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		<title>Free pen holders &#8211; getcha some</title>
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Inspired by addictive blog Apartment Therapy &#8211; and an OCD-need to keep my pens in separate homes &#8211; I set out recently to make my own pen holders:

One for pencils
One each for blue, black and red pens
One for highlighters
One for Sharpies

&#8230;you get the sorry idea.


What do you think?

From humble cans of coconut milk to centre [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ballywick.com/blog/your-working-life/how-to-make-pen-holder/</link>
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		<title>Won&#8217;t somebody think of the children?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might find me a psychotic grammar she-demon, but I think I&#8217;m rather a benevolent soul.
As such, I&#8217;d give these chaps the benefit of the doubt. I would. And I tried.
But there are three babies in this picture &#8211; 3 babies all equally on-the-go. 
Which means&#8230; I&#8217;ll have to cry instead.
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		<link>http://www.ballywick.com/blog/misc-writing/wont-somebody-think-of-the-children/</link>
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		<title>Feeling bendy? Try this office yoga</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The lovely Esther at Yogatic offers daytime relief to cube monkeys and work-at-home-types alike &#8211; though I might give it a miss at the Starbucks mobile office. Close your eyes and count forward to Friday&#8230;.
 



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		<link>http://www.ballywick.com/blog/your-working-life/office-yoga/</link>
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		<title>Affect vs. effect &#8211; with visual aids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Grammar Girl fights the good fight, I&#8217;d thought I&#8217;d join in with some handy visual aids.


&#8216;affect&#8217; vs. &#8216;effect&#8217;, what&#8217;s the difference?
Never again have to cross your fingers as you hit send/print/launch &#8211; not really knowing whether you&#8217;ve used &#8216;affect&#8217; or &#8216;effect&#8217; correctly.




General rule?

affect is the verb
effect is the noun

But! English being English (that is, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ballywick.com/blog/misc-writing/affect-vs-effect-with-visual-aids/</link>
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		<title>Love your laptop? 4 ways to keep it safe</title>
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Keep your laptop safe from thieves

 
Here’s my own happened-to-a-friend-of-a-friend urban myth:

A man’s using his laptop on a train &#8211; sitting in the seats that face others across a table. As the train pulls into the station, the man turns to his briefcase to put his iPod away. Before he can realise what’s happening, the respectable-looking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ballywick.com/blog/your-working-life/how-to-keep-laptop-safe/</link>
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		<title>Expensive office storage? I think not.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boxes and buckets. Does life get better? Nope.
My absolute favourite section of Ikea &#8211; I type erratically as heart palpitates &#8211; is the ‘office organisation’ area. The boxes &#38; buckets section.
In most Ikea stores &#8211; I’ve studied this &#8211; you enter Mecca after escaping the food court disaster. Run from fat kids shoving 50¢ hot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ballywick.com/blog/your-working-life/ikea-office-storage-hack/</link>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Click or Treat gets an A+</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no laurel-resting at Camp Google. After last month&#8217;s UFO mystery caught our attention, they&#8217;ve gone for the details yet again with today&#8217;s Click or Treat. 


Love it.
Does your website have a quirky underbelly to amuse and reward visitors that pay attention?
Mine does. I blatantly reference 2 of the best movies ever made on pages of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ballywick.com/blog/brand-identity/google-click-or-trea/</link>
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		<title>Boo hiss, Universal</title>
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I went to see Couples [sic] Retreat this weekend. A research project.
I&#8217;d hoped to see 4 couples (gorgeous girls curiously married to guys way out of their league) fleeing backwards for 2 hours. Nonstop withdrawal from Place A to Place B. It mattered to me dearly. I needed them to run for their lives in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ballywick.com/blog/misc-writing/couples-retreat-apostroph/</link>
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		<title>You did what? Oh, you dummy.</title>
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It was a perfect afternoon for sunshine, chirping birds, fantastic iced coffee &#8211; an ideal ambiance.
It, too, was the day I&#8217;d work 3 hours on a document without saving it.
Yep, 3 hours. Without saving it.
Without. Saving it. (Stop laughing).
As anyone who&#8217;s ever lost that pages-long email just before sending it will understand &#8211; what I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ballywick.com/blog/your-working-life/forgot-to-save-document/</link>
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		<title>My good opinion once lost is lost forever. You?</title>
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I get concerned whenever Dan Brown pops up again &#8211; back for more money? &#8211; and then get angry. Never in this century have lucrative writing and digestible English been prised so far apart. (Last century? I pick John Gray.) Yuck.
Agree? Good. 
Disagree? See how you can stomach the Telegraph&#8217;s pick of &#8220;Dan Brown&#8217;s 20 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ballywick.com/blog/business-book-review/go-away-dan-brown/</link>
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