Rights of HIV+ Children?

June 7th, 2007 Today's newspaper reported a heart-warming story in a village in West Bengal who has adopted a widow with AIDS. She is allowed to freely mix with the families and even cuddle their children.

September 13th, 2005 A 31 year old Dutchman returned from work to find a strange car in the drive of his home in Pieterburen, near Groningen. Two children were sitting on the back seat so the man asked them where their father was and was told that his father was inside, "robbing" the house.

June 20th, 2007 Attorney General Jim Hood said his office is reviewing 162 identifiable records of registered Missisippi sex offenders provided by MySpace. "MySpace has assured us that the sex offenders they reported to us have been removed from the site," said Hood.

January 5th, 2007 The first batch of computers built for the One Laptop Per Child project could reach users by July this year. However test XO machines are expected to reach children in February before the formal launch.

July 21st, 2005 A 30-year study of 1037 children has found that those who watch the most TV are least likely to go to university and get a degree. "Those who watched little television had the best chance of going on to university and earning a degree," said researcher Bob Hancox, deputy director of the Dunedin Research Unit.

February 22nd, 2007 Harry Potter and The Order of Hackers Everytime a new Harry Potter book comes out there is an unannounced competition within hackers to be the first to scan it (ocr it) and post it online. Russian servers are an obvious choice as they are harder to track and shutdown.

July 18th, 2006 Starting this Wednesday, the Hong Kong government plans to have 200,000 youths search Internet discussion sites for illegal copies of copyrighted songs and movies, and report them to the authorities. The campaign has delighted the entertainment industry, but prompted misgivings among some civil liberties advocates.

May 8th, 2005 First there was this newborn child. Her mother accidentally gave her birth in the toilet of a running train.

April 22nd, 2007 Active immunization is an extremely interesting technique in fighting against internet based viruses, trojans and worms. Laurent Oudot of the Rstack team created a prototype in 2003.

April 17th, 2007 "Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making and character-making assimilation of ideas.” said Swami Vivekananda.

September 5th, 2007 Today I was reading a very interesting blog by Scott who has detailed analysis of all Dr. House episodes which are very engrossing to read.

March 13th, 2008 Here is a nice story on sorting the priorities of life: A professor stood before his Philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.

May 30th, 2005 The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee took action to protect the rights of true victims of asbestos-related illness and ensure they promptly receive their full compensation.

June 3rd, 2007 John Doerr is a very famous Venture Capitalist whose firm KPCB is behind funding many important and influential companies in Silicon Valley like Sun or Oracle, Marimba, also couple of companies I worked for - Extensity & DoubleTwist. KPCB is the leading VC firm in the valley as far as I know.

January 13th, 2009 Watch out bloggers! Those of you with Microsoft's laptops gifts can keep them back. MIcrosoft had send Acer Ferrari laptops to 90 bloggers during pre-Vista-launch.