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		<title>China India GDP Gap &#8211; Last 20 years</title>
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A picture is worth 1000 words. This is from cool google service based on UN data What happened in the last 20 years. Look at the increasing chasm between China and India GDP.
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		<link>http://pankajnarula.webfactional.com/201001/china-india-gdp-gap-last-20-years/</link>
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		<title>Negative side of Social Networking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world of social networking is catching very fast with the real world. Having water cooler talk is pretty normal but hear this now. I was getting ready for a welcome party for a baby and like any self respecting geek I asked Ms Beta Thoughts &#8211; hey I like this white shirt what do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pankajnarula.webfactional.com/200906/negative-side-of-social-networking/</link>
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		<title>Hindi on G1?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Am I the only one who care about seeing Hindi on G1 phone? So far the big search company has been very good for Hindi. Alok would attest that. But for whatever reason Hindi, still shows as boxes on Google. I was hoping the cupcake release would have that but not yet.
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		<link>http://pankajnarula.webfactional.com/200905/hindi-on-g1/</link>
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		<title>Nope he&#039;ll be an engineer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Didn&#8217;t knew there were Dilbert cartoons. My favorite
Dilbert &#8211; Engineers
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		<link>http://pankajnarula.webfactional.com/200905/nope-he-will-be-an-engineer/</link>
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		<title>Taking literary snobbism to new a era</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an article on NYTimes about how the age of Kindle or e-bookreaders is going to impact the old-fashioned books and the culture associated with book reading. Much of the article is devoted to the physical nature of books and the signals it sends to people around the person reading the book. For example [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pankajnarula.webfactional.com/200904/kindle/</link>
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		<title>Selecting books to read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No question about the fact that book reading is great. After completing college education, only way to grow further is by reading books. But reading a book also means time commitment. Typically a week to few weeks of reading every day. So it becomes necessary to select books with care. Though there is always the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pankajnarula.webfactional.com/200904/selecting-books-to-read/</link>
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		<title>Airtel Call Home &#8211; Misleading 1 cent campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First a little background &#8211; I have used Airtel Call Home for calling India in the past and generally like their voice quality. They had also ran great introductory offers when they started which gave good run for the money to Reliance India Call &#8211; gold standard in India calling. Competition has been good in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pankajnarula.webfactional.com/200904/airtel-call-home-misleading-1-cent-campaign/</link>
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		<title>Livemint&#039;s four values of sensex</title>
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Livemint has become quite popular during the last year or two of its existence. But sometimes funny things happen on the first page. Example in case is the screenshot above taken on  Nov 14th about 12:30pm IST. This image shows 4 different values of the BSE sensex index. Which one should I believe? While I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pankajnarula.webfactional.com/200811/livemints-four-values-of-sensex/</link>
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		<title>Weighing Machine by a Videogame Company</title>
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There has been a visible shift towards design on Beta Thoughts in the past few months. If you are one of the 1.5 readers of this blog you might have noticed it. While I have always been interested in the design of things &#8211; but only after the google reader&#8217;s recommendation engine recommended &#8220;core77&#8217;s design [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pankajnarula.webfactional.com/200811/weighing-machine-by-a-videogame-company/</link>
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		<title>Dash GPS and Ants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Dash Express, a GPS with internet connectivity and utilizing the collective knowledge about routes from its users was announced, it was quite an innovative concept. But it seems ants might have beaten them to it. Though a bit of rudimentary technology but it works from the Telegraph article (HT Marginal Revolution)
His team set up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pankajnarula.webfactional.com/200811/dash-gps-and-ants/</link>
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