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Luckily I was on holiday when my wife bought me the book by Mark Boucher: Bouch through my eyes. I was half way through another book, so finished that and started with the book. I love cricket. I have tried to wean myself off the sport, like I have others, but when it comes to cricket and especially test cricket I cannot continually check the score, or try watch on TV. I love playing sport more than watching, but with cricket I am definitely better at watching then playing. I did play club cricket for about a decade, but only after I turned 30. And action cricket does not really count. There is something special about the game. I was once told that cricket and fish are similar, a whole lot of people in the same vicinity involved in a similar quest. That is not it, there is something special about spending a day and half with people then laughing about a plucked catch or the bowler that took a fiver with all wickets caught in cow corner. It is hard to explain. About the book, Read...

preceptions as I know them today 10 Dec   There is a lot to take in every moment, but it is strange that only one of them relies on ligusitic skills. Using ken Wilber 's terminology: Eye of Flesh Eye of Mind Eye of Contemplation The Eye of Flesh Is how we perceive through our sensors. Typically we are learnt we have five, but it now a much longer list.This is one: humans-have-a-lot-more-than-five-senses , I first heard a list on the QI program. This is the main way we perceive the world, before we could talk the eye of flesh was working and it works until we die. We can put its working in to words, but lingistically we cannot fully describe it and we cannot know that others perceive it the same. There are common words like hot and cold but theses are merely pinters or signposts. The eye of flesh is our most basic and most accepted form of perception. The Eye of Mind The eye of mind is thought, how we organize it how we think etc. This is normally done in our hom...

From the Ken Wilber material the quadarnts seem to be an intrinsic part of his integral theory. Over almost 2 dacades these quandrants had matured. I googled them and though I woul place them here so that I can reference them (an hopefull others can too) From The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion , We have this diagram: Then from Integral Life Practice this is a great one: And I found this oen that combines these: To understand these models you need to read or listen to the books, but essentiallty everything we as mankind has achieved so far, fits into these quadrants. Understanding that each area of developement and theory has some merit is the essential lesson that these are based on. In a previous post I posted states and stages these can be applied to these quadrants.

I have been maintaining 2 different Web.Config files for ages, one for developement and one for live or remote deployed sites. This is to say the least a pain. When you deploy your website you then need to remember to either copy the old config and replace or you need to edit the live one with the correct connection strings and the like. While looking for a solution to a security related problem on a deployment of an ASP.NET site I came across this site: http://www.troyhunt.com/2010/11/you-deploying-it-wrong-teamcity.html 2 Web Config files... The essence of this shows how you can have a core web.config then you can have a debug web.config and a depolyed web.config. To do this all you do is in your Visual Studio project simply right-click the web.config file and select "Add Config Transforms". If it is greyed out / disabled then check if two  files exists under Web.Config One called Web.Debug.Config and once called Web.Release.Config. These two files let you...

With all the media we use in our daily lives today, having a media centre in a house is almost becoming a necessity. The problem is even the cheapest media centre still requires some cash to be spilt. Toss the router idea I had to get a new router when we moved away from the super reliable, but now slow iBurst, and though I would be able to add a media server to the NetGear D2200 v3, but after getting the router to work as soon as I added the 1gb external drive it kept rebooting, so that did not work very well. I then remembered we have and old Acer Tavelmate C300 lying around, even though it is 10 years old I thought lets make that a media server. It only has a 100gb drive and a Celeron 1.5 GHz, but surely that would be fine) Linux, my Rs Anyway so knowing that it would take a little time I put an evening aside and start prep. Most of the sites recommended uBuntu, do I downloaded the ISO, fired up the LapTop and started installing. I was greeted with a message saying This k...

There is an accisibility feature that add a home button (and a few other things) if you know where to find it. From Settings: General Accessibility scroll down until Physical and Motor and then  Assistive Touch -> On Then you a soft home button that will display the below when you click on it:

Every time you create an invoice and there is an open estiamte for that client, it asks you if you want to convert it, this is a great feature most of the time but sometimes what happens is that the client does not accept the quote or it changes or there is a reason the quote does not get taken. To change this pop up you need to go into the estimates and manually close them. But that means you need to finsd them. Here is a step by step way to do so: Click Reports->Customers->Open Invoices Click Customise Report Click Fitlers tab Remove Paid Status = No Add Estimate Active -> Yes (it is under the Fitler list) Click OK,  change the dates to suit Then click on each estimate and close them.' You can also go to: Reports->Jobs...->Estimate by Job Customize Report Add Estiamte Active under columns (if not there Under Filters Add Estimate Active -> Yes Click OK,  change the dates to suit