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		<title>I have seen the ice age</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 05:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The student looks up from the VT100 terminal that he has been working on the whole night. The green letters on the screen turning blurry. He rubs his neck, shrugs his shoulder to get rid of the annoying pain that&#8217;s been building up on his neck for slouching over the terminal. He suddenly noticed the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malaybasu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3453715&amp;post=286&amp;subd=malaybasu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smartphones, Memex and the soul of Vannevar Bush</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 18:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility”. That’s a quote from the prophetic article of Vannevar Bush, “As you may think”. He also wrote, “A record if it is to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malaybasu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3453715&amp;post=282&amp;subd=malaybasu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GoodReader, the most undervalued commercial software</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>malaybasu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[iOS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The people who know me understand my philosophy of using open-source software whenever possible. And when the software comes free (as in beer), there’s nothing like it. But coming out of the philosophical “holier than thou” attitude, the real reason I am so opposed to commercial software is that I find them overpriced and find [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malaybasu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3453715&amp;post=270&amp;subd=malaybasu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dependency hell or heaven?</title>
		<link>http://malaybasu.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/dependency-hell-or-heaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>malaybasu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People like us who have to deal with software know a nuisance that comes along with the job called dependency hell. It&#8217;s a condition is which a piece of software depends on another software to run, which again depends on another and ad infinitum. So if you want to just run a piece of software, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malaybasu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3453715&amp;post=265&amp;subd=malaybasu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nigel Marsh&#8217;s advice on taking stock of your miserable existence</title>
		<link>http://malaybasu.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/nigel-marshs-advice-on-taking-stock-of-your-miserable-existence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 07:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>malaybasu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite interesting TED talk by Nigel Marsh, author of &#8220;Fat Forty and Fired&#8221; and &#8220;Overworked and Underpaid&#8221;. I agreed with him when he said this: &#8220;certain job and career choices are fundamentally incompatible to meaningful engagement with a young family.&#8221; The talk is good example of &#8220;engage your audience in 30 seconds&#8221; and starts with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malaybasu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3453715&amp;post=258&amp;subd=malaybasu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snippets: last words &#8216;fore goodbye</title>
		<link>http://malaybasu.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/snippets-last-words-fore-goodbye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 03:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>malaybasu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s snippet is from the greatest. Rabindranath Tagore&#8217;s famous &#8220;Mritunjoy (Immortal)&#8221;: Jokhon uddhoto chilo tomar oshoni Tomake amar cheye boro bole niyechinu goni Tomar aghat sathe neme ele tumi Jetha mor aponar bhumi Choto hoye gacho aaj Aamar chuteche sob laaj Joto boro hyo, Tumi to mrityur cheye boro nyo Ami mrityu cheye boro Ei [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malaybasu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3453715&amp;post=247&amp;subd=malaybasu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rollback, hey Sybase</title>
		<link>http://malaybasu.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/rollback-hey-sybase/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Perl]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://malaybasu.wordpress.com/?p=243</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of you probably wondering why even if you set AutoCommit to 0, the data is still committed when you use DBD::Sybase in perl to access Sybase. Looks like the solution is to add syb_chained_txn to 1 like this: use DBI; my $dbh = DBI-&#62;connect("dbi::Sybase::server=$server", $username, $password, {'RaiseError' =&#62;1, 'AutoCommit' =&#62;0}) or die ("Database connection [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malaybasu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3453715&amp;post=243&amp;subd=malaybasu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snippets: Miracles happen this way</title>
		<link>http://malaybasu.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/snippets-miracles-happen-this-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A passage from one of my favorite poets in Bengali, Purnendu Potri, titled &#8220;Oloukik (Miracle)&#8220;: Shedin Muktor moton goriye ele amar hate Omni bodle galo drissho Amar daan dike chilo meghla din Hoye galo dalim-phatano rod Ar badike chilo eeter panja Hoye galo laal talir daakbungalow Oloukik eibhabe ghote. Here is my poor attempt to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malaybasu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3453715&amp;post=239&amp;subd=malaybasu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snippets: One fight more, the best and the last</title>
		<link>http://malaybasu.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/snippets-one-fight-more-the-best-and-the-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Browning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was ever a fighter, so&#8211; one fight more, the best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, and bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers the heroes of old, bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life&#8217;s arrears [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malaybasu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3453715&amp;post=229&amp;subd=malaybasu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snippets: Brechtian war</title>
		<link>http://malaybasu.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/snipptets-brechtian-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brecht wrote this in &#8220;From a German War Primer&#8221;: THOSE WHO TAKE THE MEAT FROM THE TABLE Teach contentment. Those from whom the contributions are destined Demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill speak to the hungry Of wonderful days to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss Call ruling too difficult For [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malaybasu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3453715&amp;post=215&amp;subd=malaybasu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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