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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; Humor</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>Amazing AdSense Relevance With Context Sensitive Ads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am continually amazed at how relevant ads (context sensitive advertisement) AdSense serves on certain articles. Here is a recent example on my post about future WordPress plugins.
A simple quiz: How many bloggers (using WordPress) are interested in fairness cream?
The only logic could be that AdSense is targetting the female demographic of my blog. Any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/amazing-adsense-relevance-with-context-sensitive-ads/</link>
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		<title>Do I Look Like VSNL / Tata Indicom?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tell me do I look like Tata Indicom? 



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Tata Indicom

Angsuman


Does this blog look like Tata Indicom?
Then why do I keep receiving such complaints (see below)?

Richard D. (name slightly obfuscated) wrote: This is richard from integrated stock broking services ,i had given a complaint on regarding internet problem on 12/06/2008 by morning 11, by 5.30 ur [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/do-i-look-like-vsnl-tata-indicom/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Teaching Java Using Eclipse at JavaOne 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was amazed to find Microsoft design engineer Mugunthan Mugundan teaching Java (how to create REST output using Java) using Eclipse IDE. I found it rich in irony at many levels. What do you think?
Obviously some Microsoft employees didn't find it amusing, Muguntan was more sporting.
Throughput the presentation Microsoft's name wasn't even mentioned once.
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-teaches-java/</link>
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		<title>Sun&#8217;s CEO Jonathan Scwartz Caught in Drooling April Fool Prank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch Sun Microsystem's CEO, Jonathan Scwartz caught flat-footed in a drooling prank conducted in connivance with a Venture Capitalist (Ted Schlein on Kleiner Perkins Caufield &#038; Byers?).
Sun is traditionally known for elaborate April Fool pranks. This April 1st Jonathan learned a valuable lesson - never to trust a VC 
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/suns-ceo-jonathan-scwartz-caught-in-drooling-april-fool-prank/</link>
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		<title>Heard on Twitter&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Are you doing SEO for lonely middle age men looking for their next young bride?"
"Because brain eating zombies and hotties were not enough, you can now, apparently buy and sell me on facebook&#8230;?"
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/heard-on-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Java is Omnipresent!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A nice video on Java showing the ubiquitousness of Java. Now read on to deflate your ego before it bursts.
Java has a large presence in mobile world. If you are feeling too good about being a Java programmers, here is another video to deflate your ego and bring it down to size 

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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-is-omnipresent/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Credos of Klingon Programmer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 10 credos of a Klingon programmer covering (Klingon) Software Development Life Cycle: 

Specifications are for the weak and timid!
You cannot really appreciate ‘User Friendly’ until you’ve read it in the original Klingon.
A TRUE Klingon Warrior does not comment his code!
Behold, the keyboard of Kalis! The greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!
Indentation? - I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-credos-of-klingon-programmer/</link>
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		<title>Interview of a B.Tech. Computer Science Graduate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished interviewing a candidate with B.Tech. in Computer Science from W.B.U.T. University. He claimed that he knows C, Core Java &#038; Software Engineering in his resume. After some time of interviewing, I hit on an inspiration. I asked him to write Hello World!, the simplest Java program you can think of.
He was unable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/interview-of-a-btech-computer-science-graduate/</link>
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		<title>Do I Know How To Hack MySpace?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had previously stated clearly that I will not help anyone to hack MySpace, even if I did know how to. Guess how can you incite me? Here is a very interesting email I received through the contact form which does that admirably:
emily waters wrote: well you answered my question you said you dont help [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/do-i-know-how-to-hack-myspace/</link>
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		<title>IIT Picnic Photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday I went to IIT Alumni picnic in Ibiza resort in Kolkata. Check the slideshow (thanks to Siddharth Roy Chowdhury @ SAIL). Can you spot me?
You can find me below in a serious discussion possibly thinking of saving the world before dinner.

The food was great!

The best part was that when I went in I [...]]]></description>
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