Read an article on e-healthcare in US. Patients were managing their health record online in HealthVault, a MS online data storage enabler.
Thought about what could be done in india where people might benefit a lot from such a setup. Realised that people really do need to get checked physically by a doctor and that will always be a key part of this business. In matters of health, human comfort is very important.
Thought of a world in future, where there will be a human interaction over the internet, a physical interaction i mean. For example there is a sort of a special material wrapped around a patiennts tummy. And the doctor has an interface touch-screen, when he presses the tummy on the screen, he can feel the pressure, and so can the patient. A future technology! sounds oj, lets see if this ever works out in my lifetime. ciao
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Of great men
Piet Hien aka Kumbel, a danish scientist, mathematican, games creator (like Hex, also attributed to Nash) and wirter of small poems called Grooks. Here are some samples:
Grooks by Piet Hein
Since all of his Grook collections seem to be out of print, it can be very difficult for people to be exposed to Piet Hein's wonderful way with words. This page has a sampling of just some of the thousands of Grooks that this Danish poet/scientist/architect/all-round human being wrote in his lifetime.
THRIFTNobody can be lucky all the time;so when your luck deserts you in some fashiondon't think you've been abandoned in your prime,but rather that you're saving up your ration.
THREE FACTS ABOUT TRAFFIC
Three facts, quite easy,should be known to allwould-be arriverswho set out on wheels:that roads are greasy,safety margins small,and fellow driversfellow imbeciles.
ARS BREVISThere isone art,
no more,
no less:
to doall thingswith artlessness.
PROBLEMS
Problems worthyof attack
prove their worthby hitting back.
THE ETERNAL TWINS
Taking fun as simply fun
and earnestnessin earnest
shows how thoroughly
thou noneof the two
discernest.
CONSOLATION GROOK
Losing one glove
is certainly painful,
but nothingcompared to the pain,
of losing one,throwing away the other,
and findingthe first one again.
T. T. T.
Put up in a placewhere it's easy to seethe cryptic admonishment
T. T. T.
When you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb,
it's well to remember thatThings Take Time.
MANKIND
Men, said the Devil,
are good to their brothers:
they don’t want to mend
their own ways,
but each other's.
A MAXIM FOR VIKINGS
Here is a factthat should help you fighta bit longer:
Things that don't act-ually kill you outright
make you stronger.
IT ISN'T ENOUGH
One paramount truth
our society smothers
in petty concernwith position and pelf:
It isn't enoughto exasperate others;
you've got to rememberto gladden yourself.
BRAVE
To be brave is to behave
bravely when your heart is faint.
So you can be really brave
only when you really ain't.
THE SLOT MACHINE
A contribution to the psychology of disappointment
Yes, life is a gamble;but isn't it meanthat you're never the oneto win it,
when the thing is
a coin-in-the-slot machine,
and you did
put a shirt-button in it.
GOOD ADVICE
Shun adviceat any price -that's what I call
good advice.
LAST THINGS FIRST
Solutions to problems
are easy to find:
the problem's a great
contribution.
What's truly an art
is to wring from your minda problem to fita solution.
SIMILARITY
Commutative Law
No cow's like a horse,
and no horse like a cow.
That's one similarityanyhow.
BUDGETING: THE FIRST LAW
If you want to know
where your money went,
you must spend it quicklybefore it's spent.
(on Denmark)
Denmark seen from a foreign land
looks but like a grain of sand.
Denmark as we Danes conceive it
is so big you won’t believe it.
NEXT CLAUDE SHANNON
Grooks by Piet Hein
Since all of his Grook collections seem to be out of print, it can be very difficult for people to be exposed to Piet Hein's wonderful way with words. This page has a sampling of just some of the thousands of Grooks that this Danish poet/scientist/architect/all-round human being wrote in his lifetime.
THRIFTNobody can be lucky all the time;so when your luck deserts you in some fashiondon't think you've been abandoned in your prime,but rather that you're saving up your ration.
