. In my opinion, mobile phone companies are right down their with real estate agents and used car salesmen. But let me lay out the facts and you can decided for yourself. After receiving a wedding invitataion, we decided to pack up the kids and head to Wellington for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctaspley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2231069&#038;post=857&#038;subd=ctaspley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Christchurch, with love.</title>
		<link>http://ctaspley.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/to-christchurch-with-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scuff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[eqnz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you grow up in a city and leave it, you carry a piece of it with you. Whenever it&#8217;s mentioned, whenever you hear from friends or family there, one particular heartstring is tugged, still reserved for that place and connected to those memories. This is why, 2 years after a 6.3 earthquake that killed [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctaspley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2231069&#038;post=852&#038;subd=ctaspley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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