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A pill to beat fear?

by Khaled on March 31st, 2006

Well this could be great news for some of you, it seems that hormones treatment could help people to overcome their worst fears and phobias.
So you fear spiders? roches? high places? you are claustrophobic? well this is good news for you. Medical swiss researchers have come up with a new therapy to ease your phobia symptoms. This is not for today but in a near future you will be able to defeat your fears with a small pill! Yes just one pill! Even better, researchers think that it may have permanent effects.
The cure contains a human hormone called cortisol, and that is produced naturally by the organism to subdue the panic responses in times of phobia, anxiety, stress or fear.
The research team leader, Dr. Dominique de Quervain -University of Zurich, Switzerland-, says: “This will never be a daily pill. But it could be used in combination with behavioural therapy.” Cortisol, which has a variety of effects on our body, is already used as a remedy for several chronic conditions. Side effects of daily use include changes in blood pressure and metabolism, and the risk of diabetes. On a long-term basis it could also affect Memory.

Ruby On Rails 1.1 is out

by Khaled on March 29th, 2006

A new verion of Ruby on Rails (1.1) has been released. This is considired as the biggest upgrade in Rails history, it includes more than 500 changes and tweaks. More than 100 contributors participated in the project.
Ruby on Rails is the combination of Ruby, the OOP language, and the popular web framework Rails.
Upgrading to version 1.1 could be done in two steps.

How Can You Trust A Host?

by Khaled on March 29th, 2006

So you are looking for a new hosting company for the first time ? you are new to this webhosting stuff ? Or you are just fed up with your old host and you just want to switch to something better ? Well, I think that you keep asking
yourself one question “Which hosting company is trustable ?”.To answer this question may be you can look at it in a different way and ask yourself how can I trust a webhost ? what do I look for in host to see if they are trustable or not ?I have been looking for hosts and switching from one another for more than five years, the strategy I came up with is the following:
- I visit their web site see how it looks clean ? tidy ? Professional ? Well yes the look and the design are not too important I guess but it has to be decent not very nice or something that matches my taste or style but just something decent ! it is not very important ! but most of the reputable and honest hosts have clean designs ! if you find a site with a cheap template site that you have seen for a 1000000 times and that costs $5 sorry but the company using it will loose some credibility in my opinion, this is just a point that may add a little something to the overall feel ! that’s all

- I then look to the contact options existing : Phones ? Faxes ? Postal Mail ? Support Desk ? Help/Contact through IM !! Here the most important thing is the phone !

- After that, I read carefully the About section what information they put in there ? are there names ? is it credible ? trustable ? How long have they been in hosting business ? Any information about their servers ? their network ? their datacenters ?

- The next step is to search on google for links to them and reviews about them ! see what people or other sites say about them ? if you don’t find anything or just a little information with this it is not a very goos sign.

- I try to look into their forums (if any) or to ask about them in some big hosting forums

- I gather all what I knew about them Next step is to contact them and this lets me:

- See how long they will take to answer ?

- How is their answer ? are they interested and passionate or just doing this because it is a must ? Are they polite ?

- I ask them some questions:
* How many people work in there ?
* How many in the support crew ? their qualifications ?
* How many Servers ? what Specs ? How old ? where are the datacenters ? the speeds of their Internet backbones ?
* How often do u back up ? How do u back up ?
* What if I needed help at midnight in christmas? is your support really 24/7 ?
* What if I had a script I can’t install would you help ?
* What if I exceeded my Diskspace or Bandwidth ?
* How long will you wait for me if I forgot to pay my bill or was out of town at the payment date ?
* What if I wanted to move to another host ? Can I do it anytime ?

Well, I guess now that you have a good idea about how to proceed to search for a trustable host, this is how I’ve learned to proceed after so many failures in choosing a good host. Good luck !

Internet Explorer 7 CSS hack

by Khaled on March 29th, 2006

Even before the new version of the Microsoft browser is released, a CSS hack targetting IE7 has been already realeased, you may look at this here. I still think that every one should use FireFox instead of IE7.0.
Anyway that’s your choice!

I have a Melancholic Temperament!

by Khaled on March 29th, 2006

It seems that I am introspective and reflective, you think about everything and anything.
You are a soft-hearted daydreamer. You long for your ideal life.
You love silence and solitude. Everyday life is usually too chaotic for you.

Given enough time alone, it’s easy for you to find inner peace.
You tend to be spiritual, having found your own meaning of life.
Wise and patient, you can help people through difficult times.

At your worst, you brood and sulk. Your negative thoughts can trap you.
You are reserved and withdrawn. This makes it hard to connect to others.
You tend to over think small things, making decisions difficult.

To find your temperament type just take a look: Here

No Relation?

by Khaled on March 29th, 2006

Welcome to my new blog, I am very glad to see you here…
I am sure many of you will ask the question: “Why the name of No Relation?”, Well the answer is easy (for me of course), I chose this name because I will be blogging about many topics from Web design, Web development, coding, softwares to biology, sciences and culture. Basicly I would blog about anything I know or I am involved with. All these topics have No Relation between them except their author…me.

I will also be travelling a lot and visting many countries, so I will be blogging from Firenze (Italy), Montpellier (France), Marseille (France), Sète (France), Tunis (Tunisia), Monastir (Tunisia), London (England) and Hull (England)….All these places have No Relation between them except…me.

Hope you will enjoy reading my blog…
Carpe diem !