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The Popular Laptop Trends At The Moment

June 24th, 2008

The notebook computer business has gone from strength to strength in recent times. Those looking for the latest intel centrino 2 platform could be kept waiting as manufacturers have already mentioned possible delivery shortages. Its actually incredible that credit circumstances and all haven’t hindered this demand for laptops either. I think what makes it tough is that the technology changes all the time.

Gaming notebooks have recently been enticing a lot of appeal. You can actually get a high specification for your cash these days because even the enthusiast technology is sliding into the mass market area very quickly. Playing games on notebooks is indeed a reality now with the advancements in technology. With the newly discovered power also came along more slimmer chassis. Still there is a major difference between the speed of laptops and desktop pcs however desktop computers are more roomy to make way for better cooling and such things that all help. Could gaming notebooks ever turn razor thin? I think this is a segment to survey.

Although the market share is ruled by manufacturers marketing via retail channels I think the direct model and custom built notebooks will always be about. Ram and hard disks are usually high performance engineered parts in custom notebooks which power users like. In the majority cases you can specify all the major parts you want and this is best suited to gaming enthusiasts, professional and hardcore users. The vast amount of laptops are specified for the normal user which means you may not find what you’re looking for. Custom made notebooks are around for this reason. They give requirements that others can’t. I like that fact that there are numerous of smaller companies providing good customer care for custom notebooks. I certainly think this is a main factor that goes in favour for getting a notebook thats made to .

I can’t wait to see what laptops are released next. Except from what has already been spoken of UMPC’s are an additional massive sector seeing an increase this year. Its strange how devices designed for the 3rd world nations have become a trend in the developed nations. I would like to see a larger edition of these low cost ultra mobiles. I think it would be a big success. I’m sure that companies already have their plans made up. Judging from whats going on it seems like we’ll begin seeing ultra light gaming laptops. Even though laptop technology follows plans there is always going to be a idea that changes all that.

Easy Web Page Watcher Watches Web Pages For You

May 22nd, 2008

Too many days I found myself constantly checking the same financial news web pages for any news about the companies I was currently invested in. Between clicking on these web pages and constantly clicking on other financial web pages to obtain stock quotes, I was driving myself crazy and wasting a lot of time that belonged to my employer. After all he does not pay me to surf the web. But if I didn’t keep track of investment information, I could lose a lot of money. I thought there had to be a solution other than taking Valium. Why should I watch web pages for stuff when my computer should be able to do this for me? This is when I discovered a software program called Easy Web Page Watcher by Patrick DiRienzo.

As the author’s home page explains, “Easy Web Page watcher watches HTML web pages for your information by continuously downloading and inspecting each web page you specify for the text you specify”. A web page is just a file containing HTML text, therefore Easy Web Page Watcher is really downloading and reading an HTML file looking for your text.

I came to understand that this program could only detect changes that are part of the HTML text, but that was all I needed. Most of the web pages I wanted to watch were pure HTML pages (no Java, etc. involved).

After seeing a seal of approval from PC Magazine, I decided to try this software. The first pleasant surprise was that the program was immediately easy to use. A toolbar with large buttons provided all the user interface I needed. One button allowed me to enter web pages and another button allowed me to enter text such as my stock names and dollar amounts. I realized that this was probably a limited user interface, but the fact that it got the job done without wasting my energy on a learning curve was all I cared about.

The program worked as advertised. I was alerted with an audible alarm when my stocks appeared in a press release at Yahoo’s financial web site. I soon discovered that the program could also email these alerts to me. This was great because now I could run the program on my home PC using my full time broadband Internet. My employer could not accuse me in any way of constantly being on the Internet at work.

Another one of those large toolbar buttons allows you to change the watch mode to “Just Tell Me If The Web Pages I Specify Change”. In this mode, Easy Web Page Watcher will notify you when any changes or updates occur on the web pages you specify. It does this by continuously downloading and comparing the HTML file with the initial HTML file recorded at the start of the watch session. If the HTML file changes Easy Web Page Watcher notifies you. I soon had a use for this operating mode. I could now watch my Web Site’s HTML log file for visitors. I subscribe to one of those services that provide you with an HTML log file that updates with visitor information every time someone clicks on one of your web pages. Instead of constantly checking this HTML log file with my Internet browser, I let Easy Web Page Watcher watch it for updates. It is a lot of fun to know immediately when someone visits your site.

