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		<title>Sink designs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sinks in the H2 Bike Club in Soho are a triumph of design over functionality: the classic design error. In all walks of life designers so often get it wrong because they fail to consider the practical as well as the aesthetic. Bad editorial design similarly adds hours to production time. The sink has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commuter chaos</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/commuter-chaos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commuting into central London for work creates contempt. I hate pedestrians, I hate cyclists, I hate motorcyclists, bus drivers, lorry drivers, taxis and white van man. I hate packed commuter trains, ticket inspectors, Oyster machines that don’t work and I hate Transport for London (TfL). To really hate all these would cause me to explode. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marching orders</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/marching-orders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>whealie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[26March]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chriswheal.com/?p=761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reporting Saturday’s TUC March for the Alternative and UKUncut’s protests against tax dodgers proved the limits of technology. There may be power in a union but if there’re no power points to plug in laptops and mobiles, nobody will know about it. Broadband access too is key. We posted our first report and video from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treasury audio</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/treasury-audio/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chriswheal.com/treasury-audio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>whealie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[AOL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chriswheal.com/?p=732</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I recorded Treasury press officer, Andrea Geoghegan, refusing to give me information she had to hand revealing exactly how much worse off the Treasury thinks the Budget will make families. I published it on Audioboo and wrote about it on Daily Finance. It has caused a stink. Does the press officer deserve it? Should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More please, Sir</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/more-please-sir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>whealie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chriswheal.com/?p=698</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An email discussion with freelances today about stagnant rates prompted me to dig out an article I wrote more than a decade ago on how to get a rate rise – based on the musical Oliver. It appeared in The Journalist in December 1999. I have reproduced it below. I was on the way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Different strokes</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/different-strokes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 08:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>whealie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chriswheal.com/?p=695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On 6 November 2010 I had a stroke – a mini stroke, a lacuna (or lacunar) stroke to be exact. I’m fine. I had no paralysis, no loss of strength, no loss of balance and I did not black out. I could hold a pen and write. In fact, I got back on my motorbike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New era dawns</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/new-era-dawns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chriswheal.com/new-era-dawns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>whealie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chriswheal.com/?p=676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the first day for nearly two years that I have not had to get up at 6am to write early morning web news for Insurance Times. I woke up at 6 anyway (but I lay there until 6.20). My ambition is to be woken with a cup of tea in bed at 7am. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remote back-up</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/remote-back-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chriswheal.com/remote-back-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>whealie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chriswheal.com/?p=603</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Backing up is something journalists rarely take seriously. But we produce magazines for clients so having back-ups for if – is that when? – things go wring is vital. Today I set up a remote back-up with our three main office Macs mirrored on a machine at my parents house. When I say “I” it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRs need help</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/prs-need-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chriswheal.com/prs-need-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>whealie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chriswheal.com/?p=567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PR people need help. They appear to have less understanding of how journalists work than ever before. They don’t appreciate deadlines, the speed journalists work at and the hours journalists now work on 24-hour internet media. I have had a couple of weeks of dire experience with PRs. These include: Slow, non-answers &#124; Embargos &#124; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late pay gripes</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/late-pay-gripes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chriswheal.com/late-pay-gripes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>whealie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[accounts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chriswheal.com/?p=556</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, instead of being a journalist and trainer, I spent at least a day dealing with late paying clients. It was mainly AOL, which, until today, had not paid a single freelance contributor, despite us working since December. My company has now been paid more than £10,000 by some clients and we have remittance [...]]]></description>
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