No more messing about with hand coding hack for fixing PNG alpha transparency in Internet Explorer 6 or less. Just bung this jQuery plugin into the head with a small bit of script and it fixes it all 
jquery.pngFix.js - PNG transparency for Windows IE 5.5 & 6 (IE PNG Fix)
A lot of traditional Buddhism is no use to me because it is laden with Indian tradition, religious concepts and suggests withdrawing from the world to best practice Buddhism. None of these things are practical here and now for me.
It also seems a bit pointless withdrawing into a monastery. Day to day life is what needs the concepts of Buddhism, not living in a castle half way up a mountain. Life is inherently easier there in many ways because you don’t have to deal with the ignorant masses.
Anyway, back to engaged and contemporary Buddhist practice. Read the rest of this entry »
I have recently installed a set of db Audio 6.2c speakers into my Calibra front doors. The install process itself was a Herculean task, but that’s another story…
Not wanting to randomly buy some speakers online, I visited the Car Audio Centre in Hyson Green, Nottingham. As I have found with this shop before, most of the goods don’t have prices on. They ask you what you have seen it at. You tell them the website price and they go “Yeah, that’s web only prices, it is £more in the shop”. I asked for a set of Infinity components which I had seen on their website. Again, as many people have found with these guys they didn’t have any stock. What they did have however were lots of InPhase and db Audio stock. Hardly surprising, as these are their own brands. The shop used to be called InPhase Audio back in the day. So they tried to switch sell me onto db Audio.
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I have Leopard, Time Machine, Boot Camp and Parallels on my iMac. When trying to launch Parallels using my Boot Camp partition, I got the following error:
More than one Windows partitions are found. This is not a standard Boot Camp configuration. Please refer to the parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide, Using Boot Camp Windows XP Installation chapter for instructions on how to configure Parallels virtual machine in case of a non-standard Boot Camp configuration on your Macintosh computer.
The fix is outlined here, and worked a treat for me: Warning message: More than one Windows Partitions… - Mac Forums
Another nugget from a chapter preface in Science and Sanity:
“Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.”
Bell, E. T.
In other words, when people don’t know they jump to conclusions. Such is the case with evolution vs creation. We just don’t know at the moment, and to rule either out is to make a foolish mistake. It’s ok to not know for the time being.
Evolutionary Psychology is especially guilty of “feasting on shadows”, jumping to wild conclusions about how we have ended up preferring certain things or behaving in certain ways, with no testable hypotheses…
