Thanks guys. I really benefited from it too. It’s some really good advice.

Thanks Con, am installing it this morning. It’s going to be used to host RT, a ticketing system. It's interesting that the list of updates in the article you posted includes a list Asterisk 1.2.13. Asterisk is a very interesting program. It's a PBX, a telephone system! It can be used to create your own private telephone network at home or in your office or town (Somalia?).

Wow, this is really out there. Weird. Rare but Real: People Who Feel, Taste and Hear Color LiveScience 22 February, 2005 When Ingrid Carey says she feels colors, she does not mean she sees red, or feels blue, or is green with envy. She really does feel them. She can also taste them, and hear them, and smell them. The 20-year-old junior at the University of Maine has synesthesia, a rare neurological condition in which two or more of the senses entwine. Numbers and letters, sensations and emotions, days and months are all associated with colors for Carey. The letter "N" is sienna brown; "J" is light green; the number "8" is orange; and July is bluish-green. The pain from a shin split throbs in hues of orange and yellow, purple and red, Carey told LiveScience. Colors in Carey's world have properties that most of us would never dream of: red is solid, powerful and consistent, while yellow is pliable, brilliant and intense. Chocolate is rich purple and makes Carey�s breath smell dark blue. Confusion is orange. Scientific acceptance Long dismissed as a product of overactive imaginations or a sign of mental illness, synesthesia has grudgingly come to be accepted by scientists in recent years as an actual phenomenon with a real neurological basis. Some researchers now believe it may yield valuable clues to how the brain is organized and how perception works. "The study of synesthesia [has] encouraged people to rethink historical ideas that synesthesia was abnormal and an aberration," says Amy Ione, director of the Diatrope Institute, a California-based group interested in the arts and sciences. The cause remains a mystery, however. According to one idea, irregular sprouting of new neural connections within the brain leads to a breakdown of the boundaries that normally exist between the senses. In this view, synesthesia is the collective chatter of sensory neighbors once confined to isolation. Another theory, based on research conducted by Daphne Maurer and Catherine Mondloch at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, suggests all infants may begin life as synesthetes. In this way of thinking, animals and humans are born with immature brains that are highly malleable. Connections between different sensory parts of the brain exists that later become pruned or blocked as an organism matures, Mondloch explained. Maurer and Mondloch hypothesize that if these connections between the senses are functional, as some experiments suggest, then infants should experience the world in a way that is similar to synesthetic adults. In a variation of this theory, babies don�t have five distinct senses but rather one all-encompassing sense that responds to the total amount of incoming stimulation. So when a baby hears her mother�s voice, she is also seeing it and smelling it. Technology lags Maurer and Mondloch�s pruning hypothesis is intriguing, says Bruno Laeng, a psychology professor at the University of Tromso, Norway. But he adds a caution. "At present, we do not have the technology to observe brain-connection changes in the living human brain and how these relate to mental changes," Laeng said in an email interview. Like other scientists, Laeng also questions whether synesthesia needs such extra neural connections in order to occur. Advancements in current brain imaging techniques may one day allow the pruning hypothesis to be tested directly, he said. According to another theory that does not rely on extra connections, synesthesia arises when normally covert channels of communications between the senses are exposed to the light of consciousness. All of us are able to perceive the world as a unified whole because there is a complex interaction between the senses in the brain, the thinking goes. Ordinarily, these interconnections are not explicitly experienced, but in the brains of synesthetes, "those connections are �unmasked� and can enter conscious awareness," said Megan Steven, a neuroscientist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Because this unmasking theory relies on neural connections everyone has, it may explain why certain drugs, like LSD or mescaline, can induce synesthesia in some individuals. 'Like I'm crazy' Many synesthetes fear ridicule for their unusual abilities. They can feel isolated and alone in their experiences. "Most people that I�d explain it to would either be fascinated or look at me like I�m crazy," Carey said. "Especially friends who were of a very logical mindset. They would be very perplexed." The study of synesthesia is therefore important for synesthetes, says Daniel Smilek, an assistant psychology professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Research is revealing synesthetes to be a varied bunch. Smilek and colleagues have identified two groups of synesthetes among those who associate letters and numbers with colors, he explained in a telephone interview. For individuals in one group, which Smilek calls "projector" synesthetes, the synesthetic color can fill the printed letter or it can appear directly in front of their eyes, as if projected onto an invisible screen. In contrast, "associate" synesthetes see the colors in their "mind�s eye" rather than outside their bodies. In Carey�s case, the colors appear in quick flashes right behind her eyes, blinking in and out of existence as quickly as ocean foam. Other times they linger, coalescing and dividing like sunlight on the surface of a soap bubble. 'No mere curiosity' Other subgroups have also been identified. The synesthesia of those in the "perceptual" category is triggered by sensory stimuli like sights and sounds, whereas "conceptual" synesthetes respond to abstract concepts like time. One conceptual synesthete described the months of the year as a flat ribbon surrounding her body, each month a distinct color. February was pale green and oriented directly in front of her. Richard Cytowic, a neuroscientist and author of "The Man Who Tasted Shapes" (Bradford Books, 1998), has watched the scientific shift in attitudes toward the condition in recent years. "Many of my colleagues claimed that synesthesia was �made up� because it went against prevailing theory," Cytowic told LiveScience. "Today, everyone recognizes synesthesia as no mere curiosity but important to fundamental principles of how the brain is organized." http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050222_synesthesia.html

