geo-spider 0.2.1 → 0.2.3

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  1. data/History.txt +3 -2
  2. data/Manifest.txt +5 -9
  3. data/{README.txt → README.rdoc} +1 -1
  4. data/Rakefile +27 -3
  5. data/lib/geo-spider.rb +7 -4
  6. data/lib/geo-spider/exceptions.rb +1 -0
  7. data/lib/geo-spider/extractors/base.rb +1 -0
  8. data/lib/geo-spider/page.rb +3 -1
  9. data/lib/geo-spider/site.rb +1 -2
  10. data/spec/assets/pages/empty_body.html +527 -0
  11. data/spec/assets/pages/page_with_widget_links.html +1018 -0
  12. data/spec/assets/pages/postcode_in_url.html +511 -0
  13. data/spec/geo-spider/page_spec.rb +29 -0
  14. metadata +44 -19
  15. data/PostInstall.txt +0 -0
  16. data/config/hoe.rb +0 -73
  17. data/config/requirements.rb +0 -15
  18. data/lib/geo-spider/version.rb +0 -9
  19. data/setup.rb +0 -1585
  20. data/tasks/deployment.rake +0 -34
  21. data/tasks/environment.rake +0 -7
  22. data/tasks/website.rake +0 -9
data/History.txt CHANGED
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
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- == 0.1.0 2008-09-06
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+ == 0.0.1 2008-11-24
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- * Initial release
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+ * 1 major enhancement:
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+ * Initial release
data/Manifest.txt CHANGED
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  History.txt
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  License.txt
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  Manifest.txt
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- PostInstall.txt
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- README.txt
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+ README.rdoc
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  Rakefile
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- config/hoe.rb
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- config/requirements.rb
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  lib/geo-spider.rb
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+ lib/geo-spider/exceptions.rb
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  lib/geo-spider/extractors/base.rb
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  lib/geo-spider/extractors/master.rb
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  lib/geo-spider/extractors/microformat.rb
@@ -14,13 +12,14 @@ lib/geo-spider/extractors/postcode.rb
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  lib/geo-spider/location.rb
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  lib/geo-spider/page.rb
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  lib/geo-spider/site.rb
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- lib/geo-spider/version.rb
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  script/console
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  script/destroy
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  script/generate
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- setup.rb
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+ spec/assets/pages/empty_body.html
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  spec/assets/pages/multiple_postcodes_and_microformats.html
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  spec/assets/pages/page_with_links.html
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+ spec/assets/pages/page_with_widget_links.html
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+ spec/assets/pages/postcode_in_url.html
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  spec/assets/pages/separate_microformat_and_postcode.html
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  spec/assets/pages/single_microformat.html
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  spec/assets/pages/single_postcode.html
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  spec/geo-spider/site_spec.rb
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  spec/spec.opts
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  spec/spec_helper.rb
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- tasks/deployment.rake
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- tasks/environment.rake
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  tasks/rspec.rake
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- tasks/website.rake
data/{README.txt → README.rdoc} RENAMED
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ The typical use case is spidering an entire blog for posts which contain geodata
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  Different methods for extracting geodata can be used. It currently supports UK postcodes and the abbr design pattern geo microformat <http://microformats.org/wiki/geo>.
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- It is current in use behind the scenes of the Geoblogomatic <http://www.geoblogomatic.com>
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+ It is current in use behind the scenes of the Geoblogomatic <http://www.geoblogomatic.com>.
