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I always take pleasure in reviewing and writing about products that I tried and liked (for example the Zeo Sleep Manager).
Today, I am going to write about the products of “Holly’s Harmony”, hand made soaps, shampoo, lotions and much more.
Continue reading “Holly’s Harmony – Hand made soaps, lotions, and other hand made products”
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Today I am going to share with you some of the notes I compiled / prepared when I had to study in order to pass the driving test.
These notes are not comprehensive and may contain mistakes, please double check what you study while reading from the Washington Driver Guide Continue reading “Preparing for the Washington State Driving Test”
I love freshly juiced carrots. In fact, they are my favorite when juice fasting.
Check out my fasting article here: http://lallouslab.net/2013/02/11/introduction-to-fasting/
Other interesting facts:
Fasting has one thousand and one benefits ranging from physical to spiritual. I have created this small prayer in the hope of giving you willpower while you are in a fast:
Help me fast from this day until the end of my fast,
May my efforts be used by you,
May my body be detoxified,
May my soul be purified,
May the money and food that I save daily be used to feed the poor,
May your grace and love fill me every day,Thy will be done.
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In this blog post I am going to share with you my story with smoking cigarettes for five or so years, how it all started, why I stopped and how.
I will try to make this post pleasant to read and inspirational so by the end of it you will get encouraged to think again about your smoking habit.
Before we begin, would you care for a short story? Continue reading “Me, myself and smoking cigarettes – A little story”
Today I was flipping through an old notebook and I ran into a note that dates back to 09/26/2011.
It was a nice reminder and worth sharing, I hope you find an inspiration by reading it.
The note’s title was: “My Religion” and it reads:
- I am a free human being. I believe in being a good citizen, respecting the law and justice
- All humans have equal rights that do not transgress the rights of others
- All humans have the freedom of choice, thought and religion (or non religion)
- As I’m created (constructed) so shall I be deconstructed
- I believe in my deeds
- Be aware and considerate. Love and serve others in the means of your capacity
- Harvest pure thoughts and learn to purify your heart and mind from thoughts that can harm others and cause you to harm yourself
- Treat your neighbor as you want him/her to treat you
- No fear can instill in my heart as long as I do no harm or misdeed in/during my life on earth
- Religious or non religious people are still people. May everyone find personal peace
- May freedom from fear prevail
- Live and express yourself. Make your homeland earth like your own personal dwelling (like you do in your home). Treat it with respect, earn your living and respect other peoples’ boundaries
Zeo Sleep Manager Pro is a system composed of a headband sensor and a Bluetooth transmitter unit. It records the brainwave activity (during sleep) and send the data to another Bluetooth capable device for recording and further analysis.
The Zeo headband connects to software running on an iOS or Android device (via Bluetooth).
Additionally, Zeo provides a website where your sleep data can be uploaded so you can analyze the data or export it for use with other software.
In this blog post, I will be sharing with you my experience with this unit. For tips on how to improve your sleep, I recommend this article. Continue reading “Improve and track your sleeping patterns with Zeo Sleep Manager Pro”
Recently, I started going on personal trips in various States and each time I had to rent a car.
Renting a car means that not only you pay a daily rental rate for the car but are also offered to buy an optional LDW (Loss/Damage/Collision Waiver insurance plan aka LDW / CDW).
The LDW costs from $9 to $30 dollars a day. That could be the same rate as the car rental itself, thus you are paying double the price to rent a car.
So the question is, what are your options to save money and should you?
There are two answers to this question and each with its cons and pros. Continue reading “Rental Car and the car damage waiver insurance plan”
If life puts Vipassana in your way and you are considering to take the course, then it is best to read a little about the technique, and how to be prepared mentally and physically so that you can complete the 10-days course.
The purpose of this article is to tell you, from my own experience, what should be known before hand, what mental attitude to adopt, and any other aspects that can help you. It is a bit of a long read, but I think it is worth it especially that you are considering to take this life changing meditation course.
