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		<title>One Game a Month: January!</title>
		<link>http://joe-stead.com/2013/01/31/one-game-a-month-january/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, 31/01/13 is here, and that is the end of January! I&#8217;m sure I mentioned previously, but I intend on taking part in One Game a Month. I&#8217;ve completed my first game of the year! I recreated Breakout/BrickBreaker/BlockBreaker whatever you want to call it. The game is fully playable on a windows machine, powered by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C#: 6 Months After Graduation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I officially graduated just over 6 months ago with a First Class Honours degree in Computer Science from the University of Hull. Since then I&#8217;ve been working as a Software Developer using C# just about every day. I knew the language pretty well whilst still studying, but since leaving and migrating to a real job, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I went and changed my blog</title>
		<link>http://joe-stead.com/2013/01/13/i-went-and-changed-my-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No exams, no excuses. I haven&#8217;t updated my blog for absolutely ages, and I have no excuses, except that job thing I have&#8230;). I&#8217;ve finally created a Portfolio page which could do with some work and some nicer images, but for now, it&#8217;ll do the job! Although I haven&#8217;t updated my blog for a while, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 8</title>
		<link>http://joe-stead.com/2012/10/14/windows-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows 8 is due to be released at the end of the month, but I was able to get hands on a copy for myself a little bit early. I actually discovered this by accident after pre-ordering a copy, I realised I already had access to the RTM copy, so I promptly cancelled my pre-order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I didn&#8217;t move to California</title>
		<link>http://joe-stead.com/2012/07/17/why-i-didnt-move-to-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travelling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post I mentioned how I had a job lined up in California, as the title of this post suggests, I didn&#8217;t go.  I turned down the job I had in California, much to the surprise of friends, family, and strangers who I told. Most people initially thought I was insane for turning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Results Day!</title>
		<link>http://joe-stead.com/2012/06/27/results-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s here. Graduation is in 13 days. Results day is today&#8230;. I&#8217;m happy with that! What more can I ask for?!]]></description>
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		<title>Making Games, Unemployment and Emigration</title>
		<link>http://joe-stead.com/2012/06/24/making-games-unemployment-and-emigration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been far too long since I last updated my blog. I can put this down to a few contributing factors, dissertation, exams and work. Good news though, I have finished my dissertation, finished all my exams and I have finally left my job as a checkout operator at a supermarket (today was my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kinect: Tower Defence</title>
		<link>http://joe-stead.com/2012/03/19/kinect-td/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 24 hours of solid development, we successfully created a Tower Defence game controlled by the Kinect, it was really good fun, especially when testing (although I have to confess it became a pain having to stand up and move 3ft away from the keyboard to test it, so we may have implemented mouse functionality too&#8230;). The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Thing Game is here</title>
		<link>http://joe-stead.com/2012/03/16/three-thing-game-is-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Three Thing Game 24hour session starts tomorrow morning, and I&#8217;m working on some map generation stuff at the moment, forests are nice if I can get the trees to order correctly.  Things are going pretty well, for myself at least &#8211; I can&#8217;t get hold of any other members of the team so I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kinect: Tower Defence Progress</title>
		<link>http://joe-stead.com/2012/03/14/kinect-tower-defence-progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I wrote about Three Thing Game and the Kinect Tower Defence game we intended on making, since then, we&#8217;ve got the ball rolling a bit and some code which does things (but nothing interesting). We&#8217;ve also had the Thing Auction, where every team was given 530 credits to bid on words [...]]]></description>
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