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	<title>Learning to fly</title>
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	<description>Throwing yourself at the ground and missing.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Testing</title>
		<link>http://blog.aditseng.com/2008/06/12/testing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is just to see how easy it is to blog on moblog for Windows Mobile.
Not bad so far. I will provide a review of this soon.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is just to see how easy it is to blog on moblog for Windows Mobile.</p>
<p>Not bad so far. I will provide a review of this soon.</p>
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		<title>Google thinks you&#8217;re a bot</title>
		<link>http://blog.aditseng.com/2008/04/09/google-thinks-youre-a-bot/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.aditseng.com/2008/04/09/google-thinks-youre-a-bot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[search]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Visit google.com. Search for &#8220;forums topics&#8221; (with or without quotes - it doesn&#8217;t matter). Go to the 10th or 20th page depending on whether you typed the quotes or not.
You&#8217;ll get a message saying:

We&#8217;re sorry&#8230;
&#8230; but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application.  To protect our users, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Visit <a href="http://google.com" target="_blank">google.com</a>. Search for &#8220;forums topics&#8221; (with or without quotes - it doesn&#8217;t matter). Go to the 10th or 20th page depending on whether you typed the quotes or not.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll get a message saying:</p>
<blockquote>
<h1>We&#8217;re sorry&#8230;</h1>
<p>&#8230; but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application.  To protect our users, we can&#8217;t process your request right now.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network has been infected, you might want to run a <a href="http://www.download.com/Antivirus/3150-2239-0.html"> virus checker</a> or <a href="http://www.download.com/sort/3150-8022-0-1-4.html">spyware remover</a> to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and other spurious software.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re continually receiving this error, you may be able to resolve the problem by deleting your Google cookie and revisiting Google. For browser-specific instructions, please consult your browser&#8217;s online support center.</p>
<p>If your entire network is affected, more information is available in the <a href="http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=86640">Google Web Search Help Center</a>.</p>
<p>We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we&#8217;ll see you again on Google.</p></blockquote>
<p>What&#8217;s up google??? Get your act together.</p>
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		<title>Women and a whole lot of Vaginas</title>
		<link>http://blog.aditseng.com/2008/04/09/women-and-a-whole-lot-of-vaginas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[theatre]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[clitoris]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, the Times of India, Bangalore brought down from Bombay, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal&#8217;s production of Eve Ensler&#8217;s The Vagina Monologues. For those who don&#8217;t know, The Vagina Monologues is an Obie Award-winning episodic play written by Eve Ensler which ran at the off-Broadway Westside Theatre after a limited run at HERE Arts Center in 1996. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last Friday, the Times of India, Bangalore brought down from Bombay, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal&#8217;s production of Eve Ensler&#8217;s <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/features/ensler/vm/" target="_blank"><strong><em>The Vagina Monologues</em></strong></a>. For those who don&#8217;t know, <em>The Vagina Monologues </em>is an <a title="Obie Award" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obie_Award">Obie Award</a>-winning episodic play written by <a title="Eve Ensler" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Ensler">Eve Ensler</a> which ran at the off-Broadway Westside Theatre after a limited run at HERE Arts Center in 1996. It is made up of a varying number of monologues read by a varying number of women. These monologues were written by Ensler after interviewing more than 200 women worldwide. Each year she adds a new monologue to the collection.</p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen a production, I recommend you do or at least read the script if you can get hold of it. If you&#8217;re in India, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal&#8217;s is the best (and best-known) rendition with over 75 shows around the country so far.</p>
<p>Of course, in Times Of India&#8217;s inimitable style, we were only told that there would be a showing of the play on Wednesday, with no mention of who was performing it! Even at the show, there were no brochures or handouts - highly cheap considering the pots of money that they make.</p>
<p>Still the performance was worth the ToI bullsh*t. While Dolly Thakore seems to be getting a little past her prime, the other three actors were really really good. While the monologues ranged from stories of rape and genital mutilation to body image and sexuality, what I liked best was the fact that these women were being completely unapologetic about their needs and wants and desires. It was an extremely positive way of looking at women and their vaginas, rather than the usual &#8220;why bother about what women want&#8221; kind of attitude that tends to prevail in India.</p>
<p>Watching the play made me think of an oddity in the human condition. Women have the only organ solely existing for pleasure - the clitoris. In fact, the clitoris has 8000 nerve fibres, more than double the number in the penis. So women can have better (more powerful) orgasms than men. They also can have vaginal orgasms (and vaginal+clitoral orgasms). Some women have been known to have orgasms just by clenching their vaginal muscles!! And of course, there is the multiple-orgasm.</p>
<p>Us poor men have nothing compared to this. And still we want sex more. We want it so much more that we are willing to rape, to molest, to coerce, to visit prostitutes, to watch porn and masturbate - anything to have an orgasm. And it isn&#8217;t even nearly as great as what women can have.</p>
<p>And yet, 19% of women have never experienced orgasm.</p>
<p>I bet that men are just trying to have that elusive five-minute-long mind-blowing-vaginal-clitoral-multiple orgasm. They are desperate cause they know it&#8217;ll never happen.</p>
<p>And women? Well, hell - at least masturbate!! You&#8217;re wasting something incredible. Don&#8217;t let us men take it away from you. Follow the example of the woman who became a prostitute to women just to hear them moan.</p>
<p>Moan and come. It&#8217;s apparently one of the most satisfying things out there.</p>
<p>And we will bemoan our lack of vaginas.</p>
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		<title>Setting my sights lower</title>
		<link>http://blog.aditseng.com/2008/04/01/setting-my-sights-lower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[april 1]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since I can&#8217;t keep up the plan of posting one blog (at minimum) per day, I have decided to post one blog entry per year! Since I have already reached 40-odd posts I don&#8217;t need to blog again!
Happy April 1st.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since I can&#8217;t keep up the plan of posting one blog (at minimum) per day, I have decided to post one blog entry per year! Since I have already reached 40-odd posts I don&#8217;t need to blog again!</p>
<p>Happy April 1st.</p>
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		<title>O blah!</title>
		<link>http://blog.aditseng.com/2008/03/30/o-blah/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.aditseng.com/2008/03/30/o-blah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This week has been very very bad for me. Firstly I was working 11 hour days through most of the week, and then had to work on Saturday and Sunday!
So - I didn&#8217;t/couldn&#8217;t blog for the whole of the week and weekend.
Let me see if next week will be better.
Fingers crossed.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week has been very very bad for me. Firstly I was working 11 hour days through most of the week, and then had to work on Saturday and Sunday!</p>
<p>So - I didn&#8217;t/couldn&#8217;t blog for the whole of the week and weekend.</p>
<p>Let me see if next week will be better.</p>
<p>Fingers crossed.</p>
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		<title>To all my feminist friends out there</title>
		<link>http://blog.aditseng.com/2008/03/21/to-all-my-feminist-friends-out-there/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.aditseng.com/2008/03/21/to-all-my-feminist-friends-out-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
		
