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  <title>Haystacks</title>
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  <description>[Photo Post] &lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/06/15/haystacks/&quot;&gt; Haystacks in NZ &lt;/a&gt;.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 04:23:06 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Supercrunchers - How Data Analysis is Changing our Lives</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/05/24/supercrunchers-how-data-analysis-is-changing-our-lives/&quot;&gt; Supercrunchers - How Data Analysis is Changing our Lives &lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  <lj:music>Ida Corr vs Fedde Le Grand - Let Me Think About It</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 10:19:23 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>ACM Tech Talk on Freebsd / PMC tools</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/05/18/acm-tech-talk-april-2009-freebsdpmctools/&quot;&gt; ACM Tech Talk on FreeBSD / PMCtools by Joseph Koshy &lt;/a&gt;. Good presentation if you are interested in performance measurement of systems.</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 06:17:53 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Presentations from CloudCamp Bangalore</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/05/13/cloud-camp-bangalore-2/&quot;&gt; Presentations from Cloudcamp Bangalore &lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 07:25:16 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Akamai State of the Internet - Q4 2008</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/05/11/akamai-state-of-the-internet-report-q4-2008/&quot;&gt; Akamai State of the Internet - Q4 2008 &lt;/a&gt; and links to some other interesting internet / mobile / security stats.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 11:02:31 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Playing with tops</title>
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  <description>Some photos from my new 50mm f/1.8 lens &lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/04/29/playing-with-tops/&quot;&gt; Playing with tops &lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:01:28 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Photo - Mattupetty Tea Estate - Munnar, Kerala</title>
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  <description>[New photo post] &lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/03/19/photo-mattupetty-tea-estate-munnar-kerala/&quot;&gt; Mattupetty Tea Estate - Munnar, Kerala &lt;/a&gt; More details at my &lt;a href=&quot;http://lens.vinayakhegde.com&quot;&gt; photoblog &lt;/a&gt;.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:14:13 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Cloud Camp at IIM Bangalore on March 29</title>
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  <description>Working on &lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/03/13/cloud-camp-bangalore/&quot;&gt; Organising First CloudCamp in India &lt;/a&gt; Register if you are interested.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:07:36 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>97 Things every software architect should know.</title>
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  <description>I am now an O&apos;Reilly Book author (contributor). More about the book - &lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/03/09/97-things-every-software-architect-should-know/&quot;&gt; 97 Things every sotware architect should know &lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:39:53 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>The ill-fated trek to Thadiyandamol, Coorg</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/03/04/trek-to-thadiyandamol-coorg/&quot;&gt; The ill-fated trek to Thadiyandamol, Coorg &lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:45:30 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Photos from Aeroindia 2009 - Sars planes etch patterns in the sky</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/02/20/aeroindia-2009-saras-etching-patterns-in-the-sky/&quot;&gt; Saras Planes etching patterns in the sky &lt;/a&gt;.</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:57:19 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Photos from Aeroindia 2009 - Dance of the Helicopters</title>
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  <description>Part 2 in the AeroIndia 2009 series &lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/02/19/aeroindia-2009-dance-of-the-helicopters/&quot;&gt; Dance of the Helicopters &lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:20:07 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Photos from Aeroindia 2009 - Static Display</title>
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  <description>Photos from Aeroindia 2009 - Static Display. &lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/02/18/aeroindia-2009-static-display/&quot;&gt;Vintage Planes and Mig-21 Bison Underwing Armaments&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:38:55 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>IIMB Yamini 2009 Cultural Fest</title>
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  <description>Photos from &lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/02/09/iimb-yamini-2009-dusk-to-dawn-cultural-festival/&quot;&gt; IIMB Yamini 2009 Dusk to Dawn Cultural Festival &lt;/a&gt;. Performances by Urmila Sathyanarayanan (Bharatnatyam), Mysore Brothers (Violin) and Pandit Ronu Majumdar (Bansuri).</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:42:42 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Concert Pics from the Nokia Touch the Tune concert.</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/01/27/nokia-touch-the-tune-concert/&quot;&gt; Concert Pictures for Nokia Touch the tune concert &lt;/a&gt;. The Raghu Dixit Project, Karsh Kale and MIDIval punditz played.</description>
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  <lj:music>The Raghu Dixit Project - Gudgudiya</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:10:18 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/01/24/trekking-and-water-sports-in-sharavathy-valley-backwaters/&quot;&gt; Trekking and water sports in Sharavathy valley backwaters &lt;/a&gt; Good fun Rafting, Kayaking and coracling.</description>
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  <lj:music>Raghu Dixit Project - Amber</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:20:25 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Headstart and Compute 2009 Event Report</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/01/22/headstart-compute-2009-event-report/&quot;&gt; Headstart and Compute 2009 Event Report &lt;/a&gt;.</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:04:28 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Birds on a wire - Jaisalmer, Rajasthan</title>
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  <description>[New photo post] &lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/01/14/photo-birds-on-a-wire-jaisalmer-rajasthan/&quot;&gt; Birds on a wire &lt;/a&gt; More details at my &lt;a href=&quot;http://lens.vinayakhegde.com&quot;&gt; photoblog &lt;/a&gt;.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:45:17 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Some of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2009/01/05/demos-at-headstart-2009/&quot;&gt;India&apos;s best startups &lt;/a&gt; are demoing at &lt;a href=&quot;http://headstart.in&quot;&gt; Headstart 2009 &lt;/a&gt;. Have you &lt;a href=&quot;http://register.headstart.in&quot;&gt;registered&lt;/a&gt; yet ?</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:02:05 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Identifying birds</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2008/12/17/identifying-birds/&quot;&gt; Identifying Birds &lt;/a&gt;. Used the Indian Books of Birds to Identify the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lens.vinayakhegde.com/index.php?showimage=19&quot;&gt;Small Bee-eater&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://lens.vinayakhegde.com/index.php?showimage=20&quot;&gt;River Tern &lt;/a&gt;.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:29:16 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2008/12/15/startup-saturday-bangalore-december-2008-edition/&quot;&gt; Startup Saturday Bangalore - December 2008 Edition &lt;/a&gt; Talks by Akamai and Honeywell and demo by LifeMojo.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:36:57 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Lake Wanaka in New Zealand</title>
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  <description>[New Photo Post] &lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2008/12/08/photo-lake-wanaka-new-zealand/&quot;&gt; Lake Wanaka in New Zealand &lt;/a&gt; More details on my &lt;a href=&quot;http://lens.vinayakhegde.com&quot;&gt; photoblog &lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:28:27 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Foss.in 2008</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2008/12/01/fossin-2008&quot;&gt; Foss.in Event Report &lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:56:55 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>ACM Tech Talk November 2008 edition</title>
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  <description>There were &lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2008/11/26/acm-tech-talk-november-2008-edition/&quot;&gt;two talks this time (Decomposition paradigms for Large Scale Systems and Signature matching)&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:03:12 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Krishna Temple at Hampi</title>
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  <description>[New Photo Post] &lt;a href=&quot;http://thoughts.vinayakhegde.com/2008/11/24/photo-krishna-temple-hampi/&quot;&gt;Krishna Temple at Hampi &lt;/a&gt;</description>
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