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The real loser

2009-05-22T05:15:00.005+05:30

It was another orthopedic case where I had to advice an elastocrepe bandage and pain killers. As usual I was about to return to my duty room when I noticed the nursing attendant put something away into the table drawer. I was curious to know what that precious item was which he was trying to keep in his posession. I opened the drawer and found the label from the empty container of the elastocrepe bandage which was used on the patient. It made no sense to me as to why a label should be stored along with other important items in the table drawer and I could not help but satisfy my curiousity by asking the attendant about it. He was at first reluctant to answer which only fuelled my inquisitiveness and he answered sheepishly. A medical representative has offered him cash benefits for each label of the bandage which will be used to replace the labels of the free samples that the medical representative is supposed to give to the doctors for free (free samples contain the label that it is not for sale). An elastocrepe bandage costs somewhere around Rs 100 to 200 depending on the size of it. I was wondering who the loser in this deal is. Is it the pharmaceutical company which expected the representative to deliver the free samples to promote it’s products, the doctor who could have got a couple of free stuff to please his private patients or the patients who could have got a bandage for free. I had to console myself with the conclusion that the medical representative himself is the loser who won’t be able to market his products efficiently with the orthopedicians. http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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A moral story

2009-04-21T21:08:00.001+05:30

I could not help sharing this video after seeing it in Krishna's blog. I was touched, deeply moved and above all highly inspired. This reminded me not to judge anybody by their external appearance and not to be cynical. It also reminded me that dreams can be fulfilled no matter how old you are. Rarely do I get to see such an inspiring video. Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent by dwarthyhttp://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Guiding light

2009-03-24T14:40:00.001+05:30

... May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help. ..... Hippocrates (460 BC - 370 BC)http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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More BSNL tips

2009-03-19T07:01:00.000+05:30

The following are some of the tools available for BSNL customers at the time of writing this post. To know last bill amount Send BILL to 53333 To get usage amount Send AMT to 53333 Ring Back Tone Send BT ACT to 56700 to activate. This should be followed by BT song-code to 56700 Send BT DACT to 56700 to deactivate. Visit http://www.keralatelecom.com/teleNEWS/prbt1817.htm for more details. SMS Message Center For numbers starting with 9447 - +919440099997 For numbers starting with 9446, 9495 or 9496 - +919442099997 To activate Friends and Family Call Plan SMS the following to 53733 FFELandline Number (including STD code) Mobile Number To know the EMI number of your handset Press *#06# http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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BSNL GPRS Settings - what worked for me

2009-03-18T06:56:00.000+05:30

The following are the BSNL GPRS activation settings in South India at the time of writing this blog post. To activate GPRS Post Paid Customers should send the following SMS to 53733 1. GPRS199 – Rs 199/month; unlimited usage 2. GPRS49 – Rs 49/month; After 5 MB usage, each 10 KB costs 3 paise 3. GPRSF – No monthly fee; each 10 KB costs 5 paise Pre Paid customers should send the following SMS to 53733 GPRSPRE – each KB costs 2 paise To deactivate GPRS facility: Send the following SMS to 53733 GPRSD Activate the automatic GPRS settings: Visit http://218.248.72.246/msp/html OR SMS the following to 58355 MODEL MAKE e.g. NOKIA 6070 BSNL INTERNET Settings: (This is what enabled internet access for my mobile applications) 1. Select Settings from Menu > Settings >Configuration>Personal configuration settings>Options>Add new>Access point 2. Connection name: BSNL GPRS 3. Data bearer: GPRS 4. Access point name: gprssouth.cellone.in 5. User name: 6. Prompt password: No 7. Password: 8. Authentication: Normal 9. Press Back to save the settings. 10. Press “Activate default in all applications” PC configuration (With Nokia PC Suite) Install software (PC suite & original cable driver). Click on Internet settings in PC suite 1. Click on settings in one touch Access in Nokia PC Suite 2. Select Modem of Mobile Modem (eg: Nokia N72 USB Modem) and press Next 3. Click on Configure Manually and press Next 4. fill the blanks like Access point: gprssouth.cellone.in OR bsnlsouth UserName: Mobileno (9194xxxxxxxx) Password: Mobile no (9194xxxxxxxx) and press finish To start browsing, click Connect http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Happy Birthday Krishna

