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	<title>The Inferno</title>
	<link>http://www.viren.ca/blog</link>
	<description>It is a fallacy to state that something exists just because it can't be proven that it doesn't</description>
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		<title>Post of the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pretty sweet, wot?

I hate what America has become
Date: 2009-10-28,  9:58PM PDT
There are so many reasons that frankly, it&#8217;s hard to pick a place to start:
First of all&#8230;..when 28% of you brain dead fucking morons give a blithering IDIOT like Sarah Palin positive approval ratings and think she ought to run for president in 2012, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viren.ca/blog/2010/03/post-of-the-day/</link>
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		<title>The General</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yilan smiled and watched the cities in the smoke, and the passing shapes of friends. Enkindu, Patroclus, Hephestion, and Antony and a thousand others. &#8220;Patroclus,&#8221; he called him. &#8220;And Lancelot. And Roland. O my friend&#8230;do you see, do you yet see? Sometimes we meet so late&#8230;you&#8217;re always with me, but so often born late, my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viren.ca/blog/2010/02/the-general/</link>
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		<title>Direct Upload to FTP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many&#8217;s the time I&#8217;ve surfed the vast wonders of the cybernetic ocean and wondered, &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to have this bit of coral back home, resting peacefully on the mantelpiece?&#8221;. Well, perendinate no longer! I present to you my first Firefox add-on, an add-on that lets you upload images you see on webpages directly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viren.ca/blog/2010/02/direct-upload-to-ftp/</link>
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		<title>Police State</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I learned that there are snipers atop buildings in the downtown core, in case any &#8220;terrorists&#8221; attack or there isn&#8217;t enough cheering when $country wins $medal. Click to enlarge the pics.


Anybody know what kind of sniper rifle that is?
EDIT &#8211; The comments have taught me that the two guns aren&#8217;t &#8220;sniper&#8221; rifles. In my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viren.ca/blog/2010/02/police-state/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Should have let them all drown, Alan. Down to the bottom of Davy Jones&#8217; locker where the fish could pick them clean for millennia. And by extension, let them starve. In the hundreds of thousands. The things you could have exacted for a modicum of respect.

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		<link>http://www.viren.ca/blog/2010/02/dont-ask-dont-tell/</link>
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		<title>Cultural Values</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is interesting. I&#8217;d never heard of this before, but it warrants some analysis.

Look at where we sit. more individualistic AND more secular-rational than the good ol&#8217; US. Japan and Sweden are at the top, who would have thought? I wonder how old this is, it shows Eastern and Western Germany. It also misspells Czech [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viren.ca/blog/2010/02/cultural-values/</link>
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		<title>Just how long again?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to see how long you&#8217;ll be playing a particular artist&#8217;s music for, if you were to play their entire discography, I present a one-liner in bash that will show you just that.

find . -type f -name '*.mp*' -exec exiftool '{}' + &#124; grep Duration &#124; awk '{x += $3; print x;}'

The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viren.ca/blog/2010/02/just-how-long-again/</link>
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		<title>Pity the man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you pity the man who dies, or the man who never lives? We all know which is harder.

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		<link>http://www.viren.ca/blog/2010/01/pity-the-man/</link>
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		<title>Nilotic Brutality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Yesterday I had the pleasure of seeing Nile AND Immolation live, in concert, together. It was an evening of untrammeled brutality and ferocity, easily the best tour of the year so far. I know, I know, the year is only 28 days old.
We got to the venue, El Corazon in Seattle, around 7.30. A smallish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viren.ca/blog/2010/01/nilotic-brutality/</link>
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		<title>Keyboard Consonant Shift</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
One of the most fascinating topics is linguistics and I consider myself an armchair linguist. Several forms of consonant shift exist, and can be seen throughout the varied family of Indo-European languages, which are spoken by a majority of humans today. Let me illustrate with some examples:
b/v alternation
Seen in words like probe/prove. Even in names [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viren.ca/blog/2010/01/keyboard-consonant-shift/</link>
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