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} catch(err) {}</description><title>rawjeev's randoms</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @rawjeev)</generator><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/</link><item><title>"Take pride in how far you have come and have faith in how far you can go."</title><description>“Take pride in how far you have come and have faith in how far you can go.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Christian Larson (via &lt;a href="http://littlemiss.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;littlemiss&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/437297276</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/437297276</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:08:27 +0530</pubDate><category>quote</category><category>gyan</category></item><item><title>"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."</title><description>“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Albert Einstein&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/437245594</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/437245594</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:30:38 +0530</pubDate><category>quote</category><category>gyan</category></item><item><title>iindia: Holi 2010 (via Holi 2010 - The Big Picture - Boston.com)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyttp3HQIe1qzr0dlo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://iindia.tumblr.com/post/428804063/holi-2010-via-holi-2010-the-big-picture" target="_blank"&gt;iindia&lt;/a&gt;: Holi 2010 (via &lt;a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/03/holi_2010.html" target="_blank"&gt;Holi 2010 - The Big Picture - Boston.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/431548260</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/431548260</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:22:16 +0530</pubDate><category>holi</category><category>india</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title>Welcome to Amplify.com - The Web's Social News Network</title><description>&lt;a href="http://amplify.com/u/2axo"&gt;Welcome to Amplify.com - The Web's Social News Network&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Hope its going to be better than clipmarks&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/431521774</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/431521774</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:08:27 +0530</pubDate></item><item><title>
Beautiful!
allcreatures: constantflux: (via Kassel)


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&lt;p&gt;Beautiful!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://allcreatures.tumblr.com/post/422415413/constantflux-i-hope-that-my-tongue-will-not" target="_blank"&gt;allcreatures&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href="http://constantflux.tumblr.com/post/422409750/i-hope-that-my-tongue-will-not-stay-stuck-via" target="_blank"&gt;constantflux&lt;/a&gt;: (via &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/kassel1" target="_blank"&gt;Kassel&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/424435806</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/424435806</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:01:22 +0530</pubDate><category>tiger</category><category>wildlife</category><category>nature</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title>"The network is always stronger than the node…
but a network starts with a node."</title><description>“The network is always stronger than the node…&lt;br/&gt;
but a network starts with a node.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mediainfluencer.net/about/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mediainfluencer.net/about/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.mediainfluencer.net/about/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (via &lt;a href="http://dagoneye.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;dagoneye&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/424426270</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/424426270</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:53:32 +0530</pubDate><category>quote</category><category>tech</category></item><item><title>What about those creatures that cant point fingers at what we do...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxfahnNXNA1qzk9edo1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;What about those creatures that cant point fingers at what we do to them?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And what about those that don’t even understand whats happening?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Rajeev B.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://allcreatures.tumblr.com/post/422027031/georgefant-via-sebseballade" target="_blank"&gt;allcreatures&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href="http://georgefant.tumblr.com/post/420385019/via-sebseballade" target="_blank"&gt;georgefant&lt;/a&gt;: (via &lt;a href="http://sebseballade.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;sebseballade&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/422115937</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/422115937</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:30:06 +0530</pubDate><category>thoughts</category><category>wildlife</category><category>nature</category><category>conservation</category></item><item><title>Picture Story of my visit to Valishvaruni Konda 1.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky5flqLkFw1qznusmo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Lord of the beginnings: Ganesha&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky5flqLkFw1qznusmo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Valishwara the main deity of the Hill&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky5flqLkFw1qznusmo3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Mahishasura Mardhini (Durga)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky5flqLkFw1qznusmo4_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Ganesha, Shiva &amp; Parvati: Utsava murthys&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky5flqLkFw1qznusmo5_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Divotees witnessing the Wedding of Shiva&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky5flqLkFw1qznusmo6_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; The torch barer of the gods&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky5flqLkFw1qznusmo7_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Cooking Breakfast&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky5flqLkFw1qznusmo8_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Misty dawn on top of the Hill&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky5flqLkFw1qznusmo9_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; An interesting rock&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky5flqLkFw1qznusmo10_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Kodi banda / Poultry rock&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Picture Story of my visit to Valishvaruni Konda 1.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/417821172</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/417821172</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:30:30 +0530</pubDate><category>culture</category><category>india</category></item><item><title>visit to Valishvaruni Konda 2.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyjz1zuGRm1qznusmo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Dhwaja Sthambam&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyjz1zuGRm1qznusmo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Hilltop Balloons&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyjz1zuGRm1qznusmo3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Jathra around the temple&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyjz1zuGRm1qznusmo4_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyjz1zuGRm1qznusmo5_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyjz1zuGRm1qznusmo6_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Plastic covers &amp; changing mindset&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyjz1zuGRm1qznusmo7_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Some Village girls climbing the hill&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyjz1zuGRm1qznusmo8_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; A hut at the foot of the hill&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyjz1zuGRm1qznusmo9_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Inside the hut&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyjz1zuGRm1qznusmo10_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Old &amp; the New side by side.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;visit to Valishvaruni Konda 2.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/417820746</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/417820746</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:30:17 +0530</pubDate><category>india</category></item><item><title>iindia:kari-shma:

