i actually spent a few days trying to register for a nice address. you know, because i really don't want to disclose any personal information in the address. but the process was a lot tougher than i had ever imagined.
i kicked off trying boulevardofbrokendreams.blogspot.com- not available
it's really a hit. coz i really love the song and the lyrics and also the title.
okay so i tried another. this time, i opened my playlist and saw hoobastank's the reason.
great, i love this song too. so i tried thereason.blogspot.com- not available
for the next few minutes, i kept keying the titles of songs on my playlist. just to name a few here:
singforthemoment.blogspot.com
bringmetolife.blogspot.com
myimmortal.blogspot.com
basketcase.blogspot.com
numb.blogspot.com
youraisemeup.blogspot.com
but sadly, all unavailable.
after the repeated failures of the trials of the names of songs, i kinda gave up and i took out a dictionary. so i adopted the policy that i would just randomly pick a page, and then a word.
some more examples of the trials:
mistakenidentity.blogspot.com
oversubscribed.blogspot.com
overtones.blogspot.com
still, not available.
then, i was desperate enough to pick up my biology notes on my desk, and continued to try:
phagocytosis.blogspot.com
macrophages.blogspot.com
basophil.blogspot.com
neutrophil.blogspot.com
what world, still unavailable.
and then, i suddenly rmb a term which i came across a few days ago, when mum asked me to search about glycosamine (a diet supplement which she is taking now, an importnat component of cartilage), and wikipedia says there's a controversy over the use of glycosamine because of its unknown effectiveness. it describes an experiment and it says sth like... "the control group under placebo response". the always curious me, of course, clicked and wanted to learn more about it. so here it is:
"A placebo is a preparation which is pharmacologically inert but which may have a medical effect based solely on the power of suggestion, a response known as the placebo effect or placebo response. It may be administered through ingestion, injection, inhalation, insertion into a body cavity, or applied topically.[1]
The term placebo effect (as distinct from the more correct term placebo response) was introduced by T. C. Graves in 1920 "because it is the subject that has the subject-centred response. It is not the administered substance that generates the observed effect." Sometimes known as non-specific effects or subject-expectancy effects, a so-called placebo effect occurs when a patient's symptoms are altered in some way (i.e., alleviated or exacerbated) by an otherwise inert treatment, due to the individual expecting or believing that it will work. Some people consider this to be a remarkable aspect of human physiology; others consider it to be an illusion arising from the way medical experiments are conducted."
knowing that i have a strong affection towards medicine, there's no need explaining uh? placeboeffect.blogspot.com was taken, so.... yeah.
Saturday, June 9, 2007
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