Winter is setting in and so is recession. Media has found new pleasure in finding the jobcut figures across the globe.There has been news of thriving business of astrologers, counselors etc.

Good time for a bit of contemplation as business and office activities are also slowing down.

This recession is a learning to many of the new generation employees who have not seen the bad times earlier. But what a hard way to learn. Right in midst of Housing loan, Car loan, expensive school fees for kids a person finds himself jobless.

Surely they never knew that American way of life can end up like this also. Lots of illusions (today we can call them illusions) on American and European economies have also been cleared. A fully developed civilization can get ill in this way was not generally thought of!

Do we need to seriously think that we are consuming much more than we can produce in our globe? Are there too many luxuries which we are spending on resources without thinking of the generations ahead may struggle hard to get. Consumerism of present has become a culmination of past desires (for more) with no satisfaction of gaining today in present. Present is all how to get more in future.

Who can get the global assessment and give a right picture?

Winter is setting in and so is recession. Media has found new pleasure in finding the jobcut figures across the globe.There has been news of thriving business of astrologers, counselors etc.

Good time for a bit of contemplation as business and office activities are also slowing down.

This recession is a learning to many of the new generation employees who have not seen the bad times earlier. But what a hard way to learn. Right in midst of Housing loan, Car loan, expensive school fees for kids a person finds himself jobless.

Surely they never knew that American way of life can end up like this also. Lots of illusions (today we can call them illusions) on American and European economies have also been cleared. A fully developed civilization can get ill in this way was not generally thought of!

Do we need to seriously think that we are consuming much more than we can produce in our globe? Are there too many luxuries which we are spending on resources without thinking of the generations ahead may struggle hard to get. Consumerism of present has become a culmination of past desires (for more) with no satisfaction of gaining today in present. Present is all how to get more in future.

Who can get the global assessment and give a right picture?

Well I appreciate the offer Diablo, but I don't think any younger babe, well any women for that matter, is going to be much interested in me.

I don't have any money, I don't have any (practical) dreams, and the only thing I really look forward to anymore is dying.

Peace brother

Why talk of dying
when we can surely turn that
dial in the brain
to the ear numbing volume?

"Dreams Die First" by Harold Robbins is a book I read when I was in high school. I never really understood the meaning of the title. The book (written in 1977) was an exciting experience with sex, drugs and fast paced action though. I wanted to read a Harold Robbins book then as he was in the news having passed away around the time. It was the same period when Sideny Sheldon's "Tell Me Your Dreams" was in the book shops. There were many Robbins' books at a stall at the train station where I was at for a long journey from school to home. I picked up "Dreams Die First" and "The Dream Merchants". The second one (which happens to be his second book) is one of my all time favorites and left an impression on me, Dream Die not so much; it was just another book I read. The narrative style of the Dream Merchants(published in 1949) was unique and the subject is film making and Hollywood and was based on real characters. Robbins is better known for his books "The Carpetbaggers" (based on the life of Howard Hughes) and for his controversial first book "Never Love A Stranger". He sold near to a billion copies world wide. Next only -- fiction -- to William Shakespeare and Agatha Christie who both sold over 3 billion copies.

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A review by a reader "A. Chopra" at Amazon.com:

"Dreams Die First will appeal to people who like reading material that is close to reality. If you like reading fiction that doesn't have a feel of fiction in it but takes you to the era where and when the book was written, this book is for you.
I have read most of the work by Harold Robbins and I can tell you that this is the BEST. In fact the more popular " Never love a stranger" comes second.

The story is about a young man who is living on social security and then with a little help from his uncle he reaches the height of pornography publishing. He gets success, and wealth but all at a price.

Dreams Die First will definitely leave mark somewhere on your heart. I can say this, because even after reading so many novels, this one remains my favorite. This may sound like a personal view but I came across many people those who just loved this book.

Also, many people have complained about this book being substitute to a porn book, but I strongly disagree, if you have read about Harold Robbins or his work, you will know that his work anything but pornography. It's just the attention to details and the explicit way of explaining the situations.

He was a great writer and so is his work!"

Do thou dear Timothy...

