BothAnd

2010-06-18T07:43:00.001-07:00

It's all gone a bit Mahavishnu Orchestra in here. I'm not complaining though.

2010-06-17T03:26:00.001-07:00

Getting excited about tonight's comedy gig: Noel Fielding, Steve Coogan, Simon Evans, Andi Osho, Count Artur Strong and Seann Walsh at the Dome. YAY!!!

2010-06-11T04:11:00.001-07:00

Spot the genius in the picture editing on this Reuters news story. Fantastic. http://ping.fm/0sj9K

2010-06-10T01:33:00.001-07:00

I note, with interest that now Google and Pirate Bay are offering secure https:// versions of their sites. Just saying. #debill

2010-06-09T12:41:00.001-07:00

Polish Minimal Techno + White Wine + Learning to Code in Ruby

2010-06-03T03:27:00.001-07:00

What the gulf oil spill would like in your backyard - http://ping.fm/NIpad

2010-05-28T05:29:00.001-07:00

2010-05-18T06:57:00.001-07:00

Reich foot forward. And an afternoon of Drumming and Pulses #TheRestIsNoise

2010-05-18T05:45:00.001-07:00

6 Pomodoro's done… just in time for a long lunch break

2010-05-18T01:47:00.001-07:00

Working in Adobe Illustrator for the first time in at least a decade. It's like re-reading Aleister Crowley. Arcane to me now, and strangely powerful.

2010-05-06T01:03:00.001-07:00

voted

2010-05-05T07:00:00.001-07:00

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-05-02T08:08:00.001-07:00

First tweet from Shed Office

2010-04-29T03:02:00.001-07:00

"I'm not a man of faith","I sometime wish I was", "Maybe it'll happen one day" - Nick Clegg < shame he's vacillating now.

2010-04-27T02:55:00.001-07:00

STOP! Hammock Time.

2010-04-23T09:57:00.001-07:00

Beer

2010-04-01T09:12:00.001-07:00

""Expunging some files""

2010-04-01T06:03:00.001-07:00

Loving the YouTube April Fool… brilliant and smart

2010-03-25T04:21:00.001-07:00

listening to Spanish Psychedelia… crayzeeee #zonechild

2010-03-03T12:15:00.001-08:00

Bath, Buttermilk Bath Bomb, coffee beans and book = bliss

2010-02-14T10:55:00.001-08:00

listening to Love (#6music #freakzone) while making cupcakes for my beloved on Valentines evening. Thanks @stuartmaconie awsome track!

2010-02-10T09:29:00.001-08:00

Anyone going to the West Pier tonight to look at teh shiny?

2010-02-05T07:42:00.001-08:00

This looks like it'll be great. Weds evening 6-10pm - Brighton West Pier illuminated… see you there? http://ping.fm/3gVdn

2010-01-27T05:54:00.001-08:00

http://ping.fm/YQdCK

2010-01-21T03:56:00.001-08:00

Wondering if Brighton needs a Jelly… what with theSkiff and theWerks. Overkill? Or perfect for somewhere like Cafe Delice? http://ping.fm/acmYZ

2010-01-19T09:44:00.001-08:00

Doing some "Desk Top Publishing". I'm **actually** missing QuarkXPress 3.1 — InDesign just isn't the same. #nostalgia

2010-01-15T04:28:00.001-08:00

Goodbye Kemptown, you've been wonderful to me.

2010-01-11T09:08:00.001-08:00

Italian Math-Rock Prog Metal? Yes PLEASE!!! Thanks @sutartmaconie - fantastic Monday afternoon Listen-Again - #freakzone #zonechild

2009-12-24T06:02:00.001-08:00

Listening to 'The Seduction of Ingmar Berman' in Swedish.

2009-12-18T09:38:00.001-08:00

The weekend starts......NOW

2009-12-15T22:41:00.001-08:00

TaskPaper lost my entire todo list... Hate that. Dropbox has a complete set of backups and revisions... Love that.

2009-12-13T11:45:00.001-08:00

Realising I'm going to miss Kemp Town but... New home in Jan 2010 will be awesome.