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toothpastefordinner.com
I know, I know&#8230; too many of these posts&#8230;. I promise&#8230; Better posts soon.
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<a href="http://toothpastefordinner.com/">toothpastefordinner.com</a></p>
<p>I know, I know&#8230; too many of these posts&#8230;. I promise&#8230; Better posts soon.</p>
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		<title>What does it all mean?</title>
		<link>http://blog.aditseng.com/2008/03/20/what-does-it-all-mean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
		
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toothpastefordinner.com
Horrible phrase isn&#8217;t it?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://toothpastefordinner.com/"><img src="http://toothpastefordinner.com/031908/friends-with-benefits.gif" border="0" /></a><br />
<a href="http://toothpastefordinner.com/">toothpastefordinner.com</a></p>
<p>Horrible phrase isn&#8217;t it?</p>
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		<title>The Red Queen</title>
		<link>http://blog.aditseng.com/2008/03/20/the-red-queen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m already off by one day on my self-imposed call to give at least one blog entry per day (since I started blogging again). I&#8217;ve done over a week of posts but now am a day late and still haven&#8217;t done today&#8217;s!!!
Aargh!!! Does this one count???
I feel like Alice&#8217;s Red Queen running faster and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, I&#8217;m already off by one day on my self-imposed call to give at least one blog entry per day (since I started blogging again). I&#8217;ve done over a week of posts but now am a day late and still haven&#8217;t done today&#8217;s!!!</p>
<p>Aargh!!! Does this one count???</p>
<p>I feel like Alice&#8217;s Red Queen running faster and faster to stay in the same place.</p>
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		<title>Arthur C. Clarke - The Final Odyssey</title>
		<link>http://blog.aditseng.com/2008/03/19/arthur-c-clarke-the-final-odyssey/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.aditseng.com/2008/03/19/arthur-c-clarke-the-final-odyssey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Arthur C. Clarke died today at his home in Sri Lanka aged 90. A gifted visionary, he believed that &#8220;At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.&#8221;
For those who [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" target="_blank">Arthur C. Clarke</a> <a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2266501,00.html" target="_blank">died</a> today at his home in Sri Lanka aged 90. A gifted visionary, he believed that &#8220;At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.&#8221;</p>
<p>For those who haven&#8217;t read it yet, my favourite Clarke has to be <em>Childhood&#8217;s End</em>. Read it.</p>
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		<title>Nobel-prize winner!</title>
		<link>http://blog.aditseng.com/2008/03/17/nobel-prize-winner/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.aditseng.com/2008/03/17/nobel-prize-winner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
		
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Poor poor Richard Feynman!
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<p>Poor poor Richard Feynman!</p>
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