Date: 02/16/07     Keywords: no keywords

People who drink diet soft drinks gain more weight than those who drink regular soda pop, according to a study by University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Researchers at the University released their finding after studying 600 people for as many as eight years. Some test subjects drank regular soft drinks, about 140 calories [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/diet-soft-drinks-makes-you-fatter-according-to-study/

Date: 02/16/07     Keywords: no keywords

An Arizona woman, 23-year-old Tiffany Sutton, is currently under arrest, accused of tying up her 43 year old lover on Valentine’s Day in order to drink his blood! She allegedly tricked her 43-year-old victim with an offer of interesting experience, euphemistically speaking. After tying him up (add “allegedly” as required) she pulled out a knife and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/meet-blood-drinking-valentine/

Date: 02/16/07     Keywords: no keywords

I just finished testing our Anaconda Theme (popular free 3 column theme for WordPress blogs) on 9 different display settings: Screen area (pixels) 1024 x 768 800 x 600 640 x 480 1152 x 864 1200 x 600 1280 x 720 1280 x 768 1280 x 960 1280 x 1024 Needless to say it passed with flying colors.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-3-column-anaconda-theme-tested-on-9-display-settings/

Date: 02/13/07     Keywords: no keywords

My desktop computers hard-disk crashed today morning without any warning. The S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics showed perfect health all along. One of the 128 GB partition of a newly purchased Barracuda drive (from Seagate) is not showing any files. In fact whenever I click on it Windows 2000 it is asking me if I want to format [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-recover-files-from-hard-disk-crash/

Date: 02/10/07     Keywords: no keywords

Barack Obama, US presidential candidate, has taken a huge leap forward from his contemporaries by creating his own social networking site, in addition to maintaining his presence in YouTube and MySpace (possibly unofficial) and other places. I just registered and created a blog to test the site. Currently the site is very slow with most requests [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/barack-obama-creates-social-networking-site-for-presidential-campaign/

Date: 02/10/07     Keywords: no keywords

Twenty years before most scientists expected it, DWave has announced a 16 Qubit quantum computer that promises to massively speed up computation as we know it (64, 000 operations simultaneously). DWave will debut at two locations, one at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California on February 13th, and the second at the Telus [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/16-qubit-quantum-computer-to-debut-on-feb-13th-20-years-ahead-of-schedule/

Date: 02/10/07     Keywords: no keywords

Here is an (real) example of what you don’t want to write on a cover letter with exaplanations. Dear Sir/ Madam, I am looking forward to a job, which matches my qualifications and where analytical skills & logical reasoning are involved. I am a hard worker towards achieving my goals. The enclosed resume elaborates the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-not-to-write-in-your-resume-cover-letter/

Date: 02/10/07     Keywords: no keywords

CVS is commonly used by open source project to provide access to their source code. Here is a simple way how you can connect to CVS server from behind a proxy server. cvs -d:pserver;proxy=proxyhost;proxyport=8080:username@somedomain.tld:/somerepository Notes: 1. Change proxyhost to hostname or ip address of your proxy server 2. Change proxyport to port of your proxy server 3. username and somedomain.tld [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-connect-to-cvs-via-proxy-server/

Date: 02/09/07     Keywords: web

While Web 2.0 is all the rage today, I think it is time to think about Web 3.0. What would be the key features of Web 3.0. Web 2.0 rests on two pillars: 1. bringing traditional desktop applications interactivity to web applications / services 2. greater user participation via wiki, blogs, digg, tagging etc. User Interface I think Web 3.0 [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/web-30-looking-into-the-future/

Date: 02/08/07     Keywords: no keywords

Few tips for Translator Plugin Pro users: 1. Use a caching engine. Object caching is the minimum that you can use. I would recommend that you use wp-cache 2. eAccelerator is also fine. The problem with eAccelerator is that it isn’t sensitive to WordPress. In other words it cannot know accurately when the content has changed. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/3-power-tips-for-angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-users/

Date: 02/07/07     Keywords: no keywords

Dr. Albert Einstein once said - “A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.” Some of the popular world religions (including [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/candy-cane-religions-and-ethics/

Date: 02/07/07     Keywords: no keywords

I had few reports of inability to access my blog with its url http://blog.taragana.com/ because the ISP’s DNS service isn’t resolving properly. I have checked, double-checked and triple-checked my DNS and everythings looks fine. However there is an alternative way to access my site - using IP address. The alternative URL is http://72.36.134.131/ If you [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-access-my-site-using-ip-address/

Date: 02/07/07     Keywords: no keywords

I was very amused to learn that south-asians like Koreans and Japanese make a great deal out of blood types. Apparently B types are bad boys, yeah! Wait, it gets worse. In south-Asia (India excluded), the subject of linking blood types to personality took off with the 1927 publication of a series of articles by Japanese [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-is-your-blood-type-i-am-b-apparently-it-sucks-to-be-b-in-korea/

Date: 02/07/07     Keywords: no keywords

Steve Jobs in his Thoughts on Music article explores the alternatives to DRM going forward. He explores three options - 1. keeping the current system as is, 2. license FairPlay DRM to current and future competitors with the goal of achieving interoperability between different company’s players and music stores and 3. abolish DRMs entirely. The third [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/steve-jobs-advocates-abolishing-drm/

Date: 02/07/07     Keywords: java

As a javascript developer using onload often you will find that other script authors too love to use onload. Unfortunately onload accepts a function name and your reassigning will prevent others from using onload. Here is a script which allows you to use onload even when others have used it and without breaking their script. The [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-add-functions-to-javascript-onload-over-third-party-scripts-playing-nice/

Date: 02/06/07     Keywords: no keywords

Sunita Williams reached the record of spending most-ever hours on spacewalks on Sunday beating previous female spacewalking record of 21 hours created by former American astronaut, Kathryn Thornton, ISS Flight Engineer. Stepping out of the hatch with crewmate Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria to upgrade the International Space Station’s cooling system, the Indian-American astronaut, Williams recorded a new [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sunita-williams-sets-new-female-spacewalking-world-record/

Date: 02/05/07     Keywords: no keywords

It has been a couple of years since the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, and now it is Harry Potter time again with the scheduled release on 21st July of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. I had a nagging thought since Harry Potter & Half Blood Prince (Rowling, please make [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/harry-potter-a-death-that-made-no-sense/

Date: 02/05/07     Keywords: no keywords

India is the ideal place to conduct human trial for the effectiveness of DCA ( dichloroacetate ) as anti-cancer drug. The government regulations for human trial aren’t as stringest as USA, there are funds available for such studies and frankly you don’t need much. DCA is out of patent protection and is known to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/aiims-indian-government-should-take-on-dca-human-trial-for-cancer-treatment/

Date: 02/05/07     Keywords: security, virus, microsoft

Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare security tool failed independent tests carried out by the Virus Bulletin. The security testing group found that Live OneCare missed far more active viruses than any other program tested. To pass the tests anti-virus tools must spot and stop 100% of the malicious programs used to attack them. Version 1.5 of Windows [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-vista-security-tools-fails-to-detect-viruses-circulating-online/

Date: 02/05/07     Keywords: web

In 2004 Apple had asked the courts to compel two Mac rumor sites, Apple Insider and O’Grady’s PowerPage, to disclose the names of their sources for a series of stories on an unreleased Apple audio device. In its lawsuit, Apple argued that amateur websites are not eligible for the legal protections afforded to professional journalists [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/apple-to-pay-double-the-legal-expenses-700000-in-landmark-ruling-where-bloggers-online-reporters-were-equalled-with-professional-journalists/