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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; Humor</title>
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		<title>Get Tweets on Your T-shirt for $20, Earn Money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitterers, here is another news you will just love to know. Twitshirt brings you a service that lets you have your favorite twitter imprinted on a tee for $20. 'You can print your snarkiest, sappiest, most favoritest tweets onto an incredibly comfy American Apparel tee' - is what they say. And there is even more. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>meebo&#8217;s Sweet Reminder of &#8216;Come Back&#8217; Ad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Talk about putting it mildly but effectively, here is an advertisement that can really make you feel for it. meebo, the popular online instant messaging service that has GTalk, AIM, Yahoo etc featured in them, is reminding inactive people by this beautiful ad below. If you take a look closely, you will see that its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/meebos-sweet-reminder-of-come-back-ad/</link>
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		<title>10 Weird Flash Drives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Weirdness has no limits. While we being gadgetophilics have always tried to bring in the serious and most useful products to you first, fun and crazy samples have come running close. After reviewing 10 serious and handy flash drives, we came across a lot of others who can do the work but look rather awkward. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/10-weird-flash-drives/</link>
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		<title>How to make millions of dollars by blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is simple, really. The technique described here is so simple that you won't be able to believe your ears. I have been observing it over the years and soon realized it is a great money making technique to follow. I now present you the greatest money making technique online in 5 simple steps and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-make-millions-of-dollars-by-blogging/</link>
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		<title>10 Toy Gadgets for your Child</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Toys are the ultimate way to keep your children entertained. They will not let go of them no matter what. So gadgetophila decided that amongst all the seriousness, there should be a fun part for kids too. The whizkids of tomorrow should have fun with the gadgetastic toys right from now. But how do you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/10-toy-gadgets-for-your-child/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Funny April Fool Gadgets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the April Fool's Day approaching near why should the gadget geeks stay behind? Here is a list of top 5 gadgets that are specially meant to fool people for fun.
Read the hilarious chapter at gadgetophilia.com

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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-5-funny-april-fool-gadgets/</link>
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		<title>How to Infect a Human by Computer Virus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes its true and I am in no mood to be joking. You can infect a person through computer virus. You just need a nOOb's Windows machine (considering the reputation of Windows I am sure there will be lots of viruses in it and who doesn't know that pen drives just love them) and Jerry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-infect-a-human-by-computer-virus/</link>
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		<title>Is a Cracker a Hacker?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now how many of you have ever know who is a cracker. Without much ado I'll tell you a bad (read: an unethical mind with bad intentions) hacker is literally referred to as a cracker. I have many who ask me questions asking the definition of a hacker vs that of a cracker. Well if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-a-cracker-a-hacker/</link>
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		<title>Free.Tv iTunes App: 5 Reasons why You Better not Try it as Yet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CBS Mobile has introduced a new free app into the iTunes App store that streams a selection of its TV.com content onto the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. So that means you can actually make your iPhone a living TV with the CBS' Entertainment, Sports, and News divisions, plus snippets from additional CBS properties such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/freetv-comes-to-iphone/</link>
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		<title>Google Me: Innovative Publicity at its Best or Worst?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creativity makes you confused sometimes. The one I am going to show you now is quite debatable. You may say that it is kindda cool and new and you can say this was something which crossed the line of smartness and went into a ridiculous pool of concept. Its upto you to decide. Google me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-me-innovative-publicity-at-its-best-or-worst/</link>
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		<title>Windows Mobile 6.5 Secret Prototype Stolen. Remedy: Wait for 7.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bewitched in Barcelona
No sorry. this is no sequel to Sleepless in Seatle. That is exactly what is the case of Microsoft right now. I mean how miserably stupid can a king look like? Look at Microsoft and you have your answer. With the perfect private copy of Windows Mobile 6.5 they went to Barcelona for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/windows-mobile-65-secret-prototype-stolen-remedy-wait-for-70/</link>
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		<title>10 Funny iPhone Apps to Annoy your Mother-in-Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Standing at the edge of the lake, a man saw a woman flailing about in the deep water.  Unable to swim, the man screamed for help.  A trout fisherman ran up.  The man said, "My wife is drowning and I can't swim.  Please save her.  I'll give you a hundred dollars."  The fisherman dove into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/10-funny-iphone-apps-to-annoy-your-mother-in-law/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Facts of Rajnikanth and Chuck Norris: When Two Real Super Heroes Meet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its usually a very techie atmosphere at an online media office. So we decided to have a funny time with two of our favorite super heroes who have blessed us with their supernatural phenomena. The catch? You know and probably have seen both of them unlike Spideys and batmans. They are Chuck Norris (Delta Force [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-facts-of-rajnikanth-and-chuck-norris-when-two-real-super-heroes-meet/</link>
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		<title>Recession Hits Infosys. Remedy: Stop Going to Toilets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We know what goes in comes out. But implementing it in such a painful humor of real life is unique. Confused with my blabber?
One of the many things IT major Infosys is doing is to encourage staffers not to stay on beyond 7 pm to complete project deadlines. So, staffers won’t be allowed to take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/recession-hits-infosys-remedy-stop-going-to-toilets/</link>
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		<title>DragonBall Z: Show Timings for Cartoon Network India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After we went through a schedule check for Ben-10, that rompted us to do some findings in the world of DBZ as well. We all love Drabonball Z right? But Cartoon Network never had a clear list of shows according to the schedule, not that one knows for definite unless its searched for. So to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/dragonball-z-show-timings-for-cartoon-network-india/</link>
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		<title>Ben 10 and Ben 10 Alien Force: Show Timings for Cartoon Network India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello folks. After the grueling technical discussions in our blog, your continuous curiosity about Ben-10 and Dragonball Z have prompted us to do some findings in the world of cartoons as well. We all love Ben 10 right? But Cartoon Network never had a clear list of shows according to the schedule, not that one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ben-10-and-ben-10-alien-force-show-timings-for-cartoon-network-india/</link>
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		<title>why iFart is the Most Popular iPhone App</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everybody's farting around, with iFart. No pony and trap lol, its a blast and everyone is talking about it, so do I. It's iPhone's top app.  Now why is this new buzz-kid creating so much of noise, I mean for those  nasty sounds. iFart is the most popular, paid app in Apple Store beating the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-ifart-is-the-most-successful-iphone-application/</link>
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		<title>How to Add Smileys To Windows Live Writer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey lol, did you get your tongue rolling out for the smileys on Windows Live Writer. Believe me you gotta be the bad egg without those funky icons tweeting out of your scribbles. Smiley or for emoticons is what you call it. right? Yea, the ones you use along to spit buzz when your chat-gal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-add-smileys-to-windows-live-writer/</link>
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		<title>Why Should You Learn to Love CopyWriting? Twitterers Have 30 Suggestions for You!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All in a day's work they say. Our Ed, Angsuman Chakraborty was twittering the other day. He said to Jim Connolly of how passive he is to indulge into copy writing and Jim Connolly just aired the tweet, "Anyone got any tips on how @angsuman can learn to love copy writing?" that was IT. What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-should-you-learn-to-love-copywriting-twitterers-have-30-suggestions-for-you/</link>
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		<title>10 Most Stupid Gifts for this Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In our previous articles, we have hardly left any stone unturned to present you with the list of best Christmas deals. Today, while we were discussing which topic to write on, our Ed came out with a delightful concept.
“What if one doesn’t want to gift someone with good heart”
- “A type of revengeful gift pack [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/10-most-stupid-gifts-for-this-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Obama Loses to Sarah Palin in the Global Count - shows Google Zeitgeist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has compiled the names of this year's mega celebrities. The popularity is anything but to leave out  because its just not another list. Google says that these people were searched for throughout the year in number of billions! And here Obama loses out to Sarah Palin! Sporty people list their names with head held [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/obama-loses-to-sarah-palin-in-the-global-count-shows-google-zeitgeist/</link>
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		<title>NASA Astronauts To Bond in Space by Tasting Each Others Urine; They Are Loving It!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who wants to be an astronaut again? NASA devices an unique way to help astronauts bond with each other (and to preserve water I presume) by drinking communal piss, ewww. Why didn't estranged couples think of this earlier? The best or the worst part is that NASA engineers are loving it, so much so that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nasa-astronauts-to-bond-in-space-by-tasting-each-others-urine-they-are-loving-it/</link>
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		<title>Why Today&#8217;s Economy is Worse Than Divorce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Ex-IIT'ian commented on the current economic scenario:
This is worse than divorce. I have lost more than half my assets and still
have my wife!

