Date: 05/22/05     Keywords: software, technology, java

Simple Thoughts is an aggregation of several member blogs like The Diabetes Blog, The Java Software Blog etc. Each of the blogs are unique in focus and content, except aggregation blogs like The Health Blog or The Technology Blog. Today I will describe the idea and hope behind The Diabetes Blog. Millions of people worldwide suffer from [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/on-the-diabetes-blog-marching-towards-a-cure/

Date: 05/21/05     Keywords: no keywords

A recent study by Russell A. Hill and Robert A. Barton of the University of Durham found (published in Nature) statistically significant benefit of wearing scarlet uniforms or protectors in sports. Simply said in evenly matched competition people wearing scarlet uniform are likely to win 60% of the time! Hill and Barton surmise that the benefit [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/winners-wear-scarlet-losers-blue/

Date: 05/21/05     Keywords: no keywords

Today I made some changes to the blog site (using WordPress 1.5) to make the surrounding content (like most discussed articles, related articles etc.) highly context sensitive. Also I made the fonts bigger to improve readability. They weren't big changes, just added few methods and modified few. I tested them on Windows installation of WordPress [...]

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

Date: 05/20/05     Keywords: no keywords

British MP. Galloway blisters USA on Iraq (video). Selected Transcripts: "As a matter of fact, I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns. I met him to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/video-galloway-v-the-us-senate/

Date: 05/20/05     Keywords: no keywords

One of the most advanced eye correction technologies (LASIK) - which eliminates or reduces dependency on glasses - is now available in Kenya. The laser refractive surgery (known in USA as LASIK) means that people using glasses to correct eyesight can resort to their naked eyes once again and for life. This is after undertaking a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/two-minute-laser-refractive-surgery-to-put-away-eye-glasses/

Date: 05/20/05     Keywords: no keywords

A Scottish company will deploy sausage-shaped tubes off Portugal to create the world's first commercial wave power plant, providing electricity to 1,500 homes from 2006, a partner in the Scottish firm said on Friday. OPD will deliver three wave power generation units with capacity of 2.25 megawatts to Portuguese renewable energy group Enersis for 8 million [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/portugal-to-deploy-worlds-first-commercial-wave-power-plant/

Date: 05/20/05     Keywords: seo

Korean Scientists lead by Woo Suk Hwang and Shing Yong Moon of Seoul National University in Korea have successfully generated new lines of human embryonic stem cells that are exact genetic matches for individual patients, according to a new study. The researchers derived stem cells from patients with spinal cord injury, a congenital immune disorder and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/korean-study-demonstrates-feasibility-of-efficiently-harvesting-genetically-identical-stem-cells-from-egg-donors/

Date: 05/19/05     Keywords: microsoft

My friend is making a large document in Microsoft Excel 20 or so columns. He found that he was forced to go back everytime to the top of the document to figure out what the column represents. In other words he wanted a way to freeze the header row so it is visible everytime. He [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-create-frozen-header-rows-in-microsoft-excel/

Date: 05/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

Research by Endocrine institute in Israel provides the tantalizing possibility of curing diabetes by transplanting the patient's own cells. This will mean treatment without immunosuppression therapy.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/modified-liver-cells-keep-diabetes-under-control/

Date: 05/18/05     Keywords: no keywords

Valsartan, commercially known as Diovan, a drug that controls blood pressure and reduces heart risk, also appears to protect against diabetes, especially in high-risk people, according to new research presented at the American Society of Hypertension's Twentieth Annual Scientific Meeting and Exposition (ASH 2005) by a University of Michigan physician who helped lead the study. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/diovan-blood-pressure-drug-cuts-risk-of-diabetes-especially-in-high-risk-group/

Date: 05/18/05     Keywords: web

Bobbie Johnson of Guardian (UK based newspaper) thinks: I understand that news operations are expensive things (I know, I work in one), but the NYT - which has a prestigious standing on the web - seems to be intent on undermining its own credibility with abandon. What I was expecting from him was to outline, given his [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/should-nyt-ask-readers-to-pay-for-news-an-analysis-of-paid-content-model/

Date: 05/18/05     Keywords: java

A good article from JavaWorld which describes how you can build intelligent robots that can learn and show emergent behavior. It uses artificial neural networks. This article describes the backpropagation algorithm, a basic neural network, and its implementation on a Lego Roverbot with Java. Interesting read.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/program-intelligent-ai-lego-mindstorms-robots-with-java/

Date: 05/18/05     Keywords: browser, html, java

An excellent article describing Blackberry architecture and two application models (The browser-based model or Custom Java Application). The browser-based model allows developers to focus on developing back-end content in a standard markup language, such as the Wireless Markup Language (WML) or the compact Hypertext Markup Language (cHTML). Using existing browsers' client capabilities frees the developer [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-program-the-blackberry-with-j2me/

Date: 05/17/05     Keywords: no keywords

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Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/long-list-of-useful-windows-software/

Date: 05/16/05     Keywords: cms, php

Overview Displays an advertisement (which is randomly selected from a group of advertisements specified in a text file) at your chosen location. Tested only on WordPress 1.5. Should work with earlier and later versions (future and past proofed). It can also be used with other CMS systems or anywhere where PHP is supported. It does one [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-plugin-adrotator-rotate-your-ads-including-adsense-dynamically/

Date: 05/16/05     Keywords: web

An analysis of growth pattern of top weblogs.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-weblog-viewership-stagnating-in-2005/

Date: 05/16/05     Keywords: no keywords

A Japanese research team has developed a fuel cell that runs on blood without using toxic substances, opening the way for use in artificial hearts and other organs. The biological fuel cell uses glucose, a sugar in blood, with a non-toxic substance used to draw electrons from glucose, said the team led by Matsuhiko Nishizawa, bio-engineering [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/blood-powered-fuel-cell-paves-way-for-artificial-heart-and-embedded-blood-sugar-monitor/

Date: 05/15/05     Keywords: no keywords

I am sharing by Referrer Bouncer Plugin BlackList. This can be used with the Referrer Bouncer plugin by creating a custom referer.txt (if not done already) and adding/merging this list contents. Ensure there are no spaces before and after. The instructions (and links) to create and edit the list is available under Plugins menu (Referrer [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-15-my-referrer-bouncer-blacklist/

Date: 05/15/05     Keywords: no keywords

Sun published performance benchmark for JDK 5.0. It is around 3 times faster than 1.4.2 as per Specjbb2000, less spectacular in other benchmarks. Read it. In addition a different way of tuning the heap has been added for the throughput garbage collector. This new tuning allows the user to specify performance and memory utilization criteria to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/j2se-50-performance-white-paper/

Date: 05/15/05     Keywords: java

Do you know that now you too can contribute in developing the next version of Java - Mustang? Here is your chance. What is Sun's motivation? This definitely isn't about cost reduction. Our development costs are dominated by the back-end processes: code reviews, integration, test development, release engineering, testing, and long-term maintenance. We expect it will take significant [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/contribute-towards-making-a-better-java/