Date: 07/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

England 220-1 (46 overs) beat Australia 219-7 by nine wickets. Marcus Trescothick hit an unbeaten century and Michael Vaughan a fifty as England beat Australia by nine wickets. England were set 220 to win after restricting Australia to 219-7 and reached the total with 24 balls to spare in the NatWest Challenge. First a humiliating [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/are-the-days-of-australian-dominance-of-world-cricket-over/

Date: 07/07/05     Keywords: web

A series of bomb attacks on London's transport network has killed more than 37 people and injured about 700 others according to BBC. Three explosions on the Underground left 35 dead and two more died in a blast on a double-decker bus. An Islamist website has posted a statement - purportedly from al-Qaeda - claiming it was [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/37-people-reeported-dead-in-london-blasts/

Date: 07/07/05     Keywords: software

European politicians have thrown out a controversial bill that could have led to software being patented. The European Parliament voted 648 to 14 to reject the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive. The bill was reportedly rejected because, politicians said, it pleased no-one in its current form. Responding to the rejection the European Commission said it would not draw up [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/software-patent-bill-rejected-in-european-parliament/

Date: 07/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

Speedel announced today the start of its Phase III study for SPP301, its once-a-day oral endothelin A receptor antagonist (ERA) in the indication of diabetic nephropathy (diabetic kidney disease). The ASCEND(1) study has begun with the first patient visit as per the schedule outlined by Speedel in March 2005 when the company reported successful completion [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/drug-for-diabetic-nephropathy-in-phase-3-trial/

Date: 07/06/05     Keywords: yahoo, google

Angsuman's Permanent Redirector Plugin Overview This plugin allows you to redirect (permanent redirect using HTTP status 301) any of your posts or pages to a different URL. This enables you to transfer Google rank of your post or page (static page of WordPress) to a new page. Also the new page is displayed in search (Yahoo, Google, MSN [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-plugin-for-permanent-redirection-of-posts-angsumans-permanent-redirector-plugin/

Date: 07/05/05     Keywords: java, web

Ben Galbraith has created an innovative website with *nix shell theme. He follows the *nix everywhere. The site is javascript driven. It wouldn't do wonders for your SERP but with such cool factor who cares? Here is a text snapshot: Welcome to galbraiths.org! /dev/ben:~ guest$ ls -l -r--r--r-- 14 bgalbs bgalbs 476 Jun 19 [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/innovative-website-design/

Date: 07/05/05     Keywords: spam

All the comment spam plugins of the world do not protect you against spams which are written by humans. No amount of comment spam prevention plugins or .htaccess tricks protect you against them. So how do you fight when humans write the spam themselves instead of bots? In this article I first discuss the more [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-fight-against-sub-human-written-comment-spam/

Date: 07/05/05     Keywords: web

Pheedo, Ad Publishing Network, appears to be down. The website is still up and you can login. However there is absolutely no communication from the team about click stats, no advertiser on the website etc. Everything is very very silent. After repeated emails to Founder as well as to Carol in Publisher Relations, I am [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/anyone-know-about-pheedo-it-appears-to-be-down/

Date: 07/05/05     Keywords: cms, blogging, security, web

WordPress is a very popular personal publishing platform aka blogging platform (with a primitive CMS) in use all over the web. There are a number of serious security vulnerabilities in WordPress that may allow an attacker to ultimately run arbitrary code on the vulnerable system. Unfortunately the authors believe in security-by-obscurity. Here are the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/serious-security-vulnerabilities-of-wordpress-1512-and-below/

Date: 07/05/05     Keywords: php, xml, web

PHPXMLRPC aka XML-RPC For PHP is a PHP implementation of the XML-RPC web RPC protocol, and was originally developed by Edd Dumbill of Useful Information Company. As of the 1.0 stable release, the project has been opened to wider involvement and moved to SourceForge. PHPXMLRPC is used in a large number of popular web applications [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/php-xmlrpc-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-affecting-popular-blogging-and-cms-platforms-like-wordpress-1512-and-lower-postnuke-drupal-b2evolution-tikiwiki-etc/

