Thursday, November 26, 2009

Why do Indians get belly fat, diabetes and heart disease

In this new Kindle book I discuss some of the reasons South Asians are so prone to heart disease and diabetes and also give some advice on prevention:

http://heart-diabetes.blogspot.com/

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Easy way to get PHP, Apache and MySQL on Windows

After wasting 2 hours trying to manually configure installations of Apache, PHP and MySQL on XP, I came across WAMPServer (formerly WAMP5). This bundles all of the above into one package. It has a very easy installation wizard. After clicking all the default settings I was up running PHP scripts ten minutes later.

These tutorials were also very helpful:

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Normal distribution simulator

THIS shows a graph of the results of simulating throwing 6 dice 500 times. I wrote it as a teaching tool to show how many biological values follow the normal distribution.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Friday, October 10, 2008

Peak Flow Calculator

I wrote this peak flow calculator for my own rough use a few years ago. It is not adapted for the new European standard, so I make no claims for its validity as a clinical tool. I don't use it much these days, as most UK GP software incorporates more sophisticated versions. I've not tried, but it could be modified for use on a mobile device.

Wednesday, January 05, 2005


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Labyrinth of Imambara, Lucknow

Imambara, Lucknow

Lucknow Christmas Lights

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