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	<title>Yongfook &#124; Web Producer and Usability Consultant based in Tokyo</title>
	<link>http://archive.yongfook.com</link>
	<description>Yongfook is a Web Producer and Usability Consultant based in Tokyo</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Going Grey</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2008/01/12/going-grey/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2008/01/12/going-grey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m quite partial to grey when it comes to clothes etc.



What about the hair?  I think I somewhat suit grey hair.  Fingers crossed I get to enjoy poncing around with grey hair before it inevitably all falls out when I enter my 30s.





p.s. no I haven&#8217;t gone grey already (although I do have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>*burp*</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2008/01/03/burp/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2008/01/03/burp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year to all!  May 2008 furnish you with success, concubines and all the gold you can eat.

I&#8217;m back from Singapore.  Approximately 10kg fatter.  I was on a mission in Singapore, not only to eat all my local favourites (which I did, and then some) but to break free from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Freezing Tokyo, Hello Monsoon Season Singapore!</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/12/18/goodbye-freezing-tokyo-hello-monsoon-season-singapore/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/12/18/goodbye-freezing-tokyo-hello-monsoon-season-singapore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

I&#8217;m winding down, getting ready for my imminent trip to Singapore.  Over the next few days I&#8217;ll be busy finishing up deadlines and packing, in preparation for plonking myself down by the pool at the hotel (no doubt in the pouring monsoon rain) and doing sweet feck all for 10 days.  Well, sweet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strip Vote!</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/12/13/strip-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/12/13/strip-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Open Source Food has been nominated as a finalist in the Open Web Awards, run by Mashable!

For each vote OSF gets, I will take off one item of clothing.  AND I&#8217;M ONLY WEARING SOCKS RIGHT NOW.

No but seriously, if you&#8217;ve enjoyed looking at or using OSF for the past 6 months, give it a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We will stand together, hear the lion ROARlolz</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/11/25/we-will-stand-together-hear-the-lion-roarlolz/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/11/25/we-will-stand-together-hear-the-lion-roarlolz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just booked my tickets.  It&#8217;s been a year now and my body is beginning to shake and spasm at my lack of Char Kway Teow and Chicken Rice intake&#8230;thusly I am heading to SINGAPORE for Christmas

&#8220;Why Singapore?&#8221; some of you may ask.  It&#8217;s not the most exciting place in the world, especially for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Shinyness</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/11/19/new-shinyness/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/11/19/new-shinyness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a busy season in the Yongfook Lab, so I haven&#8217;t had much time to post recently.  I have, however, had lots of time to make a few nerdy purchases.  One of them was my new chair - which I have now received, and is teh much awsum - and now this, my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HALO 3 SCREENZSHOT</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/11/06/omg-halo-3-screenzshot/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/11/06/omg-halo-3-screenzshot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing in what is something of a long tradition of me beating down women, I played a game of Halo 3 against some random gamer chick called &#8220;Steffaniie&#8221; tonight (probably a single, 35-year old man living in his mother&#8217;s basement).

This was no ordinary game however, as it was my first game using the Xbox 360 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My New Chair - Ergohuman Medieval Dentist Torture Device</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/11/05/my-new-chair-ergohuman-medieval-dentist-torture-device/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/11/05/my-new-chair-ergohuman-medieval-dentist-torture-device/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking of buying a new desk chair?  I&#8217;ve recently found my perfect chair soulmate.  Here&#8217;s my story and recommendation.

What&#8217;s wrong with the picture below?



I mean apart from the sparseness of the concrete walls making my apartment look like a 3rd world hospital.  Yes, that little drummer&#8217;s stool I sit on to work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billie Jean</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/11/04/billie-jean/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/11/04/billie-jean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something a little different.

I recently picked up Chris Cornell&#8217;s latest solo album, one of the tracks (and arguably the best on the album) being an acoustic, bluesy cover of Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;Billie Jean&#8221;.  It totally rocks my fricking socks off.  Hard.

So here&#8217;s me attempting to sing a bit of it.  Look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing the iPod Smudge &#8482;</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/10/21/introducing-the-ipod-smudge/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/10/21/introducing-the-ipod-smudge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahhh gadgetry.  Picked up the iPod Touch and one of those nifty new Apple bluetooth keyboards.  Ch-ching.