Hey featherbrain, top o' the mornin' to ya. Can you put out some bird feed so this woodpecker won't ruin another 200 year old tree on our street? I think it's 200 years because it's about 30" in diameter. It was here when the Brits were fighting the last of the Mohicans. Fort Willaim henry is just two blocks away. Sorry you lost all these natiral resources, (which we so take for granted.)

cheer up...emperor...

u can do better than that...

Long, long ago, I learnt that whatever dreams may come, never to expect them to come true.

The moment I did let go of any expectations, one dream after another came true, just like that,

without me having to do a thing for it.

We are so good in expecting, we expect too much from ourselves in the first place.

If one is able to love oneself just the way one is and let everything be, then by itself the road turns again.

If one is able to develop a feeling of gratitude for just being alive, one already feels different inside.

Dear Craig, whether dead or alive, there comes a moment in one’s life that one just has to accept that what is. Believe me, my husband went through it, I went through it. We are just simple people, we had nothing after WWII, just our parents and it couldn’t go much worse at that time. You have your mother, take good care of her, just love her for what she is and hold her close to your heart.

I love you, how can I help you? Make a heart labyrinth today, just draw it on a piece of paper and know that you have friends :).

Love to you and yours, from me and mine. I have read your blog and do agree with most of what you write. I even try to live up to it :).

Mieke

You guys (& gal) are great!

Was I being uncheerful Diablo? I hadn't noticed . . . ;).

There is Keith with his middle of the night (early morning for him I know) enigmatic words of wisdom!

Scott, I have never read a Harold Robbins book. Sounds interesting . . .

Woodpeckers ruin trees?!? I guess that kind of makes sense . . .; well, I bet humankind has ruined alot more trees than those poor old woodpeckers; I am going to have to wiki woody now (uhhh, wait, that does not quite sound right) :).

Mieke you are a wonderful person! Does your husband tell you enough how lucky he is?

pax vobiscum

happy turkey day y'all!

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Happy Thanksgiving Diablo and Everyone.

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(((Hi Ed))

My other message to you got lost in never never land of typepad.

Love
B

Something from the "Not Everything is Bad News"
column:

It is not just friends and family getting together this Thanksgiving. Starting Thanksgiving
evening, Jupiter and Venus will begin moving closer so that by Sunday and Monday night they will appear 2 degrees apart. Then on Monday they will be joined by a crescent moon.

The three celestial objects come together from time to time but often are too close to the sun or unite at a time when they aren't so visible. The next time when the three will be as close and visible will be Nov. 18, 2052.

So take a minute, go outside and Enjoy.

B

Why talk of dying
when we can surely turn that
dial on the HDTV set
and watch it
"LIVE",
this very NOW,
in a place where the
long-lost Navin resides?
Change sucks today!

Except I haven't given a good ol' "Hello!" to Bonnie for quite some while.

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Hello, Bonnie!

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UT

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Did the astrologers forecast this man-made disaster?

The plants AND the stars were quiet, as per usual, huh?

Luv 'em anywhoo!!!

Prayers onward bound~~~~~~~~~t~~~~~~~~~

Hello UT!

Well Jesus didn't know how to text message and Buddha didn't have a single friend on Facebook either, but their message still got through.

So yes prayers onward bound~~~~~~~~~*********~~~~~

Love
B

You could never get a Barbie doll to stand on her flat feet with arches and bend back and then forward to touch her toes without falling over. I don't think gravity and a well placed fulcrum would do it. So how can we, I wonder.

There are times when I don't believe in stuff. There are times when I think something else is going on. There are times when I think we are almost ready to fly. And that is why.

There were 17,000 murders in the US last year. Men, women, children. Soldiers coming home to their young wives....

Dear #9,

The woodpecker's hole makes the tree go dead;
the wind comes along and it falls on somebody's head.

and just below
the debris ...
lies
fresh
grass

and life springs up again!

Love and Blessings to the dear ones at IB
with love,
~ Kate

after the fourth try to type in,
success!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Woodpecker nests, seeks out the grub
Creepy crawlies and fungi drub

More than just damage to the crown
Record of centuries tumbling down.

Here's to a nutshell ;))

And a "Happy Thanksgiving!" to you, too, Katie dear.

Please give me a second, Ed.

Or2me, you see? UT

Coming thru my beard
Sweetest song I ever heard
Could be the word bird

How weird! I feared knot.

