Monthly Archives: February, 2009

Discussion Points for March 10th- “Big Sit” Dharma Talk Week 1

This post will be a little experiment for the March 10th SL Discussion Group.   One of the group memebers recommended that we all contribute two discussion points from the audtios/videos we listen to.   I have created this blog entry so that memebers can create comment entries with their discussion points. This weeks Dharma talk:  http://community.tricycle.com/video/big-sit-dharma-talk-week1 [...]

Yesterday in 1991 the World Wide Web was born… What happened today? – Some time machine tools.

I don’t know if you know but yesterday was the anniversary of the birth of the world wide web.  Sir Tim Berners-Lee introduced to the world the first browser back on February 26th 1991. That first browser was actually called the WorldWideWeb. Pretty darn momentous.  So I got to thinking… I got to thinking I [...]

Greetings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Buddhist Women

  Our discussion group is currently reading a book that is co-authored by the Dalai Lama.  Since I had not known much about His Holiness (or HH as we have called him for short) it has been a real interesting read not just from a general Buddhist belief perspective but also learning some thing about [...]

Discussion Notes February 24th – The Art of Happiness (Ch 12 & 13)

With this week we have a couple of announcements so I will see if I can list them all listed here.  The next book has been selected to read, so get your orders out now.  Dogen selection for our next book for discussion is Shunryu Susuki’s “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind.  A classic book about zen [...]

The Impermanence of Online Communities: The Ma.gnolia Debacle… A Community Shattered

I have started tinkering again with various Internet free tools.  Like others on the Internet Web 2.0 intrigues me.  Intriguing is one thing but I still try to keep my head about myself, my data, my privacy, and my relationships on the Internet.  The approach I take is a bit more conservative than many of [...]

The “Big Sit” Starts Today! – Creative Approaches To Reality

  In a recent post (The Big Sit – Wanna Share A Challenge?) I typed about my excitement to start this little personal challenge.  It will be a challenge because as the Winter grays give their final pout, and the little green hope of the Spring starts to peek above the moss line, finding time [...]

Shredded Tweet – Trying Out Some Twitter Tools

Playing with Plug-ins in the wee morning: This is just a post to test twitter functionality. I’m not really sure if I will use the functionality but I like trying out my new widget functionality. Tweetsuite did not work, appears to be a lack of support for the plug-in. Now trying the wordpress tweet-tool. UPDATE: [...]

To balance out the serious – Something Funny

  To balance out the serious I thought I would put out something that was a little funny, and since it is the week after Valentine’s Day it is probably fitting.   Hysterical.     more about ““Beware of the DogHouse” “, posted with vodpod   Hey! Dual Bag!

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