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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; Life</title>
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		<title>Apple politely threatens family who asked a refund for iPod flaming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Though they talk about consumer satisfaction as if its their highest priority, though they promise to give you 100% money back if anything goes wrong, Apple of all companies, showed the true corporate blood when pushed to the wall. To come straight to the point, Apple attempted to silence a father and daughter with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/apple-politely-threatens-family-who-asked-a-refund-for-ipod-flaming/</link>
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		<title>Xbox Live offer: Play Nascar 09 with Jessie James!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you want to play a game and meet a celeb in the same time? Hey, I am not joking. This time you have got this offer. All you will have to do is to be at the right place at the right time. Not so tough, eh? 'Wanted' songstress, Jessie James will be participating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/xbox-live-offer-play-nascar-09-with-jessie-james/</link>
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		<title>20 cool t-shirts for geeks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let's admit it, we geeks love those cool and comfy t-shirts. And if they carry some of our geekyness, there is nothing cooler. Here are some new crops of t-shirts that are geared towards the techno crowd. Check out the latest fashions for geeks in milano style.
1. Yes! there is no place better than Home
2. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/20-cool-t-shirts-for-geeks/</link>
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		<title>10 Gifts for Your Loving Mom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mothers are always at their sweetest best, always special. They celebrate each day in their own ways of being with us. While you may find yourself busy enough in this world to not be able to reciprocate the same or not having enough time to meet her frequently, this is the time you can make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/10-gifts-for-your-loving-mom/</link>
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		<title>Top 5 Gadgets for Diabetes Patients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What can not be cured must be endured. And diabetes perfectly fits in to this category. Any disease is bad but diabetes is perhaps the most annoying and widely spread disease in the world. You can not come out with it, you don't know when you will fall prey or how to prevent it in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-5-gadgets-for-diabetes-patients/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Gadgets for Your House Works</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have seen luxury gadgets, fancy ones and even some crazy ones at times. But we need to spare some time for the place we live in. Yes, the house I mean. There are so many things that we have to do for our home. A weekend is all you get to relax and you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-gadgets-for-your-house/</link>
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		<title>How To Divorce (Muslim&#8217;s Only) Through Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the All-India Muslim Women Personal Law Board’s (AIMWPLB) diktat barring men from declaring talaq (divorce) by SMS, email or over the phone, the medium seems to have become the most popular way by which Muslim men are divorcing women in India.