I didn't mind most of the calls because the fouls GS made where good ones. And as far as Jackson, all he did clap, he's just being profiled. i mean come on, you should not get kicked for just clapping. he didn't even open his mouth. LG, Dallas did earn the win, special at the end... but the truth is GS just handed it to them. During half time Barkley said "the warriors will not just die, you have to kill them"; but Dallas didn't kill the Warriors, the Warriors just died. They had every opportunity and missed. There's no excuse for that. Last night they showed why they're the 8th seat. Don Nelson should get some veterans on this team to provide some leadership wallahi

If your like me, you have a million items on your to do list and can always use tips on being more productive. Check this out: 33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity May 1st, 2007 by Steve Pavlina Heuristics are rules intended to help you solve problems. When a problem is large or complex, and the optimal solution is unclear, applying a heuristic allows you to begin making progress towards a solution even though you can’t visualize the entire path from your starting point. Suppose your goal is to climb to the peak of a mountain, but there’s no trail to follow. An example of a heuristic would be: Head directly towards the peak until you reach an obstacle you can’t cross. Whenever you reach such an obstacle, follow it around to the right until you’re able to head towards the peak once again. This isn’t the most intelligent or comprehensive heuristic, but in many cases it will work just fine, and you’ll eventually reach the peak. Heuristics don’t guarantee you’ll find the optimal solution, nor do they generally guarantee a solution at all. But they do a good enough job of solving certain types of problems to be useful. Their strength is that they break the deadlock of indecision and get you into action. As you take action you begin to explore the solution space, which deepens your understanding of the problem. As you gain knowledge about the problem, you can make course corrections along the way, gradually improving your chances of finding a solution. If you try to solve a problem you don’t initially know how to solve, you’ll often figure out a solution as you go, one you never could have imagined until you started moving. This is especially true with creative work such as software development. Often you don’t even know exactly what you’re trying to build until you start building it. Heuristics have many practical applications, and one of my favorite areas of application is personal productivity. Productivity heuristics are behavioral rules (some general, some situation-specific) that can help us get things done more efficiently. Here are some of my favorites: 1. Nuke it! The most efficient way to get through a task is to delete it. If it doesn’t need to be done, get it off your to do list. 2. Daily goals. Without a clear focus, it’s too easy to succumb to distractions. Set targets for each day in advance. Decide what you’ll do; then do it. 3. Worst first. To defeat procrastination learn to tackle your most unpleasant task first thing in the morning instead of delaying it until later in the day. This small victory will set the tone for a very productive day. 4. Peak times. Identify your peak cycles of productivity, and schedule your most important tasks for those times. Work on minor tasks during your non-peak times. 5. No-comm zones. Allocate uninterruptible blocks of time for solo work where you must concentrate. Schedule light, interruptible tasks for your open-comm periods and more challenging projects for your no-comm periods. 6. Mini-milestones. When you begin a task, identify the target you must reach before you can stop working. For example, when working on a book, you could decide not to get up until you’ve written at least 1000 words. Hit your target no matter what. 7. Timeboxing. Give yourself a fixed time period, like 30 minutes, to make a dent in a task. Don’t worry about how far you get. Just put in the time. See Timeboxing for more. 8. Batching. Batch similar tasks like phone calls or errands into a single chunk, and knock them off in a single session. 9. Early bird. Get up early in the morning, like at 5am, and go straight to work on your most important task. You can often get more done before 8am than most people do in a day. 10. Cone of silence. Take a laptop with no network or WiFi access, and go to a place where you can work flat out without distractions, such as a library, park, coffee house, or your own backyard. Leave your comm gadgets behind. 