Easy Web Page Watcher Home Page: http://www.patdirienzo.com

Oak Island and Constructs

April 26th, 2008

Long before the Haplogroup X genetic proofs came out a few years ago I had been making the case for pre-Christian racial Paradise in the Americas. Just last month (June 2004) I found out that the ‘Y’ Chromosome research goes a lot further in showing the Natives are from the same stock as the Welsh, Basque and other pure Kelts. I have been confronted on the Haplogroup X data by biologists and I have received support from geneticists who agreed with me. It is all water under the bridge now - MY HISTORY is supported by genetic proof. I can say that finally - thank god! Therefore I can also say to all the history freaks and other debunkers of my true history - where is your proof?

Will there ever be a time when academics investigate what the Masons do with the Earth Energy Grid and why there is a stele placed on that grid in recent times. It was put right smack dab in the middle of an existing road. We will look into a little more on those Cleopatra’s Needles and the Washington Monument too. Please don’t assume I am totally against what the New World Order advocates are interested in achieving. It is no simple black and white or one way street to manage society - which someone has to do.

But we know they have waged wars while sipping tea with their enemy each evening up until the 20th Century (if not still) and we know they have enjoyed miss-leading as they lead us. That is a paraphrasing of how Jimmy Carter addressed the Democratic Convention in support of John Kerry in July of 2004. So we should ask where does one get such massive wealth to engage in such transparent folly during the last two thousand years and where did they store it. Does an engineered cave with water traps seem a likely site? When it is near a route that is seaworthy and close to the Gulf Stream does this mean Oak Island and its Money Pit might have some importance. I discovered that a Baron with my own last name was the last keeper of the bank in Nova Scotia during this research. He died at Culloden fighting for Bonnie prince Charlie who spent huge amounts of money that came from who knows where?

You will be the judge of that unless something suddenly is found despite the ransacking and removal of whatever might have been there until FDR and other highly placed Masons formed a Salvage and Wrecking Company to further comb and cleanse the site. There are other reasons that things in the area exist and some of them are important too. We will gather what we can and present a lot of information so you can make your own decisions.

Here is a response to a Mason who has seen enough of my stuff to realize I know more than he; and he thought he was ‘hot stuff’ and even told me I should join them if I wanted to pursue my interests and really get to know what it is about. Of course they also call anyone who thinks they know about these things arrogant or worse when they are threatened. It has been a few months and he is backing off that kind of thing, as hard as it is for those propped-up by deceit and ego. I think most people who will read this will not accept what I am saying here without doing a lot of checking into the facts.

‘I tried sending through an attachment from a fellow researcher who is working on the Kaballah as derivative from Qaballa which is an ancient Verbal Tradition such as kept by the Bairds or bards and the Bardic Tradition for over 25,000 years. He finds my history is supportive and I see his sets of codes in English and other things of great value. The particular piece is 19 pages on just the letter ‘E’ without getting too verbose or using illustrations, which he has lots of. The Gematria is not a specialty of mine although I am pretty good at pre-history languages and not bad at Green Language and alchemical allegories in the Jung from Silberer subset derived from alchemy or Hermetics. That has usages in psychotherapy and mind control which they call Neuro Psycho Linguistics and other words and systems they often do not understand, it once was called Dream Analysis; but they have gone far along the path of programming the mind. Kind of funny how psychiatrists say they do not believe in a soul and yet they use these archetypes from our collective soul.

So as Dion Fortune did say - Kaballah is ‘twisted’. They have built these constructs or dimensional energy designs so that Masons and other ‘traveling men’ as you call them will think they have stumbled upon a great truth through their ‘visions’. After all who can imagine that elementals and dimensional energies are subject to such design engineering - eh? As Jung says in his forward to The Tibetan Book of the Dead - the Hindu will see Shiva and that hierarchy whereas the Christian will go through the Bardol stages of Afterlife and see the likes of Gabriel then Jesus.’

The fellow researcher and I have done verbal sparring matches with many top Masons and shamans or Rabbis who have built ethereal constructs to capture ‘traveling men’ or those astrally accessing information. These constructs sometimes are admitted to by our adversaries who say they can differentiate the ‘constructs’ from the real thing. In the case of most secrets including the Oak Island bank, they have built ‘constructs’ to cause more mystery and it was most important to do this in the Americas where shamanism was a common practice.

