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August 11th, 2005 International Stroke Survey An international online stroke survey has been launched to gauge the awareness of signs and symptoms of stroke, as well as differences in treatment options available in Europe, Canada and the United States. The results will be used to help improve care for stroke survivors around the world and to raise awareness of this serious, yet treatable condition.

April 17th, 2006 WordPress.com suffered a hardware failure yesterday bringing all the hosted Wordpress sites down including famous blogs like scobelizer. The message from Matt: Once More We had a pretty bad hardware failure yesterday, and though it took longer than we liked everything was restored and has been running the past 6 hours or so just dandy.

February 10th, 2007 Barack Obama, US presidential candidate, has taken a huge leap forward from his contemporaries by creating his own social networking site, in addition to maintaining his presence in YouTube and MySpace (possibly unofficial) and other places. I just registered and created a blog to test the site.

May 26th, 2007 After the recent yum update, named failed to load. I tried searching Google without much help.

July 6th, 2007 All I really want is to store a very large Hashtable with more reads than writes. It should be able to deal with more than 8GB of data.

July 9th, 2006 Nowadays it is common to complain about the accuracy of Google web search results (not image search as I have done in my earlier post). Most of the people complaining about Google web search are SEO types and those who have been affected by sudden lack of Google love.

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.

January 10th, 2007 We did a performance comparison of Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro with our competitor. This is purely a performance comparison.

May 17th, 2006 IT failures are a leading threat to businesses worldwide, and British companies have been found particularly ill-prepared at handling them. According to a survey from Mercury Interactive Corporation, a third of UK companies are handling IT risks in an uncoordinated fashion.

September 28th, 2007 I solve this problem in a different way. Normally we write rules to send messages to a particular folder.

November 18th, 2008 I am rather pleased to report that Apple's iPhone launch in India was a dismal failure. I was aghast in August this year when Apple (and its cohorts Vodaphone & Airtel) decided to swindle Indian customer by charging over 400% premium over US store price.

November 8th, 2008 Any reasonable (web) application which deals with some subset of web data (rss feeds, web pages, product pricing data etc.), has to use distributed data processing to go anywhere. Unless you have very deep pockets and / or have strong VC funding (which is rarer than a bottle of Mouton Rothschild Pauillac Premier Cru First Growth these days) you will have to opt for consumer grade hardware (instead of big iron which more companies opted during the dotcom era ) and use them in a distributed computing framework like hadoop or GridGain or older (more mature) high throughput computing systems like OpenPBS (ignore the marketing talk to download the free version) or Condor.

August 14th, 2007 Simple things should be simple. While starting with ExtJS, I saw a screencast on Grid which used a rather dubious method of making an AJAX call using an actual form element.

October 23rd, 2006 First of all I want to make it clear that having a MySQL database without a password set (on your root account) is a very very bad idea. However I wanted to set it up on my home machine which has XAMPP installed.

September 5th, 2008 Apple launched iPhone in India, a country with only 1.2 billion people and overall not considered rich like their counterparts in USA. In USA Apple launched iPhone for $199 only.