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I discovered a new term today. It’s NNT (Number Needed To Treat).

NNT will helps you to avoid consuming unnecessary drugs. It’s good for consumer, maybe bad for those Pharmaceutical Companies which making profit from FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt).

For example, consider a hypothetical drug which reduces the risk of colon cancer by 50%. Even without the drug, colon cancer is fairly rare, maybe 1 in 3,000 in every 5 year period. The NNT for a 5-year treatment with the drug is therefore 6,000: by treating 6,000 people with the drug, one can expect to reduce the number of colon cancer cases from 2 to 1.

So next time you see advertisement of a particular drug which boasts a whooping numbers like ‘Reduce .. bla bla bla… by 60%’, please consult with your physician to find out the NNT of that drug.

About Hardono

Howdy! I'm Hardono. I am working as a Software Developer. I am working mostly in Windows, dealing with .NET, conversing in C#. But I know a bit of Linux, mainly because I need to keep this blog operational. I've been working in Logistics/Transport industry for more than 11 years.

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Blogwalking is the easiest way to create a post 🙂 You don’t really need to think, you just need to randomly visit any blogs, then write down whatever you think about that blog, or what is interesting thing that’s happening in that blog.

So here’s my plan, every week I will visit 5 blogs that are listed either in MyBlogLog or BlogCatalog. So here they are:

  1. Above Popular by Mark. The blog has no specific theme, but given his job as an IT Administrator, his posts are very much related to computers (new hardware, digital media). Although he didn’t post anything new since Sept 2007, he left two posts that I found really intriguing. A YouTube video about a 2 years-old girl which has better skill to locate countries in a map than to pronounce their name. And another one is a well-thought article about the death of Hip hop music.
  2. A Not So Desperate Housewife by Rebecca. Rebecca is a wife to Shawn, an US Army Soldier. Her blog chronicled her life as a mother of two beautiful children, Michael and Lydia. Although she’s a self-confessed not-so-environmentalist, but she is doing her best to go green but practical in the same time.
  3. aiAlex by Alex. This beautiful silverish blog is about Web 2.0, Technology, and Blogosphere. I found many interesting articles here. A few of them are: 7 Easy Ways to Inspire Creativity, Need I Say More and The Formula for Designing a Successful Website, Simple to Understand and Execute
  4. 1/2 an Hour Later by Dave Heffernan. Although the topics in his blog quite varies, Dave can teach one or two things about getting fit. Great articles like Lose those Manboobs (looking at my Flatmate :P) and Keeping Motivated to Do Work Out will certainly beneficial to those who want to get fit and burn away the fats.
  5. Adapt, Adopt, and Improve by Anon. A Mus. From the way he picked his Blogspot profile name, I can sense that this fellow has a good sense of humor. I specially like his take mild-sarcastic but definitely amusing story of attending a Wedding ceremony. You can even see him doing some funny sketches. Well dude, whoever your name are, your blog definitely worth visiting again and again 😀

That’s all folks! If next weekend I really have nothing to do and specially… specially when I’m dry on ideas… you’ll see again another episode of BlogWalking.

About Hardono

Howdy! I'm Hardono. I am working as a Software Developer. I am working mostly in Windows, dealing with .NET, conversing in C#. But I know a bit of Linux, mainly because I need to keep this blog operational. I've been working in Logistics/Transport industry for more than 11 years.

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I received an email from MR MASHAL AFRAAH (which according to his email, he is my good friend :P).

Here’s his email:

CONFIDENTIAL PROPOSAL FROM.
MR MASHAL AFRAAH
THE CHIEF AUDITOR INCHARGE,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB).
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.
WEST AFRICA.

My Good Friend,

How are you doing together with your family? I guessed all is well. My massage should not be a surprise proposal to you because i got your contact information from the international directory in few weeks ago before i decided to contact you on this magnitude and lucrative transaction for our future survival in life.
Moreover, i have laid all the solemn trust in you before i decided to disclose this successful & confidential transaction to you.

As i have said, I AM MASHAL AFRAAH. THE CHIEF AUDITOR INCHARGE OF FOREIGN REMITTANCE UNIT, AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK OUAGADOUDOU BURKINA-FASO.
Now i have the intent to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of NINTEEN MILLION, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($19,300,000.00 ) for our future success.

This is and abandoned sum that belongs to one of our bank foreign customers who died along with his entire family through plane crash disaster since few years ago. Meanwhile i was very fortune to came across the deceased file when i was arranging the old and abandoned customers files in other to sign and submit to the entire bank management for an official re-documentation and audit of the year against 2008.

Be informed clearly that it was stated in our banking rules and regulations which was signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed till the period of 6 years started from the date when the beneficiary died, the money will be transferred into the treasury as an unclaimed fund.

As a honour and advantage bestowed to our foreign customers base on the rules guilding our bank, it was stated obviously that if you are not a citizen of Burkina Faso , you have the absolute authority to claim the fund hence you are a foreigner despite your differences from the country of origin of the deceased.

So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary and legit to apply for the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the NEXT OF KIN OR EXTENDED RELATIVE to the deceased costomer.

On the transfer of this fund into your account, { 39% } being ( US$7,527,000.00) will be your share in respect of the account provision and your assistance rendered during the transfer of the fund into your bank account,{ 52% } being (US$10,036,000.00) will be my share being the codinator and the pillar of the transaction while the rest { 9% } being (US$1,737,000.00) will be shared to the respectable Organisations Centers such as Charity Organisation, Motherless Babies homes, and helpless disabled people in the World.

Now, if you are really sure of your trustworthy, accountability,confidentiality on this transaction, contact me and agree that you will not change your mind to cheat or disappoint me when the fund have getting into your account. Besides you should not entertain any fear because i am sure of the success as an insider in the bank.

Please reply with the assurance, include your private telephone and fax numbers necessary for facilitate an easy communication in this transaction.

As soon as you reply , give me a call through my private telephone number on (00 226 70437906) so that i will let you know the next step to follow in order to finalize this transaction immediately.

I expect your urgent communication and my best regard to you and all members of your family.
mashal_afraa19@yahoo.fr
Yours sincerely,

MR MASHAL AFRAAH

I wonder how did GMail didn’t caught this junk as a spam. Maybe because it was sent from yahoo.fr? Do you think there are people still gullible enough to fall to this kind of scam?

What about that DotCom Bust ? Was it also a scam?

Maybe we need to draw a line here. The email above is definitely a pure scam. No integrity and reliability, and it’s not well-thought for using yahoo.fr email address, n00b scammer perhaps? But for those investors who are playing in stock market are risk-informed person. They know that all those future value, profit projections,etc are just an expectation from the Company management. But beware that even though some companies made their expectation based on honest assessment, some others based on FUD (remember SCO?), there are those which using pure fantasy 😀

So what have we learned today? Always remember that famous phrase “If it sounds too good to be true, very likely probably it is”

About Hardono

Howdy! I'm Hardono. I am working as a Software Developer. I am working mostly in Windows, dealing with .NET, conversing in C#. But I know a bit of Linux, mainly because I need to keep this blog operational. I've been working in Logistics/Transport industry for more than 11 years.

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