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	<title>The Avia Journey</title>
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	<description>A Single Guy's Struggle to a First Time Buy</description>
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		<title>Things to do before I&#8217;m 30</title>
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To visit the tourist places near to me.
To spend Christmas in New York.
To find my soulmate.
To kiss in the rain.
To watch the sunrise and sunset in the same day.
To take more photos.
To buy my own house/flat.

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		<link>http://www.avia.org.uk/blog/2009/08/things-to-do-before-im-30/</link>
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		<title>Diversity</title>
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The trouble with personal blogs is they tend to become havens for discussing everything. You start out with the intention of discussing a singular issue, and over time they branch out, diversify, and to an extent, dilute. I&#8217;ve noticed I talk a lot about money and finance: while that is linked to &#8220;buying a house&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.avia.org.uk/blog/2009/08/diversity/</link>
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		<title>Giving to Charity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who amongst you rolled your eyes when you saw that title? It&#8217;s OK to admit it. As a child, I was routinely told &#8220;charity begins at home&#8221;, and therefore never got round to really doing much about &#8216;giving&#8217;. Giving to charity is something rich people do, right? Something you&#8217;ll &#8220;do next month&#8221;. You may want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.avia.org.uk/blog/2009/08/giving-to-charity/</link>
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		<title>Hedging Against Diesel Pump Price Increases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret I drive a lot in my commute to work and back. A good day sees me traveling about 60 miles round trip. If I go elsewhere, have to use my car to go someplace else, and factor in personal millage, this can easily be 100 miles a day. I work 6 days [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.avia.org.uk/blog/2009/08/hedging-against-diesel-pump-price-increases/</link>
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		<title>Alternative Investment Products</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m addicted to Money blogs. One that I read with monotonous regularity is Five Cent Nickel. I know that&#8217;s a US site, but a lot of it still holds valid, irrespective of the particular market you apply the principles to. One of their posts on The Lending Club got me started looking for alternatives.
I&#8217;d been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.avia.org.uk/blog/2009/08/alternative-investment-products/</link>
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		<title>My Five Year Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading another blog today, and it posed the question: Where do you envisage yourself to be in five years time, financially and physically? Such a simple question on the face of it. 14 words. 19 syllables. Infinite possible answers.
I pondered this for a while, then decided it&#8217;d be worth putting on &#8216;paper&#8217; and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.avia.org.uk/blog/2009/08/my-five-year-plan/</link>
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		<title>I am Not Dead! Honest.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow. It really, really has been a while since I&#8217;ve posted. I apologise profusely. All work and no play, etc. But, I&#8217;ve got a little while before I&#8217;m due at work this evening, so it&#8217;s time for a well overdue blog posting.
A lot has happened since I last posted. Summer, I think, came and went. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.avia.org.uk/blog/2009/08/i-am-not-dead-honest/</link>
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		<title>Apple Store Opening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had an email last week from Apple, inviting me to their store opening in Brighton where I work. They even threw in the tempting idea of a free t-shirt, for the first 1,000 people through the door. Excited, I decided to go with a friend during our lunch hour.
Oh. My. God.
Figuring it&#8217;d be either [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.avia.org.uk/blog/2009/07/apple-store-opening/</link>
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		<title>Argh! Mobile Phones!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those who know me well will know all too well how much soul searching I have been doing over the last 2-3 months with regards to mobile/cell phones. It started out with the &#8220;I want the new iPhone&#8221;, thinking that the one Apple will release will be the all-singing, all-dancing device that everyone was hoping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.avia.org.uk/blog/2009/07/argh-mobile-phones/</link>
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		<title>Make WordPress Faster &amp; More Stable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the majority of blogs, speed isn&#8217;t a great big deal. Efficiency doesn&#8217;t matter too much either. I&#8217;m not terribly fussed about either issue on this blog. My other blog however, gets quite a hammering now. Given the little server it is hosted on, this can cause problems. So how can you make a small [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.avia.org.uk/blog/2009/07/make-wordpress-faster-more-stable/</link>
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