2009-02-22T11:30:00.014+05:30

Legend has it that Sri Krishna was born on a dark, stormy and windy night of on the eighth day (Ashtami) in the month of Sravana. But for me the 13th night/14th day in the Krishna paksha in the month of Magha or Phalguna is Sree Krishna Jayanthi. Of course it is that day when the world celebrates Sivaratri, I celebrate the birth of my Krishna. As a kid whenever I used to pray to Lord Krishna, I used to wonder if he will ever come for comforting me in human form as he has done for many of his devotees. Since this is Kali yuga, the chances of such a possibility was theoretically less. But I was proved wrong. The greatest favor by the social networking website Orkut ever did to me is to bring Krishna to me. Ever since we met online, he has always been on my side; on times of happiness and despair. I can't say if he is the bestest friend, big brother or Lord Krishna himself. I guess he is all in one. I have always considered him as Krishna, his brother as Balarama, mother as Yasodha, father as Vasudeva. I have always considered myself to be the humble and needy Kuchela on whom Krishna has always showered his grace.There has been many times when I have unknowingly hurt his feelings. But he has always brushed it aside acknowledging the fact that it was from a superficially insensitive but deeply sensitive person like me. Probably he knows that I never ever meant to hurt him or never can. In his own words he describes himself aptly as a "An ordinary guy love to be simple and humble. Hate lie and cheating".He is a man of poetic words and is famous through his blog at http://prrasanth.blogspot.com which is in the language of Malayalam. If you talk to him, you might not believe that such a simpleton is a postgraduate from IIT and a PhD scholar from one of the best research institutes in the world (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, S.Korea) You can see his homepage at http://prrasanth.googlepages.com Sadly, we have never been able to see each other in person yet. But then that is one of the biggest dreams and without dreams life will be colorless."Take my hand, and hold on tight, don't let go, don't you dare even try, there are so many roads to travel, so much still to find, and with the help of our lord, I want you to help me try and reach for the sky." - Marty Keithhttp://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Privacy Policy Statement

2009-02-10T02:53:00.020+05:30

Privacy Policy Statement of http://doctor82.blogspot.com/ This is the web site of Raman Balakrishna Venkatta. Our postal address is T.C. 20/2533, S.S.Street, Karamana P.O. Trivandrum, Kerala, India - 695002 We can be reached via contact form at http://doctor82.blogspot.com/2008/01/contact-form.html or via telephone at +19492420187 For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes the consumer's domain name and e-mail address (where possible). We collect the domain name and e-mail address (where possible) of visitors to our Web page, the e-mail addresses of those who post messages to our bulletin board, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, user-specific information on what pages consumers access or visit, information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations. The information we collect is used for internal review and is then discarded. With respect to cookies: We use cookies to and allow the function of third party javascripts that may require a cookie. If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address. If you supply us with your postal address on-line you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please let us know by or click on the suitable links on the email to unsubscribe. Please provide us with your exact name and address. We will be sure your name is removed from the list we share with other organizations Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line will only receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders they have placed on-line. Please provide us with your name and phone number. We will be sure your name is removed from the list we share with other organizations With respect to Ad Servers: To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information. Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy. For further information, consult the privacy policies of: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1 From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes and we will use for these new purposes only data collected from the time of the policy change forward. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically. Customers may prevent their information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by e-mailing us at the above address. Upon request we provide site visitors with access to no information that we have collected and that we maintain about them. Upon request we offer visitors no ability to have factual inaccuracies corrected in information that we maintain about them With respect to security: and We do not have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site. If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number.http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Link Exchange

2009-01-27T02:42:00.004+05:30

This page is dedicated for the link exchange for blog promotion. Superblog Directory Diet pills http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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WIshing a quick recovery

2009-01-24T21:32:00.003+05:30

Wish you a quick recovery Mr. Singh so that you can resume your office soon. The Indian Prime Minister underwent his 2nd bypass surgery at AIIMS. An 11-member team from the AHI led by Dr Ramakant Panda performed the beating-heart operation on 76-year-old Mr. Singh. The whole country is anxious and the business stocks are sensitive to the health outcome. The benchmark BSE index fell more than 1.5 percent before regaining a little ground.India will celebrate its Republic day on 26th January which he will not be able to attend. http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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List of food products subject to recall

2009-01-21T21:38:00.003+05:30

The U.S. government is advising consumers to avoid cookies, crackers, ice cream etcN made with peanut butter or peanut paste. As you already might know, an investigation is going on about an outbreak of salmonella illness that is believed to have killed six people and sickened at least 485 others across the country. It is unclear how the peanut products were contaminated with Salmonella species. Infact many of the nations large scale manufacturers and retailers are voluntarily withdrawing peanut butter products from their shelves. If you are one of the concerned U.S. resident worried about the kind of products that are suspected to be infected with Salmonella, check out the following link on the website of F.D.A. It maintains a periodically updated list of food products subject to recall in the United States since January 2009 related to peanut butter and peanut paste recalled by Peanut Corporation of America. Link: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/ http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Let Google Notebook RIP

