Scientists from Spain have published influential work on tumour cells growth. The study is backed by a successful trial on humans and it appears as if mathematics will show the way to preventing and curing cancer one day. Also see a less technical dissection of this study.

In a previous paper, these researchers reported that tumor growth, rather than being exponential as commonly believed, is a much slower “linear” process similar to the growth of certain crystals and other natural phenomena.

Our family, like many others, has had a painful loss to cancer.

For the past day or two, a small item of graphics (30 x 100 pixels) was snatched from my site. To make things worse, it was HotLinked and appeared at the front page permanently. This means that my site was exploited for traffic. Webmasters would definitely be familiar with the nuisance. To cut this story short, below are the results of my intervention:

An explanation: The large PNG image with the yellow glow comes from my domain. The site shown is in no way related to schestowitz.com; it displays graphics it does not own by forming a link, placed at the right-hand-side bar. I simply changed the image, which some would say was a harsh move.

To spammers, one of the greatest sources for victims are archives of newsgroups. Many archiving systems which process mailing lists and forums omit E-mail addresses from message headers. However, some E-mail software quotes explicit addresses in the body of messages, thereby exposing these addresses to spam-bots.

Likewise, information that is entered in Web forms will rarely be kept confidential. Privacy is not always honoured and E-mail addresses can find their way into so-called affiliate companies.

Whenever possible, avoid disclosure of E-mail addresses. Spam protection is still immature and can rarely be trusted.

Taking this point slightly further, it is important to be assigned different passwords in different sites. Always. Only days ago, Wikipedia inadvertently leaked passwords.