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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick one, I wanted to clean up my VBox snapshots for an image, I am using the latest and greatest version. I suddenly realised it is not available in the VBox UI anymore. You can run it from the command line though! First things first, lets say your image is called TestXP run [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itssmee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12353378&amp;post=673&amp;subd=itssmee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Java Application connecting to a DB2 instance &#8211; Solution to Sql Exception No Suitable driver found</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so this one bugged me for a while, and it was only a throw away comment on a forum  that gave me the clue. I have written a simple Java app to connect to a DB2 database to query the data and perform some analytics on that data. However my connection would never work!!! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itssmee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12353378&amp;post=665&amp;subd=itssmee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building a standalone Java command line app with Netbeans</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pretty simple one really, and it was &#8211; once I remembered / found out. Seeing as I swap around from IDE to programming language, to OS I realised the other day that I didn&#8217;t know how to build a self contained command line java app (e.g. I had written a simple program and I wanted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itssmee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12353378&amp;post=650&amp;subd=itssmee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hadoop &#8211; examples of Java and Python Map and Reduce for the average word length</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since my last post, which is a little disappointing. On the up side, the reason for my absence has not been because I am slothful, it is because I have started on a new project and I am deep in the world of &#8216;Big Data&#8217; !!!! Over the past three/four months [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itssmee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12353378&amp;post=638&amp;subd=itssmee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Further analysis of the scraped BBC data</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 20:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>itssmee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to my previous post, I have been mining the data I collected to see if I could find anything of interest, and evaluate the data I have collected. One of things that interested to me, was to look at the placement of the story compared to it&#8217;s position in the top ten over time. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itssmee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12353378&amp;post=619&amp;subd=itssmee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scraping stats off of the BBC News website</title>
		<link>http://itssmee.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/scraping-stats-off-of-the-bbc-news-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little project I have started, based on an interesting thought I had a while ago. A friend of mine commented, sometime ago, that he uses the Top 10 most Read as a form of navigation around the BBC news website. However, I typically go to the main page, glance over the stories and then [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itssmee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12353378&amp;post=596&amp;subd=itssmee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Fry&#8217;s Visualizing Data book review</title>
		<link>http://itssmee.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/ben-frys-visualizing-data-book-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>itssmee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I brought this book back in the beginning of 2008, unfortunately I didn&#8217;t get the opportunity to read it until the autumn (or fall) of 2008. The book is not aimed at full on computer scientists, in fact it is aim at people &#8220;who have a data set, a curiosity to explore it, and an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itssmee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12353378&amp;post=584&amp;subd=itssmee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Network latency and high frequency trading</title>
		<link>http://itssmee.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/network-latency-and-high-frequency-trading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://itssmee.wordpress.com/?p=577</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across this post, on infoworld. I found it very interesting, however I found the underlying paper even more interesting. Reading about latency in networks and comparing the speed of data packet transmissions over differing lines, i.e. a 1KM 1G optical line compared to a 1LM 10G optical line very interesting (and that is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itssmee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12353378&amp;post=577&amp;subd=itssmee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2010 in review &#8211; A WordPress email&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://itssmee.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/2010-in-review-a-wordpress-email/</link>
		<comments>http://itssmee.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/2010-in-review-a-wordpress-email/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>itssmee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Received this, so I thought I would share it&#8230;. Publishers aren&#8217;t knocking on my door just yet though! &#8220;The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here&#8217;s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itssmee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12353378&amp;post=564&amp;subd=itssmee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Data Scientist, and the Strata conference</title>
		<link>http://itssmee.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/data-scientist-and-the-strata-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>itssmee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick one, came across an advert for the Strata Conference earlier today on the O&#8217;Reilly site. This is a conference I would dearly love to go to, however it is a bit too expensive for me at the moment (including travel). In the mean time I came across a couple of very interesting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itssmee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12353378&amp;post=557&amp;subd=itssmee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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