2009-01-20T10:25:00.001+05:30

There is a post in Mashable about Google Notebook users pleading through an online petition, a Facebook group, and a “Save Notebook” blog against the proposed withdrawal of its service. Since there are other alternatives I would rather let the Google notebook service rest in peace. There is a similar notebook service from Yahoo too. It is not that I am against Google. It is just that there are other viable services and we should not be entirely dependent on Google. But personally, deep in my mind, I wish (and pray) Google would keep up people's trust on its services and let the notebook service hold on to its life. They should just invent some kind of contextual or other forms of advertisement to keep it going.http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Best bookmarklets

2009-01-19T21:07:00.000+05:30

There has been many times I have searched online for the essential bookmarklets whenever I use a different computer or reinstall my browser. Of course I could have just bookmarked them in Delicious and reinstall it from there. Maybe I was just lazy to bookmark all my bookmarklets. For those who are unfamiliar to bookmarklets - A bookmarklet is a small JavaScript program that can be stored as a URL within a bookmark in most popular web browsers, or within hyperlinks on a web page. Bookmarklets serve advanced functions and are very useful if you use browsers like Google chrome which does not support addons and doesn't have much inbuilt functions. Cybernetnews has listed a set of very useful bookmarklets under an apt title - The best bookmarklets for your browser. Click the link below to grab them! Link: http://cybernetnews.com/2006/12/27/cybernotes-the-best-bookmarklets-for-your-browser/ http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Flight landing on a river

2009-01-18T21:54:00.000+05:30

You might have already read the news item on the U.S. Airways passenger plane as it conducted an emergency landing into the Hudson River Jan. 15, 2009. The video of that incident is there in Youtube. The video was captured by Coast Guard Vessel Traffic Service. This is one of the hottest videos on Youtube right now with more than 3 Lakh views. http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Introducing JS-Kit commenting system

2009-01-17T23:17:00.002+05:30

I am using the JS-Kit commenting system from today. JS-Kit does more than just replace Blogger’s built-in commenting system. You can comment using your facebook ID. It saves me the pain of introducing facebook connect to my blogger account. It imports existing comments and provides live synchronizaiton of new comments with Blogger. I would recommend this for every blogger. Every time a visitor leaves a comment on your blog using JS-Kit interface, the comment is instantly copied to Blogger’s built-in commenting system. If for any reason you disable JS-Kit Comments on your blog, your visitor comments will be preserved on Blogger. This feature is something that was missing from Disqus or Intensedebate commenting systems.http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Lawsuit Live!

2009-01-16T21:03:00.001+05:30

This reminds me of the old Roman empire when people used to watch men kill each other in the colloseum. We can watch the RIAA trial live online and have the same sadistic pleasure. Maybe this could act as a deterrent to potential pirates and would infact prevent online thefts. But curiously RIAA opposed the broadcast and the judge aptly called the situation "curious". You can read the news item at http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/riaa-court-hear.htmlhttp://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Google Notebook alternative

2009-01-16T04:18:00.001+05:30

Now that Google Notebook is going to be shut down, we need a similar service to do the job. Though popular tech websites recommend Evernote, what works for me the best is Snipd. Snipd works from a bookmarklet and you can select the part of the webpage you want to save online. You can even clip videos from sites like youtube. No matter which service you are going to use, just make sure that you backup your data from Google notebook since it is going to shut down.http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Google Friend Connect

2009-01-04T01:08:00.002+05:30

I happened to watch an amazing video on how easy it is to set up Google friend connect on blogger. I thought it is not possible on blogger as it needs to install two html pages to the site. Thanks to the following video on youtube I can now enable it in my blog. The trick is simple – you don’t need to upload the 2 files! http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Kid's Browser

2008-12-30T10:47:00.002+05:30

I had embedded my youtube playlist in my previous post about nursery rhymes. Today Labnol.org gave me a new resource to try and the baby I was babysitting, loved it. KIDO'Z is a new service that offers an adobe air based kids safe browser with all the kid stuff preloaded! So it saves my time to search through the vast cyberspace for the kind of videos that my little niece would like to watch.You can safely leave your kid to watch videos on the web with this application. There is no need to know to read to use this intuitive software. Link: http://kidoz.net/beta/index.html http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Unlimited file storage

