Running Barefoot is good for you…?

The other night, I came across an interesting article: http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-barefoot5-2009oct05,0,4122017.column?page=1 After reading it, I realized that running in shoes has made us depend on the cushioning, the support, the arches of the shoe, but we were (like the article said) forgetting how our body naturally handles running or the stress…

CMSMadeSimple 1.6.5 – PHP 5.3.0 patch fix

I was installing cmsmadesimple, and ran into an issue where errors were thrown while running cmsmadesimple under PHP 5.3.0 env. Upon checking the Forums, it became clear that cmsmadesimple did NOT yet support PHP 5.3.0 in its 1.6.5 release, that the newer 1.7.0 would address the issue(s).

Sight restored using stem cells

I found this article at gizmag, just somehow stumbled across it, and its fairly exciting.  The concept of non-evasive repair, to the human eye just using a contact lens and stem cells (from another portion of the eye, or from another good eye) is amazing.  Being one person with eye…

GM & Segway combine forces

Being a long time Segway ‘appreciator’ (is that a word?) I got a nice laugh out of this particular vehicle this morning. Looks like GM (even tho its terribly in debt) has time to meddle in the niche market of electric scooter-vehicles.  So they have teamed up with Segway to…