Date: 04/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

Most of the opposition to stem cells stem from the assumption that human embroys are required for stem cell production. However recent research indicates other viable sources (like placenta) of stem cells. The following appears to me a very promising avenue. research published online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides new insight [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/science-technology-at-scientific-americancom-stem-cells-from-hair-follicles-can-change-into-neurons-study-shows/

Date: 04/01/05     Keywords: software

A guide to software nirvana.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-___-to-develop-great-software-a-guide/

Date: 04/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

A paralysed man in the US has become the first person to benefit from a brain chip that reads his mind. Matthew Nagle, 25, was left paralysed from the neck down and confined to a wheelchair after a knife attack in 2001. The pioneering surgery at New England Sinai Hospital, Massachusetts, last summer means he can now [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/first-thought-reading-brain-chip-implanted-to-a-paralysed-man-in-us/

Date: 04/01/05     Keywords: spam, microsoft

Scott Richter, the man behind OptInRealBig.com and billions of junk mail messages, said lawsuits had forced the company into Chapter 11. OptInRealBig was fighting several legal battles, most notably against Microsoft, which is pushing for millions of dollars in damages. BBC NEWS Much of the spam in our mailbox comes from few big spammers like him. Once the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/self-declared-spam-king-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection/

Date: 04/01/05     Keywords: security, microsoft

A new set of highly critical flaws has been discovered in Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Outlook programs, according to research company eEye Digital Security. The vulnerabilities allow for remote code execution with no actions from the computer user, eEye said. Although the flaws would not allow self-propagating worms to infiltrate a system, there is the potential [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-critical-flaws-in-ie-and-outlook-discovered-by-eeye/

Date: 04/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

The biocavity laser can show scientists the inner workings of a single cell. Paul Gourley and his colleagues at Sandia proved the laser could do that by studying cancer cells. Researchers are now using the laser to study stem cells, since cancer cells and stem cells are similar in several ways. Source: Wired News We will hopefully know [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/biocavity-laser-is-now-used-to-study-stem-cell-functions/

Date: 03/26/05     Keywords: no keywords

I use WordPress to maintain this site. After upgrading to version 1.5 I was left with a theme which doesn't do much of what I want to do with my site. The potential is there however there are several pieces which are missing from the picture. So I redesigned the site from scratch with custom [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/updated-the-blog-site-software/

Date: 03/25/05     Keywords: browser, web

I often work with multiple webpages open at the same time. I have tendency to use online documentations and work mostly on browser based applications. So it is a pain to restart and opening them again. Bookmarking doesn't solve because firstly you have to individually bookmark the pages and secondly its a pain to open. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/firefox-tip-how-to-retain-multiple-open-pages-tabbed-across-operating-system-restart/

Date: 03/24/05     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft is finally getting it! When will other companies realize that meetings are a surefire way to frustrate your best workers. A recent survey conducted by Microsoft corp finds that workers average only three productive days per week and lays the blame on among other things, unproductive staff meetings. 69% of the 38,000 people surveyed considered meetings [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/humans-found-to-be-generally-unproductive/

Date: 03/23/05     Keywords: spam

PubSub is a tool to push feed items to your desktop. You register at PubSub, identify topics of interest and the news will start coming to your desktop automated and in near real-time. This model shares the same weakness as email. Both push content to your desktop. Email now also pushes spam (around 80% of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/rss-push-model-ex-pubsub-is-not-viable-in-long-run/

Date: 03/23/05     Keywords: no keywords

"Positron Emission Tomography is being installed at AIIMS next month, through which we will get the final proof of our work on heart patients. All the patients would be screened for finding how viable our work was and would also study various heart tissues of the patients metabolically," Dr P Venugopal, director AIIMS, said.  [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/aiims-to-give-proof-of-stem-cell-research-the-times-of-india/

Date: 03/23/05     Keywords: security, spam

According to a survey conducted by security firm Mirapoint and market research company the Radicati Group, nearly a third of e-mail users have clicked on links in spam messages. One in ten users have bought products advertised in spams.   I am speechless!

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spamming-is-a-successful-strategy/

Date: 03/23/05     Keywords: no keywords

How stupid can a human be?http://savetoby.com/ owner proposes that he will eat his pet bunny if you do not donate 50, 000 USD to his account. A sick mindset perhaps but definitely not stupid. He already got donations in excess of 19, 000 USD (assuming he is telling the truth)! Now that's the height of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-stupid-can-a-human-be/

Date: 03/23/05     Keywords: no keywords

Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have found genetic regions that, when defective, allow the immune system to attack the pancreas - the first in a series of mis-steps that lead to type 1 diabetes. Armed with these findings, published today, March 22, in the journal Immunity, the researchers are now trying to hone in [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/joslin-researchers-find-genetic-defects-leading-to-auto-immune-attack-on-pancreas/

Date: 03/23/05     Keywords: no keywords

I see the word karma grossly misused these days everywhere. I thought a clarification may be in order. The word karma is derived from the Sanskrit kri, "to do". All action is karma. Technically this word also means the effects of actions. In connection with metaphysics it sometimes means the effects of which our [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-meaning-of-karma/

Date: 03/23/05     Keywords: spam

A year back I posted a case study on how to deal with a spammer about Richard Milford, a stupid spammer and scam artist. The case was quoted by Plaxo as I dealt with them to get him (Richard Milford the stupid spammer) removed from their system. Afterwards he tried few times to contact me. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spunky-spammer/

Date: 03/22/05     Keywords: no keywords

A simple technique (one step) to enable displaying of sidebar in individual post pages. By default in the default layout the sidebar is not visible in individual post pages.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-have-sidebar-enabled-in-wordpress-15-kubrickmodified-post-pages/

Date: 03/21/05     Keywords: no keywords

Researchers from North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in Manhasset, N.Y. have identified a gene which expresses as a protein called macrophage migration inhibitory factor, or MIF. MIF is found in unusually high concentration in diabetics. It apparently has a role in destrying pancreatic beta cells. The exciting news is that mice when given a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/gene-expression-inhibitor-drug-made-mice-stz-induced-diabetes-resistant/

Date: 03/20/05     Keywords: no keywords

A simple favelet to

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/favelet-to-spot-nofollow-anywhere/

Date: 03/20/05     Keywords: browser, google

The reasons I discourage date's in a permalink are: It is redundant information as date is already part of the post information and need not be additionally within the url. Search engines like google, which gives importance to words in URL's will be poisoned by url's with date embedded. Most browsers display a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-i-discourage-embedding-date-in-urls-including-wordpress-permalinks-and-also-other-cms/