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	<title>The Racing Geek &#187; thoughts</title>
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		<title>Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma</title>
		<link>http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2011/09/05/indy-grand-prix-of-sonoma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rahulnair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended the 2011 Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma at Infineon Raceway and was immediately struck by how different the experience was to the US Grand Prix at Indianapolis that I attended in 2002. This post is a quick recap of what I saw at Sonoma and why F1 needs to change and become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Circus before Dawn</title>
		<link>http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2011/09/04/circus-before-dawn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 06:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rahulnair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently ran into David Miller, a longtime GGLC member and the newly published author of Circus before Dawn, a novel set in a fictional version of the 1999 Formula 1 season about an start-up F1 team based in the Bay Area. As soon as he told me the basic premise of the novel I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on &#8220;Senna&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2011/08/28/thoughts-on-senna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 06:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rahulnair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the chance to see a special pre-release screening of the Senna movie and since people have constantly been asking me for my opinion of it I figured its time to put my thoughts down on paper. Since the movie was shot entirely using archival footage it is being classified as a documentary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency Preparedness Pack</title>
		<link>http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2011/04/06/emergency-preparedness-pack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rahulnair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the big things that the Japan Earthquake brought home to me was my absolute unpreparedness for any sort of disaster or emergency evacuation situation. I spent a bunch of time online looking for pre-made emergency &#8220;bug-out&#8221; kits and while there are several decent ones out there I felt that they were all missing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing audio quality of the Nokia N900</title>
		<link>http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2010/07/20/amazing-audio-quality-of-the-nokia-n900/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2010/07/20/amazing-audio-quality-of-the-nokia-n900/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rahulnair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact that I have been using various Nokia phones and attending multiple Iron Maiden concerts (5 at last count) over the years led me to this amazing demonstration of the improving audio quality of Nokia cameraphones. While I have been a big fan of the N95 camera but I always complained about the audio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setting up a Seven &#8211; The Ultralite Experience</title>
		<link>http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2010/03/30/setting-up-a-seven-the-ultralite-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2010/03/30/setting-up-a-seven-the-ultralite-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rahulnair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know I purchased a Lotus Seven replica called the WCM Ultralite S2K late last year to make it a street legal track toy. While the Ultralite may maintain the spirit of the original Seven, as you can see below, it has a distinctly different shape and has generally larger dimensions to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recreating your track day laps in GT5</title>
		<link>http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2010/02/09/recreating-your-track-day-laps-in-gt5/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2010/02/09/recreating-your-track-day-laps-in-gt5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rahulnair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polyphony Digital has announced a new feature in Gran Turismo 5 which will allow you to upload data from an automotive data logger and recreate your laps within GT5. The technology currently requires the use of the CANBUS data along with a Denso GPS controller and will initially be built into the Toyota FT-86G. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cathay Pacific Upgrade Experience</title>
		<link>http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2010/01/29/cathay-pacific-upgrade-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2010/01/29/cathay-pacific-upgrade-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rahulnair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days before my scheduled return flight from Chennai to SF I was thinking about the wonderfully uncomfortable economy seat and decided that it would probably be worth it to pay a fee and upgrade to business. This was on a Friday night (flight was on Sat night) and the Cathay Pacific office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ultimate mobile search experience (a.k.a Foodfinder lives)</title>
		<link>http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2009/02/09/the-ultimate-mobile-search-experience-aka-foodfinder-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2009/02/09/the-ultimate-mobile-search-experience-aka-foodfinder-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rahulnair</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/?p=127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The folks at Yahoo oneSearch just announced the new oneSearch Shortcut application with a new auto-locate feature that determines the users location using cell-tower positioning and wi-fi triangulation. This combines with the existing voice search and oneSearch clusters to create what is in my opinion the best mobile search experience in the business (especially on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food and drink</title>
		<link>http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2008/10/15/food-and-drink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rahulnair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m lucky enough to have a job that has taken me to several different countries and one of things friends keep asking me is how each trip was. This is a really tough question for me to answer since I&#8217;m really not much of a tourist, I have no interest in visiting the local monuments [...]]]></description>
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