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	<description>if I&#039;m not having fun, I&#039;m not doing it right</description>
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		<title>Regina Spektor &#8211; On The Radio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a beautiful song! Totally love the lyrics, especially in the second half. Thanks to Suman for introducing me to the artist.
Watch the video:

I love this phrase:
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath
And my favourite bit:
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sids.in/blog/2010/02/27/regina-spektor-on-the-radio/</link>
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		<title>Casual and Unprofessional: Not the same</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m peeved by a trend I&#8217;ve started to see among Indian startups: trying to be casual and ending up being unprofessional.
Being casual may be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on who you are targeting. But being unprofessional is never a good thing.
&#60;Edit: I&#8217;ve taken off the rant about a particular website that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sids.in/blog/2010/02/12/casual-and-unprofessional-not-the-same/</link>
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		<title>Beginning Functional Programming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warning: Geekspeak ahead.
I&#8217;ve been wanting to learn a functional programming (FP) language for quite a while now.
Ruby being my current fav programming language while also being malleable to FP, I thought I will dabble with some FP in Ruby. But that was not to be. While Ruby does have some basic features like closures that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sids.in/blog/2009/10/20/beginning-functional-programming/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m NOT proud to be an Indian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summary: Stop being proud of your country&#8217;s history. Stop being proud of your countrymen&#8217;s achievements. Stop being proud of your country. Strive to make your country proud of you.
(Yes, I&#8217;m preaching. Only for today.)
Social networks &#8212; Facebook in particular &#8212; have created a super-culture of show-off. So when it&#8217;s the Indian Independence Day, everyone wants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sids.in/blog/2009/08/16/im-not-proud-to-be-an-indian/</link>
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		<title>Cognitive Dissonance of the Comma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is an excerpt from Jawaharlal Nehru&#8217;s Tryst with Destiny speech. Beautiful speech. But can you see what is wrong with how it has been reproduced here?
Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny , and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge , not wholly or in full measure , [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sids.in/blog/2009/08/11/cognitive-dissonance-of-the-comma/</link>
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		<title>What I want to be when I grow up…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(via)
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		<link>http://www.sids.in/blog/2009/08/08/what-i-want-to-be-when-i-grow-up%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Twitter is down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is down. I&#8217;m missing it. I&#8217;m addicted. Sigh.
PS: This post is shorter than 140 characters. It should have been a tweet.
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		<link>http://www.sids.in/blog/2009/08/06/twitter-is-down/</link>
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		<title>Desktop App development in Ruby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bowline — A cross-platform Ruby desktop application MVC framework where views are written in HTML/JavaScript and Webkit is used for rendering.
Shoes — A cross-platform Ruby graphics toolkit.
I had given up on developing desktop applications, mainly because they were running out of fashion. But also because the tools involved were a good deal of pain to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sids.in/blog/2009/08/05/desktop-app-development-in-ruby/</link>
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		<title>Redesign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After putting it off for ever so long, I finally got around to redesigning the home page of my website (it  used to be just the boring front page of this blog.) I think it is pretty swell, except for being a tad over-designed that is. Check it out at www.sids.in and form your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sids.in/blog/2009/08/03/redesign/</link>
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		<title>Art is useless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Oscar Wilde in the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray:


The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
To reveal art and to conceal the artist is art’s aim.
The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sids.in/blog/2009/04/12/art-is-useless/</link>
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