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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog</title>
	<link>http://blog.taragana.com</link>
	<description>News and views from a Software Architect and Entrepreneur on Java and Web 2.0</description>
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		<title>(WordPress) Translator Plugin Gold Version 1.2 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator Plugin Gold (for WordPress blogs) provides automatic machine translation of blogs in 32 languages (more will be added soon) - German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, Russian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latin American Spanish, Filipino, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-translator-plugin-gold-version-12-released/</link>
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		<title>(WordPress) Translator Plugin Pro Version 5.2 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator Plugin Pro (for WordPress blogs) provides automatic machine translation of blogs in 13+1 languages (many more will be added soon) - German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and optionally Norwegian (note: we provide 32 languages with Translator Plugin Gold). We provide unlimited free updates and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-translator-plugin-pro-version-52-released/</link>
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		<title>LayeredTech, Dedicated Web Hosting Provider, Suddenly Increases Price by 26%; Twice in 12 Months</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a long time LayeredTech dedicated server customer. Today out of the blue LayeredTech increased the price by 26%! None of the "service improvements" directly benefits average customers like us:

Implementation of a new enterprise-wide management system to integrate all client touch points and improve response times.
Roll out of new virtualization services to enable a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/layeredtech-suddenly-increases-price-by-26-twice-in-12-months/</link>
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		<title>We Are Hiring!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out our career page and open positions. We prefer candidates from Kolkata, India. Exceptional candidates out of state will also be considered. In short we are looking for:
1. Software Engineer
You will be developing very high quality software products and services catering to a worldwide market.
Java (JSP, Servlets etc.), PHP and Javascript are the key [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/we-are-hiring/</link>
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		<title>Simple Open Source Trouble Ticket System / Customer Support System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was looking for a simple free &#038; open source trouble ticket system. I checked several of them, all the popular ones and more. I scanned through all the lists, which unfortunately haven't been updated for years. Anyway after slogging for several hours, I present you with the simplest, easy to use and well featured [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/simple-open-source-trouble-ticket-system-customer-support-system/</link>
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		<title>WordPress.com&#8217;s Dedicated Web Hosting Provider LayeredTech User Accounts Compromised</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Automattic hosts WordPress.com using dedicated servers from LayeredTech. According to Todd Abrams, President &#038; COO of Layered Technologies:
"The Layered Technologies support database was a target of malicious activity on the evening of 9/17/2007 that may have involved the illegal downloading of information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and server login details for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpresscoms-dedicated-web-hosting-provider-layeredtech-accounts-compromised/</link>
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		<title>Sun Joins The Dark Lord: Brilliant Strategic Move or Totally Lost?</title>
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As you all probably know by now Sun decided to sell Windows 2003 servers (gasp, sputter&#8230; Scott McNealy would surely turn in his grave on hearing this news; wait a minute, he is still the Chairman of Sun) on its hardware. The key question on everyone's mind is has Sun finally found a direction as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sun-joins-the-dark-lord-strategic-move-or-totally-lost/</link>
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		<title>Windows Vista Service Pack 1 in Q1 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vista Service Pack 1 is likely to be released to manufacturing in the first quarter of 2008, will not be as significant a feature release as Windows XP Service Pack 2. It will roll up many of the incremental performance and security updates Microsoft has been making since last November.
"SP1 will contain changes focused on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/windows-vista-service-pack-1-in-q1-2008/</link>
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		<title>Top 5 Reasons Why BSNL DataOne Broadband Sucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. They, for all purposes, do not have customer support:

There is a number (1800-424-1600) but when there are problems in the line, nobody picks it up.
In the rare cases when somebody does pickup and answer, they can never solve any problem. They will just take the complaint and give you a number.
The complaints are never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-5-reasons-why-bsnl-dataone-broadband-sucks/</link>
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		<title>Free Open Source Alternative To Adobe Photoshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chuq Von Rospach is an Adobe Photoshop veteran. Recently he had series of bad experiences with Adobe Photoshop customer support. In essence what was promised on Adobe's site wasn't honored by Customer reps, what customer reps said wasn't honored by another group, resulting him paying much more for the software than he should have. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/an-alternative-to-adobe-photoshop/</link>
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