Please don't cut yourself shavings this early, Keith!

Now this Typepad thing is more than a scream. I clicked on (sign in) and log in box opens, as it does, as it does, as it does. So, feeling bolshy, I click on 'join for free.' What do you know?! I'm logged in without so much as a quantunkey.....well, perhaps that's it.

Prayers on this Thanksgiving Day (in the US) for our brothers and sisters around the world who are suffering today as a result of greed and hatred, for whatever cause.

Prayers of thanksgiving to those I love -- all my usual suspects -- and especially to my love in Mumbai, and all those he cares for.

Every day of life is a blessing. Every one of us is precious and worthy of love and respect.

love,
h

That's right, Heath, and, imv the damming of such Love expression, from cradle on, even to grave, paradoxically 'grotesques' it into greed and hatred.
When a dam breaks, all 'hell' is let loose, but water remains water.

This my prayer, too.

Hi Ed,

Yes, this typepad makes one creative, whether you want it or not :)

Walking a labyrinth does too, whether used for celebration, mourning or creating new ideas.

I have walked my labyrinth of peace today and at each turn I prayed for those, victim of a disaster. May their souls find everlasting peace.

Mieke

Hi Bonnie,

Thank you!

How a woman becomes a Goddess: Hera
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker [Subscribe]

Fri Nov 28, 2008

This is part of an occasional series on Goddess spirituality and political activism. Hat tip to MazeDancer and Caneel for the title. Future installments should appear on Wednesdays if the Muses cooperate.

The political establishment, including the corporate media, has certain terms that it loves to throw at progressives. Recently we pushed for the practical step of removing a reward (a plum committee chair assignment) from a Senator who had openly attacked our interests. This comes two years after we tried to remove him by throwing our support to a better candidate in the primary.

On both occasions, this led to much tut-tutting about those silly lefties, using terms like: shrill, vindictive, petty, shrill, extremist, vengeful, temper tantrum, and oh yeah, shrill. We were called, in essence, bitches. And I thought: this seems familiar. Oh yeah, that’s because I’m a feminist. Those are my extra names.

The Greek Goddess Hera knows a bit about being shrill.

Tara the Antisocial Social Worker's diary :: ::
We tend to think of Greek mythology as a coherent set of stories where it’s clear who’s who and how they’re related. In fact, the Greeks started out as a mishmash of tribes, each with it own mythology. As the Zeus-worshiping tribes conquered others, their deities were absorbed as his siblings, children, or concubines. Powerful Goddesses like Rhea and Gaia couldn’t be suppressed, so they were called his mother and grandmother. Others were rewritten as mortals that he seduced or raped.

The story goes that Hera refused Zeus’s overtures until he came into her bedchamber disguised as a wounded bird, a cuckoo. Hera took pity on the bedraggled creature, and held it against her breast to comfort it. At which point Zeus assumed his true form and raped her. Afterward, a shamed Hera agreed to become his obedient wife. That’s a pretty clear a metaphor for the conquest and subjugation of the Hera-worshiping tribes.

After her marriage to Zeus, Hera was called the Goddess of wives and mothers. But before that, Queen Hera had been the Goddess of the sky, the winds, the fertile fields and the fertile womb. When she conceived her son, the blacksmith God Hephaestus, she didn’t need any help from Zeus. Hera simply slapped her hand against the fruitful earth, and gave birth to her son. Unamused, Zeus seized the baby and threw him from Mount Olympus. So while all the other Greek deities were physically perfect, Hephaestus walked with a severe limp.

Most of the stories about Hera are about her vindictiveness toward Zeus’s other sexual conquests. Her anger is always aimed at the woman or her children, never at Zeus. Those in power understand the concept of horizontal hostility, turning oppressed groups against each other so that they don’t unite to topple the power structure.

There’s another, lesser-known story about Hera. It seems Zeus’s tyranny wasn’t just aimed at her; he treated everyone on Mount Olympus with an iron fist. Hera began whispering with the other deities about putting an end to his bullying. Asclepius, the God of medicine, gave Hera a drug which she slipped into Zeus’s wine. When Zeus lay snoring on his couch, the other Olympians tied him with a hundred knots. High-fiving each other, the deities gathered in the throne room....

...and promptly fell to squabbling among themselves.

