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	<title>Irfan's Corner on the Web</title>
	<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog</link>
	<description>On Mac, Linux, Grid, Virtualization and Software Technology</description>
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		<title>How to recover data from an formatted HFS Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week my Time Machine Backup Hard disk suddenly died! Everytime I plugged the hard disk, my mac did not recognise the file system (it was a HFS+ partition) and asked my to format it. I did format it, only to realise that I had lost some precious data.
How do you recover data from a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2010/01/14/how-to-recover-data-from-an-formatted-hfs-drive/</link>
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		<title>Is Data Science emerging as a New Domain in Computer Science?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've just completed reading Chapter 5 of Beautiful Data. I planned to write a  blog post about this book, however this chapter contained some new insights for me which I thought were valuable to share. This book has some excellent chapters covering significant developments in the domain of data storage, retrieval and analysis. Chapter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2010/01/02/is-data-science-emerging-as-a-new-domain-in-computer-science/</link>
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		<title>Making the move to Cloud backup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Time Machine Hard disk failed 2 days ago. I lost all my backups! Unfortunately I had reinstalled my system just last week and had not yet fully restored from the latest time machine backup. Fortunately I have recovered everything other than my pictures.
I don't want to experience such loss again, so I'm moving towards [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2009/12/30/making-the-move-to-cloud-backup/</link>
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		<title>Turing (A Novel about Computation) Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just completed reading Turing (A Novel about Computation). Its a post-modern novel around a computer programme named "Turing". It has a captivating story line that guides the reader through centuries of human ingenuity and intellectual achievement. The book also presents a successful fusion of history, economics, mathematics, computer science that is brilliant and original. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2009/12/07/turing-a-novel-about-computation-review/</link>
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		<title>Buy Cheap Storage from Google and use it for Online Backup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Google has dramatically decreased prices for the extra storage you can purchase for Google Services like Gmail and Picasa. The current prices:


Apple also provides upgrade options for iDisk and MobileMe Mail, however their prices are significantly more expensive an extra 60GB from Apple will set you back for an additional £59 (~ $100), while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2009/11/11/buy-cheap-storage-from-google-and-use-it-for-online-backup/</link>
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		<title>How to mount your MobileMe iDisk in Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I tried mounting my iDisk about 3 years ago in a Linux system and I had to use Cadaver for it. It was not easy to configure. Fortunately now things have changed. You just need 1 command (or two if you have to install davfs2) to mount a Webdav share (iDisk uses webdav).
1. First install [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2009/11/11/how-to-mount-your-mobileme-idisk-in-linux/</link>
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		<title>Why Working Harder is not the solution for enhanced productivity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just came across this truly fantastic post on productivity. The cited article, talks from a startup owner's point of view, and his advice can be summarised as:
"“Working harder” is a poor strategy which your competitors can trivially replicate. Instead, spend some time measuring what tasks add value to your business and at what imputed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2009/11/07/why-working-harder-is-not-the-solution-for-enhanced-productivity/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s App of the Day: Instapaper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Instapaper is a great app. I bought the paid version a few months ago. Every time I find some interesting article or blog post I save it to "Read it later" in Safari so that I can read it when its convenient for me. There are primarily three things I particularly like about the app.
1. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2009/10/23/todays-app-of-the-day-instapaper/</link>
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		<title>Checking out Eucalyptus</title>
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I'm installing and deploying an experimental Eucalyptus Cloud. Eucalyptus is an open source framework for creating private cloud systems. I have been involved in Grid computing research for a number years now. Unfortunately there isn't a single Grid middleware that can be easily deployed by common users. Grids of course compared to contemporary cloud systems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2009/10/21/checking-out-eucalyptus/</link>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s AJAX APIs Playground</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The website AJAX APIs Playground consists of a host of sample code using AJAX API's from Googles various services. I was not aware of that fact that Google has AJAX APIs for Language translation allowing you to use Google's translation capabilities in your site.
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		<link>http://irfanhabib.com/blog/2009/10/21/googleajax-apis-playground/</link>
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