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		<title>Nothing but the truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a Thursday afternoon. ‘I propose an experiment’ said Paulina, in her coarse Spanish accent. Karl paused for just a second, and then went back to reading his brand new second hand book. He had been looking for a decent copy of Sophocles’ Antigone for weeks until he stumbled upon the one he held [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharpknots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6300407&amp;post=460&amp;subd=sharpknots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On dead celebrities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the topics I could pick, why go with dead celebrities? I’m an entire establishment away from being an established critic, so why even bother? I don’t know – I guess I just need to get some things off my chest. To be perfectly honest I should be writing about stuff I really know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharpknots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6300407&amp;post=454&amp;subd=sharpknots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zes jaar EL CID</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zes jaar EL CID Wie een ouderejaars zich als een ouwe lul wil laten voelen moet hem vragen zijn jarenlange EL CID ervaringen eens op papier te zetten. De nostalgie is niet in één zakdoek op te vangen. De herinneringen, eens zo vers, moeten uit het geheugen worden opgegraven of aan de hand van foto’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharpknots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6300407&amp;post=452&amp;subd=sharpknots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dirty Professor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dirty Professor As a child he had always been obsessed with whales. Once, he told his primary school teacher, who promptly misunderstood his plea to know more about these gigantic creatures, preceded to hand him a 30 page guide to Wales that she had picked up on her travels. Assuming that the message had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharpknots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6300407&amp;post=443&amp;subd=sharpknots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stakende leraren, jammerende maatschappij</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inlezen? http://nos.nl/artikel/334123-ongeveer-20000-docenten-staken-morgen.html Enige tijd geleden werd ik gevraagd of ik op de radio wilde reageren op de volgende stelling: &#8220;Leraren moeten niet zeuren, ze hebben meer vakantie dan wie dan ook&#8221;. Als voorzitter van de Studentenraad van de Hogeschool Leiden kan ik een dergelijke kans natuurlijk niet links laten liggen. Naamsbekendheid is altijd mooi meegenomen en [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharpknots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6300407&amp;post=437&amp;subd=sharpknots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stuff been hap&#8217;nin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not that you care, but I&#8217;ve severely been lacking in time and energy to post my every thought here, in a place where the world is free to share them. Still, I&#8217;ve not been sitting still. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been up: a) I&#8217;ve been elected chairman of the Leiden university of applied science&#8217;s student council. More [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharpknots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6300407&amp;post=432&amp;subd=sharpknots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to&#8230; Part 2: Get rich at the expense of others</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to&#8230; Part 2: Get rich at the expense of others By A. Numbnut, author of How to&#8230; Part 1: Brush your teeth without getting toothpaste all over your clothes (available at Amazonia.org) &#160; How often have you turned on your television only to find a dozen reasons to switch it off and start crying? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharpknots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6300407&amp;post=426&amp;subd=sharpknots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Passion Für Elise</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Passion Für Elise The arrogant human being, distancing himself from the animal kingdom, has come to believe that he is the ultimate life form, all the way down to the most basic strand of protein. So what if we share fifty percent of our DNA with banana’s – as far as humans are concerned, they’re [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharpknots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6300407&amp;post=423&amp;subd=sharpknots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>English breakfast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[English breakfast &#160; About fifteen pigeons scatter and fly right over my head as I park my bike outside the pub. Dirty animals, even dirtier claws find their way into my uncombed hair and I desperately hope none of them let rip any dirty pigeon juice. That would suck since I’m miles away from home [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharpknots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6300407&amp;post=421&amp;subd=sharpknots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book time</title>
		<link>http://sharpknots.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/book-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve written anything proper. To be precise it was after I went to TEDxMaastricht, April 4, 2011. I&#8217;d transcribed most of my notes from the day and planned to continue shortly after, but I never got round to it. I can blame it on my studies or board work but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharpknots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6300407&amp;post=414&amp;subd=sharpknots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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