THREE FACTS ABOUT TRAFFIC
Three facts, quite easy,should be known to allwould-be arriverswho set out on wheels:that roads are greasy,safety margins small,and fellow driversfellow imbeciles.
ARS BREVISThere isone art,
no more,
no less:
to doall thingswith artlessness.
PROBLEMS
Problems worthyof attack
prove their worthby hitting back.
THE ETERNAL TWINS
Taking fun as simply fun
and earnestnessin earnest
shows how thoroughly
thou noneof the two
discernest.
CONSOLATION GROOK
Losing one glove
is certainly painful,
but nothingcompared to the pain,
of losing one,throwing away the other,
and findingthe first one again.
T. T. T.
Put up in a placewhere it's easy to seethe cryptic admonishment
T. T. T.
When you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb,
it's well to remember thatThings Take Time.
MANKIND
Men, said the Devil,
are good to their brothers:
they don’t want to mend
their own ways,
but each other's.
A MAXIM FOR VIKINGS
Here is a factthat should help you fighta bit longer:
Things that don't act-ually kill you outright
make you stronger.
IT ISN'T ENOUGH
One paramount truth
our society smothers
in petty concernwith position and pelf:
It isn't enoughto exasperate others;
you've got to rememberto gladden yourself.
BRAVE
To be brave is to behave
bravely when your heart is faint.
So you can be really brave
only when you really ain't.
THE SLOT MACHINE
A contribution to the psychology of disappointment
Yes, life is a gamble;but isn't it meanthat you're never the oneto win it,
when the thing is
a coin-in-the-slot machine,
and you did
put a shirt-button in it.
GOOD ADVICE
Shun adviceat any price -that's what I call
good advice.
LAST THINGS FIRST
Solutions to problems
are easy to find:
the problem's a great
contribution.
What's truly an art
is to wring from your minda problem to fita solution.
SIMILARITY
Commutative Law
No cow's like a horse,
and no horse like a cow.
That's one similarityanyhow.
BUDGETING: THE FIRST LAW
If you want to know
where your money went,
you must spend it quicklybefore it's spent.
(on Denmark)
Denmark seen from a foreign land
looks but like a grain of sand.
Denmark as we Danes conceive it
is so big you won’t believe it.
NEXT CLAUDE SHANNON
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Interconnected
Today, Pradeep mentioned that how we have become immune to events around us, particularly the news that come on TV & news.
I want to write a book that will show in some way how intertwined we are.
butterfly effect
I want to write a book that will show in some way how intertwined we are.
butterfly effect
Thursday, January 15, 2009
How thoughts look?
At any moment a complex network of paths connects thoughts, feelings, emotions and expressions. Some of these are expressways, others are blind alleys, while some are unending dark mazes too.
Some of them we can clearly see as they emerge from inside of us. Gratitude looks like a smile, depression looks like a stooping shoulder, flaring anger like a red face, erotic fantasy like a (sic) standup, joy looks like a twinkling eye, wonderment has wide eyes, naughty has serious looks, content has peaceful eyes and love... well it is blind. Then there are others, barbarously battered out-of-shape by the collisons on intersections. Thus we are forever creating, something that we can see and touch, something real, just out of ... nothing!
All this has following implications -
1. Every person is a creator
2. Thoughts have a shape
3. Those inane thoughts can interact with our body. Isn't it strange that a thought can make you cry? If it can make you cry, why isn't it possible that it can make you fly or cure your disease?
Some of them we can clearly see as they emerge from inside of us. Gratitude looks like a smile, depression looks like a stooping shoulder, flaring anger like a red face, erotic fantasy like a (sic) standup, joy looks like a twinkling eye, wonderment has wide eyes, naughty has serious looks, content has peaceful eyes and love... well it is blind. Then there are others, barbarously battered out-of-shape by the collisons on intersections. Thus we are forever creating, something that we can see and touch, something real, just out of ... nothing!
All this has following implications -
1. Every person is a creator
2. Thoughts have a shape
3. Those inane thoughts can interact with our body. Isn't it strange that a thought can make you cry? If it can make you cry, why isn't it possible that it can make you fly or cure your disease?
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