The keyboard defies all modern technological conventions.  It&#8217;s just mind-bogglingly (bottlingly) thin.  In the next James Bond film I fully expect to see a henchman whose M.O. is to tap nonchalantly away at this keyboard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rocking The Mic Right</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/10/10/rocking-the-mic-right/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/10/10/rocking-the-mic-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I gave a presentation at Tokyo2point0 yesterday - a casual gathering of Tokyo&#8217;s web entrepreneurs, technologists and business people.  My presentation was titled &#8220;How To Prototype, Implement and Market a Simple Web Application&#8221; - which was a fair amount to get through in my 30 minute slot, but I managed to cram some fundamentals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Week of Dining in Tokyo</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/09/28/a-week-of-dining-in-tokyo/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/09/28/a-week-of-dining-in-tokyo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fairly recently I did a week-long whistle-stop tour of Tokyo dining - from plush restaurants at the top of 5 star hotels to hole-in-the-wall shacks that only serve one thing on the menu.  Here is a run down of where I went, with some opinions, should you find yourself looking for a nice place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is the most difficult decision ever</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/09/26/this-is-the-most-difficult-decision-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/09/26/this-is-the-most-difficult-decision-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Usually I buy my Xbox games &#8220;Asia&#8221; encoded which is a weird, blanket release for all of Asia, where the games come dubbed entirely in English.  This is great for expats like me who have an Asian-encoded Xbox and who prefer to play games in our native language, but probably not so great for, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>httpAsia relaunched!</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/09/24/httpasia-relaunched/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/09/24/httpasia-relaunched/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Adaptability is an important trait in this industry, I think.  You need to constantly reinvent, realign, recode yourself and your products in response to shifting trends, competition and your own available resources - the latter being the main reason behind this relaunch.



httpAsia is no longer a blog updated by one person, it is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Tools for Running a Smart Small Web Business</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/09/17/10-tools-for-running-a-smart-small-web-business/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/09/17/10-tools-for-running-a-smart-small-web-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yongfook.com/2007/09/17/10-tools-for-running-a-smart-small-web-business/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the years as I evolved from web production frontline grunt to startup founder to independent consultant, I&#8217;ve been exposed to a number of technologies that I now regard as invaluable staples.  Here are 10 free or low-cost tools that I highly recommend any small web business invests in to increase their productivity, reliability, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full of Western Promise</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/09/13/full-of-western-promise/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/09/13/full-of-western-promise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A gift from the UK.  Soreen malt loaf.  I have sorely missed this finest of indulgences.  Spread thick with butter, it is one of the great British comfort foods, up there with beans on toast, yorkshire puddings filled with onion gravy, and jelly tots.



From the Malt Loaf wikipedia page:

Malt loaf has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Recipessszzz *nap*</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/09/04/summer-recipessszzz-nap/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/09/04/summer-recipessszzz-nap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer is gone!  Well, kind of.  It&#8217;s gotten a bit chillier in The &#8216;Kyo (that&#8217;s Tokyo, Kyle) recently, so I thought I might celebrate the demise of summer by showing you all what I was cooking throughout it&#8230;

Pan-Roasted Salmon with Wild Mushrooms



Sesame Tuna with Lime Mash



Salsa-style Fusilli



Basil-Wrapped Salmon with Zucchini Pesto Tagliatelle



Quick, &#8220;Indoor&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yongfook in a Yukata</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/08/29/yongfook-in-a-yukata/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/08/29/yongfook-in-a-yukata/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been a seriously busy month.  My busiest yet since I moved to Tokyo.  Many fingers in many pies, pie filling spraying everywhere, small chihuahuas scuttling over to eat up said spilled pie filling, tripping over the chihuahua and into a nearby shelf full of delicate crystal figurines, accidentally dragging myself by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing httpAsia!</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/08/07/introducing-httpasia/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/08/07/introducing-httpasia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yongfook.com/2007/08/07/introducing-httpasia/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is something I&#8217;ve wanted to do for a long time.  A place of my own where I can talk about the industry I live in, work in and love.  A platform that I&#8217;m hoping is going to help create English-language awareness of the Far Eastern web industry and its exciting movements across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Being Pretty</title>
		<link>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/07/27/the-art-of-being-pretty/</link>
		<comments>http://archive.yongfook.com/2007/07/27/the-art-of-being-pretty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yongfook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook is proving quite resourceful these days as a place where I can stumble upon pictures of my 16-year old self, uploaded by well-meaning old school friends.  Just goes to show, you can burn all your photos, you can deny your past, you can have extensive electro-shock therapy to forget what you looked like [...]]]></description>
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