Like a certain political party, the Olympians weren’t used to winning. They didn’t know what to do with power once they had it. Poseidon, being the oldest brother, wanted to keep the monarchy but with himself ruling in Zeus’s place. Athena had a plan drawn up for a new Constitutional government. Artemis wanted no government at all. And Aphrodite...well, Aphrodite didn’t really care about much of anything besides getting laid. She was like that.

While the argument escalated, Briareus saw his chance. Briareus was a hundred-handed giant who wanted to go back to the old, comfortable way of doing things – and figured he’d get a nice promotion from Zeus as well. He slipped into the bedchamber where Zeus was tied up. A hundred hands, a hundred knots, it didn’t take long to set him free.

The king of the Gods stormed into the throne room, waving thunderbolts in both fists, and demanded to know who was behind the rebellion. If they had all stood together, they could have overpowered Zeus. But, again like a certain political party, they were used to rolling over whenever Zeus made a demand. Someone was going to get thrown under the chariot.

Fingers started pointing at Hera.

Zeus grabbed the queen, and ordered that she would be hung from the sky by golden manacles. And since Hephaestus was the blacksmith, he would have to forge the chains. Without a word in his mother’s defense, Hephaestus limped off to fire up his forge.

Carolyn Kizer’s poem, Hera, Hung from the Sky , imagines what was going through Hera’s mind:

I threw myself to the skies
And the sky has cast me down.
I have lost the war of the air:
Half-strangled in my hair,
I dangle, drowned in fire.

With her hands and feet immobilized, and her allies too cowed to intervene, Hera used the only tool she had left: her shrill voice. (Gratuitous Dungeons & Dragons reference: In "Legends & Lore," Hera could actually use her shrill voice as a weapon, causing 2-16 hit points of damage per round.) She yelled, she whined, she screamed. She brought up Zeus’s abandonment of habeus corpus, his use of torture, his abuse of signing statements. She bitched.

Zeus might have held out, except that he could see it was getting to the other deities as well. With Hera goading them on, he might have had another rebellion on his hands. He made a few vague promises of reform, or at least forming a committee to study reform, and allowed them to cut her down. The Olympians burbled their gratitude to Zeus, and told Hera to behave herself from then on.

Progressives are never the ones who get to wave around our thunderbolts and declare victory. Too often we’re treated as expendable, the first ones thrown under the chariot. Most of the time, all we have are shrill voices saying no to an unjust war, no to spying on our phones and computers, no to endless detentions without charge and confessions gained by torture.

With the change in administrations, we’re the ones saying no to letting the old regime’s abuses go unexamined and unpunished. The serious, unshrill folks say that we should be bipartisan, let bygones be bygones, don’t get distracted from more important things. Our shrill voices say: what’s more important than forcing our government to abide by the law? If we let this go, we know what will happen once Zeus and his party come back into power.

How a woman becomes a Goddess: raise your voice. Get used to being called a bitch. Be shrill. Silence is consent.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/28/11170/918/921/667258

You're not a moron, are you, Diablo? I'll bet you can rub your belly button and knock on your head at the same time,...eh?

dickini if you want to know what's really funny just go take a look in the mirror!

You got me laughing without the mirror.

Hi Gang,
I haven't been ableto sign in for 1 1/2 months.I have many things to say later

Regards,
Stan

Musings from Black Friday

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We will never be okay
Well, alrighty then
Backwards in the light of day
Never happens when?

Hang your head way down in shame
Spit on gloom and doom
Spend your riches, say God's name
Privacy makes room

Slap my cheek and turn my head
There's another side
Only half of me is dead
Brand my thicker hide

Now, I cannot sit at all
Still I will not be
Naturally from grace we fall
Passive gravity

Spread me on a bale of hay
Send my message out
Those who hear will come to stay
Awkwardly in doubt

Answers cannot even spell
Clues don't bite the bit
Tempered as we go through Hell
Narrowed till we fit

Slim and trim we hold it in
Slicker moves sublime
Silver be the thread so thin
Safely found in Time

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My reply(outrage)to Gayatri's "No, we're not okay"

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Uncle Tree

Hello Stan! Welcome back ~~~}

yo! damn!

i didn't hear u?

