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isPermaLink="false">http://www.rajib.com/?p=694</guid> <description><![CDATA[Did I tell you about the day I walked away from £520000 and chose to remain poor? Well, here I was burning brain-cells, earning bread. This SMS popped on my cell-phone: From: TD-FORTUNE YOU HAVE GOT 520000.00 IN WORLD FORTUNE PROGRAM. TO GET YOUR PAYMENT SEND EMAIL US ON (worldfortune2011@hotmail.com)TEL: 00447014245041 Great news. So I [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.rajib.com/sms-scam-td-fortune/694/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>TataSky TruChoice Is The Wrong Choice</title><link>http://www.rajib.com/tatasky-truchoice/648/</link> <comments>http://www.rajib.com/tatasky-truchoice/648/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 02:30:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tips & Tricks]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.rajib.com/?p=648</guid> <description><![CDATA[Who does not want to save money? The rich want to. The poor wish to. The middle class have to. So when TataSky announces that now you can only order the channels that you want to watch, it seems like heaven sent. Or is it a package from hell? Turns out, if were to order [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.rajib.com/tatasky-truchoice/648/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Leaking Like A Sieve</title><link>http://www.rajib.com/leaking-like-a-sieve/645/</link> <comments>http://www.rajib.com/leaking-like-a-sieve/645/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 02:30:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tips & Tricks]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.rajib.com/?p=645</guid> <description><![CDATA[Submitting your email ID to websites has long been the surest way of getting spammed. Unfortunately, it is also key information for most web transactions so we have to hedge our bets. Most organisations in USA are respectful of your personal data and do not share it others (at-least the ones that have read the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.rajib.com/leaking-like-a-sieve/645/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Work Or Gab?</title><link>http://www.rajib.com/work-or-gab/630/</link> <comments>http://www.rajib.com/work-or-gab/630/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:31:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gmail rules]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.rajib.com/?p=630</guid> <description><![CDATA[Krishnakriti Foundation received 53 applications for it&#8217;s Fellowship Programme for the year 2011 to study in France. 44 applicants provided Gmail IDs. (83%) 5 applicants provided Yahoo IDs. (9.4%) 2 applicants provided Hotmail IDs. (3.77%) 2 applicants provided RediffMail IDs. (3.77%) Funny how the only email service provider that has never advertised it&#8217;s email service, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.rajib.com/work-or-gab/630/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Blog Spam</title><link>http://www.rajib.com/blog-spam/585/</link> <comments>http://www.rajib.com/blog-spam/585/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:08:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.rajib.com/?p=585</guid> <description><![CDATA[In the 3 years that my blog has been up and growing (5500+ visitors per month), I have received 935 genuine comments and 7674 spam comments (12.18% genuine comments). Akismet caught more than 99.5% of spam comments accurately and I caught the rest. Why do the spammers even bother? They are not gonna get through [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.rajib.com/blog-spam/585/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>T24 Mobile misplaces documents</title><link>http://www.rajib.com/t24-mobile-misplaces-documents/507/</link> <comments>http://www.rajib.com/t24-mobile-misplaces-documents/507/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:30:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.rajib.com/?p=507</guid> <description><![CDATA[God punishes you for greed (one of the seven deadly sins). On Earth, T24 Mobile are God&#8217;s designated agents. In the guise of providing free cellular telephone connections and free talk-time, their executives collect signed documents from un-suspecting customers and then conveniently misplace the documents. Read on to discover the potential mess I am in. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.rajib.com/t24-mobile-misplaces-documents/507/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Political Correctness &#8211; The Healthy Way</title><link>http://www.rajib.com/political-correctness-the-healthy-way/300/</link> <comments>http://www.rajib.com/political-correctness-the-healthy-way/300/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:30:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[lcd television]]></category> <category><![CDATA[satellite tv]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.rajib.com/?p=300</guid> <description><![CDATA[Political correctness has not even spared a 30 year old movie from being mercilessly blurred into oblivion. High-handed anti-smoking campaign reaches new lows of stupidity.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.rajib.com/political-correctness-the-healthy-way/300/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>What&#8217;s Dat Noise?