11. Tempo. Deliberately pick up the pace, and try to move a little faster than usual. Speak faster. Walk faster. Type faster. Read faster. Go home sooner. 12. Relaxify. Reduce stress by cultivating a relaxing, clutter-free workspace. See 10 Ways to Relaxify Your Workspace. 13. Agendas. Provide clear written agendas to meeting participants in advance. This greatly improves meeting focus and efficiency. You can use it for phone calls too. 14. Pareto. The Pareto principle is the 80-20 rule, which states that 80% of the value of a task comes from 20% of the effort. Focus your energy on that critical 20%, and don’t overengineer the non-critical 80%. 15. Ready-fire-aim. Bust procrastination by taking action immediately after setting a goal, even if the action isn’t perfectly planned. You can always adjust course along the way. 16. Minuteman. Once you have the information you need to make a decision, start a timer and give yourself just 60 seconds to make the actual decision. Take a whole minute to vacillate and second-guess yourself all you want, but come out the other end with a clear choice. Once your decision is made, take some kind of action to set it in motion. 17. Deadline. Set a deadline for task completion, and use it as a focal point to stay on track. 18. Promise. Tell others of your commitments, since they’ll help hold you accountable. 19. Punctuality. Whatever it takes, show up on time. Arrive early. 20. Gap reading. Use reading to fill in those odd periods like waiting for an appointment, standing in line, or while the coffee is brewing. If you’re a male, you can even read an article while shaving (preferably with an electric razor). That’s 365 articles a year. 21. Resonance. Visualize your goal as already accomplished. Put yourself into a state of actually being there. Make it real in your mind, and you’ll soon see it in your reality. 22. Glittering prizes. Give yourself frequent rewards for achievement. See a movie, book a professional massage, or spend a day at an amusement park. 23. Quad 2. Separate the truly important tasks from the merely urgent. Allocate blocks of time to work on the critical Quadrant 2 tasks, those which are important but rarely urgent, such as physical exercise, writing a book, and finding a relationship partner. 24. Continuum. At the end of your workday, identify the first task you’ll work on the next day, and set out the materials in advance. The next day begin working on that task immediately. 25. Slice and dice. Break complex projects into smaller, well-defined tasks. Focus on completing just one of those tasks. 26. Single-handling. Once you begin a task, stick with it until it’s 100% complete. Don’t switch tasks in the middle. When distractions come up, jot them down to be dealt with later. 27. Randomize. Pick a totally random piece of a larger project, and complete it. Pay one random bill. Make one phone call. Write page 42 of your book. 28. Insanely bad. Defeat perfectionism by completing your task in an intentionally terrible fashion, knowing you need never share the results with anyone. Write a blog post about the taste of salt, design a hideously dysfunctional web site, or create a business plan that guarantees a first-year bankruptcy. With a truly horrendous first draft, there’s nowhere to go but up. 29. 30 days. Identify a new habit you’d like to form, and commit to sticking with it for just 30 days. A temporary commitment is much easier to keep than a permanent one. See 30 Days to Success for details. 30. Delegate. Convince someone else to do it for you. 31. Cross-pollination. Sign up for martial arts, start a blog, or join an improv group. You’ll often encounter ideas in one field that can boost your performance in another. 32. Intuition. Go with your gut instinct. It’s probably right. 33. Optimization. Identify the processes you use most often, and write them down step-by-step. Refactor them on paper for greater efficiency. Then implement and test your improved processes. Sometimes we just can’t see what’s right in front of us until we examine it under a microscope. What other productivity rules have you found effective? http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/05/33-rules-to-boost-your-productivity/