A study on “Marriage and divorce amongst Muslim women in India”, undertaken by Ms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-divorce-muslims-only-through-twitter/</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>Binary Explosive, Tannerite: the Truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now why is there so much fuss over Tannerite. All a punk would know about Tannerite is that, it's a binary impact detonate explosive. The hack is to mix a jar of white stuff with some grey stuff and get it kicked by a high speed amunition (30-06 round) from 50m distance. Well Stallone didn't [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/binary-explosive-tannerite-the-truth/</link>
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		<title>New Solar Power Breakthrough: First Solar crosses $1 per watt barrier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's would not be too late, before the world recognizes solar energy as a significant pillar of current and future business. The impetus behind renewable sources has filliped the solar industry's effort to bring about revolutionary solar energy solution. The latest breakthrough in the solar industry is the First Solar Inc's sustainable and affordable solar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-solar-power-breakthrough-first-solar-crosses-1-per-watt-barrier/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Genealogy Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Discovering the roots of an ancestry or a family tree makes for an interesting hobby. Of course there are professional genealogists pursuing extensive research. What's most interesting is tracking the clue to your self-identity. Explore the ties that trails along your lineage. Clearly that needs an organized, accurate record of an ancestry. Well there are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-genealogy-software/</link>
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		<title>81st Oscars: Top Ten Moments that Marked the 2009 Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year's academy awards had it all. Upright enthusiasts talking about gay marriages, Long and boring speeches from actors who I would have loved to see with a pause button in the lips, Kate's whistling towards her father, Angelina's I-won-I-won grin towards Jennifer Anniston, Sean Penn's unexpected win on Milk, Curiously low number of oscars [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/81st-oscars-top-ten-moments-that-marked-the-2009-show/</link>
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		<title>Top Healthcare Apps for Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This one is an exclusive section for those health freaks who believe Twitter can't help them to stay in the pink. Well, nobody can tolerate the extra bit of fat hanging from their bay window. Why worry when  Twitter has great apps to help your health and of others. Could there be a better idea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-healthcare-apps-for-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft and Dell Want You to Fight AIDS in Africa through their PRODUCT (RED) Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft and Dell have joined hand in hand for a project called PRODUCT RED in order to help Africa fight AIDS. Such a noble venture needs your contribution as well. When you buy a Dell (PRODUCT) RED PC with Windows Vista Ultimate (PRODUCT) RED, Windows and Dell will jointly contribute $50 or $80, depending on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-and-dell-want-you-to-fight-aids-in-africa-through-their-product-red-project/</link>
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		<title>$ 10 Laptops with 2GB RAM and Wi- Fi to Improve e-literacy in India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It feels to great to let you know that India has taken one of the most significant cyber leaps by announcing $10 laptops to improve the computer consciousness among people and gen Y. I hope you remember OLPC. The MIT driven non profit based program that had turned many eyes when they declared that if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/10-laptops-with-2gb-ram-and-wi-fi-to-improve-e-literacy-in-india/</link>
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		<title>Science Extraordinaire: How About a 10,000KM Long Solar Power Plant from Asia to Australia!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just imagine a solar power plan waving across thousands of miles from Asia to Ocenia. Probably a plan entailing 10,000 Km long electricity transmission system extended from Beijing to the Great Australian Bight. Confluence of the solar power, geothermal, wind and wave energy in Australian subcontinent flowing north and the geothermal energy extracted from Indonesian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/science-extraordinaire-how-about-a-10000km-long-solar-power-plan-from-asia-to-australia/</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>Innovation at its Best: A Touch-screen Phone for Blind - A Must Read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With each passing day, I find no need to remember the dictionary justified terms like normal, super-human or handicapped. Our english language tells us that a blind man is necessarily handicapped. But what would you call a person who has developed software programs which can read aloud complex solutions of Rubik’s cube, has modified Google [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/innovation-at-its-best-a-touch-screen-phone-for-blind-a-must-read/</link>
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		<title>5 Gadgets Which Changed Millions of Lives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gadgets sizzle and gadgets glitter. But beyond all these shiny eye candies, going far away from the limelights of Apple, Nokia, Philips’ and Dell, a few good men have tried something for the have-nots, for people who can not even watch the internet because they either don’t have the facility or can’t, for them who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/5-gadgets-which-changed-millions-of-lives/</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>America&#8217;s Economy: Why Jason Calacanis&#8217; 120% Solution Won&#8217;t Cut It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jason Calcanis has a simple solution for America's woes. To summarize his eminently readable article in his own words:
What made America great was our ability to innovate and create world-class products, ideas and services that people around the globe fell in love with and wanted for themselves.
From health care to human rights, from democracy to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/americas-economy-why-jason-calacanis-120-solution-wont-cut-it/</link>
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		<title>15 Unique Christmas Gifts Under $10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am sure you are looking forward to this Christmas. What is better than me introducing you to a list of gadgets which will help you in gifting your friends and others that too cheaply. I know in this time of recession its hard to not think of saving money, but then again, you will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/15-unique-christmas-gifts-under-10/</link>
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		<title>A Nice Accoustic Guitar Music To Begin Your Day With</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The music is nice and soft, something to begin a hectic day with. I think you will enjoy it.
Source: Rylynn - Andy McKee Original Song CD &#38; Tabs - Art of Motion
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/a-nice-accoustic-guitar-music-to-begin-your-day-with/</link>
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		<title>Dell Faces Allegations of Gender Biasness; What&#8217;s Your Stand?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gender Equality, Women Righteousness - they all sound good when read. But how many times do we see it being implemented? Dell has to stand up against a class action law-suit filed by four female executives for discriminating against women in pay, job placement, promotions and layoffs.

In May 2007, Dell announced plans to lay off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/dell-faces-allegations-of-gender-biasness-whats-your-stand/</link>
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		<title>10 Prime Gadgets for Your New-born Baby and Your Aging Parents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Elder parents and new born babies, despite having nothing in common, have one wish quite the same - the desire for independence. That strong will acquires a stubbornness at times and a thing of concern for you. You possibly can not spend the whole day looking after them in your house or theirs (if they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/10-gadgets-that-meet-the-responsibilites-you-have-for-your-parents-you-wil-have-for-your-baby/</link>
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		<title>Google CEO Eric Schmidt to be The First CTO of US?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing succeeds like Eric Schmidt. Yes, you can very well change the proverb. Because this man, apart from being Google's CEO and a member of Apple's board of directors, can very well be the first Chief Technology Officer of USA. Trust Obama to take the decision if he becomes the next US president. Eric has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-ceo-eric-schmidt-to-be-the-first-cto-of-us/</link>
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		<title>Internet Searching Increases Brain Activity - Aren&#8217;t You Overjoyed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First study of its own kind done by the UCLA scientists reveals that Internet searching triggers some factors that increases the brain functioning of the middle- aged and older adults. This breakthrough issue will be soon published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

