The instructions here worked for me.

I have a few different mail accounts, Yahoo Mail being one of them.

It is an interesting use of RSS feeds - I have to say, I like how they show up - it's pretty similar to how they show up while using Mozilla Thunderbird, so pretty practical.

This is the week that there is a good chance that Congress will vote on the concept of Net Neutrality. 

Here is a simple video explanation of what ISP's controlling what services run through there pipes could mean.

Now while some of the threat is being exaggerated, the truth is most of what is in that video IS a possibility.   Ironically enough, the YouTube service, which is delivering this video, could be affected.

Also, from a political standpoint, this is an issue where the internet right and the internet left, seem to agree.

So, if you are blogging, link people to Save The Internet.

None of these various cool internet applications that are coming out, should be handicapped, by an ISP limiting the priority ACCESS to the application.

Will have more information later...

Per my last post - with Eric's help, with the various DIY tools for web 2.0 applications - the world of -

a. Interested people
b. spec designers
c. testers
d. coders

We could "collaboratively"  (I put this in quotes because it is usually the coders who do 90% of the work, while everyone else comes out with a FABU wishlist )  roll out a pretty robust tool, in about six months or so.

Anyway, check out Eric's tool.  He is kind enough, smart enough, and productive enough to get this moving.

Apple Boots Windows.

For myself, I work on all three systems - Apple, Windows, Linux.

For look and style though, I prefer the apple.  But there are definitely some programs on windows that I couldn't give up.  And some great server programs that, once you know how to load the LAMP solution, you want to keep Linux for this. 

I will most likely get, for the home, the most powerful MacMini, expecially when the interface with a TV card has been proven.

I have finished reading Integral Spirituality, and it has generated a lot of thought, especially for what this blog is about.

Since this blog is titled Integral Practice, I'd like to comment on some of the challenges of Integral Practice - or practice in general - and then also contrast this to how it would relate to Integral Research.

Good Integral Practice is - to a degree - the output of good integral research.

If one's starts with the normal method of bringing a new practice into existence -

a.  There is an idea, sometimes free-floating, sometimes based on a need.  ("I'm missing the divine in my life.  What should I do?"  "Say, how does this spiritual practice that opens up the revelations of the Divine to me, relate to the world of science, that produces the electricity I use on a daily basis?  Well, I have this idea of the 4 quadrants - maybe that is relevant?")

THIS particular blog, is more concerned with Integral Practice as it relates to:

a.  Pointing to the best practices for challenges in a normal life.
b.  Pointing to resources that help fulfill these practices.
c.  When possible, pointing to other's  evaluations that will help readers decide on new practices.
d.  Pointing out resources that create communities of integral practice.
e.  Using this site to entertain integral ideas.
f.  Using this site otto track - well, anything I want, but new things in technology that also contribute to a better, or at least more interesting life.

But the thing is, good practice is resting on a base of:

a.  Good theory, backed up by
b. Good research, data, that backs up the theory. 

So it becomes necessary to delve into some of the theoretical underpinnings occasionally - although personally, I don't want to "live" there, as the maps are not the territory.  I want to explore the territory.

As I've mentioned here before, I think some of the Wisdom of the Crowds, Web 2.0, and peer-to-peer functionality, will eventually cause a revolution in the data gathering capacity of "good research, good data".  While this hasn't happened yet, when the tools are there for anonymous (yet accurate) self-reporting on various exercises, practices, etc, that then feed into various analytical engines -

this particular revolution will be wondrous.  The silos of the solo researcher, analyzing data in his university office, where only he has access to data, will be replaced by global google analytical tools fed data from a variety of sources.