Tom Davis is an entrepreneur who is currently deployed in PSYOP in Afganistan for US Army. He is trying to launch his startup company from Afganistan with a co-founder presumably in US. He tells us about his experience in launching a startup from the restrictive environment ("I live in a room the size of a closet and I code my site from a laptop sitting on top of a tough box"). Two of his ideas resonates with me most:

Joshua has come up with very "specific" and very interesting rumors from "reliable sources" about the Google Phone: 1. the phone will run on a Linux distro

I noticed something funny with this site's statistics. On average people are spending 4 minute 8 seconds on the site. That has to be good, right? However the bounce rate is hovering at 70% according to Google Analytics. What does both these figures translate to? Any suggestion in improving the bounce rate or increasing the average time on site are welcome. Update: I drilled-down in the bounce rate data and realized something extremely encouraging. My bounce rate is primarily from search engine traffic. I expect, nay hope, that the bounce rate from search engine traffic be higher for obvious reasons.

Here is the live feed of visitors from our side. You can also see it on the right sidebar. FEEDJIT gives you real-time traffic data on your blog. No registration is required. See it after the break. Also how you can get one for your blog.

Today I was reading a very interesting blog by Scott who has detailed analysis of all Dr. House episodes which are very engrossing to read. I also came across his experience as a medical student where he was treating a patient with severe depression - "Mrs. D was brought to the ER last night for severe depression. There was no suicide attempt; her family was worried because she was staying in bed and not willing to move for the past week. Since being brought to the ward last night, she hasn’t moved at all; she’s just lay in bed staring at the ceiling." Scott (don't know his last name) was assigned to work on her case. Let's hear it his own words how Star Trek cures when even Thanksgiving or even love of family fails: