Not the favorite child.

The past few weeks have been pivotal in our growth as a couple. For my wife, me and our children, the learning curve has been unrelenting (as it should be). Many events have transpired and eventuated, to varying degrees of enlightenment in us all. In the ‘Tao Te Ching’ Lao Tzu says “The weak overcomes the strong and the submissive overcomes the hard. Everyone in the world knows, yet nobody can put it into practice.” That which was once unclear, has become clear and those who were misunderstood are now who they have revealed themselves to be. As my brother says: “The Leopard cannot hide his spots.”

Our spiritual self is defined simply by us being... As the saying goes ’life is just a thing that happens whilst we are busy making other plans,’ and this is certainly true. Sometimes life will seem to turn a corner like a winding road... confronting you with a choice to make. Sometimes it is a fork in the road or even a cul-de-sac. You have to choose to do something, as unlike driving a car, life does not wait for us to choose. An opportunity will be missed through our inaction, sending us back on the path that we have already travelled.

Whether it is driving a car, watching TV, or making important life changing decisions, one should be mindful of where they have come from: lest the journey may never end (we always seem to be in the same place if we cannot learn from our mistakes).
Ego is our own worst enemy and sometimes we are consumed by it.

On our journey as martial artists, we often arrive back at the beginning of our training. Indeed, the most basic of all things we learn as martial artists remain the most significant. If we never forget the basic principles and the skills with which we apply them, we can never be without the elements required for advanced knowledge and application of further learning.
Martial arts are truly a life journey. You can take the journey at entirely your own pace and with whatever intensity you choose and the results will be proportionate to your efforts.

Now on to the more technical side of things:

Yes I know I have misspelled favourites and ‘no I didn’t exactly excel in English at school, but the favorites folder in windows is a major pain in the rear end if you keep all of your documents on a separate drive like I do. I have a 400Gb for my system partition, a 320Gb for backups, an 80Gb for my documents (which needs to be upsized) and a 160Gb for shadow copies.

Like many people, I have recently reformatted the system HDD due to an accumulation of various problems and Windows Vista behaviours... (Such as the favorites anomaly) and other security related behaviours.

The problem exists due to the fact that people such as myself, insist on integrating advanced configurations of their overall pc setup, in the hope that it will simplify the process of rebuilding when it all turns pear-shaped... Which inevitably will happen folks, if you run your pc 24/7 with desktop SATA drives and your quad core CPU crunching alien data (searching in vain for signs of ET). Check out the SETI project at Seti@home.

I figure that by the time we perfect a solid state HDD with the capacity of 10TB or more, we will have found ET and will be living with him or her on another planet practicing Judo on the ceiling for fear of hitting the ground.- Anyway, the solution my friends, is to set the appropriate permissions for your user account to access the ‘favorites’ folder on the drive in which it resides.
For example, if your user account resides on the drive letter designated d: (and of course that you are right handed), then you would navigate your way to d drive and:
right click on the favorites folder.
Left click on properties.
Left click the ‘security’tab.
Change the permissions for the folder by left clicking on ‘edit.’
Now left click on ‘add’
Left click ‘advanced’
Left click on the ‘find now’ tab
Now select your user profile (if you are not sure, click on the taskbar and check what it says under your picture) by left double clicking on it and then left clicking on ‘OK’
Now left click on the box next to that which says ‘full control’ and then click ok.
Job done.
Restart internet explorer and voila, it is fixed.