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  == FEATURES/PROBLEMS:
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data/Rakefile CHANGED
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- require 'config/requirements'
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- require 'config/hoe' # setup Hoe + all gem configuration
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+ %w[rubygems rake rake/clean fileutils newgem rubigen].each { |f| require f }
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+ require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/lib/geo-spider'
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- Dir['tasks/**/*.rake'].each { |rake| load rake }
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+ # Generate all the Rake tasks
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+ # Run 'rake -T' to see list of generated tasks (from gem root directory)
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+ $hoe = Hoe.new('geo-spider', GeoSpider::VERSION) do |p|
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+ p.developer('Tom Taylor', 'tom@tomtaylor.co.uk')
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+ p.changes = p.paragraphs_of("History.txt", 0..1).join("\n\n")
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+ p.rubyforge_name = 'geospider'
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+ p.extra_deps = [
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+ ['hpricot','>= 0.6.164'],
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+ ['graticule', '>= 0.2.8']
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+ ]
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+ p.extra_dev_deps = [
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+ ['newgem', ">= #{::Newgem::VERSION}"]
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+ ]
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+
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+ p.clean_globs |= %w[**/.DS_Store tmp *.log]
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+ path = (p.rubyforge_name == p.name) ? p.rubyforge_name : "\#{p.rubyforge_name}/\#{p.name}"
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+ p.remote_rdoc_dir = File.join(path.gsub(/^#{p.rubyforge_name}\/?/,''), 'rdoc')
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+ p.rsync_args = '-av --delete --ignore-errors'
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+ end
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+ require 'newgem/tasks' # load /tasks/*.rake
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+ Dir['tasks/**/*.rake'].each { |t| load t }
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+
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+ # TODO - want other tests/tasks run by default? Add them to the list
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+ # task :default => [:spec, :features]
data/lib/geo-spider.rb CHANGED
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  $:.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__)) unless
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  $:.include?(File.dirname(__FILE__)) || $:.include?(File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__)))
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  require 'rubygems'
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  require 'hpricot'
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  require 'open-uri'
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+ require 'geo-spider/exceptions'
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  require 'geo-spider/page'
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  require 'geo-spider/site'
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  module GeoSpider
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-
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+ VERSION = '0.2.3'
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  DEFAULT_USER_AGENT = 'geo-spider (http://github.com/tomtaylor/geo-spider)'
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  def self.user_agent
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  @user_agent || DEFAULT_USER_AGENT
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  end
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  def self.user_agent=(user_agent)
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  @user_agent = user_agent
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  end
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  end
data/lib/geo-spider/exceptions.rb ADDED
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+ class InvalidElement < Exception; end
data/lib/geo-spider/extractors/base.rb CHANGED
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  class Base
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  def initialize(element)
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  end
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data/lib/geo-spider/page.rb CHANGED
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  DEFAULT_CONTENT_CSS_SELECTOR = "body" # Find locations within the entire body by default
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  DEFAULT_TITLE_CSS_SELECTOR = "title" # Use the title in the head by deault
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+ DO_NOT_SPIDER_REGEXP = /(mp3|m4a|mov|jpg|png|gif|zip|pdf)$/i # do not spider these extensions by default
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  @site = options[:site]
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  @content_css_selector = options[:content_css_selector] || DEFAULT_CONTENT_CSS_SELECTOR
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  @title_css_selector = options[:title_css_selector] || DEFAULT_TITLE_CSS_SELECTOR
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+ @do_not_spider_regexp = options[:do_not_spider_regexp] || DO_NOT_SPIDER_REGEXP
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  end
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  end
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  def rejected_url?(url_to_test)
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+ url_to_test =~ @do_not_spider_regexp
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  end
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  def normalize_url(link_url)
data/lib/geo-spider/site.rb CHANGED
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  def each_page(options = {}, &block)
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+ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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+ <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="sixapart-standard">
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+ <head>
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+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
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+ <meta name="generator" content="http://www.typepad.com/" />
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+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.stalbansblog.co.uk/styles.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
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+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="/.shared-typepad/themes/common/print.css" type="text/css" media="print" />
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+ <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Posts on 'St. Albans Blog' (Atom)" href="http://www.stalbansblog.co.uk/atom.xml" />
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+ <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Posts on 'St. Albans Blog' (RSS 1.0)" href="http://www.stalbansblog.co.uk/index.rdf" />
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+ <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Posts on 'St. Albans Blog' (RSS 2.0)" href="http://www.stalbansblog.co.uk/rss.xml" />
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+ <title>St. Albans Blog: Italian Market</title>
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+ <link rel="start" href="http://www.stalbansblog.co.uk/" title="Home" />
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+ <link rel="prev" href="http://www.stalbansblog.co.uk/2008/07/little-wonders.html?no_prefetch=1" title="Little Wonders - independent Toy Shop" />
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+ <link rel="next" href="http://www.stalbansblog.co.uk/2008/07/aylett-nursery.html?no_prefetch=1" title="Aylett Nursery St. Albans" />
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+ </head>
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+ <body class="layout-three-column">
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+ <div id="container">
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+ <div id="container-inner" class="pkg">
