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		<title>a big boy did it and ran away</title>
		<link>https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2026/09/21/a-big-boy-did-it-and-ran-away/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JP]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I first came across this phrase in a Billy Connolly sketch, and learnt that it was a different way of saying the Billy Bunter habitual statement: it wasn’t me, I wasn’t there, I never threw the ball at your window. Shirking responsibility is not a new thing. It’s as old as humanity. Experimentation is not &#8230; <a href="https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2026/09/21/a-big-boy-did-it-and-ran-away/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "a big boy did it and ran away"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>More on agents and trust and permissions</title>
		<link>https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2026/09/15/more-on-agents-and-trust-and-permissions/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JP]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my last post I mentioned the case of my having someone&#8217;s private and personal mobile phone number, and being asked for that number by someone else. There is a trust issue there, I should consider myself a steward of that information. I am not at liberty to give that information away willy-nilly to anyone &#8230; <a href="https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2026/09/15/more-on-agents-and-trust-and-permissions/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "More on agents and trust and permissions"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Of agents and trust and permissions</title>
		<link>https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2026/09/13/of-agents-and-trust-and-permissions/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JP]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I think about agents, I think of what permissions I have to give someone else in order for them to represent me, and what permissions I have to receive to be someone&#8217;s agent. Permissions. Agents will be able to do magical things for us. Save us time. Complete tasks that are humanly difficult, sometimes &#8230; <a href="https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2026/09/13/of-agents-and-trust-and-permissions/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Of agents and trust and permissions"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>a preponderance of pap</title>
		<link>https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2026/02/20/a-preponderance-of-pap/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JP]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Warning: This is a long and rambling post. Somewhere, sometime, some beast birthed from AI will try and summarise it. I wish it well; but I can&#8217;t help giggling at the thought of it trying and failing. Only recently, I came across the term ai;dr; it made me smile; I smiled further when I watched &#8230; <a href="https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2026/02/20/a-preponderance-of-pap/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "a preponderance of pap"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>musing about cricket</title>
		<link>https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2025/07/22/6701/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JP]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 21:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was brought up to believe that a good game of Test cricket is one that gets to day 5 with all four results possible. That a great game or makes it to the final session of the final day with all four results still possible. And that an incredible game makes it to a &#8230; <a href="https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2025/07/22/6701/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "musing about cricket"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Musing about filters and brakes: A long post</title>
		<link>https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2024/09/03/musing-about-filters-and-brakes-a-long-post/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JP]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 21:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A detour My use of &#8220;filters and brakes&#8221; was not meant to be clickbait to entice you here on false premises. This isn&#8217;t a post about cars, or anything to do with cars. This is the wrong place to come to if you want to read about cars. I&#8217;ve never owned a car. I&#8217;ve never &#8230; <a href="https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2024/09/03/musing-about-filters-and-brakes-a-long-post/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Musing about filters and brakes: A long post"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Double Double Double</title>
		<link>https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2024/08/26/the-double-double-double/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JP]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 22:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction You have been warned. This one&#8217;s for hardcore cricket nuts. Red-ball nuts. Five-day nuts. The hardest of the hardcore. No coloured pajamas here. This post is to celebrate all-rounders. More particularly, men who have done &#8220;the double&#8221; of 1000 runs and 100 wickets in Test cricket. (At this stage, my analysis only covers the &#8230; <a href="https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2024/08/26/the-double-double-double/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "The Double Double Double"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Double Dagger-Asterisk: For cricket anoraks only</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JP]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Background When Google first arrived on the scene, I used to enjoy constructing &#8220;unGoogleable&#8221; questions and sharing them with others. My fascination with the number 229 in men&#8217;s Test cricket used to be the basis of one such unGoogleable question. (Technically, my fascination began with 224, and then 228, and has stayed at 229 since &#8230; <a href="https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2024/02/16/the-double-dagger-asterisk-for-cricket-anoraks-only/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "The Double Dagger-Asterisk: For cricket anoraks only"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thinking lazily about capacity and constraints</title>
		<link>https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2023/09/22/thinking-lazily-about-capacity-and-constraints/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JP]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 21:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction: The Dirty Dozen U. Or A. When it came to film ratings, that&#8217;s all there was, when I was growing up in Calcutta in the 1960s and 1970s. A film was rated either Universal or Adult. There was no 12 or 18 or R or X or anything else. Just U or A. It &#8230; <a href="https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2023/09/22/thinking-lazily-about-capacity-and-constraints/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Thinking lazily about capacity and constraints"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Song songs</title>
		<link>https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2023/08/28/song-songs/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JP]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction This is a post about song songs. A term that probably doesn&#8217;t mean much to you. Not surprising. I made the term up when I was maybe thirteen. Now remember this was over fifty years ago, not just before streaming, not just before MP3s, but a long time ago. Before CDs. Even before cassette &#8230; <a href="https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2023/08/28/song-songs/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Song songs"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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