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Journeyman — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:31:13 +0000

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Three wickets down

Journeyman — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:03:56 +0000

Today, in one fell swoop …

Deactivated my facebook account
Deleted my Orkut account
Removed myself from FriendFeed

Nice strip via xkcd

The Virtual Physical Human

Journeyman — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:52:27 +0000

It could mean the end of animal testing and eventually even clinical patient drug trials. The European Comission has allocated 8 million Euros to build a computational model of a human being. And not just a generic model, this purports to be a patient-specific computer model for personalised and predictive healthcare. Sub-projects include computer models of the heart, models for dementia and osteoporosis.

The Virtual Physical Human project appears to be quite interesting and of definite interest to the Healthcare world in general and GE Healthcare in specific.

What caught my eye was this from one of the pages on the portal. Is this going to be another case of Death by XML ?

“The VPH NoE aims to develop, evolve and promote standardised markup languages which permit interoperability of models and, where this is appropriate, interoperable codes which may be coupled both horizontally and vertically. “

Tears in Heaven

Journeyman — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:43:43 +0000

These last two days I have played this song on my guitar so many times.

I had learnt this song more than 15 years back on the piano. I don’t think I still do
much justice.

The Girl From Kabul

Journeyman — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:05:14 +0000

My sister is now in Afghanistan. A few days ago she sent over a few photos of children of that country. Bright, beautiful kids. One of them caught my attention because this girl looks exactly like what my sister did when she was about 8 or 9.

A small conversation on Facebook ensued.

Welcome to the Sarcar universe

Journeyman — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:42:19 +0000

Today I have not been doing much work. No chores. No running errands at home. It’s about 6 in the evening and I need to go out to do some shopping and dinner. My sweet little TimeTracker Firefox addon says that I have been browsing for 3 hours 33 minutes 33 seconds today (when I took the screenshot). Nice little addon — keeps running a clock in the background only when the Firefox window is in focus. So that’s how long I’ve been browsing.

Browsing lets you learn so much. I discovered my Italian-Swiss roots today. Errm, I mean I always knew but I thought I would tell you gently, dear reader, of my rather craft-worthy lineage.

See you at my house in the Swiss Alps.

Remember The Milk: 2005

Journeyman — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:33:59 +0000

Logged into Remember The Milk after ages. No dates available, but from the smell, looks like this list is clearly from a midsummer visit to Waukesha in 2005. Very beautiful memories.

Funnily, RTM has remained in Beta since birth, despite being quite a popular service and offering a Pro account.

What The World Is Looking For

Journeyman — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:42:12 +0000

If Google Suggest can be trusted to reveal some macro insights of the world, then our earth is not really a thankless place to be in. Note the overwhelming desire to thank and share.

And while the quest for what satiates the eyes is still on ….

… it is indeed endearing to know that people choose to make love over money or bombs.

Hattip: Saurabh Minni for sharing this.

My BCL Picks this Saturday

Journeyman — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:34:02 +0000

Welcome Delia Smith to my humble kitchen. Picked up this book from the British Council Library today. People around can’t stop laughing. So ?
My daughter thinks I am the “best cook in the whole wild world”. That’s what matters. She even told my sis-in-law that. They came over to relish yummy pasta for lunch. The olive oil is over. Got to go to the grocer tomorrow.

The other book I picked up (I had put a reservation on it) is this one by Gina Trapani and others. A compendium of articles from Lifehacker. The first results have been delivered in a short time. I have a pretty clean inbox now. Down to 25. Only mails from the last two days (yes !!).

Notredame de Paris

Journeyman — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:57:13 +0000

Quasimodo upon Esmeralda’s gift of a drink of water while he is being heckled on the pillory:

“Then from that eye, hitherto so dry and burning, was seen to roll a big tear, which fell slowly down that deformed visage so long contracted by despair. Perhaps it was the first that the unfortunate creature had ever shed.”