2009-12-13T09:26:00.001-08:00

finding out I can play Quake3 online in a browser when I still have an essay to complete... temptation fail.

2009-12-13T08:25:00.001-08:00

Listening to Mahavishnu Orchestra and building up for this afternoon stroke evening's #freakzone with @stuartmaconie #zonechild

2009-12-11T04:16:00.001-08:00

extraordinarily happy. in love with the world.

2009-12-09T05:55:00.001-08:00

iChat is rubbish. I gave it a month to win me back. But no. Adium it is.

2009-12-08T11:44:00.001-08:00

OOOh Mr Google. With this Chrome Browser for Mac you are really spoiling us.

2009-12-07T03:13:00.001-08:00

Listening to @SimonPegg's selection of stonking musics. Good work fella! #6Music #listenagain

2009-12-04T06:40:00.001-08:00

Fandangles

2009-11-28T05:01:00.001-08:00

LOL @mitchbenn on the Now Show.... "The Pope wants the finest, like Thomas Aquinas, so sign up today, if you don't like vaginas"

2009-11-28T03:43:00.001-08:00

Celebrating "Buy Nothing Day" by re-formatting my Mac, selling stuff on eBay and Autumn cleaning - http://ping.fm/vpMLQ

2009-11-27T08:19:00.001-08:00

The Web Will Eat Itself... yes, "affiliate programs", I'm looking at you

2009-11-27T02:21:00.001-08:00

Oh... it's a scythe!

2009-11-26T13:23:00.001-08:00

I have 25 Google Wave invites.... if that means something (interesting) to you... let me know :)

2009-11-17T07:46:00.001-08:00

"There are exactly threee erors in this sentence" - D Hofstadter

2009-10-28T05:17:00.001-07:00

listening to @radio4 on Mandelson's illegal file-sharing policy. Hope Brighton gets a PirateParty candidate for the next election.

2009-10-27T03:30:00.001-07:00

In the library listening to Squarepusher and wondering if Wittgenstein's 'family resemblance' really does support a prototype theory of concepts.

2009-10-26T10:46:00.001-07:00

reeeeeeeeeeeediculous

2009-10-25T08:42:00.001-07:00

I do find it difficult to support Liverpool. But when they're playing Man Utd I can make an exception.

2009-10-25T06:58:00.001-07:00

"the soul never thinks without an image" - discuss (without using any mental images)

2009-10-19T05:10:00.001-07:00

Factoid: Oxford University had a Professor of Chinese before it had one of English (c. 1885). http://ping.fm/acDhV

Postings from an edge: 'The Future Of Collaboration', and Cory Doctorow in Brighton

2009-10-18T02:56:00.000-07:00

Dom Pates. Write up of last night's @doctorow event.

Postings from an edge: 'The Future Of Collaboration', and Cory Doctorow in Brighton

Beautiful Geek

2008-10-30T00:20:00.000-07:00

Youre such a beautiful freak
I wish there were more just like you
Youre not like all of the others

And that is why I love you
Beautiful freak, beautiful freak
That is why I love you
Beautiful freak, beautiful freak

Some people think you have a problem
But that problem lies only with them
Just cause you are not like the others

But that is why I love you
Beautiful freak, beautiful freak
Yeah that is why I love you
Beautiful freak, beautiful freak

Too good for this world
But I hope you will stay
And Ill be here to see that you dont fade away

Youre such a beautiful freak
I bet you are flying inside
Dart down and then go for cover

And know that i
I love you
Beautiful freak,
You know that i
I love you
Beautiful freak, beautiful freak

OmniFocus and Twitter

2008-10-20T09:17:00.001-07:00

details: http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=5871

alt vid link: http://technorati.com/videos/youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DElrmRdhG5J0

I'm SO a Nine

2008-10-19T14:57:00.000-07:00

Turns out I'm more productive than I thought I was!

2008-10-10T01:45:00.001-07:00

Video of the day: A literal Take On Me

2008-10-09T03:17:00.001-07:00

I had to blog this because it's such a great idea and done really well.