ALL ABOARD! Passengers traveled on an...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyinb0Vb621qzpe8uo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://iindia.tumblr.com/post/415921247/kari-shma-all-aboard-passengers-traveled-on-an" target="_blank"&gt;iindia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://kari-shma.tumblr.com/post/415907968/all-aboard-passengers-traveled-on-an-overcrowded" target="_blank"&gt;kari-shma&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;ALL ABOARD! Passengers traveled on an overcrowded train in Patna, India, Tuesday. (Krishna Murari Kishan/Reuters) | &lt;a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2010/02/26/pictures-of-the-week-2/" target="_blank"&gt;WSJ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/417479826</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/417479826</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:06:24 +0530</pubDate><category>india</category></item><item><title>We are a hiku.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;My Bulbul, my Tingiri &amp; I&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;three of us together&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;are a nice little haiku.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/415699035</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/415699035</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:20:56 +0530</pubDate><category>haiku</category></item><item><title>Haiku</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I saw this woman…beautiful!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;looked like a gift to be unwrapped&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;she melt my heart like chocolate inside its wrapper.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/415684601</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/415684601</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:12:01 +0530</pubDate><category>haiku</category></item><item><title>"You aren’t here to struggle and suffer. You’re here to express and share your creative..."</title><description>“You aren’t here to struggle and suffer. You’re here to express and share your creative gifts, to give and receive love, and to be happy.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Steve Pavlina&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/415501376</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/415501376</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:09:59 +0530</pubDate><category>quote</category><category>gyan</category></item><item><title>Shaping Earth:
Starting with simple ways of shaping earth for...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky4uw669Be1qznusmo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Shaping Earth:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Starting with simple ways of shaping earth for human needs of survival, we have transformed ourself into a species on which the fate of many life forms (including ourselves) depends upon.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Where we go from here, how far we go and whether we will be lonely travellers as we continue our journey, largely depends on how we shape ourselves now.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/400259219</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/400259219</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:42:06 +0530</pubDate><category>earth</category><category>thoughts</category><category>photography</category><category>india</category></item><item><title>


Clever Art
juhi:thoughtcache:FFFFOUND! |...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/H7byYajhTp4s7ak1D3VeR59vo1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Clever Art&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://juhi.tumblr.com/post/131204746/thoughtcache-ffffound" target="_blank"&gt;juhi&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://thoughtcache.tumblr.com/post/129889017/ffffound" target="_blank"&gt;thoughtcache&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://ffffound.com/image/ae2e60a2c9a471f3a65d69c9b3b74a3136575d46" target="_blank"&gt;FFFFOUND! | art,clever,paper,paper,craft,concept,creative&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/399760921</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/399760921</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:07:41 +0530</pubDate><category>art</category></item><item><title>allcreatures:mabelmoments:



Elderly Asian elephants use their...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktsr3fgQ8f1qz7tiao1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://allcreatures.tumblr.com/post/260241191/mabelmoments-elderly-asian-elephants-use-their" target="_blank"&gt;allcreatures&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://mabelmoments.tumblr.com/post/260133941/elderly-asian-elephants-use-their-trunks-to-pet" target="_blank"&gt;mabelmoments&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Elderly Asian elephants use their trunks to pet each other at Pang La Elephant rehabilitation centre in Lampang province, northern Thailand. The centre is the country’s first nursing home for elephants and currently houses 26 elderly and disabled individuals. Photograph: Pongmanat Tasiri/EPA. via &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/nov/27/week-in-wildlife?picture=356140075" target="_blank"&gt;guardian uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/399755078</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/399755078</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:04:20 +0530</pubDate><category>pachyderm</category><category>elephant</category><category>wildlife</category></item><item><title>The Pachyderm
allcreatures: americanshaft:(via baubauhaus)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kup8ppfIwd1qa4pypo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Pachyderm&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://allcreatures.tumblr.com/post/284785702/americanshaft-via-baubauhaus" target="_blank"&gt;allcreatures&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href="http://americanshaft.tumblr.com/post/284780897/via-baubauhaus" target="_blank"&gt;americanshaft&lt;/a&gt;:(via &lt;a href="http://www.baubauhaus.com/" target="_blank"&gt;baubauhaus&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/399752499</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/399752499</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:02:48 +0530</pubDate><category>pachyderm</category><category>wildlife</category><category>elephant</category></item><item><title>Is she spinning clockwise / anticlockwise?</title><description>&lt;a href="http://delicategeniusblog.com/?p=552"&gt;Is she spinning clockwise / anticlockwise?&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="The Spinning Lady" src="http://delicategeniusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/0568782000.gif" height="400" width="300"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you happen to see her spinning clockwise then you are using your Right Brain.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you see her spinning anticlockwise then you are using your Left Brain.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interestingly for me, she was spinning right (clockwise) when I first saw her, then I started typing this and suddenly looked at her, she was spinning left (anticlockwise).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is an interesting Optical Illusion I came across long back and I stumbled on it today again, thought I’d share it with you. (&lt;a href="http://delicategeniusblog.com/?p=552" target="_blank"&gt;click for more…&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/394642532</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/394642532</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:35:24 +0530</pubDate><category>brain</category><category>opticalillusion</category></item><item><title>Is the Relational Database Doomed?</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/02/is-the-relational-database-doomed.php"&gt;Is the Relational Database Doomed?&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://techpost.tumblr.com/post/379966760/is-the-relational-database-doomed" target="_blank"&gt;techpost&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recently, a lot of new non-relational databases have cropped up both inside and outside the cloud. One key message this sends is, “if you want vast, on-demand scalability, you need a non-relational database”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/02/is-the-relational-database-doomed.php" target="_blank"&gt;Read it…&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;and then you must also read &lt;b&gt;&lt;a title="The dark side of NoSQL" href="http://codemonkeyism.com/dark-side-nosql/" target="_blank"&gt;The dark side of NoSql&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/380323187</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/380323187</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:24:28 +0530</pubDate><category>tech</category><category>nosql</category></item><item><title>"If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry..."</title><description>“If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;John A. Simone, Sr. (via &lt;a href="http://littlemiss.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;littlemiss&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/374660029</link><guid>http://randoms.rawjeev.com/post/374660029</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:12:07 +0530</pubDate><category>quote</category></item></channel></rss>
