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		<title>globally distributed</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/08/globally-distributed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been approximately 12 years and a bit since we were all in the same continent (never mind the country or city). Lots of things have changed, obviously &#8211; like the nieces &#8211; but it&#8217;s nice to see that some things haven&#8217;t.
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		<title>the localized urban myth</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/08/the-localized-urban-myth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every culture, it seems, has a seemingly inexhaustible storehouse of axioms, homilies and quotes &#8211; usually translated as &#8220;rural wisdom&#8221;. Some of these homilies are grounded in science &#8211; for example, boil cassava roots in an open pot (to allow the toxic cyanides to evaporate).
Who the hell first discovered that? How many people died to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>checkpoint statistics</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/08/checkpoint-statistics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A small anecdotal, possibly unscientific experiment to record the checkpoint experience, as it were.
Experimental environment: reasonably modern (unfortunately coloured) car, four occupants. One occupant (namely, moi) can speak the native lingo. Everyone can speak English, albeit some with a strong accent. For reference, a couple of the occupants look unmistakably expat/foreign.
Duration: 1.5 days (essentially, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>not really a coincidence</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/07/not-really-a-coincidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So there was a partial solar eclipse going on today. Not that I really noticed &#8211; I was awake, but by the time I remembered, the celestial caravan had long since departed. This could well be the story of my life, in a sentence. I still vividly remember watching this eclipse, or at least the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>going to the movies</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/07/going-to-the-movies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[watchmen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve watched The Watchmen before. But not in Sri Lanka, and not with the crowd I usually hang out with here. So off to the cinema we went. The first time, it was the movie experience. This time around, it was the movie going experience. For the past decade or so, I&#8217;ve probably watched more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what&#8217;s in your wallet?</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/05/whats-in-your-wallet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 04:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lair.fierydragon.org/?p=473</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For pretty much as far back as I can remember; whenever something wasn&#8217;t going too well with the country &#8211; someone would always pipe up and say &#8220;but look, there is a war on. We can&#8217;t be expected to fight an insurgency and do things that make economic sense at the same time&#8221;. And this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>.</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/05/471/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 08:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blood is the price of victory
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		<title>nothing says welcome back quite like a &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/03/nothing-says-welcome-back-quite-like-a/</link>
		<comments>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2009/03/nothing-says-welcome-back-quite-like-a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[crazed and probably drunken motorbicycle rider rear-ending your shiny car.
Yeah, so it has been an eventful yesterday &#8211; my luggage got misplaced somewhere in the bowels of Heathrow airport, so I have now added to that particular statistic. I am less annoyed about this than I should be, I suppose. The law of averages was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>congratulations, you&#8217;ve just won first prize</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2008/07/congratulations-youve-just-won-first-prize/</link>
		<comments>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2008/07/congratulations-youve-just-won-first-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I work for a company which has offices in other countries. Since most of the business is provided by people writing software for companies outside Sri Lanka; there is a reasonable amount of travel involved.
As is usual, people have a wide spectrum of reactions to being sent onsite.
Most like the idea of going out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the dilbert files &#8211; volume 2</title>
		<link>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2008/04/the-dilbert-files-volume-2/</link>
		<comments>http://lair.fierydragon.org/2008/04/the-dilbert-files-volume-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corporate programmer again. Ok, so not really a corporate programmer &#8211; I don&#8217;t think my job description involves a lot of writing code.
The place has a dress code. It has rules. Regulations. And one of the most invasive HR document piles that I have ever seen. They also win the prize for the most corporate-marketing [...]]]></description>
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