How are you faring so far in today's economy?
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/i-still-have-my-wife/</link>
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		<title>Firefox &amp; pkill - Inseparable Friends?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every one in my company knows about pkill, an obscure Linux command because we use Firefox (we are 100% Linux based) as the default browser. What is the relation, you ask? The answer is simple.

Firefox often hangs. The symtoms are varied, a busy icon which never rests, a web page which never opens even though [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/firefox-pkill-inseparable-friends/</link>
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		<title>Google Provides Wife Sharing Guide for iPhone 3G Customers!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bravo Google AdSense! Every day I am losing my faith in Google technologies. How could any context sensitive technology in the whole wide world think wife sharing guide is relevant to people interested in iPhone 3G? I would rather have no ads than ads for wife sharing on my blog.

You may find non-relevant Tribal Fusion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-provides-wife-sharing-guide-for-iphone-3g-customers/</link>
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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? 



≠



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>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/iit-picnic-photos/</link>
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		<title>Song: Witty Take on Spam - I&#8217;ve Got Mail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've got mail is a witty take on spam from Richter Scales. It is a 2007 CARA Nominee in Best Humor Song category. Listen to find how spam gives meaning in life, not to mention three additional inches and more.
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/song-witty-take-on-spam-ive-got-mail/</link>
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		<title>Web 2.0 Here I Come&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Yeah baby! Here is the mp3 version.
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/web-20-here-i-come/</link>
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		<title>On Loving Jesus &amp; Shrimp&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On my question on what you love to some selected Twitter users, the best answer I received so far:
"I love Jesus the most. I also love shrimp and lobster but in a totally different way!" - bubarda
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/on-loving-jesus-shrimp/</link>
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		<title>Guess What Request I Received on my Contact Form</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I receive different kind of requests on my contact form, some genuine business requests, many thank you notes and few lame attempts to spam. Today, however I received a rather strange request through my contact form:
mamdooh wrote: i want hot and nice girl
IP: 81.25.229.180
I am not sure, what gave this dude the idea that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/guess-what-request-i-received-on-my-contact-form/</link>
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		<title>How Crappy Is Your Java Source Code?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How crappy is your Java code? Often we find others code crappier than ours, especially if we are given to maintain their code. Crappy code authors are almost always happy with their code quality. Can we quantify crappiness? 

Crap4J claims to be able to quantify crappiness in Java code with a simple formula (applicable to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-crappy-is-your-java-source-code/</link>
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