After Christian persecution and Roman proscription (’bounties’ on the heads of Bardic teachers and Druids) took hold in Europe there were many Druids who went to other parts of the world to join their “brothers”. The Easter Island white people found by Roggeveen and Cook, the Moriori of New Zealand (Both wiped out by Romano-British genocide in the 18-19th C.) as well as the Toltecs and mummy people of the Aleutians and Beothuk are partially connected to this ancient knowledge in varying degrees. The fact that the 18th century saw the demise of all but a few of them is worth your study. The larger remaining populations were subjected to varying degrees of societal programming. Some of their leaders tried to influence positive change from within the new Empires. The continuing racism and prejudice against Romuva, Jews, Ukrainians, Irish and Armenians until the 20th Century saw more holocaust than most people imagine. The extent of genocide in the Ukraine was as much as 33,000,000 people and then Stalin was rewarded with Eastern Europe by Roosevelt.

Hitler modeled his concentration camps after the Turkish treatment of Armenians, and the overall degradation of the Jews was a continuation of the Black & Tan regime foisted upon the Irish. The American Civil War included Irish people fighting for both sides to the tune of one third of the total combatants and many of them joined Louis Riel’s Métis after that war. The whole of recent history has an element of those things brought about by the diminishment of women 5,000 years ago when Abraham started his baby-factories and women were eliminated from the status of equal participants who deserved education. The Council of Carthage in 397 A.D. legalized or formalized a broader spiritual degradation to second class whoredom that had begun many years earlier.

I guess the cultivation of positive emotions can assist in a therapeutic manner which will enable people. But wishful-thinking alone will not solve much of the ethical issues borne through constant power-mongering or people needing to fight each other for more of that elusive and fictional One Pie. Let us strive to reduce any cherished illusions of our history if they do not stand the test of common sense for the good of all people.

Oak Island is just one place that shows what ‘miss’-story continues to maintain. There is no treasure likely to be found there - since FDR and his cronies ransacked the place. The Bairds probably took the last shipment of what was in transit there to help Bonnie Prince Charlie (The Stuart Merovingians called Jacobin or Jacobite.) at Culloden where they died. It might have been used by some pirates like the Mason Captain Kidd shortly before. But after Culloden I highly doubt the Masons and other parts of the ‘octopus’ who had kept the secret of trade to America for so long; were putting anything of great wealth into a hole in the ground when they had the US well enough established. They no longer needed to manufacture excuses for what they were doing in terms of creating a New World Order which you see emblazoned on the US greenback. Oak Island still plays some role in the Earth Energy Grid but so does every other stele or vortex in this whole wide world.

Every person who has life can share it and the energy regardless of special gifts, among people they really care for - it is common sense if you know the soul exists and ESP is real. Now that we are able to get past the ‘confines of religion’ hopefully we can replace the technocrats and doctors who took over the machinery of fear the church generated and get back to ‘whatever really WORKS!’ I know I say this all too frequently but it doesn’t come close to how often the opposing position states its agenda of negativity. It amazes me to see McGill using MRI equipment to prove the same area of the brain that affects motivation and overcomes depression is very receptive to music. It is hard to imagine the ecstatic dancers of all native cultures didn’t know this long before language and its divisive segmentation exerted a manageable force on society.

“The Power of the Gregorian Chant
Hear, O my son, the words of the Lord, and incline thy heart’s ear.
-The Rule of Saint Benedict, OPENING WORDS

One of the most amazing stories of healing in the annals of sound and music is the case of the melancholy monks. In the late 1960s, Dr. Alfred Tomatis was summoned to investigate a strange malaise that had descended upon a Benedictine monastery in the South of France. It was shortly after Vatican II that the brothers had become listless, fatigued and mildly depressed. Although the monks were anxious about a series of theological reforms, dietary changes, and new routines, their physical symptoms had no clear cause. As such, their condition had stumped several leading European specialists, and nothing seemed able to restore the devout brothers and their abbey to the joyful, active daily round they had once enjoyed.

After arriving on the scene and finding seventy of the ninety monks ’slumped in their cells like wet dishrags’, Tomatis offered his diagnosis. The cause of this despondency, he declared, was not physiological, but audiological. The monks’ enervated state was the result of eliminating several hours of Gregorian chant from their daily routine. Previously, the whole community would come together {The socialization or shared energy being important.} eight or nine times a day to chant for ten to twenty minutes at a stretch. The long, resonant tones–the glorious ooooo’s and serene eeeee’s in ‘Gloria in Excelsis Deo’ especially– allowed a feeling of release and supplied a common focus. Most visitors would have found the chanting exhausting, but for the monks it was a way of keeping their internal motors primed. It slowed down their breathing {A very important part of all ‘occult’ practices.}, lowered their blood pressure, and elevated their mood–and their productivity. They weren’t conscious of the physiological benefits of their chanting, but they had clearly become accustomed to it. {A woman in Spain who had been afflicted with an abscessed tooth for over twenty years went crazy after it was removed.}

