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July 5th, 2006 RenACoder is used to outsource projects at riduculously low prices. RentACoder, in my experience, often contains dubious project postings which are clearly for unethical purposes.

May 11th, 2005 Scientists at University of Florida discovers that beta-blockers are not suitable for certain group of patients, which can be determined by their genetic makeup. In fact for this group beta-blocker therapy actually worsens the heart enlargement problem.

May 23rd, 2007 Machine translation is widely used to provide translation of any text / html content to another language. Wide ranging techniques starting from dictionary translation to artificial intelligence and statistical analysis is used for translating.

March 17th, 2006 Javascript doesn't natively support trim on strings. It is however very easy to implement with regular expressions.

October 7th, 2005 I have moved the coverage of all Health related news to a separate blog - Consanesco. Here is the summary of important news from this week: Cervical Cancer Preventable with Vaccination Repeat Angioplasty Increases Heart Attack Risk NSAID Lowers Oral Cancer Risk in Smokers; Increases Heart Disease Risk Why Babies of Diabetic Women with are 2-5 Times more Likely to Develop Birth Defects And How to Prevent it

October 5th, 2007 I wrote an article on a Google interview question in June, 2006 describing the problem and offering a simple solution. What makes this article interesting is that several people came up with better ideas and very thought provoking comments.

July 23rd, 2005 A doctor told jurors yesterday in the nation's first Vioxx lawsuit that the drug contributed to the death of a Texas man, aged 59, who had an arrhythmia linked to a heart attack in 2001. ''His taking of Vioxx caused and/or contributed to his heart attack," Dr.

August 12th, 2007 Trim is a useful function available in languages like Java & PHP which removes the leading and traling whitespace(s) from a String. Unfortunately Javascript doesn't natively provide trim functionality to the String object.

March 26th, 2007 We are completely renovating the office for better, more spacier accomodation. The new electrical outlets and LAN connectivity is almost completed.

August 25th, 2006 Wget is a super-useful utility to download pages and automate all types of web related tasks. It works for HTTP as well as FTP URL's.

February 13th, 2008 Please read the original article - How To: Load Balancing & Failover With Dual/ Multi WAN / ADSL / Cable Connections on Linux. It contains detailed information with a sample script.

December 23rd, 2006 Translator Plugin Pro provides automatic machine translation of your blog in thirteen major additional languages - German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, Russian, Swedish and Chinese (features, testimonials and download). It comes with country flags representing the various languages it can translate to.

July 13th, 2006 Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Ruby, which can be exploited to bypass safe level protection and replace methods called in trusted level as well as close untainted directory streams. 1. An error in the handling of the "alias" functionality can be exploited to bypass the safe level protection and replace methods called in the trusted level.

June 30th, 2005 WordPress developers have posted yet another "security" update. Again, as always, you have to delete everything (except wp-content/ and config.php) and re-install from scratch.

June 30th, 2007 A UAE based site (Souq.com) is auctioning blank sheets of original watermarked 5 Rs Indian notes. The current bid is 79 AED.