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		<title>Windows 7 Ultimate &#8211; usage review from India</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/windows-7-ultimate-usage-review-from-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<title>Votonomics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got my new voter id card (I had an old one issued in 2005 as well) yesterday. The process is quick and painless but the queue isn&#8217;t. I had to make my way through a long serpantine queue for almost 3 hours &#8211; thankfully, the saving grace was the sun had set and this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=884&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What makes a blog unique</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Content on a blog is king. Yet, many bloggers I see (I have been guilty of this myself!) use repeat content and not much of it appears unique.
I take a pledge: Even if my frequency of posts becomes irregular (it already is, by the way!), on my posts, I will hereon try to make a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=866&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I feel SONY BRAVIA pricing is optimum now</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/why-i-feel-sony-bravia-pricing-is-optimum-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two economic concepts we learn from the below link of the &#8220;SONY way&#8221; are:
1. Horizontal division of labor &#8211; SONY practices this as is clear from the link &#8211; what is horizontal division of labor? The answer can be found at this link.
2. SONY is currently facing a low margin, high turnover business in LCD [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=762&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama &#8211; Mr. President of the United States of America!</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/barack-obama-mr-president-of-the-united-states-of-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He is the ultimate modern tech savvy Blackberry wielding Mr President of the United States of America. For once, I see genuine hope in the way the US will go about sorting out its financial mess and it&#8217;s foreign policies.
Checkout: http://www.whitehouse.gov
As with most Americans and millions from other countries and their citizens, I did not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=711&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google search / how do they do it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not so easy. I was watching a lot of training sessions to understand how they do their search so efficiently and effectively.
It turns out, there is quite a logic that runs at the backend and none of it is fluke. They hire PhD&#8217;s to do stuff and even here, they try to understand the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=602&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US Government bails out CITIGROUP</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/us-government-bails-out-citigroup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As expected, the US Government bails out CITIGROUP. They are extending a lifeline of $20 billion at a higher rate of interest than that given by the TARP plan. Also, they plan to absorb some of the bad assets provided CITI takes the initial $5 billion followed by the US Government followed by the FDIC [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=596&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can large banks fail / CITIBANK on the brink</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/can-large-banks-fail-citibank-on-the-brink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw the developments of the last week where CITI (NYSE: C) shares really fell to $3 a share and was in danger of going bust as public confidence was eroding sharply. CITI faces a real threat of a collapse.
There were two options open to the board: 1. Fire the CEO, Vikram Pandit as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=592&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My experience with the MacBook</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/my-experience-with-the-macbook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am so clearly blown away by the Mac that it is hard to put it in words.
The sheer power of my first love &#8211; UNIX &#8211; combined with the beauty of the Mac graphics has clearly been a humbling experience for a Windows user like me! To learn about the Mac OS X or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=580&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wells Fargo makes a counter bid pipping Citi&#8217;s Pandit</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/wells-fargo-makes-a-counter-bid-pipping-citis-pandit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vikram Pandit, the CEO of Citigroup is not a happy man and is frankly red faced. Their exclusivity agreement with Wachovia notwithstanding, Wells Fargo made a counter bid for Wachovia and Citi &#8216;which never sleeps&#8217; was really caught napping!
Now, Citigroup (NYSE: C) has filed a lawsuit against Wachovia for trying to sell itself to a higher [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=541&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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