The study was done involving 24 neurologically normal research volunteers between ages [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/internet-searching-increases-brain-activity-arent-you-overjoyed/</link>
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		<title>The Profile of a Hi-Tech Jehadi&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now all of are aware how Mansoor Peerbhoy has masterminded the terrorist attacks in India, that he showed no remorse in killing non-muslims and doesn't care about the consequences, you are also aware how he was a senior software engineer working at Yahoo / Zimbra and earning an impressive salary by Indian standards. You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-profile-of-a-hi-tech-jehadi/</link>
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		<title>18 Ways To Become a Real $ Millionaire in a Virtual World - Second Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you mean by a virtual world? A place where you can come and work and chat and play and leave. What if I tell you about a whole new world where you can live, breathe, play, sing, dance, do every damn thing you can do in this (sorry?) life of yours? And what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-become-a-real-millionaire-in-a-virtual-world-second-life/</link>
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		<title>Coward Spammer Breaks From Prison And Kills His Family And Thankfully Himself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only four days after escaping from a federal minimum-security prison in Florence, Colorado "Spam King" Eddie Davidson, 35, killed his wife, baby daughter and finally himself.

Davidson shot and killed his wife in her former home in Bennett, Colorado along with his three-year-old daughter. Davidson's 14-year old daughter was wounded in the neck but was able [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/coward-spammer-breaks-from-prison-and-kills-his-family-and-thankfully-himself/</link>
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		<title>What Do You Do When You Don&#8217;t Have Ideas To Blog About?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many like Darren Rowse suggest that you should create a stack of ideas to blog about and then use them in lean periods to tide you over.
Now Darren is an amazing blogger. He regularly talks informatively about a subject which I could probably summarize in 5 minutes flat - about blogging. He does a good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-do-you-do-when-you-dont-have-ideas-to-blog-about/</link>
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		<title>Re-hashing Physics &amp; Philosophy With Dr. Feyman&#8217;s Lectures &amp; Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am re-hashing my physics fundamentals with Dr. Feynman's lectures. Did I mention how I love reading his books? I have great admiration for Dr. Richard Feynman, next only to Dr. Albert Einstein &#038; Dr. Jagadish Chandra Bose.
I am seriously looking to delve into quantum electrodynamics. It is really an intriguing subject.
One of the lesson [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/re-hashing-physics-with-dr-feymans-lectures/</link>
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		<title>A Multi-Lingual Indian Kid Genius</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take a look at this multi-lingual kid genius. He speaks tons of languages fluently, learning just by selling hand fan to tourists. He is simply amazing.

I wish someone could provide him support for education instead of having to selling hand fans on the street at such a tender age.
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/a-multi-lingual-indian-kid-genius/</link>
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		<title>Sorting Priorities in Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a nice story on sorting the priorities of life:
A professor stood before his Philosophy class and had some items in front of him.

When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.
He then asked the students if the jar was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sorting-priorities-in-life/</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>8 Tips for Grooms Guardians in Arranging Bengali Boubhat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am just back from a Bengali wedding and I am writing this post after gulping some super strong antacid. I had a bad experience. My tips for groom's guardians:
1. Please spend sometime to greet people and do that sincerely. We all know it is just courtesy and you may not even like to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/8-tips-for-grooms-guardians-in-arranging-bengali-boubhat/</link>
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		<title>Down With Fever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am pretty down with fever, possible viral. Yesterday night was 100% sleepless. Let's see how it goes tonight. ciao&#8230;
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/down-with-fever/</link>
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		<title>We Are Being Hit By Category 5 Cyclone Sidr</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We in Kolkata / Calcutta are being hit by a Category 5 cyclone Sidr. It has been overcast from late night with chilly winds blowing. It is unusually cold this morning with no glimpse of sunlight so far (11:49 AM). Sidr is supposed to hit Kolkata first. Let's see how it goes.

You can find the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/we-are-being-hit-by-category-5-cyclone-sidr/</link>
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		<title>Cartoon Network India Ben 10 &amp; Dragonball Z Showtimes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dragonball Z and Ben 10 are my current favorites on Cartoon Network and for that matter is the only serials I watch on TV these days. Here are the showtimes for Cartoon Network India if you want to catch up with either of them.
Ben 10

10AM - 10:30 AM
6 AM - 6:30 AM
8 PM - 8:30 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cartoon-network-india-ben-10-dragonball-z-showtimes/</link>
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