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		<title>Political Correctness &#8211; The Healthy Way</title>
		<link>http://www.rajib.com/2010/03/31/political-correctness-the-healthy-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Dat Noise?</title>
		<link>http://www.rajib.com/2010/03/06/whats-dat-noise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Audiophiles beware. Careless production and mastering processes are resulting in audio-cds that feature terrible audio.]]></description>
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		<title>Solution to control piracy: Hurt genuine customers</title>
		<link>http://www.rajib.com/2009/11/02/solution-to-control-piracy-hurt-genuine-customers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>Arbitrary Cable TV Blackout &#8211; Score for Satellite TV</title>
		<link>http://www.rajib.com/2009/09/03/arbitrary-cable-tv-blackout-score-for-satellite-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cable tv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[channels blocked]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<title>Hotmail &#8211; The New Hotbed of 419 Scam</title>
		<link>http://www.rajib.com/2009/08/30/hotmail-the-new-hotbed-of-419-scam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>The Overcooked Netbook</title>
		<link>http://www.rajib.com/2009/03/14/the-overcooked-netbook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>Bigger The Company, Harder They Fall</title>
		<link>http://www.rajib.com/2008/01/14/bigger-the-company-bigger-they-fall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>The Winner Takes It All</title>
		<link>http://www.rajib.com/2007/09/29/the-winner-takes-it-all/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rajib.com/2007/09/29/the-winner-takes-it-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajib Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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