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	<title>Sayamindu's Ramblings</title>
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	<description>The weekend hacker's musings...</description>
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		<title>Stuff that I have been up to</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December turned out to be a pretty busy month for me &#8211; here are some of the stuff I have been involved in/working on:

FOSS.in: As always FOSS.in &#8216;09 turned out to be an amazing affair. Being someone who works remotely, this event is probably one of the best opportunities for me to have &#8220;real&#8221; interactions. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/12/30/stuff-that-i-have-been-up-to/</link>
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		<title>Making Books Available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its all over the web now &#8211; the Internet Archive has opened up over 1.6 million books for the OLPC XO laptops and in general, any machine running Sugar. Before going into anything else, it makes sense to provide a more specific meaning of &#8220;opening up&#8221; here &#8211; it involves two main objectives completed at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/11/07/making-books-available/</link>
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		<title>Books, Sugar and OLPC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Articles and posts like this (and subsequently this) underline the need for a status report about ebook-reading in Sugar and in the XO laptops. For the past few months, apart from my usual duties, I have been working on the book-reading stack for OLPC and Sugar, and this may be viewed as a progress report [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/10/14/books-sugar-and-olpc/</link>
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		<title>Braindump on ebooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The inspiration for this post comes from a talk by Alan Kay, entitled Beyond the Printing Press: Computers as Learning Environments for All Children. You can view the video recording of the talk here

The development versions of Read Activity is now shipping with Epub support. This makes me excited for quite a few reason. Of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/08/12/braindump-on-ebooks/</link>
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		<title>Read and Epub and beyond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past few weeks, I have been spending most of my time implementing Epub support for Sugar&#8217;s Read activity. Epub is gaining increasing acceptance, and a few weeks back, Project Gutenberg started distributing many of their material in the format, and Google + Sony also seem to have started to distribute a large chunk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/06/18/read-and-epub-and-beyond/</link>
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		<title>ভাল আছি, ভালো থেকো</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Listened to a wonderful rendition of ভাল আছি, ভালো থেকো by an old school-friend of mine, and I couldn&#8217;t resist posting the lyrics. Apologies to my non-Bengali readers.

আমার ভিতর বাহিরে অন্তরে অন্তরে
আছো তুমি হৃদয় জুড়ে।
ঢেকে রাখে যেমন কুসুম,
পাপড়ির আবডালে ফসলের ঘুম
তেমনি তোমার নিবিড় চলা
মরমের মূল পথ ধরে।
পুষে রাখে যেমন ঝিনুক,
খোলসের আবরনে মুক্তর সুখ
তেমনি তোমার গভীর [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/05/30/%e0%a6%ad%e0%a6%be%e0%a6%b2-%e0%a6%86%e0%a6%9b%e0%a6%bf-%e0%a6%ad%e0%a6%be%e0%a6%b2%e0%a7%8b-%e0%a6%a5%e0%a7%87%e0%a6%95%e0%a7%8b/</link>
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		<title>Updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
A global dictionary for Sugar:: While working on the bookreader capabilities of the XO, I remembered how on almost each and every birthday during my primary school years, someone would give me one of those &#8220;pocket&#8221; dictionaries. Even in college, I would see students coming from Bengali medium schools studying their engineering textbooks with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/05/11/updates-2/</link>
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		<title>Why should I bother ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warning: This is a rant. Feel free to ignore
I love coding in Python, and in spite of some of the occasional issues it can cause, I feel that it lets one accomplish whatever one wants to do with the minimal amount of magic incantations. So naturally, I have been trying to convince my friends from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/04/29/why-should-i-bother/</link>
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		<title>Updates..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog has not seen much activity in a while, so here goes:

Bought a HCL touch-screen based netbook. It&#8217;s somewhat ancient hardware, but most of the stuff works out of the box (except for the webcam, which does not even show up in lshal or lsusb). The touchscreen required a binary driver &#8211; but a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/04/13/updates/</link>
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		<title>19th March, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Sucrose 0.84, the latest stable version of the Sugar educational platform has been released. A large number of bugfixes, new features, improvements and tweaks have gone in during the past six months, and to try out this release, you can use Sugar on a Stick.
Sugarlabs (the organisation which is currently driving the development of Sugar) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/03/20/19th-march-2009/</link>
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