Congrats!

I say that someone who visits the island should create a guestbook so that when we all first arrive we can leave our mark.  It would also be a good way for people to if they have succeeded in projecting to API.  For example once you have written something in it you could type it up here.  This would take a little effort on your part to notice what color the background of your post would be and you change the color of the text to match it so that viewers would have to highlight your post to see if what they saw was correct.  Like this, highlight the next couple of lines to see the text:

See this text is hidden unless you choose to read it.

I don't know what the other background color is so if Adrian or someone could help me try and figure it out this might work after all.  This in my opinion would be a great way for people to validate their experience.

Respectfully,
Link's Shadow

Does anyone have the Farsight Remote Viewing course lessons?  I want to download them but the only person on winmx that has them is using a 56K modem and with the number of files there are and there size that would take a very long time to download all of them.

Now I realize this may not be something that you want to give out but I am just curious what the age distribution is across this site.  If you don't want to give a specific age you could go like a 10 year range for example 20's.

I am 18 years old.

Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon", were the song writers creative geniuses or just stoned?  I am interested to hear what people have to say on the subject.  I personally think that it is creative genius but I think that is just because I want to believe that[].

Pink Floyd Rules,
Link's Shadow

I have to say that I am really irritated with people continually bashing the education systems around the world.  Granted I understand that there are problems with them but the blame for ignorance should not fall on the institution, instead in my opinion it should fall to those students that do not apply themselves any more than what is required.  Every student is capable of learning as much as they want with or without school.  The public education systems have been created to cater to the lowest level of students so that everyone has access to an education.  If you want to learn more, the responsibility comes to you.  I believe that this is a good way to have the system work as it teaches those willing to learn that you must take some initiative in order to better yourself instead of depending on someone else.  Basically what I am trying to get at is before you start placing blame on someone else or some other group of people for not teaching you.  Look at the amount of time and effort you have put into learning, odds are it is not all that much.  You are your greatest teacher, you know how you learn best and you have virtually unlimited resources in the world today.  Go out and teach yourself something instead of relying on others, that is a sad way to exist in my opinion.

Respectfully,
Link's Shadow

How do you insert an image directly into your post.  I know that there is the "Insert Image" button up above but what do you put inside of the tags?  I tried putting only the link inside but it did not work.

There is a worm out and it is in full swing right now.  I have heard of many people being infected by it.  Here is an article that briefly talks about it.  

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1208127,00.asp

Your computer will say something to the effect that "Your computer needs to be shutdown in a certain amount of time."  Something about "RPC".  I have not been infected by it so I don't know exactly what it says.  I have heard of several people installing the windows patch with no success in correcting the problem.  I have found a method to prevent yourself from getting infected though and to find out if you have been infected even if you have not gotten any messages yet.

Prevent for windows xp the main operating system affected:

1.  Go to control panel and select "Administative Tools".
2.  Double click on "Services" this will open a new window
3.  Scroll down and find "Remote Procedure Call (RPC)", double click it.  You may have one called "Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator", don't choose this one.
4.  Select the Recovery tab.
5.  Change the "first failure", "second failure", and "subsequent failures" boxes to "take no action".
6.  Click apply and then okay.  You are now protected.

Fix

1.  Click start and select "Search"
2.  Search for "Lovsan.exe", "LoveSan.exe", and "MSBlast.exe"
3.  If you find any of them delete them and empty the recycle bin on the desktop.
4.  Go here to get updates if you have not done so in a while just for future securities sake.  http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

This does have anything to do with the forum and I am not sure if anyone can answer my question, but I am curious if it is possible to connect to the astral chat using an irc client?

I don't mean any disrespect to those that contribute so much to this site but, kibeginnersnightmare is a crazed fool running wild through this board.  I think he hit some kind of record for daily posts himself.  Right now he is at 37.33 posts per day.  If he were to continue that for a month, he would 1119.9 posts.  I mean come on, if you look at the records for the site here:

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/view_announcements.asp

You can see that in June the site set a new post record at about 4,300 posts in one months time.  He alone would make up more than a 1/4 of the sites total posts in a month.  That is just absurd!  He is just bogging down the system and needs to be taught a lesson.  I just wanted to bring this to the attention of everyone who cares about this site.

Respectfully,
Links Shadow

http://www.banachek.org

The above is a website of a man who is a mentalist, a magician that pretends to be psychic.  I felt this is something that would make for an interesting discussion here.  I saw him on a TV show last night and checked out his website and thought it was amusing that he convinced MIT researchers into believeing he was a genuine psychic.  For those who like the shows "Crossing Over with John Edward" and "Beyond with Jon Van Praagh" there is a part of the site which explains how these people are fakes.  I don't discount the fact that what he says might be true but I still believe, "know" psychic phenomena are still real.  What do you think of what he says?

Links Shadow

I am curious what users you think have helped you the most?

For me Tom has helped me a lot, but since Tom does not frequent the forum anymore timeless has stepped up to take his place.

I have not selected the option that sends an e-mail to me when I receive a PM, and yet on occasions I get an e-mail saying that I have received a PM for someone.  I am wondering if anyone else has had this happen.  It is not a big deal but I find it odd that I never checked that box and even now if I go and look at it the option is not marked.

This post is mainly for those people that have shown other members of this site disrespect in some way, but I think that everyone should still read it.

Look I have no problem with you stating your opinions and believing what you want to believe heck this entire website was created for that purpose, but to come in here and use such defamatory language is disrespectful to Adrian and everyone else on this forum that has spent many years creating a place where people could talk kindly to each other and explore what it is to be human regardless of whatever beliefs we may have.

Tone it down a bit show a little bit more respect when you don't have all the facts. How do I know that you don't have all the facts, because no one does. You have your beliefs which is well and good but to be disrespectful of others is downright rude. I don't care what belief system you have but regardless, it comes down to the golden rule which holds true to everyone dispite religion or spiritual beliefs, "Do unto other as you would have them do unto you."

Remember the goal of this site is not to force people to believe certain things, it is to allow people to choose what they want to believe. The bottom line is to be nice to the people on the boards. If you disagree with someone that is fine just show some respect for their freedom of choice. Thanks for hearing me out everyone.

Respectfully,
Links Shadow

I am not a big about.com fan because of all the ads that they have, but they have a lot of information on just about any form of writing.

http://teenwriting.about.com

It is a good place for people who are just starting out and want some tips, but just the same it has enough information that even experienced writers can find things that might help them out.

Links Shadow