What the hell is wrong with the warriors? they wasted so many opportunities last night. They missed their final eight shots and wasting 16 3-pointers. Why the hell do you keep shooting 3's when your not gonna make them? Why don't you run the clock when you’re up and there's only 3 minutes left in the game? Talk about a total breakdown.

No surprises last night. I was happy to see the Spurs show their dominance over the novice Nuggets. Thank you Horry. What a game! Hopefully they will complete the job on Wednesday. Am happy to see the wizards put out of their misery. To think I actually had hope for those losers. I was happy the see the Rockets win last night. jazz v. rockets is looking to be more exciting then i expected. But the most exciting game so far is set for tonight! Will the Warriors pull off the historic win?? I think they will... I read that the Mavs have never made a comeback from a 1-3 deficit in their whole history! Am sure the raptors are looking forward to a wonderful vacation starting tonight They have no hope!

Today you have the warlords, Zanawis army, and those that support them in control of most of our country and it seems there is no hope or way forward. But the truth is this is a just an even in the time and it will pass just as the evens before it have passed. And tomorrow we will be in another situation that we can foresee today.

I like the ill fitting uniforms

There is a easy way to make money and fix all your problem.... it's simple, all you have to do is write a self help book

LOOOOOOOOOOOL

The thing is that it's not the color/shade of the skin that makes a face beautiful, it's the tone, consistency, and shape of the face. The color really makes no difference. That’s why you have beautiful woman of all shades. These types of products are useless unless there is inconsistency in the color of the skin and one is seeking to even out the shade.

The fact that people were killed and their properties looted is not disputable. It's a fact that everyone agrees on. And it's an issue that must be address. Another issue that must be addressed is what we are going to do about the xabash in the country. The xabash have military power, they have the support of the US, and they have Somali people that support them.

