mrdee

Well, it has been a few weeks now, however, it stopped me from doing my hrading for my brown belt with red stripe, as a result I had to put it off until December.I had a crack in one of the bones of my foot (might sound like nothing, but extremely painful, I can tell you).It all happened very stupidly: going home through a park, due to the weather the soil being a bit soft (muddy).All of a sudden I walk a bit faste and due to the kind of trainers I was wearing the front of my foot sort of like gets caught in the ground, while I try to walk on.All of a sudden, there's me down on the grass, in excruciating pain and with a foot the size of a balloon.(Hasn't got "Happy Birthday" written on it, though). Anyway, the worst thing is, I have been told, since I am diabetic, to avoid injuries to legs and feet.Like two weeks on trainig, where an opponent blocked a kick, skin peeled off and the day after I had an infection.I guess Y am in a no win situation here.

Congratulations.i hope you get far in the all Australian Championship.Which reminds me, I have a TISKA British championship on Saturday the 10th of November.My injury should be completely forgotten by then.(Or at least I hope so).

I definitely would not tryto lose weight with the use of hormones and other stuff.It might look cool, but one day, you will pay the price.The only good thing might be that the ones carrying your coffin will have it lot easier than they would normally have had it, that's all.

Think you've been hacked mate. Happened to me.

Thank goodness that was not the case, Forbez.
Thank you for your advice, serverph, I found the solution there.

I am frantically trying to get into my Trap 17 control panel.
I tried to get into the login screen by typing:
http://forums.xisto.com/ and indeed, the login screen comes up.
I then type in my username (mrdee, or should it be my trap 17 domain)?
I then also enter my correct password, what hapeens then is that the login screen keeps popping up again.
I have no idea what I am doing wrong.
Can anyone help me please?
Thanks in advance.

I use the humble Coffeecup 2007.

Maybe not a big name you read about on the net day in and day out, but it has quite a few useful things and does the job more than adequately.

I use Mozilla Firefox, quite a few useful features and reasonably fast too.When IE7 came out, I installed it and tried it out and guess what? Half of the features I was used to had stopped working and it had messed with my Firefox settings as well.I had to resort to a system restore to get rid of it.

Thanks for that.

I do , however, not use a text editor for making my web pages.

I use the HTML editor Coffeecup.

Can I just enter that meta tag in there without being asked about saving with or without BOM?

Ie. would that just follow the language encoding without any further hassle?

Thanks.

I was wondering how I could solve a small problem.

I was told that some people see accented and umlauted letters (such as "?" and "?") as question marks ("?") on my website.

I come across the same thing sometimes when looking at websites which use non-English characters.

Funnily enough, the other day, I looked at a site and the apostrophy (') was also shown as a question mark.

That is a very common character usually, I would think.

I thought it had something to do with the character encoding settings, and let me also mention I use Mozilla Firefox as my browser. (Version 2.0.0.7, the latest).

Anyway, I looked in the source code of the page and saw the encoding the site used was Western (ISO-8859-1), which is exactly what my browser is set to.

Has anyone got any idea how this can be solved?

Especially how I can avoid other people seeing question marks in my design of web sites.

It might only be a minor problem, nevertheless I find it very annoying.

I have a mongrel dog called Mozart, he is 11 years old now, but still very lively, I also have a young black labrador called Lucky, he is 1 year and 5 months old now.He loves Mozart, but loves even more to wind him up.I then have a cat, 3 years old, he used to be a boy .Further I have a canary called Pietje and to make things complete, my son also has a albino ferret called Quitsy.As you can see, it is like a small zoo here, but that is the thing when you have a love for animals.

I think the best thing to take as a yardstick on whether or not you have mastered a certain technique is your sensei, and the examiners.It is true, we think, if we can kick someone with speed and power, we have done a great thing, yet it does not always mean the technique has been executed correctly.Being able to teach a technique is another thing, you might be able to correctly explain to someone how to execute a technique, but be unable yourself to do it correctly, or you might indeed be explaining it all wrong.Blocking a punch/kick is obviously something you need, something essential, but blocking a kick does not necessarily mean you can also execute that kick (punching, kicking and blocking are three different techniques altogether).As I said, the best guidance in this case comes from your instructor, who will be able to tell you whether or not you execute the technique correctly, or the examiner who passes or fails you (hopefully you don't have to go that far to hear the latter, and have listened to your sensei's advice before taking an exam).

Goodness, it does indeed give you a kick in the teeth when you open it for the first time.
This is a typical thing for beginning webmasters to do: they see all sorts of websites, and they decide: "Hey, let me add some burning text here, some scrolling text there, lots of different colours, a Flash intro....", ie. they want to put all the tricks they have seen on other websites together in one, as a result they exaggerate.
But this is indeed very straining on the eyes.
I do like the way he has put his URLs on though, all those little icons in one square.
But it is indeed horrible to look at when you get to the homepage.
The one someone else described: http://www.jimmyr.com/internets_ugliest_website/ is even worse, and has the disadvantage that it does not even lead anywhere, as it has not got a single workin g link on it.
I sure hope the webmaster of that first one gets the message(s).

Exactly, odomike,but that does of course not stop us from speculating, or scientists to do research into the matter.After all, we are all fascinated by things we don't know.

I have developed a website about the country where I was born: Flanders.

