UV Light In Aircon Can Kill Viruses

Ultra-Violet light is proven to kill viruses in the air like the COVID19 viruses and other variants (more info here: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/india/uv-light-technology-has-potential-to-reduce-covid-19-transmission-indoors/ar-AAObj5i). They can be found in sunlight, which is why it’s good to have natural light in your rooms. But, what about the winter season, or rainy seasons? Or, hospital emergency rooms? There is no sunlight in those buildings.

Here is an idea. Why not insert a UV lamp inside air conditioners? Aircon sucks air inside the room, then viruses are killed inside the aircon with UV light. This eliminates the harm that UV lights can cause in direct contact with our eyes and skin because it is running inside the aircon, and it doubles as cooling the air.

Honestly, I saw this type of technology on a TV ad by LG electronics, which sells aircon with this sort of thing. However, I am not sure if it is the same UV light they use in their product.

Anyway, this kind of product is something to consider because of its effectiveness and simplicity. It should be widely used indoors and transportation like cars and buses.

So, what do you think? Is this a viable solution to our pandemic problem that could help in our battle with COVID19?

Robot Vaccine Injector

Injecting vaccines to people is a very simple and repetitive process that people should use robots to do the job. Here in our country, we are already having shortage of nurses in hospitals due to rising infections of the Delta variant, and we need more hands to administer vaccines to gain advantage against the virus.

I was thinking about an arm holder where it fixes your arm tight, so you can’t move it around. After it detects the arm, it clamps it and makes it stable for vaccine inoculation. Then, the syringe would come to detect the arm placed, and inject the vaccine. After a successful injection, the robot will print out a vaccination card as proof of your vaccination.

There are lots of companies doing tech gadgets and so forth, and I believe this is the right time to use everything at our disposal. We have robots that parkour, why not robots that help our fight against a deadly disease?

Wrong Path

Don’t let the errors of evil people
lead you down the wrong path and
make you lose your balance.
2 Peter 3:17

The slightest mistake in trajectory is catastrophic. When a satellite loses its correct path, it renders it useless. Before Spaceship Unity can be dropped and rocket into space, it has to reach its main course. Or else, the launch would fail and their destination will not be reached. Our destiny is to reach heaven. And, in order to reach it, we have to maintain the right course.

Power

God’s kingdom isn’t just a
lot of words. It is power.
1 Corinthians 4:20

Our country is having a power crisis at the moment, for we lack funds to build a new power plant. It’s always the lack of funding these days because of this pandemic. We preachers don’t lack words to say, and non-believers think we are just full of it. The truth is the heavens and the earth were created by God’s word. God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Everything Belongs To The Lord

Everything comes from the Lord.
All things were made because of
him and will return to him.
Praise the Lord forever! Amen.
Romans 11:36

Your house, car, phone, money, everything is His. You don’t own the ocean, air, and land, everything in the world was created by God. The food we eat, the water we drink, the oxygen that we breathe are God’s creation. The truth is we just use them to make something that people need, but the raw materials are not ours. The talents to make things are not ours, but came from God. Our life came from God.

How To Get Protected From Ransomware

“The second component of cybersecurity
is not just cyberdefense, but it’s going to
be resilience.”
NYT

As an I.T. professional, these are few suggestions that I gathered from the internet on protecting your systems from ransomware attacks:

Resilience

“The second component of cybersecurity is not just cyberdefense, but it’s going to be resilience,” he said. “It’s about this idea about, ‘Hey, so how am I going to continue to operate when an adversary penetrates my network?’”

-NYT

Offline Backups

A solid weapon against ransomware is to use a backup media you can air gap, meaning it’s completely disconnected from your computer and the internet. For example, if you back up to an external hard drive, only connect it during the regularly scheduled backup, and then disconnect it again immediately afterward.

-howtogeek

Detection Software

Antivirus programs are designed to run in the background and they try to block attempts by ransomware to encrypt data. They monitor for text strings known to be related to ransomware. Using massive databases of digital signatures, these programs detect known ransomware file matches.

-unitrends

Use VirusTotal Web Tool

Personally, I use this tool to scan files and websites before opening it. It is owned by a subsidiary of Alphabet, which is the parent company of Google. It uses multiple virus engines to detect it, and so has better detection capabilities. And, it’s free!

Website link: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/

Prayer

There is nothing wrong with asking God for protection. As a Christian, this is my small way of helping out others by sharing my faith. In this time of uncertainty, it is only through Jesus that we can have hope now and the future.

The Microchip

The sea will make you wealthy,
and from the sandy beach
you will get treasure.
Deuteronomy 33:19

Microchips power the world. From computers to smartphones to every electronic device that we use, even cars. Do you know that the microchip was prophesied in the Bible?

The sea will make you wealthy,

and from the sandy beach

you will get treasure.

Deuteronomy 33:19

Microchips are made of sand. They melt it and undergo a complex process to manufacture them. It says in the Bible that you will get treasure from the sandy beach and many tech companies got rich in sand like Apple, Intel, Samsung, TSMC, etc.

Get Rich Quick Scheme

But they start worrying about the needs
of this life and are fooled by the desire
to get rich.
Matthew 13:22

I could see this headline everywhere on the internet. Promises after promises of getting rich quickly without doing much effort. That’s the allure of scammers online and many people fall victim. Don’t worry, if you do your best God will bless you in the long run. Have patience. God never forgets to give rewards to those who love Him. This is His promise and His promises are reliable because He is faithful.

Weakest Link

Yes, I am glad to be weak or insulted
or mistreated or to have troubles and
sufferings, if it is for Christ.
Because when I am weak, I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:10

The weakest part of my body is my eyes. I have blurry vision because of nearsightedness. So, to make my eyes strong, I have to wear eyeglasses. Then. my eyes are like normal, and even better because my eyeglasses double as a UV protector. I could stare at the bright sky without hurting my eyes because my glasses automatically dims. Now, that is the strongest part of my body just like Paul was saying!

Imitate Christ

To become a great artist, you should imitate great artists. Those people who have already achieved success and who have overcome trials and yet endured. We should imitate people to become like them.

You all know those books that say, “7 Successful Strategies Of Jeff Bezos,” or that book that says, “10 Commandments Of An Effective Leadership by…” Yep, we’ve seen  a lot of these books in bookstores that I actually bought one of those. This is not wrong. The truth is imitating successful people is the way to go, in order to have their qualities rub into yours and become successful just like them.

Now, what Bible character do you want to imitate? Some would say Joseph, or apostle Paul, and most would choose Jesus himself. In James 5:17 it says, “Elijah was the same kind of person as we are. He prayed earnestly that there would be no rain, and no rain fell on the land for three and a half years.” It tells us that Elijah is just like us! We are no different from him, even if we consider him as the greatest man who ever lived. We all know his wondrous miracles, the fire from the sky, the chariots of fire, and etc. The reality is we could be just like him if we will try to imitate him.

In 1 Corinthians 11:1, Paul says, “Imitate me, then, just as I imitate Christ.” Ultimately, we should imitate the Lord because this is God’s purpose to us. Just like a mirror image of Himself. God’s more concerned about your character development rather than your situation. The truth is God uses circumstances and trials to develop your character into more like Him, in order to be successful.

Therefore, you can be like Elijah, or Paul, or Joseph, or David, or even like Jesus if we follow and imitate them. That is why we need to read the Bible because it is in that book that contains the secret to our success in life. Here, and beyond.