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	<title>abitcloser.com - Ross Howard</title>
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	<description>Ross Howard's thoughts and experiments on design and life.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Adaptive User Interfaces</title>
		<link>http://www.abitcloser.com/blog/adaptive-user-interfaces</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, back in the days of Windows 95 and Mac OS 8 I had an interesting idea for providing a better user experience by utilising adaptive user interfaces.
Ten years later, after a rather surprising encounter with a particularly badly designed interface element in Vista, I am again reminded of the idea and thought I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enabling Cultural Protocols Online</title>
		<link>http://www.abitcloser.com/blog/enabling-cultural-protocols-online</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[User Experience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Culturally, online information repositories such as Wikipedia are certainly more of a melting pot than a fruit salad. Each group’s particular and unique cultural considerations are typically absorbed and diluted by the overall conduct of the majority who don&#8217;t share the same beliefs. 
It&#8217;s nice to think that we all understand this, and things are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebooting</title>
		<link>http://www.abitcloser.com/blog/rebooting</link>
		<comments>http://www.abitcloser.com/blog/rebooting#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Abitcloser News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, as a result of my attendance at Kiwi Foo again this year, and associated discussions with the likes of Chris Shiflett I&#8217;ve decided to resurface my blog and start discussing my thoughts online again.
The reasons are not as obvious as the narcissism that can be leveled at bloggers in general nor as simple as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NewZealand.com Webby nominee (again)</title>
		<link>http://www.abitcloser.com/blog/newzealandcom-webby-nominee-again</link>
		<comments>http://www.abitcloser.com/blog/newzealandcom-webby-nominee-again#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One key project that I work on here at Shift is Tourism New Zealand&#8217;s family of websites.
The consumer facing site newzealand.com/travel has been nominated for a Webby for the third year running. We&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to actually win the award for the past 2 years! I wonder if we can make it a hat-trick?
If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graded browser support with Conditional Comments</title>
		<link>http://www.abitcloser.com/blog/graded-browser-support-with-conditional-comments</link>
		<comments>http://www.abitcloser.com/blog/graded-browser-support-with-conditional-comments#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[CSS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A clever conditional comment for hiding code from IE (and only IE) below a certain version.]]></description>
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		<title>How To Make Khao Soi</title>
		<link>http://www.abitcloser.com/blog/how-to-make-khao-soi</link>
		<comments>http://www.abitcloser.com/blog/how-to-make-khao-soi#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nestled on a busy street by the Eastern Moat just outside the old walled city of Chiang Mai is Ratana&#8217;s Kitchen, home to what I regard as the most delicious meal on the planet. Khao Soi (or as it is also known Chiang Mai Noodle Soup) is a dish that manages to conjure up images [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Resolution CSS Printing</title>
		<link>http://www.abitcloser.com/blog/high-resolution-css-printing</link>
		<comments>http://www.abitcloser.com/blog/high-resolution-css-printing#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My A List Apart article entitled  &#8216;High-Resolution Image Printing&#8216; was my first foray into publishing and experimental CSS. The responses and feedback have allowed me develop this idea further. I will continue to update this technique on abitcloser.com as I discover more about it.
If you have any feedback about the article, please post your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By Boat to Battambang</title>
		<link>http://www.abitcloser.com/blog/by-boat-to-battambang</link>
		<comments>http://www.abitcloser.com/blog/by-boat-to-battambang#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2005 04:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It feels like its been a while since I&#8217;ve written an update on our progress. Internet cafe&#8217;s are not the easiest to come by here, and when you do find them they tend to be dingy, but hot places where you tend to feel the ticking clock, so write quickly and then get out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overland to Cambodia</title>
		<link>http://www.abitcloser.com/blog/overland-to-cambodia</link>
		<comments>http://www.abitcloser.com/blog/overland-to-cambodia#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2005 06:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have arrived in Siem Reap. The couple of days back from Koh Samet were pretty busy and stressful. Our plans for Chiang Mai and Laos were killed by flash flooding and landslides. I was up and dressed by 6am and we tidied up the room and got a cab to the Northern Bus terminal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And so it goes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.abitcloser.com/blog/and-so-it-goes</link>
		<comments>http://www.abitcloser.com/blog/and-so-it-goes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This begins the first entry into my travel diary. I won't be spamming a mailing list of friends, so if you want email notification of a new post <a href="http://localhost/wordpress/subscribe.php">simply subscribe here</a> with your email address.]]></description>
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