Dagaal kii ugu xoogganaa oo maanta Muqdisho ka dhacay Khamiis, April 26 2007(HOL): Dagaal kii ugu xoogganaa oo la isugu adeegsaday hubka noocyadiisa kala duwan ayaa maanta waxaa uu ka dhacay magaalada Muqdisho, iyadoo dagaalkaasina uu u dhaxeeyo Ciidamada Dowladaha Soomaaliya iyo Itoobiya oo isku dhinac ah iyo kooxo kacdoono wada oo ka soo horjeeda. Dagaalka maanta ka dhacay Magaalada Muqdisho oo ay ka qeybgaleen Taangiyada Ciidamada Itoobiya iyo Madaafiic waa weyn oo laga tuurayay Xarumo ay ku sugan yihiin Ciidamada Itoobiya ee Muqdisho ku sugan ayaa waxaa ku geeriyooday inta la xaqiijiyay dad ka badan 20 ruux oo u badnaa dad rayid ah oo guryahooda ku sugnaa. Dadkaasi geeriyooday waxaa ka mid ahaa rakaab saarnaa gaari bus ah oo marayay wadada warshadaha, kaasi oo uu ku habsaday Madfac habow ah. Waxyeellada dagaalkan ayaa ka yar kuwii hore, wuxuuna ku soo beegmayaa iyadoo ay magaalada ka bara kaceen inta badan dadkii ku dhaqnaa, taasina waxay keentay in madaafiicda la isu adeegsanayo ay ku dhacaan guryo maran oo aan cidna joogin, marka laga reebo hal iyo labo ruux oo guryaha ilaalo ahaan u jooga. Dagaalkan Muqdisho ka socda oo galay maalintii 8aad ayaa wuxuu keenay dhimasho iyo dhaawac aad u tiro badan, kuwaasi oo soo gaaray dad rayid ah oo guryahooda iska joogay, kuwaasi oo ay guryahooda ugu tageen madaafiic aan loo meel dayin oo ay isku ridayeen labada dhinac ee ku dagaalamaya magaalada Muqdisho, haba ugu badnaadeen kuwa ay ridayaan Ciidamada Itoobiyaanka. Isbitaalka magaalada Muqdisho ayay dagaalladan saameyn ku yeesheen, waxaana horay u xirmay Isbitaallada Xayaat, Carafaat iyo Cali Xasan, halka ay Isbitaallada SOS iyo Banaadir oo lagu xanaaneyn jiray Hooyada iyo Dhallaanka ay isu bedeleen Isbitaallo lagu daweeyo dhaawacyada, waxaana taasi sababay waddooyinkii loo mari lahaa Isbitaallada dhaawacyada qabta oo xirmay. Si kastaba arrintu ha ahaatee, Dagaalka maanta ka dhacay Magaalada Muqdisho oo ahaa kii ugu xoogganaa ayaa waxaa ka hadlay Ra'iisal Wasaaraha Xukuumadda Federaalka Soomaaliya Prof. Cali Maxamed Geedi oo sheegay in dagaalka ay guulo ka soo hooyeen Ciidamada Dowladda Federaalka oo garabsanaya Ciidamada Dowladda Itoobiya, wuxuuna carrabka ku dhuftay in ay soo af-jarmayaan dagaalladii Muqdisho ka socday.

but here is the problem Duke; the ethiopians are not going to get the looted properties back for you! and the tfg is not going to get it back for you either became the tfg is no more, the only group that still supports the tfg is the ssdf. don't you see, this situation and the course of action that yeey and gadi are taking will only lead to more clan wars. is that good for us as a somali people? lets hope the ethiopians leave the country and our people have true reconciliation. amen!

^yup, vista is nice... yeah what's up with all the different versions... I think they'r like 7 different ones.

conspiracy, don't runaway from it dude... you have 4 slots to fill

I took a look at the links and itseems these sites are mostly targeted at teenagers. they'r probably made by some board kids. there is much much worse stuff on the net then this.

another thing, the people that still support the tfg keep saying "The TFG is the only and all inclusive option which represents all Somalis, a characteristic no other movement can claim." this is a big lie. they say the tfg reps all somali became of the retarded 4.5. but didn't yeey declare martial law? didn't many people leave the tfg parliamentary? didn't cabinet minister get fired? did gedi and yeey make a power grabe in an attempt to use the tfg to get back at their clan rivals? the tfg is just another clan malitia and they hope they can use gaalo firepower to breake their enemy clans. and in pursuing that goal they sold the whole country to zanawi

what will gedi and yeey do if this group is able to come to some kind of agreement with the gaalo? to gedi and yeey and the people that support them this is a clan war, so what will they do when the gaalo start arming both sides?

^^Dhubad, these people will sell the whole nation to get their houses back! Why not just go to Mog. and get houses back with out any war... like our family did. My mother got a very worm welcome and our old neighbor broke into tears and asked my mother for forgiveness concerning the events of the early '90s.

^^Dhubad, to talk to TFG supporter like that, you must forget reality and talk to them on their level, then they will understand. For example: Duke, Is it true that TFG minister of defense liberated Kismayo from a puntland clan militia?

Why don't catch the thousands foreign of troops illegally occupying the county?

the b*stards!

goth xaarka iyo xalwada oo isku daraa.