2008-12-21T13:12:00.002+05:30

Lifehacker today announced the entry of a new online service called Livedrive. It is like a dream come true! Livedrive offers unlimited file storage with a standalone software client. The software installs a virtual drive called L into which you can drag and drop files. You can also select a custom domain http://someusername.livedrive.com for accessing their files and sharing them. The service is at present free and I’ve pretty much strong intuition that it could be for fee soon. But until then enjoy! Technorati Tags: filestorage,backup http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Blogger disables some blogs automatically

2008-12-20T21:12:00.002+05:30

I started a new blog about spirituality and not even 2 days passed before blogger blocked access to my blog. I have no clue why since it was a genuine blog with nice content (in my opinion of course). The reason it gave me is the following. Your blog is disabled. Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What's a spam blog?) Since you're an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and we sincerely apologize for this false positive. I just hope to get access to it back soon. At least I should have been given the option to backup my blog data after it was blocked so that my hours of effort doesn’t go wasted. Technorati Tags: Blogger,blogs http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Nursery rhymes playlist on youtube

2008-12-12T22:40:00.001+05:30

It is a tough job to babysit a baby or a toddler. Whenever I had to babysit my little niece who is only 6 months old now, I have found that she is mesmerised by the nursery rhymes videos on youtube. I had to search for the nursery rhymes every time I had to babysit her. Then I thought it is easier to keep the links safe in the form of a playlist and to play it next time rather than searching for the songs every time. I am sure that these songs stimulate learning and is a nice way to keep the kids entertained. These videos on the playlist below were not uploaded by me. I would like to thank them all who uploaded them to youtube and making my occasional babysitting work easier. Technorati Tags: nursery,rhymes,songs,kids http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Search for movies according to your taste

2008-12-06T05:23:00.001+05:30

Matrix is my favorite movie and I would like to watch other movies similar to it. But how to search for a movie that is similar to another movie? That is where Jinni helps. Jinni's social search-and-recommendation engine uses Movie Genome, a big, ongoing project with the Jinni community to describe video more complexly. Using proprietary technology, a Jinni search takes you inside plot elements, atmosphere, and more to give you appropriate recommendations according to your taste. You can watch the movies online. Presently it is in invitation only beta. But I have 10 invites and would like to share with those interested. Technorati Tags: movies,search http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Get a translator widget for your site

2008-12-06T05:01:00.001+05:30

If you are a blog or a website owner and would like to get a wider audience getting a translator button will be very helpful. Your readers can read your site contents in their own language at the click of a button. Conveythis is a service that includes all the major online translators such as Google Translator, BabelFish, MSN Traslator and more in a single button widget. Also you have statistics. According to the site more than 30 different languages are supported. This is how a sample button looks like. Mouse over it and you can get a number of options. convey_url = document.location.href; convey_source = "English"; convey_user = "doctor82"; convey_type = 1; Technorati Tags: blog,translate http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Jobless? Make use of it

2008-12-05T15:20:00.001+05:30

Currently the economy is down and it won’t be a surprise if even the best of the best loses his job. If you are one of them, don’t fall into the vicious circle of depression and non productivity. Don’t despair, maintain your spirits and productivity, make use of your time and keep going. Rachel Zupek of CareerBuilder.com has given a few important tips in an article on MSN. Click here to read it. Technorati Tags: jobless,productivity http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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Watch TV online in your favorite media player

2008-12-04T05:31:00.002+05:30

Image by Paul Trafford via Flickr Livestation is an application for viewing many live television channels on the computer via internet. Livestation delivers a range of live radio and television channels to your computer over a broadband network. Those who are regular users of livestation or those who want to watch live television on their computers will appreciate it if they could watch them using their favorite media players rather than using a separate application. Mediaplayer connectivity addon in firefox will help you to watch the live video using the media player of your own choice. It allows you to launch embed video of website in an external application with a simple click of a button. All you have to do is the following 1. Install the MediaPlayerConnectivity addon in your firefox. 2. Select the media player of your choice in the wizard that automatically appears after restarting firefox. 3. Simply go to ChannelKing Log in to livestation website (sign up is free) and browse through thousands of choices (click on My Livestation) and watch them in your favorite media player! With the mediaplayerconnectivity addon in firefox, you can watch most videos on the internet in your favorite media player. The best thing is that you can watch the news channels in windows media player in its toolbar mode while doing the routine things like emailing or chatting on the internet without compromising valuable screenspace. Technorati Tags: television,tv,livestation,mediaplayer http://doctor82.blogspot.com

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