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	<title>The Educated New Village Boy</title>
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		<title>Google Buzz: Where new friends stay on the superficial side</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After almost a week on Buzz, I have to say it&#8217;s been a blast. I love peeking in on random buzzes from people living around me using Buzz&#8217;s mobile interface. Through this, I&#8217;ve been able to get to know a few other fellow Android users in the Klang Valley area. We&#8217;re now following each others&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envb.sapphirewillow.com/writings/2010/02/google-buzz-where-new-friends-stay-on-the-superficial-side/</link>
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		<title>NubDial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had an O2 WinMo phone once and I have to say there was one feature I really liked on it. 
When I searched for a contact, all I needed to do was to hit my numpad once for each alphabet in my search string.
For example, to search for &#8220;Alan&#8221;, I&#8217;d type &#8220;2526&#8243;. It was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envb.sapphirewillow.com/writings/2010/02/nubdial/</link>
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		<title>Kubuntu Jaunty: Just &#8216;cos I use it don&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s good</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using Kubuntu Jaunty since its release, and quite a bit before that as well (during the beta phase). Generally speaking, I can&#8217;t do without it. I use it as my primary operating system for both work and leisure, and I&#8217;ve upgraded virtually all of my staff&#8217;s laptops to use it as well. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envb.sapphirewillow.com/writings/2009/07/kubuntu-jaunty-just-cos-i-use-it/</link>
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		<title>[Wild Conjecture] Chrome OS as I imagine it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s announcement only drops a few hints here and there, and the world just went crazy with speculation.
Glancing through my feeds, some comments seem to be centered around the theme &#8220;you&#8217;re just a web application peddler, what makes you think you can handle the complexity of maintaining a full-fledged OS?&#8221; (Sorry, I tried looking for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envb.sapphirewillow.com/writings/2009/07/wild-conjecture-chrome-os-as-i-imagine-it/</link>
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		<title>What? Can&#8217;t take a bit of competition?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So now the IT media world just went wild over Google&#8217;s Chrome OS announcement. Comments are coming in from all over, some overly optimistic, some dismissive. All of these are speculative at best, and none of them carry a lot of weight as Google hasn&#8217;t even done a code drop yet, much less a release.
Some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envb.sapphirewillow.com/writings/2009/07/what-cant-take-a-bit-of-competition/</link>
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		<title>My most commonly used VIM commands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this as a response to a VI question in LowYat forums. Hope it&#8217;s useful to someone else out there.

:$ - Move to the last line (why this instead of shift-G? read below)
:10 - Move to line no 10, just substitute with any other number. So, just remember &#8220;$&#8221; means &#8220;last line&#8221; and you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envb.sapphirewillow.com/writings/2009/07/my-most-commonly-used-vim-commands/</link>
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		<title>Can you see Glassfish as the new Apache?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That the Apache web server is a mainstay in the web hosting industry is a gross understatement. Netcraft&#8217;s June 2009 statistics show that Apache is holding strong at 46.89% share of web servers surveyed. Microsoft&#8217;s IIS web server family has been perennial runner-ups, not really threatened by any other player, not able to touch the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envb.sapphirewillow.com/writings/2009/07/can-you-see-glassfish-as-the-new-apache/</link>
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		<title>Kubuntu Jaunty &#8211; A Java Developer&#8217;s Setup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kubuntu is my preferred Linux distro. I&#8217;ve pretty much stuck with KDE since my varsity days in 1997 and I&#8217;m still a happy KDE camper right now. There&#8217;s been ups and downs, not least during the &#8220;transition period&#8221; when KDE 4.0 first came out, but I&#8217;m still firmly in the KDE camp. In contrast, I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envb.sapphirewillow.com/writings/2009/06/kubuntu-jaunty-a-java-developers-setup/</link>
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		<title>Daimler or Ford? (a.k.a. I don&#8217;t get no respect)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I choked a bit reading Matt Asay&#8217;s Tim O&#8217;Reilly: Open-source purists trying to answer the wrong question this morning. And I quote:
Of the formative figures in open source, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Eric Raymond loom large. Arguably, however, few have had as much of a disruptive force as Tim O&#8217;Reilly, who has helped to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envb.sapphirewillow.com/writings/2009/06/daimler-or-ford-a-k-a-i-dont-get-no-respect/</link>
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		<title>So Google is the lumbering giant now?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it seems that Google, the startup that nimbly side-stepped all challenges from entrenched search providers, is a lumbering giant now, unable to update its results as fast as tweets are coming. Rather appropriate that this was published in a newspaper where the term &#8220;New York minute&#8221; was coined.
One wonders though, what advantages would it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://envb.sapphirewillow.com/writings/2009/06/so-google-is-the-lumbering-giant-now/</link>
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