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		<title>Apologies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 18:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For reverting to the shitty site design but the whole damn thing folded like an origami story and I&#8217;m trying to put it all back together.
Burn in hell, Buddypress
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		<title>Burn in Purgatory, Spammers!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 04:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobs12</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[deleting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case anyone&#8217;s been wondering why VR has been so, er, messy lately, it&#8217;s because I rather naively updated to the latest release of the OS platform it runs on, only to discover that it&#8217;s a total dog&#8217;s breakfast and now I don&#8217;t even understand it myself. And the number of spam registrations is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big request to all users</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobs12</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[summer is coming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Please, please upload an avatar! Anything, it doesn&#8217;t matter what (although a mugshot is good &#8211; it&#8217;s always nice to see who you&#8217;re writing to).
Also there are so many spambot signups on the site, it takes me a lot of time to find and delete them all &#8211; it would be easier if real users [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to make best use of the site</title>
		<link>http://visarus.co.uk/blog/uncategorized/how-to-make-best-use-of-the-site.html</link>
		<comments>http://visarus.co.uk/blog/uncategorized/how-to-make-best-use-of-the-site.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobs12</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VisaRus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
If you&#8217;re joining to find work, fill out the &#8216;contacts&#8217; and &#8216;resume&#8217; sections of your profile with relevant information. Join groups and introduce yourself. Nobody except me will say &#8216;hello&#8217; if you just register and bugger off. Mention in various places that you&#8217;re looking for work, ask people to give you a shout if they hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to speak to Jack and Jill</title>
		<link>http://visarus.co.uk/blog/uncategorized/learning-to-speak-jack-and-jill.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobs12</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Went a bit overboard with a comment on a post on another site, but I&#8217;d been meaning to rant about it for a while anyway. If you&#8217;re interested, here you go: http://www.eltworld.net/2010/02/why-graded-readers-are-crap/comment-page-1/#comment-1304 &#8211; the OP is sort of about the pointlessness of feeding students with oversimplified language all the time.
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		<title>What to do in really crap weather in St. Petersburg</title>
		<link>http://visarus.co.uk/blog/uncategorized/what-to-do-in-really-crap-weather-in-st-petersburg.html</link>
		<comments>http://visarus.co.uk/blog/uncategorized/what-to-do-in-really-crap-weather-in-st-petersburg.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobs12</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every winter I used to do a VR Public Service Announcement about taking vitamins, getting fresh air and exercise and eating lots of fresh fruit and veg to keep your health and spirits and other things up during the long nights and short days.
This year the site was down for most of winter, and now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why VisaRus was unavailable to almost everyone after lunchtime today</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobs12</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[support]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://visarus.co.uk/?p=26</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I would like to uphold the fine tradition of posting exchanges with support staff at wherever VisaRus is hosted. The previous hosting just became worse than a joke, so I moved over to a &#8216;more reliable&#8217; host with &#8216;better support&#8217;.
Here&#8217;s what I hope is the culmination of several attempts to fix what would have seemed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What you can do with the new site &#8211; groups</title>
		<link>http://visarus.co.uk/blog/uncategorized/what-you-can-do-with-the-new-site-groups.html</link>
		<comments>http://visarus.co.uk/blog/uncategorized/what-you-can-do-with-the-new-site-groups.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobs12</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guidance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that new members are slowly trickling in again, it&#8217;s time to give some guidance as to how to make the most out of the new version of VisaRus.
The main thing that&#8217;s changed is that our old forum has gone (but old posts are archived at http://visarus.co.uk/forum/). It has been largely replaced by &#8216;groups&#8217; (a-la [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the point of inviting friends to VisaRus?</title>
		<link>http://visarus.co.uk/blog/uncategorized/whats-the-point-of-inviting-friends-to-visarus.html</link>
		<comments>http://visarus.co.uk/blog/uncategorized/whats-the-point-of-inviting-friends-to-visarus.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobs12</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching english in Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yep, VisaRus has gone a bit upmarket. For anyone who saw the splash page with the &#8216;VisaRus will be back and better than ever&#8217; message while the site was temporarily down, I hope you&#8217;re not dissapointed  
So, the point of inviting friends&#8230; well, most EFL-related sites are either about promoting their sponsors (yep, VR [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching English in Russia &#8211; is it worth it?</title>
		<link>http://visarus.co.uk/blog/uncategorized/teaching-english-in-russia-is-it-worth-it.html</link>
		<comments>http://visarus.co.uk/blog/uncategorized/teaching-english-in-russia-is-it-worth-it.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobs12</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[crap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saint Petersburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you really want to teach English in Russia? Seriously? Why?!
On the old VisaRus forum this question came up many times &#8211; if you&#8217;re out here for &#8216;the wrong reasons&#8217; then you might soon find yourself slumming it on a bench in Moskovsky Vokzal (the central railway station). Actually, a word of advice &#8211; Ladozhsky [...]]]></description>
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