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		<title>Cable Freedom Is a Click Away&#8230; Not so fast!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[nytimes has this article today titled Cable freedom is a click away, it talks about how upgrading your computer, installing a few desktop apps and adding a wireless connection, keyboard and mouse will mean you can move away from a monthly cable bill. Some thoughts&#8230;. You don&#8217;t need all that setup. To watch television shows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aplacewithaview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1978879&amp;post=178&amp;subd=aplacewithaview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An update on Oracle Sun merger&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oracle acquires Sun]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been about six months since Oracle announced Sun acquisition but it isn&#8217;t completed yet. News reports indicate that EU approval for the acquisition is not yet through. In the interim Sun apparently is laying off about 3000 people, apparently 10% of its workforce. Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Oracle, Oracle acquires Sun, Sun, Sun Microsystems, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aplacewithaview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1978879&amp;post=176&amp;subd=aplacewithaview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must watch&#8230; Very engaging and worth the hour or so you would spend watching it.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/10/why-the-industrial-revolution-was-in-great-britain/ This is one of the best cause consequence analysis of technological evolution. Why did industrial revolution happen in England and not any where else? A very thought provoking analysis that i hope to revisit again with my take on it. A must watch. Iam trying to get a link where i can embed it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aplacewithaview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1978879&amp;post=173&amp;subd=aplacewithaview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Long time since i posted&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a very long time since i posted. I was quite busy at work, and so did not have the time or energy to do anything else. Posted in Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aplacewithaview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1978879&amp;post=171&amp;subd=aplacewithaview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle takes over Sun; What sort of an inflection point is this? Intel the looser?????</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember that old point about &#8220;inflection points&#8221; from &#8220;Only the paranoid survive&#8221;? We had that great looking chart of various IT companies IBM, DEC etc. which had the entire stack of technology all by themselves. The hardware (often right from the chip), and the sofware. Then that model went bust with Microsoft dominating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aplacewithaview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1978879&amp;post=168&amp;subd=aplacewithaview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Small car collision statistics: Idiotic arguments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past 10 days or so, we see &#8220;reports&#8221; about the safety of small cars. Like this &#8220;opinion&#8221; of wall street journal, where they conclude that small cars are inherently unsafe. WSJ did a follow up with this article. There are two arguements against this idiotic arguement, one satirize their point of view by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aplacewithaview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1978879&amp;post=165&amp;subd=aplacewithaview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What does the &#8220;Singing Sensation&#8221; Susan Boyle tell us about our Society?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would be surprised if you have not yet heard or listened to Susan Boyle considering the saturation coverage this singing sensation has recieved. On the off chance that you haven&#8217;t, here it is&#8230; You would agree that she has exceptional voice and unusual vocal range and she is evidently well trained. It is conventional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aplacewithaview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1978879&amp;post=159&amp;subd=aplacewithaview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Duplicity: Funny and intelligent; Unusual for a movie</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this movie a couple of weeks back but did not immediately write my review, since too often, the initial impression movies such as this make, pale with time. In this case, iam happy to report, time doesn&#8217;t do much damage.Tony Gilroy has already proved his abilities with the &#8220;bourne&#8221; movies and ofcourse with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aplacewithaview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1978879&amp;post=157&amp;subd=aplacewithaview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Killer satire on the daily show</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best daily show episodes i saw&#8230; Here it is and it is a must watch!!!!!! Here is the best quote of this entire show: &#8220;Isn&#8217;t the dow jones industrial average, just a short twitch numerical representation, of a bunch of guesses, about other people&#8217;s assumptions, about the financial well being of, an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aplacewithaview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1978879&amp;post=155&amp;subd=aplacewithaview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Media in general and CNBC crowd in particular &#8211; You Know Who&#8217;s&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were watching CNBC or even follow MSNBC, you would have noticed this idiotic rant from one of CNBC&#8217;s so called market analysts. Earlier we had Jim Cramer had a similar rant. Notice how in the earlier instance, jim cramer was ranting about Ben Bernanke was doing all the wrong things and should cut [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aplacewithaview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1978879&amp;post=153&amp;subd=aplacewithaview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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