Good day to all,

Every time I take the train to work, I see many people using their cell phones talking until we arrive downtown. I wonder if these people are aware of the dangers of such a behavior on the long run. I won’t start debating about the studies made on the potential dangers of such devices, I think my title answers pretty well where I stand.

SAR stands for Specific Absorption Rate. If you didn’t know, your cell phone constantly emits wave radiations during a call. When your cell phone is in your pocket, at rest, he emits a regular pulse of electromagnetic radiation so the company’s base stations can keep a geographical positional track of the phones in their “cellular network”.

Did you know that a malignant brain tumor represents a life-ending diagnosis in the vast majority of those diagnosed. Cell technology was first massively developed in Sweden in 1986, the cell phones had then a power output of 450 MHz. With the 3G technology nowadays, we reach levels between 900-1800 MHz, that’s almost 4 times stronger than older devices and technology. Cell phones base towers are spreading like a cancer, they are even hiding some in churches. I’m not sure how companies were able to make us believe cell phones represent no danger, but when I see everyone abusing this technology, I wonder why should I be scared since everyone does it. This false reassuring thought is the reason of the global increase in brain tumors incidences, and this is only the beginning.

In the industry, we see more and more “wireless” devices: router, laptops, wireless pcmcia, blue tooth technology, wireless phones, wireless game controller, walkie talkie…I’m not sure when this craziness will end but we will soon see some repercussions of this abuse. I really feel sad for the newborn because the concern is not just brain tumors, but other health effects associated or reported to be associated with cell phones, including behavioral disturbances, salivary gland tumors, male infertility and microwave sickness syndrome. About behavioral disturbances, it can start as early as when the newborn is in his mother, her cell phone use could be significant.

I was talking about the Specific Absorption rate earlier, here is a chart of the different levels depending on your model.

Apple iPhone 0.974
Apple iPhone 3G 1.388

Blackberry 8100 Pearl 1.52
Blackberry 8110 Pearl 1.22
Blackberry 8130 Pearl 1.48
Blackberry 8300 Curve 1.51
Blackberry 8310 Curve 1.51
Blackberry 8320 Curve 1.51
Blackberry 8330 Curve 1.54
Blackberry 8700c , 8700r 1.34
Blackberry 8703e 1.55
Blackberry 8800 1.52
Blackberry 8820 1.52
Blackberry 8830 1.46

I read that North American Standard for mobile phones used by the public is 1.6 watts/kilogram averaged over one gram of body tissue. The European Standard is 2.0 (W/kg).

If you are still reading this, you have probably some concerns about the topic. I strongly suggest you print and take the time to read this study, it could maybe have some incidence on your cellular phone use and they offer some suggestions.

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I received these pictures from a friend living in Africa, enjoy!

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Blog Engage, a generalist “Digg-Like” site where you send your blog stories had it’s one year anniversary. For this great even the site owner Brian decided to surprise us all with a brand new design. I noticed many changes:

- No more header ads, you can see more content when you arrive on the site.
- Each stories takes much less space, it makes the site appear much cleaner.
- The categories widget is gone, it used to eat much space on the right side.
You can go visit BlogEngage and if you have a blog, register and submit stories. You will get many visits if you hit the front page!

The crowd is great and you can meet some quality bloggers, Geoserv and Raivyn are two of them.
It has been a great experience to observe Blog Engage rise, after being stuck at 120k in Alexa, it now has a rank of 75k and I’m sure it will keep on getting better. If you are already a member, what are your thoughts on the new design?

On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, Google announced the launch of project “10 ^ 100″ (pronounced 10 power 100), whose goal is simply to “change the world.” To do this, Google requires users to submit their ideas to help “as many people as possible.” The group states that it released for a sum of $ 10 million, which will be used to finance the implementation of the five best ideas. Google will select a hundred ideas among those that have been sent out. People around the world will be able to vote and finally a jury will select up to five ideas.

I have been using Analytics for more than a year but never really explored all the different tools google offered. I fell on this graph: Visitors Loyalty.

I’m not sure if you are familiar with this type of data. If you read the last line, does it mean 146 different IPs hit my website between 101 and 200 times in a month?

If you count the bots for around 46, it would mean there is about 100 people that like the website. I’m not sure this is possible…