Date: 07/04/05     Keywords: no keywords

These are the countries I visited or currently stay: Within USA these are the states I visited or stayed or worked: Sponsor(s):Tired of dealing with messy toner, lost fax pages and unreliable fax machines? Why pour more money into extra phone lines and machine maintenance when you can send and receive faxes by email? eFax is the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/countries-i-visited-and-us-states-i-stayed/

Date: 07/04/05     Keywords: no keywords

Nowadays very frequently it comes up with: Sorry, we couldn't complete your search because we're experiencing a high volume of requests right now. Please try again in a minute or add this search to your watchlist to track conversation. Everytime I try to do a sort by authority on this blog results it displays the above message. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-technorati-broken/

Date: 07/04/05     Keywords: no keywords

I came across the Giraffe Theme from Urban Design which is unique for several reasons. To my knowledge it is the only theme which comes with an administrative for customizing colors, no of posts and other details: Change colour scheme Change font and font size Change whether to have a full-width lead post, or more traditional two-column layout Change page [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/next-generation-wordpress-theme-design-giraffe/

Date: 07/03/05     Keywords: microsoft

If you are worried sick about your privacy you should be and you have probably guessed it - from Microsoft. Orbimage Inc. has agreed to provide satellite pictures of Earth for Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming MSN Virtual Earth service, which would eventually have access to photos that could show manhole covers in Manhattan, an Orbimage spokesman said [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/counting-manhole-covers-in-manhattan-from-space-and-how-can-you-protect-your-privacy-from-satellite-imaging/

Date: 07/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

As an architect I have often been asked this question by my clients, friends and at work. I would like to answer it briefly once and for all. For enterprise applications which deal with huge data volume (read terabyte range) like bioinformatics applications or with need for data complex analytics using MOLAP, ROLAP etc. should definitely [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-relational-database-management-system-to-use-for-enterprise-software-development/

Date: 07/03/05     Keywords: technology, java

More power to Java on mobile platform - J2ME. Looking forward to see some comcrete results. Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW), founder and lead advocate for Java technology, today announced an agreement with NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator, to deliver a next-generation mobile data services platform based on open-standard Java technology. Codenamed * Project (Star [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sun-microsystems-to-propel-next-generation-mobile-java-technology-success-with-ntt-docomo/

Date: 07/02/05     Keywords: hosting, google

An excellent job opportunity for working in Google at Moon (yes The Moon). Google is interviewing candidates for engineering positions at our lunar hosting and research center, opening late in the spring of 2007. This unique opportunity is available only to highly-qualified individuals who are willing to relocate for an extended period of time, are in [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-is-hiring-location-moon/

Date: 07/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

Yes, you heard me right. I want to be cloned. And not just one clone, several in fact. I have been thinking about the ethics of cloning. The identity of clones, parentage issues and all. And I have decided. I want to be cloned. I want a clone to look after my business. As he is a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/i-want-to-be-cloned-or-what-do-i-want-to-do-with-my-life-if-i-could-clone-myself/

Date: 07/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

We have forked of our coverage of Stem Cell Research news and views in our recently launched The Stem Cell Blog. You will find it much more active than it was under the folds of multi-faceted Simple Thoughts Blog. I think we can do better justice to this topic (Stem Cell Research) in an independent [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/anouncement-the-stem-cell-blog-news-and-hard-facts-on-stem-cell-rsearch-and-treatment-options/

Date: 07/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

We have forked of our coverage of Stem Cell Research news and views in our recently launched The Stem Cell Blog. You will find it much more active than it was under the folds of multi-faceted Simple Thoughts Blog. I think we can do better justice to this topic (Stem Cell Research) in an independent [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/anouncement-the-stem-cell-blog-news-and-hard-facts-on-stem-cell-research-and-treatment-options/