I loved the original video which, at the time, just seemed so... well... original.

This little remix does take the piss a little, but I don't care because it's just so well done.

*Chuckling still*

[Thanks to @CoriS for the link]

Buy Stuff “As Seen On YouTube” With New Click-to-Buy Platform

2008-10-08T02:09:00.001-07:00

Well about bloody time... I'm really surprised it took this long after the GOOG bought the TUBE.

I remember wanting this kind of interaction when I was a kid... 'why can't I just press a button on the remote control and BUY the Transformer toy they are showing me?', I thought.

Now it's 2008, I'm too old for Transformers and I've got less disposable income then ever, let alone pocket money. :(

I don't think now, as a adult, I'll use this very often. I might by the occasional MP3, but I doubt it'll be very many. I mainly use YouTube so I don't have to buy stuff... I watch snippets of classic shows and re-runs and the chances of me buying the box-set is very low indeed.

Still... I like the fact interaction as got us this far.

From: http://ping.fm/rBvhw

Getting Things Done

2008-10-03T03:29:00.001-07:00

Realising I'm totally distracted by my Outlook folders... especially the ones with little numbers, in brackets and bold. I've found I can now hide the folders, Alt-F1, and bring up the more focused views I need with Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2 and, the killer move..., Ctrl-Y which opens any folder I need for total zoom into the task in hand.

Last Minute Advice for McCain

2008-10-02T08:58:00.001-07:00

McCain... ditch Caribou Barbie and announce Whoppi Goldberg as your running mate. Please! http://ping.fm/ZXO7c

Bigfoot Stabalised

2008-10-01T06:42:00.001-07:00

awesome... someone has stabalised the famous bigfoot movie... it's so clearly a man in a monkey suit
awesome... someone has stabalised the famous bigfoot movie... it's so clearly a man in a monkey suit
http://ping.fm/teIl2

want

2008-09-23T09:31:00.001-07:00

want want want

2008-09-23T09:27:00.001-07:00

http://ping.fm/uXfTh

Sneezing Panda

2008-09-23T04:21:00.001-07:00

hahahahaha

sorry... on a bit of a fluffy fun mission right now

Dramatic Chipmunk

2008-09-23T04:20:00.001-07:00

*giggling like a fool*

so simple

so funny

Dramatic Lemur

2008-09-23T04:19:00.001-07:00

hehehehee

STILL makes me laugh after all these years

My Review of Wireless Key Finder

2008-09-22T11:19:00.001-07:00

Originally submitted at Brookstone

No more misplaced keys—our new wireless key finder locates your lost keys with just the press of a button.
Simply press one of the color-coded pager buttons on the compact wireless transmitter, and the matching key fob will answer with a loud, clear alarm from anywhere in your home. Th...

FFS - talk about over-engineered

By FFS Sheeple from Reality on 9/22/2008

Gift: No

Cons: Waste of money

Best Uses: None

Erm... I've got one of these, but I stripped it down, it uses no power (no batteries to replace at all) and is easily upgraded by adding extra... um... let's call them "hooks".

Yes. "Hooks". You get a "hook", I can sell you one for $10, and you screw the "hook" into the wall where the "Wireless Key Finder" might have been placed.

When you get home, simply place your key on the "hook device" and through the power of gravity and other Physical Laws technology (tm) you'll find your key is there when you next need it.

(legalese)

Elephant 9

2008-09-22T02:59:00.001-07:00

I heard these guys by complete chance the other day.

Love it!

Quote of the day - Sam Harris on Sarah Palin

2008-09-21T07:05:00.001-07:00

"I believe Governor Palin's speech was the most effective political communication I have ever witnessed. Here, finally, was a performer who—being maternal, wounded, righteous and sexy—could stride past the frontal cortex of every American and plant a three-inch heel directly on that limbic circuit that ceaselessly intones "God and country." If anyone could make Christian theocracy smell like apple pie, Sarah Palin could."

http://ping.fm/6eWq7

Palin Vs the LHC

2008-09-12T08:04:00.001-07:00

The webocracy has decided.

