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Web based password managers: 3 years later
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Lead India
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July 2008
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Have you ever wanted to write a book?
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Test post using ScribeFire (please ignore)
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Shrinking carrots
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Email obfuscation
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SurTaal intro video
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A more extensible KDE
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Firefox regression?
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Obama v. Clinton: Ignore the Media Hype, This Race Isn’t Close
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Google Reader auto sort
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Lifestream: whats the big deal?
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“Apping for Dummies” is back!
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Obama in 30 Seconds
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Enough with Linux as a second class citizen!
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Looking glass: search keywords
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Filelight alternatives for Windows
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(8)
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A Day to Forget
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The ACM Digital Library badly needs an overhaul
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How not to deliver a baby
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January 2008
(7)
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The Physical World as a Virtual Reality
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reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books
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Google Reader archiving less?
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New MapReduce article in CACM
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Test driving KDE 4.0
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MagicCarpet or SpamMarket?
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The Hypocrisy of Indian Politics – The India Uncut Blog – India Uncut
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iXiGO for Crunchies
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Quicksilver alternatives for Linux
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Outside In
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Structured Résumés: why does it have to be so hard?
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Search in Google Reader
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National Do Not Call Registry
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Digg for NGOs
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A curious book
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India channel on YouTube
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Orkut poll on India
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Google Reader dumbness
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700 and counting
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The Kiterunner
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Dealaajtak stealing Ubuntu logo?
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RouteGuru
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History of Computing — 8
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Google Maps update
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Internet Increasingly Censored
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Cops use Orkut to track murderer
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Dhingana 360
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At Boston!
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New take on IPv6 deployment
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Best of Blaugh
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VMware benchmarks ESX server
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07:
Whats with __MACOSX in Zip files?
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The Idiot Box
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Naruto rocks!
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January 2007
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black thursday
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07:
The Big Bang
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09:
Must read for all programmers
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11:
Better late than never
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Winds of change
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December 2006
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ESR on World Domination
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Soap bubbles and computation?
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Google Reader needs rename tags
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10:
Post-its in books
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Yahoo Shopping India uses eBay!
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Are we living in a computer simulation?
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Airtel Call Home
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22:
Double talk time on Reliance!
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27:
RTM has the best Christmas gift!
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History of Computing — 6
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WORLDS/OSDI
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It’s Hinglish, innit?
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HP Photosmart M425 on Debian Unstable
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Iacocca: A frank autobiography
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(13)
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History of Computing — 2
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Google in talks to buy YouTube
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Sidhhartha
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MIT Sketching
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MapmyIndia – Indias First Interactive Mapping Portal
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History of Computing — 3
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Bollywood star gets French honour
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I hate ATI
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History of Computing — 4
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STL is Slow Template Library
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Happy Diwali
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Homeland Stupidity
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Webcams in Linux
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September 2006
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Fly by blogging
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Blog Challenge: Tell us a story
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Days of our lives
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Google Analytics — the deep web
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Virgin Comics
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The Argumentative Indian
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A9 using MSN Live
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Breathing Earth
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So much for academic integrity
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Tipping Point
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Inside Amazon EC2
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History of Computing
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History of Computing — 1
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DEMO.com Conferences > Demofall 2006
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August 2006
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India bans child domestic labour
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Slashdot | UCSD Biometric Vending Machine
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Curry May Help Prevent Colon Cancer
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Pepsi and Coke under fire again
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Linux and Closed Source Software
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Live from Wordcamp
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Birthdays today
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Chinese bar allows stressed customers to hit staff
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Crop Circles
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Unbelievable
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Andrew Morton moves to Google
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Rural India in big HIV-Aids push
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08:
Sandbox enticing
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The best Indian music streaming site
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Google and U.C. sign contract to digitize books
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Web 2.0 Around the World
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War and Peace
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LikeBack – Quick Feedback from Beta-Testers
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Size does matter
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Chandu ka dhappa
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Jis desh mein ganga behti hai
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NASA loses original tapes of first moon landing
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16:
Google WiFi goes official
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Why bharat1 sucks?
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Lorelle’s Blog Challenges
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Blogging Challenge: Blog About What You Know
(2)
22:
Anything goes
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Kickoff Sneak Preview
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Business 2.0: Blogging for Dollars – September 1, 2006
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Blogging Challenge: Top 10 Keywords for Your Blog
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Get right with Google
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24:
Don’t let it die
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24:
Easy money
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29:
The Alchemist
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July 2006
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06:
Forget Raaga, check out Dhingana
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06:
The essential workspace
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11:
Bombay blasts
(2)
12:
Unsung heroes of the FLOSS world
(4)
13:
Now this is what I call creative
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13:
This time last year
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17:
India blocks blogs?
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19:
The outrage of a Mumbaikar
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24:
Vernon God Little
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Avoid that A/C!
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27:
RS passes Office of Profit Bill
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WP-Cache problems
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27:
India rejects One Laptop Per Child
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28:
Is this even news?
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28:
Google Code – Project Hosting
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31:
Scientist thinks invisibility possible in future
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The Oil Drum | Discussions about Energy and Our Future
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31:
YES.com
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31:
Two WordPress Widgets
(2)
June 2006
(15)
09:
Freakonomics
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10:
Weirdest theft ever
(7)
11:
Much ado about nothing
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11:
Amazing airplane demo
(6)
12:
Google Earth – System Requirements
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13:
The Satyanarayan Katha
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13:
100K mileage on a bicycle!
