Turn your mind away from things which are not permanent. - Buddha

Like Rome, Byzantium, Russia the US will have it’s day. Much like those countries and empires the US is focused on Power and Money, and it forgets about the needs of it’s people. You are all probably wondering what brought this up. Well as many of you know I have been on [...]

You know I like to take these personality tests usually once a year. One reason just to check consistency, second is to see how I perceive myself. I usually tend to take different tests, just create some variety as well as help validate the answer. I took this one on Facebook. I [...]

Well the journey west has begun. For all my life I have lived along the East coast. I was born in the great city of Boston, to shortly thereafter at the age of 5 move to New York, where I spent 25 years of my life. I had the opportunity to live [...]

It’s been a while since I have worked on any projects in Second Life. Mostly due to many other priorities. But I have recently started on one of my biggest projects to date. The Mosque takes up over 7036 Sq. M. and is currently made up of over 400 prims.
The mosque [...]

I just finished reading an interesting article that was in last months Wired magazine.  It basically went into the idea that most people would be willing to give larger amounts to assist one person over larger groups of people.  According to psychologists they believe this is hard wired into most of our brains.  For example [...]

Most of you who have been around my blog, or any of the sites I have designed, have seen some of my graphical work.  For years I have been toying around with graphics.  Outside of any formal art classes from back in high school, everything I have learned has been self taught, as well a [...]

Alright before I get to tonights prayers, I have to say that today started off a little rough. I ended up waking up a little late for Fajr Prayers, which meant no meal before starting the day off. It wasn’t really to hard until work started. I usually suck down quite a few [...]

I am probably not going to do this every night, but I did want to share a little about my first night of prayers for Ramadan.
After Isha prayers ( night time prayers), the brothers quickly discussed how many Rakats (parts) we would do each night. It was pretty much a consensus to stick [...]

Under the regime of Saddam Hussein, Sheik Jamal al-Sudani would bury up to 40 abandoned bodies a week, and now with the War on Terror he is burying up to 200 a week.  Isn’t it time to start rethinking our strategy.  Are we really helping these people.  How many more innocent abandoned bodies need to [...]