I have been trying to log on since about an hour after stan wrote his post, and I don't know why it suddenly allowed me to sign in now; but I am feeling quite like I am getting squeezed out of here, and this typepad thing wants credit card numbers to join, and obviously I have not joined.

So . . ., if one day I cannot log in at all, I will miss everybody here, and I guess I will see you around maybe over at intent dot com.

Peace

#13, I see the two planets aligned now. Wonderful!

Hi Craig,

I had a lot of trouble with typepad....when it was typekey I typed in my member name and my password automatically came up because windows remembered it......well once it became typepad and I typed my member name the password still came up but once I click enter sign-in it erased the password and said my log-was invalid....

I tried changing the password and it sent me too to a page where they wanted credit cards....

I clicked the need help in the sign in page and wrote to them....a couple of times...they sent me a link to retrieve my password but the link was a dud...finally they sent me my password..

now when I sign-in my password still comes up and if I do not delete the password that pops up automatically and type it in myself it will say the log in is invalid....

also when I sign in and read at IB and then decide to comment and press post it will say I need to register....so I have to copy my comment first....post....get the...you have to register first...go back....sign out..and re-sign in....then I can paste my copied comment and it will post....

yes, it is becoming a trial...good luck :) ruth

just now....I tried to post previous comment and it kept saying I needed to register...three times!..really, I do not know when it will post or not...very touchie...this typepad....

;))

Yep, I hear you Ruth. It wouldn't recognize me either, said I had the wrong password, changed password, it still would not recognize me, and blah blah blah; but I still cannot sign in to typepad, but for some reason it allowed me to sign in here at intentblog, for the time being . . .

Sheesh!

I got this e-mail from Typepad?

November 2008
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I've wiped all the old Typekey cookies on my puter That seems to have helped.......let me see.....

I think we sould go back to the way it was... this new system is giving most people a lot of problems logging in..

Hi Sherry
#41.....So glad you saw them. I love the winter sky especially when something like this is happening.

B

From the Thanksgiving Newsletter of Caroline Myss(tic;) She says it better than I can:-

"..........But finally, in my own way, I understood a small piece of this mystical dictate about the power of prayer. That power represents the counter-power to psychic free radicals that also must find an avenue of physical expression in the form of events in the physical world. Psychic free radicals are generated by the negative thoughts, words, and deeds of humanity, and these gather in the collective unconscious, generating pools of energy that look for vessels of expression. Wars, turbulence, terrorism, violence, greed, and all the shadow characteristics of humanity thrive off of psychic free radicals. That is simply the law of manifestation expressed at the level of the collective unconscious, and we are the ones in charge of how well we learn to work with these laws. The law of manifestation is not just for creating personal wealth, as it has been introduced in popular culture. This is a major cosmic force that functions on multiple levels, including the collective, creating events that affect the collective and reflect the quality of consciousness as a whole. We are either subject to them or we work within them, which is the essence of mystical reasoning. This is what Buddha realized along with Jesus and all great spiritual masters. The turning of the tides is done from above and from within. It is you who must learn to work with the power of your interior forces, to scaffold your inner consciousness and build a soul with stamina, so that when chaos abounds around you, you can see through it rather than be consumed by it.
We can look at this time as a nightmare of chaos or we can look at this time as that which we have prepared ourselves for during these past many years, working on our health and on becoming more conscious individuals. If this isn’t the time to put all that you’ve learned about being a conscious person into action, then when would be that time? Ask yourself, “Why have I worked so hard on myself?” Was it just to process the wounds from your childhood? Well, if it was, be done with that and get on with the business of thinking, living, acting, and perceiving the world around you through the lens of a mystic. This is the time to apply all the laws of the cosmos to every one of your challenges, to approach every problem through mystical reasoning and not that of ordinary reasoning, which will draw you backwards and into your history. Looking backwards at what you used to do or how you used to do something will not work anymore.
So many people have contacted me to discuss what they should do next, because their lives are melting down around them. And my counsel to them is yet another mystical law, which is, “Learn to think in paradox.” That is, paradox is one of the fundamental expressions of the Divine. What looks like an ending is really a beginning; what looks safe is really your fear talking; what looks riskiest is really the way to go. Paradox is a mystical force and when it is present in your life, rest assured that the Divine is equally present in the event.
To me, this is a time of great hope because when chaos abounds, so does opportunity. It can look as if the field of opportunity is bleak, but that is simply not true. As I teach my students, whether you are healing an illness or maneuvering through change, you must keep your attention in the present in order to “perceive” intuitive instructions. These will rarely speak of what you have already done. Rather you have to be prepared to do what you have not done before, as your intuition will always direct you to draw on new inner resources as opposed to relying on the old and familiar.>>>>"

