Rant: Give me a smart enough phone

After using/exploiting HTC s710 for few months, its rebooting routine is getting on nerves. All I want is consistent WiFi internet browsing, a battery that lasts whole day, and phone that cleans its memory after applications are closed leading to less slow down and forced or automatic reboot. And all this should come under Rs. 15K . God! I am dreaming.

Mumbai 26/11/08

It just proved, how underprotected we are. It appears as if, common man is safe only if terrorists decide to ignore him, if they decide to strike, there is nothing to stop them. While we, our political class and our administration fight over how to share/devide available limited resources baesed on cast, religion, region, main issues like justice, law, order get sidelined. As many news channels were saying we and our politicians should rise above opportunistic selfish attitude and concentrate and improving infrastructure, educational facilities rather than trying to get most of the same available pie by hook or crook.

Tryst with Fujack.K1

Beware if this worm/virus, it can really screw up the PCn (no data loss as of now, but browser redirecting to gcafe.com); your USB drives, other USB devices like digital cameras, cellphones are are infected and it infects the folders, and making it executable file, PC not being able to open the folders. It spreads though, USB very smoothly. So it is really dangerous and it can really make your life difficult. Making your digital images or other data, unavailable when you need it. And free antivirus that I was using did not seem to detect and cure it. Still not able to open images from digital camera to computer, though I can see them in camera. Quick Heal anti virus seemed to detect it. But still no solution for image transfer to PC from the camera. Hope I will get it solved.

Microbiology resources

For those who really want to elevate their microbiology work to higher level, there are atleast two resources that can really help you this include the microbe library. Where thousands of images of bacterial gram stain, colony appearances are present. this is a very huge and authentic resource. Secondly you can be helped by this Univ Of Leeds initiative. If you want great details and SOPs, this is a UK site for you.

National Seminar on 21st Century Medical Education in India at SMIMS

Hello All,
Came back from the southern tip of the Indian nation, Kanyakumari,
where (at SMIMS) it was my pleasure to deliver a talk on telemedicine.
Other speakers were Dr. Devanayagam who spoke on integration of modern
medicine with Siddha system of Medicine, he made one interesting
observation that modern medicine treats the disease where as ancient
Indian medicine treats the patient. Modern medicine gives same
treatment to all the patients with same disease, while same might not
be the case with Siddha, as each patient is different. Of course there
were (rather was single) voice of dissent. But majority seemed to
agree with Dr. Devanayagam.
Then it was my turn speak, and look at the irony, I was delivering a
talk on I.T. in medicine; and LCD and my laptop did not want to
communicate with each other! But ultimately we resolved the issue and
I went on with my talk. This same presentation can be found at my home
page - http://sachinkale1.tripod.com.
I got the feedback that there was excess of information for the time
allotted (45 min), so I had to keep going for 15 more minutes (I
think!) (I do not know whether it sounded like eternity to the audience!)
But number of people did ask for copy of presentation and they also
thought it was interesting.
Then there was lunch and cultural dance entertainment program. The
girls and boys really danced their way to everyone's heart. You can
also check out little bit one such beautiful dance on Mukunda Mukunda
(Dasavataram song) on my home page.
Then there was a session on microteaching and Problem Based learning.
That evening there was nice dinner at Baywatch theme park at
KanyaKumari. Next day also there were good topics like "Medical
Ethics: Current Scenario" "Economics of health care" and Doctor as a
leader of health Team" But could not attend them as I had important
business back home. But full credit to organisers and especially Dr.
Srinivasa Kannan, for excellant arrangements, as such it was really an experience to remember for a long time.

HTC s710 continuous reboot solution

If you have this phone and if it starts giving you starting trouble, for some reason you switch it off and it refuses to start completely again, goes into sequence of starting halfway again rebooting, then solution is here. People have suggested removing SIM card or storage card and starting the phone, switching it off again, putting the card back and starting again. Just worked for me!

The Life and the work

There is always so much to do. How everybody manages, I am not sure. All I can say is life is not easy. But can be fun if it is managed well.

How to solve tough cases?

Understand what u r examining.
Collect all the data.
Add gross and microscopic data.
Compare it with all possible lesions.
Rule out the possibilities one by one zeroing on the diagnosis.
If still not comfortable consult a colleague with more experience in that area.
Amen.

Trying to post through mobile

If this post apears on the blog, it wil be a success!

Mondays are always tough!

So many things have to be done on Mondays only. Takes away every little enjoyment done on Sundays.

How to unclutter life and work

Battling with the clutter most of the time. Got to take decisions then and there (mostly). If I keep it for later, things get lost, and I end up spending more time looking for them.
Must have proper places for everything.
A set of rules for taking decisions.
This should happen at spinal level or as a learned reflex.
Let us see...

MIgrating from Nokia E50 to HTC s710

Posting after a long gap, lots of things have happened in between, got the new mini Vidas machine, started number of new tests. That took lot of effort, but in the end things seem to have settled down.
Little bit of alteration is going on in the premises, not much attention being paid there, hoping that things will take care of themselves; afterall mother and better half are paying attention on that front.
MGM medical college - work has multiplied over the years. Everybody has to elevate their performance to next level.
Respite is hard to get, when it comes it should not squandered in watching TV, it should be spent in thinking about how to improve work efficiency so that day to day work becomes less bothersome.
Anyway, let me return to my experience with s710, yeah it has that Windows tag and all. Not used office much, except ofcourse the outlook syncronisation, that is a dream, though it needs some tweaking to get emails from mobile memory to memory card. Again people have had this issue and they have solved it through a hack in the registry. Details are can be found somewhere on the web.
Then came the big problem contacts, again that was not as difficult as expected, once they were backed on to desktop outlook from E50 and then went to new s710... time consuming but so far so good.
Camera looks better, as expected, being 2 megapixel; got to play with it some more to get the feel.
Overall phone is little bit slow and bulky compared to Nokia E50, contacts keep disappearing time and again, and need reboot to make them appear again.
I don't what is it about windows that makes reboot such a important routine!
Anyway overall it is good change. Especially the email sync, it is cool! When nokia gets this on their lower end phones, that will be tough to beat.
BSNL broadband wi-fi and vodafone GPRS still not configured, will try...

Bottomline - this is definitely worth a try.