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	<title>Freshly Brewed Ritwik</title>
	<link>http://ritwikroy.com/blog</link>
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		<title>Get Office 2010 cheaper if you&#8217;re a uni student</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re an Australian university student thinking about Windows 7 or Office 2010, the &#8220;It&#8217;s not cheating&#8221; website has recently updated. It&#8217;s Not Cheating is a Microsoft initiative to reduce piracy among uni students by giving them low cost full versions of software, like Office and Windows. At the moment, if you have a valid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ritwikroy.com/blog/202/get-office-2010-cheaper-if-youre-a-uni-student/</link>
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		<title>Empire Avenue: Where &#8216;buying your friends&#8217; is a good thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just received an invite to a service that&#8217;s currently in beta, Empire Avenue. To explain what the service is, I first need to explain &#8216;influence&#8217;. As you do things online, on social networks and blogs, you affect a graph of influence. For example, I post online that I liked a restaurant in Perth. My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ritwikroy.com/blog/187/empire-avenue-where-buying-your-friends-is-a-good-thing/</link>
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		<title>Adding a Facebook like button to my Wordpress blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t heard the news yet, Facebook wants to take over the world. Well, eventually. For now, they&#8217;ll settle for just taking over the internet. At the keynote for this year&#8217;s f8 conference (Facebook&#8217;s developer conference), Zuckerberg announced a few changes to Facebook that will essentially allow users to carry their social networks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ritwikroy.com/blog/175/adding-a-facebook-like-button-to-my-wordpress-blog/</link>
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		<title>Google Maps April Fools Fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The maps team for Australia have come up with a really good prank. Search for directions in Australia and look at the results to see what I&#8217;m talking about. For those elsewhere in the world/ those who want to see the result, hit the &#8216;read more&#8217; link.
The directions you get are given in an Australian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ritwikroy.com/blog/167/google-maps-april-fools-fun/</link>
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		<title>Messenger for Mac 8 Beta brings video chat to the mac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has just released the beta of Microsoft Messenger for Mac 8. This release brings audio/video chat features to the mac that have existed in windows live messenger for a while now. As always, Messenger for Mac seems like a cut down version of Windows Live Messenger, so this addition feels like a step in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ritwikroy.com/blog/158/messenger-for-mac-8-beta-brings-video-chat-to-the-mac/</link>
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		<title>A camera in hand: What I learnt from the Perth storm of 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was a big day in Perth&#8217;s history, a massive storm hit the city and caused a lot of damage and chaos. I was lucky enough not to be on the roads when it hit, I was sitting in a cosy building at my university. That didn&#8217;t last long though, because a few close thunder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ritwikroy.com/blog/153/a-camera-in-hand-what-i-learnt-from-the-perth-storm-of-2010/</link>
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		<title>Indian Traffic 101: Signs and Symbols</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first thing to understand about the Indian Traffic system is that there are no rules per se. Just suggestions. Here’s a list of suggestions that may be seen on the roads:
Lane markings: These suggest a possible division of the road into lanes. For example, a single line in the centre of the road suggests [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ritwikroy.com/blog/141/indian-traffic-101-signs-and-symbols/</link>
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		<title>Malaysian airlines flight to India now boarding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My trip to India was via Kuala Lampur, on a Malaysian Airlines flight. The flights were not bad and the flight attendants were nice. On the other hand, the seats were quite cramped, even for economy class. I had a hard time getting to sleep, although that could be attributed to the lady who’s infant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ritwikroy.com/blog/136/malaysian-airlines-flight-to-indidia-now-boarding/</link>
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		<title>India Trippin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note, I’m currently in India, so most of the posts from now will be about the things I see / hear / smell and generally experience. It’ll be a temporary break from the usual technology posts until I’m back home (except maybe a few about the tech I’m carrying with me on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ritwikroy.com/blog/135/india-trippin/</link>
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		<title>Facebook-Twitter integration: mentions and status tags</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some ideas for further facebook twitter integration.]]></description>
		<link>http://ritwikroy.com/blog/90/facebook-twitter-integration-mentions-and-status-tags/</link>
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