http://www.myss.com

Talking about the paradox:

http://www.heartphone.org/meandering_thoughts_about_the_la.htm

Ancient societies knew this already because they were so much more closely connected to nature. We are re-membering each in our natural own way :)

P.S. I have the same problems as already described above with typepad.

I am never logged-in the first time, it always takes a few times and then it works.

I have already tried a lot of ways, even was allowed after trying a few times to comment without entering anything lol

Discuss what, Ed?

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A pair of boxes for me2

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Lower levels require the easily digestible
Moving up the ladder affords one a stronger stomach

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History appeases the lower brain functions
Repeatable actions lead one to the proper coordinates

Mastering the simple be the preordained goal of mankind
Looking forward to Heaven involves getting down on the ground

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Clay hides itself under the filthy dirt of home base
Thou art This formed into That...That...That being tried and true

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"Nothing new under the sun", proclaimed throughout the land
Going to a place unseen will take a vehicle that has yet to be created

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Visions of sugarplums square dancing completes the circle
Weak interactions intercept wayward forces that cling to nothing

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We must bear fruit in order to avoid the risk of being pruned
Humans wish to "save" the weakest links, whilst Nature would have them vanish

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Knowing not what is in the opaque dark glass that blocks our view
Understanding just how to see around it without closing our eyes

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UT

If you intend to make more than one comment during the day on IB
log in in the morning after trying a few times and stay signed in during the whole day :)

Dear Admin:

Typepad cookies expire before they are removed from the browser's cookie cache, which prevents people from posting more than a couple of times a day, unless they go in and directly remove their Typepad cookies, close their browser, start it up again, and sign in again.

I regularly comment on another site that uses Typepad and that site doesn't have this problem.

This is an error in Intentblog's Typepad configuration, I think.

If you want to have a broader understanding of violence and the spirit that will fight it, in Asia, please check out this...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/opinion/30kristof.html

(or click my name)

...and this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/opinion/29mehta.html

(or click my name)

Hi Ruth,

I have sent the people of typepad the following comment:

Am having lots of problems to log in on my favourite site that used typekey up until this moment without problems. Now that you have moved over to typepad, i am encountering the following problems: I type my name or email-address I type my password I try to log in The moment I do it all, my password disappears, I am logged in but when I submit a comment I receive the message that I am not logged in and have to log in first. So again I try to log in, same result. Then I go back to my account, save my data again, I try to log in without putting my name and password and lo and behold I can post a comment! Sometimes I just have to put my name and password in and after refusal the first time, I click on join free, it then redirects me to my favourite blog and I can comment. So it all requires a lot of creativity to be logged in through typepad and actually be able to comment. If you make this so difficult for your customers, you will not hold them much longer.......... Sincerely, Mieke van der Poll

It depends on their reply if I will stay a member of their service :)

Mieke

Dear Admin...

Please go back to the old way of logging in. Thanks. This new way is really not necessary...we are having great difficulty to log on to our favorite site....thank you for your understanding.

D.

A city inside wild-forest
Cell-leaves intoxicated
Are you bouncing on building-walls?

Are you wild and energetic?
Are you dead-sick?

Be welcome, have a sit, don't think
Take the next train
And follow your emotions...

#52 Dis curse me'ngod/you'ngod

Best I can do, in relation to my sensitivity to your God knock ;-)

Nah, words is just words.
Pair o' ducks....quacking up a number?

Blessings.

Well, I must say I got a reply very quickly to my querie #57:

Six Apart (Jen) said:

Hi Mieke-

This sounds like it's related to a template issue that we're seeing on some weblogs. The Connect team is working on a resolution for this inside the application, so that the template issue won't log you out of the commenting system. I don't have an exact day for when this will be implemented but we expect that to happen soon. Thank you for your patience.

Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Thanks,
Jen
TypePad Technical Services

And because I received a reply so quickly, I will reply to them that I will be patient for another week and accept the fact that programming everything in favour of every customer still cannot be achieved in a jiffy :)

Thanks, Meike
actually there has always been this problem here with IB. The change to Typepad has just exaggerated it to nigh impossible at times.
Some of it may be down to personal configerations, too. Surprising anything works, anyway!
Hugs, you.

Hi Ed,

Well, it is the first time I contacted them through email because I myself almost never did have a problem with typekey.

They are very nice and will look into this template problem and even asked me if I have other questions.

I personally do not have them, but if anyone here wants to ask them for help with their configuration, one can always do this at help@sixapart.com. Maybe they can be of service.

Well, let’s see what will evolve…..

A hug back :)

Mieke

Lol, I got through the first time :)

morning everyone,

Hi Mieke,

Glad to hear about the quick reply....I too was able to log in first try this morning :))

the trick will be it this will post or not...crosing my toes))later ruth

wow......it worked....first time....wow

Hi Ruth,

Yes, dawn comes not by our efforts, as Harb writes somewhere else on this blog.

It arrives by itself, but after that it's up to us......?

Signing in seems to work alright now......

Mieke

I was almost thinking it was a Chopra conspiracy . . .

Paranoid one I am!

Peace

Hi Craig,

I thought the problem was solved, but I got the message again: while I was logged in, i wasn't when posting.

So it still does not work as it should be.

Yet I do not believe it is a Chopra conspiracy, it definitely has to do with the template and some kind of programming mistake.....

Well, I did my best, for now I surrender :)

Love, Mieke

Bunk! This is bunk!!!!!!!!!

The fun in Canadian politics gathers momentum. It appears that it was not enough for Prime Minister Harper to copy Bush’s policies on Iraq and the environment. He also had to go to Paris and make a comment siding with Bush on the anti-missile deployment in the Czech Republic and Poland.

‘I used to think Harper had brains. But here he’s playing “dumber” to Bush’s “dumb”. As the leader of a middle power, the prime minister of Canada is not required to support Washington on this kind of thing. What Harper did will not even be reported by the U.S. media. But it will make the Putin government mad at Canada. Surely, our role ought to be to encourage the nuclear powers to cool their behavior and their rhetoric, not to further inflame the situation’.

’I guess Harper’s reflexive pro-Americanism kicks in before his cortex even gets hold of what’s at stake’.

That was his international blunder but now he topped it up with a national screw up that Randall Denley of the right-leaning Ottawa Citizen called "one of the dumbest stunts in the history of Canadian politics. He has blown his credibility ... maybe the Liberals aren't the only party that should be looking for a new leader."

The result of all this? A good chance that the Harper “republican” Government will be toppled by a “liberal” coalition within days.

Hi Craig #71,

What do you mean?

If this is a comment to my remark #70:

I said somewhere herabove (#62) I would give them a week. If within the week this problem of logging in and stay logged in while commenting is not solved, I will refer back to them.

For now I detach myself and do not have any expectation, same as surrender :)

Mieke

yo emperor...what uo bro?

this blog has gone kind a slow and cold and not so sexy lately...damn!

Alright!

That worked a-ok.

We b bloggin

Damn, It is too hard to sign in! I have to go to another computer to get in,and my six e-mails to the Admin have not been answered.Is anyone home at I.B.?

Stan

Dear Admin...

We'd really appreciate it if you return to the old system...this new one is not necessary and it has too many problems...

has anyone seen kate kately? she surely mus be having difficulty like all of us...damn!

"Typepad cookies expire before they are removed from the browser's cookie cache, which prevents people from posting more than a couple of times a day, unless they go in and directly remove their Typepad cookies, close their browser, start it up again, and sign in again."

From Heath, worth a try, if you are desperate.

Thank you Ed,

I will forward your remark to Six Apart at the end of the week and will regularly log in this week here on IB to see if I can come up with some more indications.

This is the second time I am logged in, first time did give my name and password, second time only clicked on join for free.

Mieke

As you see above, my remarks were posted the second time I logged in without giving my name and password.

So I suppose somewhere it is held in the browser's cookie cache.

Well, I guess it is a trial and error adventure.
Will be back later to see how it goes then.

Mieke

P.S.