The advises below do not follow any specific order, but all of them are essential points I discovered when I took the course. Continue reading “How to be ready for your first 10 days Vipassana Course”
I start not to recall my dreams and have the impression that I did not dream. It can happen for weeks that no more dreams for me! 🙂
Dreams offer insight into your subconscious mind, help you resolve conscious matters and things that bother you. Dreams also allow to see your loved ones, dead or alive, sometimes dreams can remind you of old friends.
I remember also recurrent dreams that kept on telling me about unresolved issues with friends and these dreams will keep on repeating until I recontact the person and re conciliate him/her.
Also dreams can make your dreams come true in the dream and experience what you don’t have. This have an effect of giving you more hope and patience to actually work harder towards your goal or to ease your waiting time. And paradoxically, dreams can change your mind as well regarding certain things, for the best of course.
And finally dreams can heal you emotionally, especially if you receive or send love in your dream.
Some tips to reengaging/re remembering your dreams:
– Be serious about them: there are no silly or interesting dreams. Remember they are part of you. Try to see what your being is telling you
– Try to record dreams, either a journal next to your bed or a sound recorder. I use the latter, it is more practical
– Before you go to sleep, tell yourself what you want to dream, or if you have nothing specific, just tell yourself that you want an insightful dream and you will be grateful if you just have any dream
– If possible try to act according to your dream: whether it told you to make peace with someone, apologize or contact someone.
And now, what do you think of dreams?
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Well, I am going to tell you how to do that, but first let me explain to you about what we call “phishing” yeah with a”ph” and not an “f” as fishing the fish! 😛
Okay, as Wikipedia puts it:
“Phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.”
In simple terms, it is to trick user into going to a fake website that looks like a genuine website, and have him/her submit hir* username/password to that fake website.
As a live example, the website: http://www.faceilbook.com is a phishing website where you are tricked to believe that this site is facebook. Now look closely:
1. That website is not facebook, it is f a c e i L b o o k . c o m
Notice the “i” and “L” introduced in the name. These are tricky characters that are not easily seen in the URL.
2. Notice the domain name WHOIS information of this website:
http://whois.domaintools.com/faceilbook.com
It the domain name was registered by a Chinese person.
3. Notice the source code of that fake website, it will redirect you to the profile:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=81014163 after you give away your username/password.
It looks like “Carl Cachia” is somehow involved in this scam.
My advise to you:
1. Never to click any URL or address you are given, even by the trusted ones, without making sure that the website looks okay or not (as I explained above). Your trusted friend might be infected by a virus which sends this fake website automatically.
2. Always doubt when you click on a URL and you suddenly find yourself being asked to enter your username and password
3. In case of doubt, enter a wrong username/password and see if the website reacts normally.
That’s all for now, hope you got informed!
Take care,
Elias
1. We are discovering again that we live in a deeply mysterious world, full of sudden coincidences and synchronistic encounters that seem destined.
2. As more of us awaken to this mystery, we will create a completely new worldview — redefining the universe as energetic and sacred.
3. We will discover that everything around us, all matter, consist of and stems from divine energy that we are beginning to see and understand.
4. From this perspective, we can see that humans have always felt insecure and disconnected from this sacred source, and have tried to take energy by dominating each other. This struggle is responsible for all human conflict.
5. The only solution is to cultivate a personal reconnection with the divine, a mystical transformation that fills us with unlimited energy and love, extends our perception of beauty, and lifts us into higher-self awareness.
6. In this awareness, we can release our own pattern of controlling, and discover a specific truth, a mission, we are here to share that helps evolve humanity toward this new level of reality.
7. In pursuit of this mission, we can discover an inner intuition that shows us where to go and what to do, and if we make only positive interpretations, brings a flow of coincidences that opens the doors for our mission to unfold.
8. When enough of us enter this evolutionary flow, always giving energy to higher-self of everyone we meet, we will build a new culture where our bodies evolve to ever higher levels of energy and perception.
9. In this way, we participate in the long journey of evolution from Big Bang to life’s ultimate goal: to energize our bodies, generation by generation, until we walk into a heaven we can finally see.
Have you ever ran into a stubborn application that refuses to uninstall?
