Date: 04/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

In response to Kuro5hin's guide on zombie attack survival here is my survival guide against zombie attack. Just wake up. If you don't then pinch yourself bloody till you do. In other words; while(!is_awake()) { pinch_yourself(); // sleep(2000); // Cancel that; you are already sleeping } And then take a vacation and get [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/re-how-to-survive-a-zombie-attack/

Date: 04/19/05     Keywords: web

I started tracking website visitors from 20th March, 2005 using BAStats Plugin. As of 19th April 2005 total hits on my site is: Site Statistics Total Sessions: 57473 Total Page Hits: 105947 There wasn't any SlashDot effect. It was mostly the regular readers of the site. Thanks to my readers for making this possible and for their valuable contributions. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/crossed-100-000-page-impressions-in-last-30-days/

Date: 04/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

Recently the question (How to add add custom functions to a theme) was posed in WordPress Support Forum. Personally I faced the same question when re-designing this site. The following is a discussion of the option with the pros and cons. There are two solutions. The first is to create a plugin which goes with the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-add-custom-functions-to-a-wordpress-15-theme/

Date: 04/19/05     Keywords: blogging, software, sql, web

We often talk about understanding an application from code and unit tests with catch phrases like - "code is the documentation". In my experience I haven't found a better and more concise documentation then reading the SQL schema for any application, assuming it has one. Today I was looking at Fatima - a weblogging software. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/relational-schema-still-speaks-volumes-about-any-application-a-look-at-fatima/

Date: 04/18/05     Keywords: xml, web, google

An example of wrong usage of AJAX aka XmlHttpRequest based web applications - TinkingTeam Corporate Website. Here the menu content is dynamically fetched using Ajax. This is bad because: Search engines like google cannot see it. Users cannot bookmark the pages. It doesn't indicate anything is happening, which can be bothering over slow connections. This can be remedied [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-not-to-use-ajax/

Date: 04/18/05     Keywords: no keywords

Researchers at St. Paul’s Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital are developing a revolutionary new test to diagnose and facilitate treatment of organ rejection in transplant patients. Patients with end-stage vital organ failure depend on transplantation, but the process has its remaining challenges. Immune cells that normally protect patients can cause rejection and destruction of the very [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-test-of-biomarkers-for-diagnosing-and-treatment-of-organ-transplant-rejections/

Date: 04/18/05     Keywords: no keywords

A group of Japanese scientists has used gene therapy to deliver three insulin transcription factors, MafA, PDX-1, and NeuroD, to the livers of diabetic mice. As a result, the mice experienced an increase in insulin gene expression and insulin production, raising the possibility that this could eventually be used to treat diabetes. The research appears [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/japanese-scientists-increased-insulin-production-in-mice-by-overexpression-of-transcription-factors/

Date: 04/18/05     Keywords: no keywords

Drop in replacement for resource hogging Admin DashBoard in WordPress 1.5 Version 2.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-15-hack-how-to-trim-the-fat-resource-hogging-admin-dashboard-version-2/

Date: 04/17/05     Keywords: no keywords

I received an email today from the infamous Nigerian scammers. This time it was a job offer for financial manager and it ends with a hilarious disclaimer. This is an warning to make you aware of this new (AFAIK) scheme. This gem is quoted with my annotations. Hello, My name is Preston Mitchel. I'm the manager in Oulu [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-twist-in-plot-by-nigerian-scammers-aka-419-scammers/

Date: 04/17/05     Keywords: web

Few worth mentioning: PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE – The fine art of whacking the cr*p out of an electronic device to get it to work again. 404 - Someone who’s clueless. From the World Wide Web error message “404 Not Found,” meaning that the requested document could not be located. BLAMESTORMING - Sitting around in a group, discussing why a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/few-new-words-and-phrases-to-fully-express-your-emotions/

Date: 04/15/05     Keywords: web, microsoft

A one minute guide to deciding fonts for web documents and resources. Resources Informative article on web safe fonts (fonts which look good on the web). The definitive guide on fonts is by w3.org. You can also refer to Microsoft Typography fonts section. If you do not have time to read the above documents here is a one minute [...]

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

Date: 04/15/05     Keywords: no keywords

Simple Thoughts Blog is now available in nine languages - English (original language), German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (simplified). You can bookmark the link above for your preferred language or access Translate icons from the right navigation bar. The corresponding national flag is displayed to aid in selecting the language. The actual name [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/simple-thoughts-blog-now-available-in-nine-languages/

Date: 04/15/05     Keywords: google

Here is the result of translation of this article Type 1 diabetics required for “ground-breaking” vision study from English to Korean and back to English again with Google Translation Services. “ For the }ground{-}breaking{” the shedding of blood 1 diabetes patient who is demanded; Time study April side of 13,th angsuman 2005 years Aston University of lifetime science [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/for-the-groundbreaking-the-shedding-of-blood-1-diabetes-patient-says-google/

Date: 04/14/05     Keywords: no keywords

Researchers at Rice University in Texas have developed a new approach to fighting cancer, based on nanoscale particles that can both detect and destroy cancerous cells. The report appears in the April 13 issue of the American Chemical Society's journal Nano Letters. To this end, Drezek and West collaborated to develop a new imaging and treatment [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/rice-university-have-developed-metal-nanoshells-to-detect-and-destroy-cancer-cells/

Date: 04/14/05     Keywords: no keywords

While the rest of the world is cautiously experimenting with stem cell therapy, Russian clinics and beauty salons have claimed that they are already using both adult and embryonic stem cells to treat everything from wrinkles to Parkinson's disease to impotence. Scientists warn that while stem cells are still being researched in laboratories, treatment by [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/russian-clinics-and-beauty-salons-peddling-stem-cell-therapy/

Date: 04/14/05     Keywords: no keywords

U.S. President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld each has a slime-mold beetle named in his honor. They share the honor with the fictional "Star Wars" villain Darth Vader. It isn't what you are be thinking guys(and gals). The decision to name three slime-mold beetles after Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, however, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-slime-beetles-named-in-honor-off-bush-cheney-and-rumsfeld/

Date: 04/14/05     Keywords: no keywords

Privacy invasion behemoths ChoicePoint and LexisNexis have lost control of sensitive data in the past, but deliberately covered it up because no law required them to come clean, executives from both outfits confessed Wednesday during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the recent epidemic of ID theft plaguing the USA. Numerous past breaches went without notification, ChoicePoint [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/deliberate-coverup-of-security-breaches-confessed-by-choicepoint-and-lexisnexis/

Date: 04/13/05     Keywords: no keywords

According to a study by Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services in cooperation with Wayne State University - People of Arab descent are at significantly greater risk of diabetes than the general population and use tobacco at high rates, especially among younger people, in part because of the smoking of "argila," a traditional communal [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/arabs-face-higher-risk-of-diabetes/

Date: 04/13/05     Keywords: no keywords

OPTOMETRY researchers at Aston University’s new £10 million Academy of Life Sciences are currently undertaking ground-breaking research into the vision problems caused by diabetics – one of the leading causes of blindness and vision loss in the UK. So far, the study has been very successful with a large number of diabetic volunteers stepping forward [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/type-1-diabetics-required-for-ground-breaking-vision-study/

Date: 04/13/05     Keywords: google

Nowadays I have noticed that Google apparently confers pagerank only to the front page of the blog. All other pages appear to have a rank of zero! I have noticed it across a wide spectrum of blogs, even blogs with very high pageranks. Is Google identifying blogs somehow and punishing the actual blog pages? For example [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-google-punishing-weblogs-aka-blogs/