Tomatis told the abbot that he would like to put the men back on a diet of Gregorian chant. He did, and the effect was dramatic. Within six months, the monks were once again vigorous and healthy. They needed less sleep, and they went back to their appointed tasks with renewed enthusiasm.” (1)

Much of this author’s attributions about the splendour of the paraphernalia of the church and its images remind me about the effect of symbols and their hypnotic effect. Chanting certainly has been a major part of life in many cultures for longer than sea travel (800,000 years at least) or fire (In my mind this was used over 3,000,000 years ago after lightning fires and natural gas or pitch fires were found burning.). As we covered in other books on the origin of language (Ogham); Huna and the Hawaiian language is a mind altering experience. It is good to hear that the Gregorian chant is making Europeans return to a portion of the pre-Dark Age awareness that all people shared. Dance and rhythm or rhyme is a joy that love is nourished through. The language of the soul is enmeshed in the harmony created by love in all of its varied expressions.

About the Author

Author of Diverse Druids
Columnist for The ES Press Magazine
Guest ‘expert’ at World-Mysteries.com

Laptop Brand That Seems To Be Doing Rather Good In The High Performance Laptops Arena

April 20th, 2008

Rizeon in the UK seem to be getting some positive reviews on the internet yet I had never even heard of them until searching through the laptop forums. Their whole laptop range seems to be focused on the high end of the performance scale, featuring Intel core 2 duo processors and targeted towards speed freaks and the gaming community.

Buying a Rizeon laptop is not cheap. As they are all performance focused the starting prices are in the region of £600 up but after comparing some other prices I think it’s fair to say they are some of the greatest value laptops around. Spec for spec they usually work out cheaper and they don’t even skimp on the quality of components. According to their site they include brands like Seagate, Hitachi, Kingston, Corsair and Intel. They do pride themselves on supplying highly reliable, quality laptops. Their site (www.rizeon.com/laptops/) is rather easy to use and it’s good to see the large range of upgrade options available. I’m always more inclined to custom built laptops because the standard laptops you find in retail stores just lack performance parts. I must say I’m very impressed on first impression. It’s good to see that you can buy performance notebook computers without having to pay an arm and leg like when buying from the larger manufacturers. Sure there are other manufacturers doing similar things but they seem to be targeting other niches or trying to battle with the big boys in the industry which is usually a losing battle. You do get a lot of value when buying Rizeon laptops so I would recommend checking them out.

What Is The Right Amount Of Computer Time?

April 16th, 2008

In a country that settles each night in front of the television, it just seems strange that more and more people are finding the allure of the computer screen sometimes more important. There is no doubt that children do as their parents do. They enjoy exploring the vast world of the Internet. They are excited to get that new computer game. But, how much time in front of the computer screen is the right amount of time?

There is no doubt going to be a number of people that come out and say that children are spending far too much time in front of the computer. They may end up telling us that their eyes will go back or something. Regardless of what they will say, we know now that it is important to limit the amount of time children use the computer. We know this because we know that it just makes sense that children who play on the computer too much loose the physical aspects of life along with the elements of pretend play that actually teach them quite a bit.

As parents, it is up to us to limit what the child is doing. It is up to us to provide for them something worthwhile to do while they are on the web as well. In this, we mean that you, Mom or Dad, need to commit to knowing which games they are playing and which websites they plan to visit. Here’s a great way to limit what they are actually doing.

Instead of allowing them to surf and end up on some bad website out there, go ahead and download a game or two for them. Games that are available on the web are fun, but when the parent gets to do the picking, they can be fun and educational at the same time. Does your child need math help? Then go ahead and give them a fun math game that teaches what they need in an easy to get along with manner. This can be done for a number of subjects like spelling, science, history and language. By giving them a computer game like these, they can make their computer time, well, worth it in your eyes.

You would be surprised by how many parents simply say, “Yes, you can play on the internet.” Many of them do not know what their child is doing let alone know that he or she is playing an educational game! Yeah right! Most kids are going to find and play a game that interests them with flashing colors and graphics. That doesn’t mean that they won’t like games that don’t provide this element. But, the websites they tend to visit are full of advertisements that lure them in. Your job is to point them in the right direction.

So, back to our question; how much is the right amount of time for computer time for your child? Well, inside that question is the word, “your” and that means that it is at your discretion that you should consider their need. Balance their day with physical, emotional, pretend and all those other important educational elements then add in a little time for computer play. Believe it or not, they are building skills that they will need later in life too.

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