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Is it a limited belief to believe that we all have limiting belief? I would say not, I believe we are all aware of a belief that with live in a world of finite things. Is this why we apply this understand to out belief system? The only thing we should be limited by our own beliefs. Over the past few years, I have read a number of books that say we have unlimited power, we have the ability to change anything, the biological structure of our cells, the path our life is taking, the relationships we have, our own intentions. The most fascinating thing about all these books, is even the authors themselves cannot believe what they have found. And that is my point no matter how much we learn that the pie is bigger than we think, and our potential is greater then we have told ourselves it is, even when science is on our side and experiment after experiment shows us we can be limitless, we limit ourselves. Is it because of comfort? In a limited world we feel comfortable, we get to know the var...

In my twenties I remember being at some family event, and I heard the words "family are always there, they are who you can rely on". I remember thinking to myself "only in desperation would I rely on my family". I had, and still have a small but tight friendship circle and if I ever need anything or wanted to spend time with somebody, or wanted to call someone in the middle of the night my mates were and still who I would call.   Today almost 20 odd years later I have been thinking about the importance of family again. Friends have no duty to you to hang around, when your paths cross and you get on, then you share some memorable moments with them, and sometimes they are in your life while you at the same work place, sports club, gym, block of flats etc, sometimes for longer. We spend probably more of our happiest moments with our friends, but who can say their mates that they wanted at the weeding or 21 st , or 30 th are still around. That said I am still more ...

This weekend he had the second of what is becoming an annual event of burning man at Lucien's. Last year it was to some a watershed event (anti-pun?), marking the end of one period of life and a beginning of another. A year later I can say that is wonderful to recall the last year, remember its positives and learn from its negatives. There is something so refelective about burning an efergy, Fire in many ways cleanes the body, mind and spirit. Besides the philosphic response, it was great to have a fealing of community sharing in the food and goodies people had brought all washed down with a good beer and a great bottle or two of MCC. And once the man was burnt, you could wash it down with a fresh roasted specialty grade coffee and one of Zeta's awesome pancakes. Thanks and cheers

I have just spent the better part of the day trying to figure out why code that used to work does note. I have been systematically changing my string handeling to the fast StringBuilder to try and speed up my site and change the RemotePost to the using a StringBuilder: I was getting an error on the Response.End and by using the browser debugs I traced it back the the stupidest thing. I had added a UpdatePanel and scriptmanager so that I could update the post status on the fly using AJAX and because this was there the form would not post :( after much frustration and gnashing of teeth, at the fact that in the old days you could get proper errors since the libraries were not so complex I solved the problem by removing the AJAX additions Now I can go to sleep, perchance to sleep. First a cup Quaffee Specialty Grade Coffee ...

I have always used pure css, as a menu generator and this is good, but converting it to aspx and including the compatibility is messy so I have been on the look out, and today I found a good one. http://www.lwis.net/free-css-drop-down-menu/ What I like is they have real life examples, they use a few cascading style sheet files but that is cool since they have example from site you recognize, and that helps. Only think I do not like is they use id= and class= and VS really only properly supports class for go to code, so you have to do a search all open after opening the many files

I have just finished reading my daughter the book the "Wizard of Oz". I have seen bit of the movie (by the way release in 1939, but only became popular through TV in the 1950s), and have never read the book. I must tell you this is a great read, something worth reading your kids, my daughter is 5 going on 6, and I feel she has afforded me a gr8 opportunity in having read the novel I would probably have never read. The story itself is extremely creative, considering that it was written in the late 18 hundreds (it was released in 1900) and was mainly targeted a kids, it sold 90,000 copies and was band since it was considered unfit reading for kids. If something like this novel had been written in the 60's I am sure drugs would have been blamed, since in almost every chapter there is some creative character. Besides the main Scarecrow, Tin woodman and cowardly lion, there are queen mice, red, green, yellow and blue people. Cities made out of bone china, rock people, winged m...

Problem I work in VS 2008, and every time I made a change to my code / html I had to stop the ASP.NET development server – apparently called Cassini. This was a little irritating as you can imagine, after scouring the internet every time I had a chance for a few months, I was ready to give up, I even posted on a few forums. Then I found a great site that spoke about nothing to do with the server, and guess what it is working. It has to do with how .net is dealt with on you machine, and it obviously assumes you are not a coder by default. The Fix On the MSDN forums I found a reference to the Microsoft knowledge base: KB911272 . In summary Essentially the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\ASP.NET\FCNMode determines how ASP.NET is dealt with as an app on the box. Initially setting this to "0" fixed the problem, but this caused a UNC share problem, so then I set it to two after finding this great item hosting-on-a-unc-share-is-not-supported-for-the-windows-xp-platform.aspx And now I ca...