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		<title>End of an era?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stopped commissioning stories for AOL Money this week – Wednesday to be precise. I started commissioning the predecessor site Daily Finance in December 2009. Recently I worked on the design and build of the new site and the integration of DF and its sister title Walletpop into AOL Money. It has been a labour [...]]]></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>More please, Sir</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>Remote back-up</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/remote-back-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>whealie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Banking on me</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/don%e2%80%99t-bank-on-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chriswheal.com/don%e2%80%99t-bank-on-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>whealie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chriswheal.com/?p=542</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Banks may not be lending much money right now but I certainly am. I reckon by the end of this week I will have about £28,500 of invoices outstanding. That is my business lending money to other businesses. And interest free. None of these invoices is even yet overdue – technically. The first will hit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embargo farrago</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/embargo-farrago/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chriswheal.com/embargo-farrago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>whealie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public relations (PR) officers from insurer AXA gave the trade press and the national press different embargoes for the same story on Friday. Embargoed is a small town in Wales, my old ex-national newspaper editor used to say, emphasising the “ed” sound at the end of the word. It looks like AXA’s PR people give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HMR C’s</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/hmr-c%e2%80%99s/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chriswheal.com/hmr-c%e2%80%99s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>whealie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC carried a story on a tax hoax phishing email this morning, timed at 01.49. I phoned the out of hours HMRC PR at 9am and he did not have the press release, said he would get it to me about 11am and, so far, still hasn’t. Why are PRs so completely useless? Update: [...]]]></description>
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