Archive for September 2006
Whose safety first?
Posted by: arinbasu on: September 22, 2006
Whose life? Whose safety?
The picture above shows an official of a bomb disposal squad attempting to defuse a landmine that was booby trapped in a forest area of the West Bengal state of India. It was unfortunate that he died in the attempt as the landmine blew up on his face (for a detailed [...]
Real time disease surveillance
Posted by: arinbasu on: September 6, 2006
This afternoon I met with the chief of the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases center. We discussed development of a syndromic surveillance using cell phones and computers. We discussed about RODS, an open source implementation of syndromic surveillance using computer based communications. RODS is truly amazing, here is a short history of the [...]
Why do I blog and what will I blog about?
Posted by: arinbasu on: September 6, 2006
Why do I blog? This idea came to me as I read this excellent guidance on blogs by Lorelle’s blogs .
Offload ideas and experiences throughout the day to a more permanent medium. Share with the world, and come back and revisit them later. Ideas tend to lose themselves over time, and over the last several [...]
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