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		<title>Comatose</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog is not dead, it is merely in a coma. It will be back, once I manage to understand this fictitious, purely imaginary and wholly misleading concept called work-life balance. Seriously, work-life balance should be placed right up there along with the Holy Grail, the Loch Ness Monster and the Road to El Dorado.
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		<title>Five Things You Probably Didn&#8217;t Know About England</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I was in England for the last 4-5 weeks, attending a training programme with HSBC Bank (where I&#8217;m going to start working very soon). I was based in a huge training campus in a tiny but charming village-town-thingy called Bricket Wood. Its about 90 minutes away from London, so it wasn&#8217;t a completely hermit-like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pranavb.wordpress.com&blog=5318768&post=526&subd=pranavb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crossroads Pt.2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Fun]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;ve said this before, but I also blog at A Comic A Day. I follow loads of web comics (over 80), and I put up one new strip almost everyday, handpicked from aforementioned web comics. And since doing that doesn&#8217;t take more than a few minutes, I&#8217;ll probably be a lot more regular. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pranavb.wordpress.com&blog=5318768&post=522&subd=pranavb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crossroads</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bank]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it begins. The spectre of working life is nigh-unavoidable. I&#8217;ll probably be pretty irregular with posts here for the next month or so, until I figure out how to give less time to a bank and more time to myself. The next post will probably be from London, which is where I&#8217;ll be based [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pranavb.wordpress.com&blog=5318768&post=519&subd=pranavb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Can&#8217;t Stand Microsoft: One More Reason</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m vociferously anti-Microsoft. They make products that a three-year old could find faults with. They shamelessly copy amazing features right out of Mac OS, somehow manage to turn said features into crap, and give them ridiculous names like Aero. Then they make weird ads about their products providing value for money. And worst of all, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pranavb.wordpress.com&blog=5318768&post=515&subd=pranavb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Darwin Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I blogged about the virtues of The Ignobel Prize a while back, and this is equally hilarious. Named after the father of evolution Charles Darwin, The Darwin Awards are given to people who &#8220;do a service to humanity by removing themselves from the gene pool&#8221;. Basically, if you die in an incredibly stupid way, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pranavb.wordpress.com&blog=5318768&post=285&subd=pranavb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Global Warming Actually Harmful?</title>
		<link>http://pranavb.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/is-global-warming-actually-harmful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even kids these days know that if global warming isn&#8217;t brought under control, then mankind is probably doomed. If we don&#8217;t cut carbon emissions, bad things will happen. Or will they? Freeman Dyson, an acclaimed Princeton physicist believes exactly the opposite. He scorns the idea of global warming being harmful, and says that it might [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pranavb.wordpress.com&blog=5318768&post=505&subd=pranavb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do We Respect God?</title>
		<link>http://pranavb.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/why-do-we-respect-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always bordered on atheism, and recently, I read the book The God Delusion, which only strengthened my belief (or lack of it). It got me thinking about a number of things. For example, if we assume for a moment that God exists, then why do we respect him? What are the attributes of God [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pranavb.wordpress.com&blog=5318768&post=439&subd=pranavb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Can&#8217;t Hear You!</title>
		<link>http://pranavb.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/i-cant-hear-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 19:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranav</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Mahak has an excellent blog about advertisements, where she analyzes a variety of print and video commercials. I&#8217;m not very good at analyzing ads, but I am good at appreciating them (who isn&#8217;t). There is this Pepsi ad that I saw recently, that has quickly become one of my all time favorites. Before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pranavb.wordpress.com&blog=5318768&post=499&subd=pranavb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Birthday Paradox</title>
		<link>http://pranavb.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/the-birthday-paradox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 20:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pranav</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been following The Big Bang Theory lately, an excellent sitcom about four uber-geeks and one hot chick. So maybe this post is a little bit influenced by it. Anyway, I came across an article which spoke of something called the &#8220;Birthday Paradox&#8221;. Basically, it states that in a group of 75 random people, there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pranavb.wordpress.com&blog=5318768&post=429&subd=pranavb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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