http://ping.fm/e9OJA

2008-09-07T15:04:00.001-07:00

hahah: "I love when shipping forms let you specify your own purchase order number. Current favorites: 31337 and 8008135..." -retweet

Enrichment talk at BarCampBrighton3 Web Content Mining

2008-09-07T03:55:00.001-07:00

http://ping.fm/wIsBl

Bit too hungover and spaced to concentrate on anything

Related ideas: http://ping.fm/wM9Ox

2008-09-05T15:12:00.001-07:00

@tweetfilm Somers Town. Warm & surprisingly touching consider Meadow's previous. Great performances & comedic touches. A little short. 8/10.

2008-09-05T09:34:00.001-07:00

thinking SocialThing is most awesome. Not checked Facebook all day :)

2008-09-02T01:36:00.001-07:00

Liking this multi-touch demo:

http://ping.fm/Bqowk

2008-09-02T01:25:00.001-07:00

Eagerly awaiting the Google Chrome Browser.

Supposed to appear here, http://ping.fm/sr4gI today, at 11PST.

WANT!

'Losing Sight of Progress' by Christopher Hitchens - Slate - RichardDawkins.net

2008-07-29T06:02:00.000-07:00

As much as I hate to love Christopher Hitchens his recent Slate piece, reprinted on RichardDawkins.net [1], is a lovely inversion of logic, the kind that makes me happy to see the world anew for a few moments.

I'm reminded also of a recent poll on Integral Praxis [2]. The question 'What do you think is the future of our species?' elicited a response of "Transcendence" from 52% of the respondents.

All very nice, and I'm sure almost all of them would favour evolution over creationism, but perhaps this is merely a vestigial belief from the days of creationist thought? Why do only 20% think "Extinction" is a more likely fate for the human race? Belief in "transcendence" not only sounds new-agey religious, but it totally smacks of wishful-thinking... let's face it, no other species, ever, has survived for more than a 100,000 years, why would we?

That's my daily rant done. As you were.

[1] - 'Losing Sight of Progress' by Christopher Hitchens - Slate - RichardDawkins.net
[2] - http://integralpraxis.blogspot.com/

Goodbye My Love, goodbye

2008-07-28T06:51:00.001-07:00

Fire runs through my body with the pain of loving you.
Pain runs through my body with the fires of my love for you.
Pain like a boil about to burst with my love for you.
Consumed by fire of my love for you.
I remember what you said to me,
I am thinking of your love for me.
I am torn by your love for me.
Pain and more pain.
Where are you going with my love?
I'm told you will go from here.
I'm told you will leave me here.
My body is numb with grief.
Remember what I said My Love
Goodbye My Love, goodbye.

- Anon, Kwakiutl indian poem, 1896

Magnetic Movie: The Colors of Magnetic Fields

2008-07-17T01:47:00.001-07:00

The film follows Scientists from NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratory excitedly describing their discoveries while the animation of Jarmne and Gerhardt bring to life their descriptions with visualizations of the magnetic life all around us.-This is an awesome piece of animation. It reminds me of being in HalfLife for the first time... something real is going on and, for the first time, I can see the alien life around me. I wish NASA made more videos like this, it's a wonderful way of visualising what's-really-going-on and this kind of blend of trippy-ness and education make for my favourite kind of viewing. More... please!

read more | digg story

2008-07-15T03:01:00.001-07:00

Night and Day

Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom

When the jungle shadows fall

Like the tick tick tock of the stately clock

As it stands against the wall

Like the drip drip drip of the raindrops

When the summer shower is through

So a voice within me keeps repeating

You, you, you

Night and day, you are the one

Only you beneath the moon or under the sun

Whether near to me, or far

It's no matter darling where you are

I think of you

Day and night, night and day, why is it so

That this longing for you follows wherever I go

In the roaring traffic's boom

In the silence of my lonely room

I think of you

Day and night, night and day

Under the hide of me

There's an oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me

And this torment won't be through

Until you let me spend my life making love to you

Day and night, night and day

by Cole Porter

I'm so bored...

