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	<title>Babu Srinivasan's blog</title>
	
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		<title>Don’t worry, the Indian cricket team is not involved in match-fixing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent allegations of match fixing involving some members of the Pakistani cricket team
have come as a shock to the cricketing fraternity and fans worldwide. Sports commentators are wondering whether the game of cricket has been permanently tainted by&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The last password you’ll have to remember</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of passwords one needs to remember just keeps going up. My initial
solution of storing them in an encrypted file was obviously not very convenient. I used <a href="http://keepass.info/">keypass</a> for a while. But I wanted a solution that&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Motorola Milestone Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[android]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scala]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Couple of weeks back I got a Motorola Milestone phone. Finally, a Motorola phone that I can carry with pride. There are lots of things to like about the phone but I will list the negatives first.

Qwerty keypad design&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Do your homework before you fly</title>
		<link>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/world/do-your-homework-before-you-fly</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 19:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A woman told the cabin crew that she heard the cleric saying over phone "jahaz udne wala hai, ham udane wala hai" (the plane is about to take off, we are about to blow up), police said.]]></description>
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		<title>Dynamic Programming</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haskell]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.srinivasan.biz/?p=585</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Video lectures of MIT course 6-00Fall-2008 "Introduction to Computer Science and Programming" are available as part of open courseware. One of the topics is "Dynamic Programming" where the knapsack problem is discussed. The programming language used in the course is Python. I wish however that scala or haskell was used instead.]]></description>
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		<title>Bangalore theater operators: Do they care about children or the law?</title>
		<link>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/bangalore-theater-operators-do-they-care-about-children-or-the-law</link>
		<comments>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/bangalore-theater-operators-do-they-care-about-children-or-the-law#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste">In the US, MPAA assigns ratings like G, PG-13, R ratings to movies. In India, the censor board assigns ratings of U (Universal) and A (Adult).</div>

<div id="_mcePaste">In the US, when you go to a movie with a G</div>&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>hlint : your friendly code critic and adviser</title>
		<link>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/software/hlint-your-friendly-code-critic-and-adviser</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When learning a programming language, won&#8217;t it be nice if you can get some instant feedback on your code? Of course, you cannot expect feedback on bugs in your program. But each language has some built in functionality and idioms&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Google Maps: We cater to your delusions</title>
		<link>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/world/google-maps-we-cater-to-your-delusions</link>
		<comments>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/world/google-maps-we-cater-to-your-delusions#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s news:

<blockquote>
While China continues to claim Arunachal Pradesh as its own, technology giant Google seems to have decided to take a line to please both Beijing and New Delhi.

On the Google Maps site localised for users</blockquote>&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>If you have to learn just one programming language</title>
		<link>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/software/if-you-have-to-learn-just-one-programming-language</link>
		<comments>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/software/if-you-have-to-learn-just-one-programming-language#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a very good idea to learn several programming languages. It makes you a better programmer. But if you want to devote all your energies to becoming a proficient and productive programmer and want to learn one powerful, freely available, high level general-purpose language (not domain specific), what would you choose?]]></description>
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		<title>Google Web Toolkit and Google App Engine: Java end to end</title>
		<link>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/software/google-web-toolkit-and-google-app-engine-java-end-to-end</link>
		<comments>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/software/google-web-toolkit-and-google-app-engine-java-end-to-end#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now Google has come to the rescue by adding another language to the app engine &#8212; Java. Now you can have 'java' on the client and java on the server. The former is made possible by <a href="http://blog.srinivasan.biz/2008/04/05/google-web-toolkit">GWT (Google Web Toolkit)</a> which takes the code you write in Java and translates it into separate targeted javascript code for the 5 of the most common browsers.]]></description>
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