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		<title>Dynamic Shortcut Creation with Bash</title>
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One of the things that used to get me really frustrated was having to type (and remember) really long paths to my organised data. If I have an assignment in some course of mine, I have to navigate to &#8220;~/Courses/code/cs6680/assn1/&#8221; before I get any work done. From what I hear, this is a pretty common [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arun.chagantys.org/blog/?p=293</link>
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		<title>Disqus and Ideas</title>
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So I&#8217;ve moved the site over to using the Disqus Commenting System, which is most fabulous. For some reason the system is still hasn&#8217;t imported my existing comments, so I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s happening there. Otherwise, the real reason for the shift, is that I wanted to put up some ideas I had regarding some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost&#8230; But Some Are</title>
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Here is my 3rd place &#8220;winning&#8221; entry for Saarang Creative Writing (posting
here just for the sake of it, and because something reminded me of the
title). It&#8217;s a bit of an abstract piece, and admittedly a bit shabby here
and there. Commentary shall follow at the end

Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost&#8230; But Some Are

&#8220;Have you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arun.chagantys.org/blog/?p=278</link>
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		<title>Theme Change!</title>
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Ah, after an endless lull in content, I have gone down the time tested route of all phased-out bloggers; I&#8217;ve changed my theme. I think as I&#8217;ve grown &#8220;older&#8221;, my aesthetics demand more and more simplicity, to the point that non-centered, non-black-and-white, non-plain text themes just turn me off. I liked my old theme quite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arun.chagantys.org/blog/?p=275</link>
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		<title>foss.in/2009</title>
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    foss.in/2009. Nimhans Convention Center, Bangalore, Dec. 1-5, 2009. Yep, a month ago (well, atleast it&#8217;s better than a year ago). I attended my first foss.in in 2007, and it seriously changed my life. I can&#8217;t say quite the same for this edition, but it was interesting.


The overwhelming focus of this year&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arun.chagantys.org/blog/?p=267</link>
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		<title>Excursions in Programming &#8211; Generators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Lazy computation kicks the llama&#8217;s ass&#8221; &#8211; Somebody

The concept of a generator may be very foreign to those who haven&#8217;t really explored Python &#8211; though it is a general principle (like iterators). The crux of it is to generate the members of a set/relation one at time (which are subsequently returned). If you are not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arun.chagantys.org/blog/?p=258</link>
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		<title>Excursions in Programming</title>
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If I have not written anything literary over the past month or so, it has been for the singular reason that the only thing occupying my senses has been code (and it&#8217;s not like the situation has changed in the least bit). While I have several musings about the nature of expression, and what not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arun.chagantys.org/blog/?p=256</link>
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		<title>On Computational Creativity</title>
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A recent discussion with a friend, Ramya, on the topic of Computational Creativity got me thinking. For sure my views will change in the course of time, but at least I would have penned down &#8211; and safely stored &#8211; my initial views that I may come back in a month or so and chuckle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arun.chagantys.org/blog/?p=252</link>
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		<title>Shaastra 2009 Hackfest Roundup</title>
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IIT Madras hosted it&#8217;s second hackfest last weekend, during it&#8217;s annual techfest, Shaastra. The hackfest was phenomenally successful, with 6 projects running concurrently producing about 7-8 patches in total. Within our second instalment itself, we&#8217;ve probably established ourselves as the most productive student-run hackfest in India, something we are extremely proud of 1. The hackfest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arun.chagantys.org/blog/?p=244</link>
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		<title>Paper Soap Pulicat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, CocoD and I embarked on an adventurous trail deep into the Tam heartland to India&#8217;s second largest lagoon, Pulicat Lake. Soaking in the sights, sounds (and smells &#8211; good god we wish we didn&#8217;t), the two of us boldly proved our manliness by cycling the whole of the 62.8 km (ref. Google Maps), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arun.chagantys.org/blog/?p=235</link>
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