</title><link>http://www.rajib.com/whats-dat-noise/261/</link> <comments>http://www.rajib.com/whats-dat-noise/261/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:15:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bad product]]></category> <category><![CDATA[technical support]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.rajib.com/?p=261</guid> <description><![CDATA[Audiophiles beware. Careless production and mastering processes are resulting in audio-cds that feature terrible audio.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.rajib.com/whats-dat-noise/261/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Solution to control piracy: Hurt genuine customers</title><link>http://www.rajib.com/solution-to-control-piracy-hurt-genuine-customers/197/</link> <comments>http://www.rajib.com/solution-to-control-piracy-hurt-genuine-customers/197/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:30:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.rajib.com/?p=197</guid> <description><![CDATA[Content producers and distributors tend to punish the genuine customer in their bid to control piracy. The pirate and his fans remain dis-affected.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.rajib.com/solution-to-control-piracy-hurt-genuine-customers/197/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Arbitrary Cable TV Blackout &#8211; Score for Satellite TV</title><link>http://www.rajib.com/arbitrary-cable-tv-blackout-score-for-satellite-tv/144/</link> <comments>http://www.rajib.com/arbitrary-cable-tv-blackout-score-for-satellite-tv/144/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:52:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cable tv]]></category> <category><![CDATA[channels blocked]]></category> <category><![CDATA[satellite tv]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.rajib.com/?p=144</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Local Cable TV Provider has arbitrarily switched off channels from being broadcast and called it their 'condolence' gesture. This a good reason for me to switch to Satellite Television.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.rajib.com/arbitrary-cable-tv-blackout-score-for-satellite-tv/144/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Hotmail &#8211; The New Hotbed of 419 Scam</title><link>http://www.rajib.com/hotmail-the-new-hotbed-of-419-scam/139/</link> <comments>http://www.rajib.com/hotmail-the-new-hotbed-of-419-scam/139/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:28:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.rajib.com/?p=139</guid> <description><![CDATA[419 Scams are nothing new, at-least not to techies. However there are scores of people across the planet who continue to fall for these scammers who are primarily based out of Africa. Why do people fall for such schemes? Lack of common sense is obviously the reason. Greed is another. Take a look at this [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.rajib.com/hotmail-the-new-hotbed-of-419-scam/139/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Overcooked Netbook</title><link>http://www.rajib.com/the-overcooked-netbook/42/</link> <comments>http://www.rajib.com/the-overcooked-netbook/42/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:49:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bad ergonomics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bad industrial design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[netbook]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sony vaio]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.rajib.com/2009/03/14/the-overcooked-netbook/</guid> <description><![CDATA[The new Sony P Series is by no means an innovative product. Years before the newly launched Sony Vaio VGN P15G , Sony developed and sold the Picturebook series Vaio VAIO PCG-C1XS laptop. Unfortunately, the trend of Netbooks hadn&#8217;t caught on then. Much like the consumer demand for gas guzzling cars in 50&#8242;s in USA, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.rajib.com/the-overcooked-netbook/42/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bigger The Company, Harder They Fall</title><link>http://www.rajib.com/bigger-the-company-bigger-they-fall/7/</link> <comments>http://www.rajib.com/bigger-the-company-bigger-they-fall/7/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:19:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.rajib.com/archives/7</guid> <description><![CDATA[Reliance Infocomm&#8216;s latest stunt has fallen on it&#8217;s face and become the gaffe of the year. Ok, maybe gaffe of the month. It activated &#8216;Ring-Back-Tone (RBT)&#8217; for all customers without any prior intimation/permission. To my discerning musical ears, a nondescript song being played at 2.4 kbps-mono over a 1mm speaker is probably worse than Chinese [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.rajib.com/bigger-the-company-bigger-they-fall/7/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Winner Takes It All</title><link>http://www.rajib.com/the-winner-takes-it-all/5/</link> <comments>http://www.rajib.com/the-winner-takes-it-all/5/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:05:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.rajib.com/archives/5</guid> <description><![CDATA[Take the talent shows &#8211; so much in vogue in India. First you invite the industry pundits to join the panel of judges. You make them do the sweaty work of scraping the dirt, trying to find raw gemstones. And when they have fairly narrowed the selection based on their years of experience, you completely [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.rajib.com/the-winner-takes-it-all/5/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>13</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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