2008-07-10T06:44:00.001-07:00

Of not having my life in order I've decided to disband all my blogs and start again.

http://ping.fm/vUP6o

Will be the new start point and http://ping.fm/VUlOv/wiki shall be HQ

Hurt

2008-07-02T03:36:00.001-07:00

I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
you could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear this crown of shit
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stain of time
the feeling disappears
you are someone else
I am still right here
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
you could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

The Journey of the Magi

2008-06-30T04:29:00.001-07:00

"...were we led all that way for

Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly,

We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,

But had thought they were different; this Birth was

Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death,

We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,

But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,

With an alien people clutching their gods.

I should be glad of another death."

-- T. S. Eliot

2008-06-20T10:20:00.001-07:00

I don't want to get over you. I guess I could take
a sleeping pill and sleep at will and not have to
go through what I go through. I guess I should take
Prozac, right, and just smile all night at somebody new,
Somebody not too bright but sweet and kind who would
try to get you off my mind. I could leave this agony behind
which is just what I'd do if I wanted to, but I don't
want to get over you cause I don't want to get over love.
I could listen to my therapist, pretend you don't exist
and not have to dream of what I dream of; I could listen
to all my friends and go out again and pretend it's enough,
or I could make a career of being blue--I could dress
in black and read Camus, smoke clove cigarettes and drink
vermouth like I was 17 that would be a scream but I
don't want to get over you.

"Only"

2008-06-20T07:08:00.001-07:00

I'm becoming less defined as days go by
Fading away
And well you might say
I'm losing focus
Kinda drifting into the abstract in terms of how I see myself

Sometimes I think I can see right through myself [x2]
Sometimes I can see right through myself

Less concerned about fitting into the world
Your world that is
Cause it doesn't really matter anymore
(no it doesn't really matter anymore)
No it doesn't really matter anymore
None of this really matters anymore

Yes I am alone but then again I always was
As far back as I can tell
I think maybe it's because
Because you were never really real to begin with
I just made you up to hurt myself

[x2]
I just made you up to hurt myself, yeah
And I just made you up to hurt myself

And it worked.
Yes it did!

[Chorus:]
There is no you
There is only me
There is no you
There is only me
There is no fucking you
There is only me
There is no fucking you
There is only me

Only [x4]

Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye and it turned out to be a scab
And I had this funny feeling like I just knew it's something bad
I just couldn't leave it alone, I kept picking at the scab
It was a doorway trying to seal itself shut
But I climbed through

Now I am somewhere I am not supposed to be, and I can see things I know I really shouldn't see
And now I know why, now, now, now I know why
Things aren't as pretty
On the inside

[Chorus]

Only [x8]

2008-06-19T02:59:00.001-07:00

I'm wondering how many of you have seen ping.fm yet? It's pretty awesome for updating your blogs and tweets and statuses... good work Pingstars!

Patrick Sweeney - Realizing Ordinary Mind

2008-05-28T03:48:00.000-07:00

Dharma2.0

"Patrick offers a beautiful discussion of nondual consciousness, the nameless, effortless, self-liberating quality of awareness in which all distinctions between self and other, this and that, inside and outside fall away completely, leaving only the brilliant clarity of this very Moment, exactly as it is. Although this 'Ordinary Mind' is and always has been the ever-present condition of consciousness, the separate self somehow rarely seems to notice that which it always already is—in fact, it is fair to say that the majority of our actions and intentions as human beings are in avoidance of this simple recognition, with all its ego-shattering implications. However, we have all experienced this radical One Taste many times in the course of our lives, if even for the briefest of moments. Patrick mentions accidents, orgasms, and death as typical moments of spontaneous and profound realization, but these experiences tend to occur whenever the normal continuity of life becomes suddenly disrupted—during which people tend to report radically altered states of experience, including a sense of time dilation, an overwhelming feeling of peace or oneness with the world, and everything simply becomes much more vivid, vibrant, and present. Unfortunately, it can be all too easy to miss these experiences without a stable contemplative practice, which helps train our capacity to be persistently aware of ourselves and our environments, making it much easier to recognize our own Original Face whenever it chooses to reveal itself."

Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer

2008-03-31T07:17:00.000-07:00

Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer

People are 'orrible

2008-03-03T13:52:00.000-08:00

this is a text of a text doc
to see how it can integrate into my GTD system

Big Ass Footers

2008-01-24T08:58:00.001-08:00

I've started collecting links of sites with big ass footers

http://del.icio.us/michaelrose/bigassfooter

If you see one, please tag it "bigassfooter"

Bloody Barclays

2008-01-18T06:31:00.001-08:00

Has anyone else had to apply for a PINsentry device for Barclays Online Banking?

Despite being the victim of a cyber-fraud last year (I lost £200 to a Polish dude who somehow bought my pin from someone somewhere) I STILL think Barclays are being totally paranoid and over the top.

When asked to order the magic-device I thought it was just for setting up new payments and payees.

But no... I have to use it everytime I log in to my online banking.

Logging in is a painful, 6-step, process: entering all the usual details, numbers, random letters from password, then 4 digits from my card. I then add my pin to the device to identify myself and then have to provide the resulting 8-digit code to my online login.

Setting up a new payment requires me to enter all the details online, then all of them again on device (including their a/c number, sort code, amount) and then put a code from device back online.

It is, slightly quicker to do than to explain, but is it really necessary?

Every Barclays customer is being forced to 'upgrade' to this new plastic toy.

But won't it be hacked within time anyway? It's just an algorythm I'm guessing.

After setting up the payment I also get a text saying "a transaction has been set up, please contact us if it's fraudulent".

A little OTT?

*turning into a grumpy old man*

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TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2007 - Paul Hillier & Theatre of Voices - Stockhausen: Stimmung

2008-01-07T06:26:00.001-08:00

Harmonia Mundi / 186431

"Stimmung is one of the masterpieces of the last half century... in essence it is a vast elaboration of a single six-note chord based on the overtones of the note B flat, it never seems to stale in performance, partly because of the extraordinary variety of rhythm, attack and colour that Stockhausen generates within the 51 "models" into which he divides the 70-minute piece....
This is only the third commercial recording of Stimmung.. which places the voices (three female, three male) in a more spacious acoustic than before, far closer to what you experience when Stimmung is performed live, and lending even more enchantment to this extraordinary work."
The Guardian.

The Four Horsemen debate

2007-12-20T09:15:00.001-08:00

The Four Horsemen: Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris and Dennett together at last, 17/12/07, George Eaton's Blog

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The love affair continues

2007-12-14T05:35:00.001-08:00

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Latte art

2007-12-13T01:57:00.001-08:00

I've been keeping an eye on coffee crema art for a while now.

Blog queen GwenBell has uploaded some beauties

I plan to get my own efforts up and running in the new year. So you'll have to come down to the centre on Saturdays to see how I'm getting on! :)

L'art'e - geddit?!

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Which Philosopher Are YOU?

2007-12-12T06:53:00.001-08:00

I'm proud to be sussed as W.v.O. Quine / Late Wittgenstein

Early Wittgenstein would have been annoying and W.v.O. Quine is pleasing now I'm reading Dennett.

Which philosopher are you? Your Result: W.v.O. Quine / Late Wittgenstein There is no provable absolute truth. The way you see things is dependant on your language. Truths exist only within a language, and change as the language does. --This quiz was made by S. A-Lerer.
Early Wittgenstein / Positivists
Sartre/Camus (late existentialists)
Immanuel Kant
Nietzsche
Aristotle
Plato (strict rationalists)
Which philosopher are you? Take More Quizzes

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Facebook News Network

2007-12-12T05:53:00.001-08:00

Embedded Video

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Poll

2007-11-29T06:47:00.001-08:00

Opinion Polls & Market Research

Poll

2007-11-29T06:46:00.001-08:00

Opinion Polls & Market Research

VAJRAYOGINI : Tsem Tulku Rinpoche explains (Part 1 of 3)

2007-11-08T01:51:00.000-08:00

Tsem Tulku Rinpoche explains VAJRAYOGINI (Part 1 of 3)