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Archive for March, 2004

Back to Hospital

Posted by Ramesh on March 27th, 2004

I am back in hospital for my last day of 5FU and then Cisplatin.  Interestingly, the turf battles in hospital meant that if outpatient dept puts chemo pump on, the in house people of the hospital will not remove it.  So I had to be in hospital for the last day of 5FU. The excitement [...]

\’Shortening\’ the wait

Posted by Ramesh on March 26th, 2004

Neil came back to San Diego for his spring break.  He will be here for about a week.  It will make the house a bit more lively – we can watch some basketball matches together and talk about it.   He was suppose to be in Atlanta for the spring break, but ended up here.  Well, [...]

Thanks for suggestions

Posted by Ramesh on March 25th, 2004

On hearing about my pain and some other problems, many of my friends contacted me and suggested some medication.  Some people suggested some spiritual approaches to control pain.   I am lucky to have so many people who care for me and who want to help.  I really appreciate this.  I am thankful to all of [...]

Pain or personal history

Posted by Ramesh on March 24th, 2004

The cumulative effect of radiation and chemo are becoming painful.  I find that the pain in my esophagus is becoming persistent and sometimes bad.  This has made me averse to almost all solid or semi-liquid food.  Only liquids are going without much problem, but their the selectivity is becoming quite pronounced.  My white blood count [...]

Search approaches are fundamentally flawed

Posted by Ramesh on March 23rd, 2004

< This is a technical piece — I\’ll put technical pieces under talks.> I read two popular articles on competition among Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft in the area of search engine for controlling our desktop.  These articles are available at http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2004-03-23-google-yahoo-ms_x.htm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3557293.stm I feel that these engines are still following a dead-end path.  They [...]