Its purpose is to:

Give Flemings abroad (like myself) a piece of home

Let foreigners have some more information about Flanders (it is a beautiful place and high on the tourist list)

Give the Flemings at home some more information (especially about things that do not appear in the media or that are described in the press with half truths and whole lies).

On top of that, the situation is very interesting at the moment, as Flanders is on the verge of tearing itself free from Belgium and to end 177 years of Belgian slavery, so I thought I might be able to help support Flemish nationalists (of which I am one) in their fight for freedom.

 

The site is bilingual (Dutch/English), and on it are things like a slideshow with pictures from Flanders (as it is a beautiful place), a news page, a complete insight into Flanders, i.e. demographically, geographically, politically and historically. This page is still under construction, but already contains a wealth of information about current Flanders, and the next bit to be added will be about Flanders throughout the centuries.

Furtermore, there is a guest book, a forum (bilingual) where, after free registration) people can discuss Flemish matters, or indeed post questions if they want to learn more about Flanders. There is also a media page with video clips, Powerpoint presentations and sound clips. In due time all videos in Dutch will be subtitled in English (working on that at the moment).

You can also subscribe to a Flemish newsletter (once again, bilingual NL/Eng).

There is also a page with famous Flemings, which ranges from martyrs and freedom fighters over artists, scientists and sports people. Information is also constantly added to that page.

 

You can find the site here.

It would also be nice to hear some opinions and/or advice.

Any help to make improvements is always gratefully accepted.

 

PS. Something must have gone wrong earlier, I tried to post this topic but it did not appear in this subforum.

It was, however, mentioned in the "Latest Activity" section.

Sincere apologies if I went wrong somewhere.

It is indeed difficult to talk about the subject as, like someone said earlier, no one is here to tell the tale.
However, it seems like the prospect of death is experienced differently by different individuals.
Some more hypotheses on the subject can be found here:
Death online
20 things you didn't know about death
And a more scientific one:
Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy

If you're looking to kill somebody, there's nothing better than ninjitsu

You might have a point there, dre (and yes, I do notice the smiley), but that is not what martial arts are about.

Great stuff, that is.Yes, you do know how to cheat, don't you?To be quite honest, I don't think I would want to train under a Sifu/Sensei who preaches violence.Thanks for the insight.

Sounds interesting.

Could you tell us a bit more about Chinese Kenpo please?

 

As a matter of fact, this is the first time I heard about Chinese Kenpo.

I knew there was Kenpo Karate (One of the famous Kenpo Karateka being Danny Innosanto), but this was new to me.

So, please, give us some more detail.

And also tell us why your Sifu was a maniac.

Exactly, going to the loo properly means the health of a human being.That is what many people often forget.Also, with a lack of fibre (and hence constipation and the likes) you have a much greater chance of developing piles (haemhorrhoids), not a pleasant thing, I can assure you.Fortunately there are also additions you can buy, such as Fybogel (exists in orange and I believe apple flavour) and the bags of pure grain fibre.But iti is a well known fact that regular exercise also aids those things.Believe it or not, but the best "sport" is walking.If you walk for about 15 minutes, you have done as much as if you had had a 1 mile run.It is also a good way to start, if you (depending on what shape you are in) start with walking half an hour a day for a month (that is, if you are very overweight or in very bad shape), you are putting down the foundations for the further work.1) It will make a difference related to your fitness and it will improve your figure.2) It will get you ready for heavier activity, begin with (like someone mentioned earlier) a 5 or 10 minute jog and increase duration and speed gradually.It should also go without saying that you have to watch what you eat, as many people forget that, even if you exercise 24/7, you are not going to lose any weight at all if you do not reduce your calorie intake.

Well, Archangel, I think you have every right to be proud of your son.Whatever they achieve merits pride.That is why I am also proud of what I have achieved thus far.Best of luck to the boy in his further training.

Thanks for the comforting words, chaosdesign.It is, of course, still very unfortunate that it had to happen now of all times.(Haven't got enough on my plate).One consolation, though, by the time the next grading comes I will have had ample opportunity to train hard and perfect all my required techniques to a level as high as possible.

Heck, I do not believe it.Had a freak accident, have a little crack in a bone in my foot, and it hurts something rotten.The worst thing is, though, that I can forget my grading on Sunday.I will now have to wait until around Christmas to get my brown belt with red stripe.I am beginning to believe someone up there has got it in for me.

Well,right what you say about fats, except, illogical as it may sound (that is if you eat it), but you should have fatty, oily fish 3 times a week, like sardines, tuna, kippers, mackrel, salmon. These contain a lot of fat that is actually needed and they keep cholesterol down, the fats in question are called Omega 3 oils and our body does need them (diabetics too).About rice, as someone mentioned before, this is right, but you can have basmati rice, perfectly OK on the GI (glycaemic index), pastas are also ok.An interesting book to read is:The GI CounterDr. Mabel BladesPub. 2007 by Kyle Cathie Ltd.122 Arlington RoadLondonNW1 7HpISBN 978 1 85626 719 9I picked up a copy for ? 0.99.It tells you exactly which foods to eat and to avoid and gives a detailed insight into the GI of all foods.It even contains certain recipes.This will definitely help.By the way, I am diabetic too.Give it a try and good luck.

Exactly.Remember zak92, "no pain, no gain".

Best of luck to you.I know exactly how you must be feeling.I have an exam next Sunday (for my brown belt with red stripe though), but that is Shotokan Karate, this belt is the one just before black 1st Dan.Once again, good luck!