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15:
Shashi Tharoor
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Meet the PM
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Flock to Flock
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Dead dog
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Shameless
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22:
On blind reviews
(1)
23:
Krrish review: too funny
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24:
Tools I use: qalculate
(3)
May 2006
(14)
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Catcher in the rye
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Suicides at IIT-K
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11:
To infinity and beyond
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Tips on preparing a good talk
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15:
Tools I use: beamer
(1)
16:
Tools I use: dirvish
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Yahoo!
(1)
20:
Microsoft: Open source ‘not reliable or dependable’ | CNET News.com
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20:
Repeat after me
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21:
The real impact of reservations – SlashIndia
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22:
IBNLive : Decision on quota is final: Arjun
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Please sign this petition
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Spread the word
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23:
Youth For Equality
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April 2006
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Slow
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Interpreter of Maladies
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The need for change
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CSE@UCSD climbs steadily
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06:
HOWTO: Lose your customer
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13:
The Namesake
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13:
Nostalgia!!!
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14:
On the Times’ story
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Movie update
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Politically Incorrect?
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PIM Online
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Back
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Reservations in higher education
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30:
Euphoria shine again
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The Web’s Million-Dollar Typos
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March 2006
(25)
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IEEE Spectrum: Big Players in Chip Design Buy Into India
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Test dokuwiki
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WP-Dokuwiki 0.2
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Stop AOL’s “email tax”
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Women in Science
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O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference – March 6-9, 2006 – San Diego, CA
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LokParitran Party Home
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Source code search engines
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Vim7 Screenshot: Tabs!
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New Python Website
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09:
Google buys Writely!
(0)
09:
Snow Crash
(2)
21:
Tools I use: screen
(3)
21:
V for Vendetta
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23:
ContentSutra :: Pune To Be India’s First Wi-Fi Enabled City; Pune Municipal Corp Ties Up With Intel For The Project
(1)
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Summer sublet
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Panoramas
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WP Dokuwiki 0.3
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26:
Vling – Now in Beta
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27:
Upgrading Gallery and WPG2
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28:
Apple converts Australian mine into iPod
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29:
Azazel
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30:
More panoramas
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WP-Dokuwiki development update
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31:
Interesting Facts About Domain Names
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February 2006
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01:
Upgrade
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01:
Paritrana Update
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01:
Imagining the Google future
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02:
More on Paritrana
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02:
The IITK Saga
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02:
darcs status?
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02:
Google’s power couple
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03:
New features
(3)
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ESX Server free
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Are you part of a student organization?
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Comics Grabber
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WP-Dokuwiki
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Hilarious post on secular writing
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UCSD Graduate Student FAQ
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Birthday paradox
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Distributed SCM
(1)
06:
Fixed width fonts in GMail
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Firefox: A History
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The Challenge and Excitement of Space Exploration
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Superbowl Ads
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
(1)
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Chiffonesque: Not the same, all the same – Rang de Basanti, being a Hindu, uniform civil code, and Hostage – in that unrelated sequence
(2)
07:
Tools I use: matplotlib
(14)
08:
GMail unlabelled
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08:
Help with Twisted!
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08:
The Power of Procrastrination
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09:
Vim 7
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GMail Chat
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Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer : Home Page
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GMail accounts with your own domain name
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Indi blogs
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12:
Interesting (but disappointing) stats
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ROBOTS DREAMS:
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Listible! Quick way to get resources
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Vim options
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HOWTO: Install awstats on Textdrive
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Official Google Blog: Here comes Measure Map
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Sociable links
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The myth of Sisyphus
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What makes a 100%?
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How LeT change of mind saved IIT-K : HindustanTimes.com
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Turbogears rocks
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Stanford website lame
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IITs decide to ‘almost double’ intake, open new campuses
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Minister offers £6m to behead cartoonist – Sunday Times – Times Online
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Show some love to the fuzzy orange icons
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India cannot bank on IT
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Query an option
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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
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FeedTree: collaborative RSS and Atom delivery
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FeedTree is half the solution
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Not guilty… : HindustanTimes.com
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Google Page Creator
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Movie drought
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Lame post
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27:
Web based password manager
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YouTube – microsoft ipod packaging parody
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Microsoft vs. Infosys
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BBC NEWS | Business | Indian budget pushes for growth
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Spiderman India!!
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January 2006
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I got mentioned by IndiaBlogWatch!
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Udai
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I’m back
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Parineeta
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Little Manhattan
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Pandora
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NSDI
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AIDS Panel
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Flickr
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Sunflower
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Things are changing!
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Paritrana
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Looking glass
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Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005
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Top Jobs of 2006
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24:
Why focus?
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Yahoo gives up on search
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Paritrana all over!
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Atoms and Antiquity
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Konqueror Wishlist
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Google censorship
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28:
Lee Kuan Yew on India
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31:
Gmail down
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Image management in KDE
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December 2005
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A story about Jeff
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Swades
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Adios
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25:
Merry Christmas
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A long story short
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BSNL Broadband
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Apahran
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New wordpress.org
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The new vanguards of Indian democracy
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Books I read this year
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Priceless quote from Linus
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Welcome to WordPress 2.0
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