The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria received Ig Nobel prize this year "for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters -- General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq." The scams (also known as 419 scams) are notorious for asking people to reveal their private bank information to help fictitious characters transfer large sums of money.

I have moved the coverage of all Health related news to a separate blog - Consanesco. Here is the summary of important news from this week:

Now everyone and their Mother-in-law is jumping in the Annotation bandwagon. I believe Cedric was the first developer to come up with an annotation based framework - TestNG.

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With the recent announcement of partnership plan between Sun Microsystems and Google Inc. rumours have been around about the possible nature of collaboration. Network Computing ("Network is the computer") featured prominently in such discussions. It is time to take a second look at the concept - the value proposition of the well-beaten horse.