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		<title>To Tweet or Not To: @What I Follow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it cool to be on twitter?

I end up reading about facebook and Twitter more than I need to for social or work reasons. However, it will surprising to know that is more for intellectual curiosity for the underlying technologies and the infrastructure and scalability issues than for the social networking.
I was once bitten by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reality Distortion Field: It Exists!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I finally did succumb to spending the money to buy an iPhone 3G before it got to the free with contract price.
iPhone does not really need a dated review from me, especially given the fact I did not have other 3G WinMo phones to compare against. I do enjoy very much the touchscreen and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Age of Humans: Will labour be back in demand?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading about all the news with the oil futures spike, peak oil theories and inflation makes me wonder if good old two hands will become more important in the future for a country.
Whenever I compare India (where I was born) and USA (where I live), I find that anything that requires human touch is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investing Gems: Do not invest too much time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once in a while I get the urge to do something with the few savings that we have sitting in the savings and retirement accounts. Something aggressive, creative or opportunistic. I always go back to sanity by reading a few bookmarks.
Here is an article in the San Francisco magazine that is the sanity check. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super Bowl XLII Winner: Corey Webster!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.kiran.srilatha.com/bondlog/2008/02/05/super-bowl-xlii-winner-corey-webster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine Eli Manning and the NY Giants missing the points on their last drive. Many (if not all) news bulletins would have carried the photo of Randy Moss hauling in the pass from Tom Brady while Corey Webster was spread eagled even before the Ball was anywhere near Moss. It would have been painted as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buying Customers: Microsoft and Yahoo is about no more Innovation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft and Yahoo potential merger is being billed as the largest tech merger.  When such large software companies merge, it worries me. 
There are many facets to the merger including markets, web presence, customers, communication tools, employees, work culture, among others. When financial companies that have money in their accounts merge they just become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing It Inexpensive: At the Trailing Edge of Technology</title>
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		<comments>http://www.kiran.srilatha.com/bondlog/2007/09/05/playing-it-inexpensive-at-the-trailing-edge-of-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was LMAO ROFL (enjoying it immensely) when I saw the announcement of the Apple iPhone price cut to 399 all the way from 599 (or to 400 from 600 as your brain should really see it). Whatever be the reasons for the price cut, the joke is on those guys who stood in line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signalling on Rails: Tips on Exception Notifier</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you are developing rails apps and you are hacking your way around, it is fine to get a bunch of errors and screen dump of what went wrong. However, when you start deploying it and want to convince users to accept the new system exceptions are like segfaults. You do not want them to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planting Trees: using railstree plugin in Ruby on Rails</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bondlog/~3/6LNsBPsxVvY/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiran.srilatha.com/bondlog/2007/07/14/planting-trees-using-railstree-plugin-in-ruby-on-rails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking for a quick way to build a hierarchical navigation tool in Ruby on Rails. There are good examples to build your own tree in Ruby when you use acts_as_tree and Single Table Inheritance etc., but nothing very easy to do otherwise.
A little bit of searching led me to the railstree plugin (source). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running Free on Rails: Displaying results of find_by_sql queries</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we construct views of query results using ERb in rails, most of the time we know what we are displaying and how to format it. However, there are  a few occasions when we run find_by_sql queries. Even rare are the occasions when we let users type free-form SQL queries into an input box [...]]]></description>
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