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I’ve made little secret of the respect I have for people who elope. This is the place to go: Graceland Chapel. Vegas, Baby!

Using the program Meow, it’s possible to see what notifications different programs give to the system - things like changing the menu-bar, that the menu was activated, and in iTunes, that the song has changed. Yes, you heard right - there will be no need to poll the system every n seconds to see if the song is the same! Or if the song is paused! Now I just need to find out how to discover these notifications, and act upon them.

I kinda like the Finder’s column view. I would like to be able to browse within archives, though. Kinda like Windows does. Like my old Amiga used to do, with the ARC: filesystem installed.

I read the document referenced on some blog I read (Sorry!) and noticed how glowing it was of LimeWire. Now, I seem to recall LimeWire installing several things on my PC when I installed it - and one of them still exists in the Add/Remove software section. Then I noticed the line down the bottom of the document:

Disclosures This article builds on paid consulting I conducted for LimeWire. I thank LimeWire for their willingness to let me share my findings with the public.

Hmm. I’m not at all suspicious.

I received my Xbox replacement power cord (not a power chord, though!) and laughed when I saw what comes with it - Instructions on how to use it. Plug it in. Throw out the old one.

A single strand does not make a thread, nor can one hand clap. Even a chicken must work for it’s food. Sit tight for ten days, and in one day you’ll shoot nine rapids.

In a thousand days, one eats up a thousand measures of rice.

Heaven favours, where virtue rules. And what would this be but to paint the tiger and carve the swan? To save one life is better than to build a seven-story pagoda.

Better sit in one house than run to three.

Two in hand is better than three in bond.

A household cannot have two masters.

I loved the TV series ‘Monkey’ that was on the ABC during the early 80s. I have found most of the first series on DVD, and just recently found a copy of an English translation of some of the original stories.

Wu Ch’êng-ên was born in Huai-an, Kiangsu, China around 1505, and died in about 1580. He was known at the time as a poet, and is believed to have been a District Magistrate.

He based the fables of Monkey on the life of a buddhist monk, Hsüan-tsang. Living in the 7th Century, Hsüan-tsang was also known as Tripitaka, and there are several contemporary accounts of his journey to India, and by the time of Wu Ch’êng-ên, these had transformed into legend.

The bureaucracy that is in Heaven is a direct reflection of the Chinese government of the time. The stories of Monkey are part satire, part poetry and part allegory. Tripitaka is the everyman, Monkey the genius and Pigsy the appetite. Sandy is said to be the sincerity or whole-heartedness.

The TV series is probably more based on one of the Japanese translations, although if the two (book & series) are from seperate translations, they match well.

The thing I like best are the proverbs - most of them just crack me up. I’ll post a whole heap of them as I come across them.