Try this tool from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301/
I just received a funny email today, reading:
TRY IT NOW , IT WILL NOT CREATE ” CON ” FOLDER.
YOU WON’T BELIEVE THIS !!!!!!!! An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON”. This is something pretty cool…and unbelievable… At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why this happened!TRY IT NOW , IT WILL NOT CREATE ” CON ” FOLDER.
What is funny about it is that people forward emails without research or verification.
As a programmer and as most programmers know, the “CON” is a special device name which stands for console. There are many other reserved devices names in the DOS/Windows OS, such as: AUX, NUL, LPT1, COM1, etc….
However, you would be able to create use such names if you pass a complete file as: “\\.\c:\con”. As an example, follow these steps:
If you want another “CON” (console) trick, here’s one that allows you to create a text file without using notepad or any other text editing tools:
If you wonder what’s the CTRL+Z (aka ^Z) it simply marks the EOF (End Of file).
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The other day I wanted to install PHP the Vista 64 with IIS7, however IIS7 is totally changed and couldn’t get PHP to work without doing some research on how to use IIS7 and add PHP handlers to it.
At first, I found “How to install PHP on IIS7 (RC1) – BillS’ IIS Blog” excellent article describing how to get started.
However, after following the exact steps, PHP still failed to load, saying:
After some research it turned out to be that the ISAPI modules are for x86 (32bits) and this is why they are not being loaded.
For this reason you have to do these additional steps:
Now everything should be working.
While you’re here trying to fix your PHP / IIS7 installation, you might want to take a look at FastCGI a collaborative work between Microsoft and Zend.
More useful links:
Today I purchased a new PC (Intel 2.4GHZ Core 2 Duo, 3GB RAM), and knowing that this processor is a 64bit processor I got puzzled if Windows XP 32 or Windows XP 64 is better for me.
The most important difference is the addressing size: 32bits system allow you to access up to two to the power 32 bits of addresses, that is 4GB, whereas on 64 bit systems you can address 2^64 addresses.
If you wonder what does that mean, it simply means that your application can use more memory and can work with 64bit data natively (which is an advantage over working with 32bit data).
Mostly CAM and CAD software users can benefit from this memory addressing expansion.
Yes. 64bit machines allow you to install 32bit Operating Systems on it. For this you may install two Windows on your machine: Windows XP and Windows XP 64. Then using the OS’s boot menu you can select which OS to run.
Most of the 32bit applications will continue running smoothly or even at a slight speed increase under Windows 64, and this is due to the WOW64 subsystem (Windows On Windows 64-bit, used to be WOW32 on 32bits systems).
Due to more addressing capacity, a Win64 system can allocate much more physical or virtual memory than a 32bit program. It is worthwhile mentioning that on 32bit systems, the maximum usable physical memory is 4GB while under 64bits you can reference up to 128GB.
You need to realize that the WOW64 does not work for drivers. For this reason you need to have a different driver version.
Because of this your CDROM burning software will not work anymore, neither your favorite AntiVirus. You need to download 64bit enabled version of that software.
Windows 64 does not support 16bit applications anymore. However, don’t worry, you can still use virtualization software and run your favorite old program or game virtualized.
For an excellent reading, I suggest you take a look at Charlie Russel’s white paper for XP x64 (which also
applies to Vista x64), here:
Is Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Right for Me.
Other recommended links:
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I will present a short and handy list of useful keyboard shortcuts:
| Key | Meaning |
| *Make text selection then Shift+( | This will surround the selected text with “(” and “)” |
| *Make text selection then Shift+{ | Same as above but with { } surrounding |
| Ctrl+Ins/Shift+Ins | To Copy / Paste (aka Ctrl+C/+V) |
| Ctrl+SPACE or Alt+RIGHT | Toggle the autocompletion combobox |
| Ctrl+T | To test a resource dialog |
| F12 | When cursor is over an identifier, it goes to definition |
| Ctrl+- and Shift+Ctrl+- | To navigate back and forth |
| Alt+F, J | To go to Recently Opened Project |
Hope you find them useful!
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