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Apologies for the self-referential nature of this entry: it’s a blog post about a letter responding to a letter about blog posts, tagged with the keywords “Blogging” and “Letters”.<\/p>\n

I have returned to the letters page of theguardian with this quip<\/a>, which I decided to send rather than go to the effort of a proper rebuttal. The letter I was replying to was printed on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other blogging news, I have spruced up the site a bit. Let me know what you think, and please report any problems. It’s not looking quite right on Firefox<\/a>, so there’s some tweaking to be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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