I always remove everything from my browser cache when I disconnect from the Internet. In this way I prevent everything cluttering together.

The other day I received some comic advice from someone who just had reached the age of 65. He wanted to prepare me :)

Hereunder verse one:

How To Know When You're Getting Old:

Everything hurts!
What doesn't hurt doesn't work.
The gleam in your eye
is the sun shining on your bi-focals.
You feel like the morning after,
but you haven't been anywhere.
Your children begin to look middle aged.

More to come.........

And this time I logged in and the comments went straight through.

Well, see you again after a while :)

I know am talking to myself lol

Hey Everybody
I don't seem to be having any trouble with signing in. I am on a Mac.
I very rarely have any trouble signing into anything.

I am finally out of the kitchen and back to work. This week I am building a float for the local parade. It's at night so there will be lots of lights and many layers of clothes. This year the theme is "Through the Eyes of a Child". I've got this one down.

Hey Mieke
When there are such beautiful pictures I usually don't read the words.

Last night I stood and watched a sliver of a moon and two planets in the most amazing formation. They were so bright. My studio door, a big door, faces south. I am protected from the cold north wind so even on the coldest winter nights I can gaze at the night sky while I work. The mountains are to the west and in the evening, the sun, my creator, falls behind the mountains but still lights up the sky, turning it the most deep and brilliant blue. We have very long colorful evenings here.

peace comes from peace

derek

Hi Derek,

Yeah, a picture says it all :)

The way you paint it, it is quite an experience on itself!
Thanks for that!

Love and peace from the... :)

P.S. You are lucky to have a Mac I suppose. I was not able to comment after my first log-in again.
Hope the second one will enable me.......

All 'good' things in three for me. Let's see..

And after three times I succeeded :)

Well, three different trial and errors today when logging in. Could it all be due to Windows? Here in our part of the world they already advise you when you want to buy a new PC to switch over to Linux or the Mac.

Well, am going to stay with Windows for a while. My laptop still suits me well, no need to switch :)

But a Mac is temptational, still being the number one music and image(ing) platform :)

And now that I am still logged in, hereunder part two of the series: How To Know When You're Getting Old:

- You join a health club
but you don't go.
A dripping tap causes an
uncontrollable urge.

You have all the answers,
but nobody asks you the questions (Lol:)))

You look forward to a dull evening (not me)

You need glasses to find your glasses (definitely!)

Well another series of comments in three :)

Have a great day everyone!

So the experience hereunder will also go to Six Apart at the end of the week:

After logging out and trying to log in a couple of hours later, I had to log in three times, first time by giving my name and password it did work. Second time by just clicking on join for free, it did not work. Third time by giving my name and password and clicking on remember me, it did work.

Now please Filip, don’t get all upset again, this is only meant to lively up the thread:
http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.c/qx/O_Brian-coat-arms.htm

Correction #89:
"first time by giving my name and password it did NOT work"

Haaaaaahaaaaaaahaaaaaaahaaaaaaa! who would have guessed, Filip...... famous Irish dentist, Fill McAvity......the old ones really bring on second childhood, shame on me :)

Hi derek

I don't know if you read my #13 but it tells you what you were witnessing in the night sky and that you will not see it again until 2052.
It really is amazing.

B

Hi Bonnie,

I hope that within short a picture of this event will appear on:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

because where I live it has been too cloudy to watch it lately :)

It is an amazing event!

Mieke

still took me three times to log in and actually comment.

Hereunder part three of the ongoing series:

How To Know When You're Getting Old:

- You turn out the light for economy
instead of romance
You are in a rocking chair
but can't make it go
Your knees buckle, but your belt won't
Your back goes out more than you do.

Luckily I have not (yet) experienced the above lol

Talking about romance, tonight I heard Steve Rother speak on his website about falling in love.

It is the last segment on the page link hereunder:

http://www.lightworker.com/VirtualLight/VLBroadcasts/2008/2008_11_29.php

It is a beautiful message to start radiating.

To me Steve is the re-incarnation of Pierre :)

Mieke

granpa cracks up!

Hi Bonnie
I did take time to gaze at this most unusual alignment.
It was as if the two planets were being pulled along by threads attached to the tips of the crescent moon.

Our universe is filled miracles.

derek