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+ <!-- banner -->
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+ <div id="banner">
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+ <div id="banner-inner" class="pkg">
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+ <h1 id="banner-header"><a href="http://www.stalbansblog.co.uk/" accesskey="1">St. Albans Blog</a></h1>
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+ <h2 id="banner-description">St. Albans blog contains information and independent reviews about living, shopping, eating and drinking in St. Albans. It's authored primarily by a man in his 30's who occasionally begs for posts from other local bloggers. No cash or other rewards have ever been received in an exchange for a review.</h2>
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+ </div>
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+ <div id="pagebody">
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+ <div id="pagebody-inner" class="pkg">
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+ <div id="alpha">
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+ <!-- sidebar1 -->
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+ <div class="module-typelist module">
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+ <h2 class="module-header">Map of Free Wifi in St. Albans</h2>
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+ <div class="typelist-plain module-content">
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+ <ul class="module-list">
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><div class="typelist-note"><center><iframe width="130" height="150" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;s=AARTsJrbAs_r5IX1HX9M6iqPXQhAxB9e5A&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=103236823974929135255.0004372dd3f9a1d1e65bf&amp;ll=51.750733,-0.342636&amp;spn=0.00797,0.011158&amp;z=14&amp;output=embed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=103236823974929135255.0004372dd3f9a1d1e65bf&amp;ll=51.750733,-0.342636&amp;spn=0.00797,0.011158&amp;z=14&amp;source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small></center></div></li>
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+ </div>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><div class="typelist-note"><!-- Start of Flickr Badge -->
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+ <center><style type="text/css">
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+ #flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;}
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+ #flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;}
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+ #flickr_badge_source {padding:0 !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#666666 !important;}
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+ <script src="http://www.flickr.com/badge_code_v2.gne?show_name=1&count=3&display=latest&size=t&layout=v&source=all_tag&tag=St.+Albans&user=40571485%40N00" type="text/javascript"></script>
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+ <td id="flickr_badge_source_txt">More <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/St. Albans/">Flickr photos tagged with St. Albans</a></td>
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+ </tr></table>
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+ </td>
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+ </tr>
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+ </table>
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+ </td></tr></table></center>
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+ <!-- End of Flickr Badge --></div></li>
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+ </ul>
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+ </div>
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+ </div>
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+ <div class="module-typelist module">
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+ <h2 class="module-header">Local Bloggers</h2>
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+ <div class="module-content">
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+ <ul class="module-list">
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://wwasightings.blogspot.com/">Watercress Wildlife Sightings</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://tall-rich.livejournal.com/">Volumes from Verulamium</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://uhwatch.com/">UH Watch (unofficial herts uni)</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.trunkguy.com">TrunkGuy.com</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://lifeandtimesofmrsb.blogspot.com/">the life and times of Mrs.B</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.snoo.net">The Daily Snoo</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.thebroadsheetrag.co.uk/">The Broadsheet Rag</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://tescocampaign.blogspot.com">Stop Tesco (St. Albans)</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.qype.co.uk/people/StephaniexXx/">StephaniexXx on Qype</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://stalbanscyclecampaign.blogspot.com/">St. Albans Cycle Campaign</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.shedworking.co.uk">Shedworking</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://radioverulam.blogspot.com/">Radio Verulam Blog</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.pompomemporium.com">Pom Pom Emporium</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://planetmike.blogspot.com/">PlanetMike</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://nontrivialsolutions.blogspot.com/">Non-trivial Solutions</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://maban.co.uk/index.php/blog/">maban (designer)</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://lifeinthenhs.blogspot.com/">Life in the NHS</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://kateallan.blogspot.com/">Kate Allan</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.journeytorussia.co.uk/">Journey To Russia</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://jonmell.co.uk">Jon Mell's Web 2.0 ideas & strategy</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.hertsad.co.uk/flatfiles/weblogs/default.aspx">Herts Ad blogs</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://digitalevangelist.blogspot.com/">Digital Evangelist</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.neiloxtoby.com/blog/">Detritus</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.cybersoc.com">cybersoc.com</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.cuddlybear.org/">Cuddly Bear</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.carlknibbs.net">Carl's Product Management Blog</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://biztwozero.com/btz/">Business Two Zero</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://beingamummy.blogspot.com/">Being a Mummy</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://alwaysthecritic.typepad.com/">Always The Critic</a></li>
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+ <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://ornsfan.blogspot.com/">8th Worst Type of Fan</a></li>
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+ </div>
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+ <script src="http://pipes.yahoo.com/js/listbadge.js">{"pipe_id":"HPLV4t_e3BGEKJqjX0sBXw","_btype":"list","width":"196","height":"200"}</script>
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+ <p class="content-nav">
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+ <a href="http://www.stalbansblog.co.uk/2008/07/little-wonders.html">&laquo; Little Wonders - independent Toy Shop</a> |
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+ <a href="http://www.stalbansblog.co.uk/">Main</a>
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+ | <a href="http://www.stalbansblog.co.uk/2008/07/aylett-nursery.html">Aylett Nursery St. Albans &raquo;</a>
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+ </p>
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+ <h3 class="entry-header">Italian Market</h3>
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+ <p><a href="http://cybersoc.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/19/italian_market.jpg"><img class="image-full" src="http://cybersoc.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/19/italian_market.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>
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+ <div class="entry-footer">
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+ <span class="post-footers">07/19/2008 </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="http://www.stalbansblog.co.uk/2008/07/italian-marke-1.html">Permalink</a>
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