Sunday, August 03, 2003

Green Way Gardening Journal Started   Started making entries in the Green Way Gardening Journal.   These entries will also be posted to the Green Way Blog on the Radio Weblog. This journal will also be published in a newsletter format to subscribers. A day for getting organized! 3:19:30 PM    comment []

Saturday, July 12, 2003

Atlantic.Net and Feature Price Are Ripoff Web Hosts!! BEWARE!   I apologize to the thousands of people who visited my third website this month, Green Way Research, only to find nothing there.  I also apologize to everyone who sent me e-mail that has been withheld by the ripoff web host Atlantic.Net and defunct Feature Price.  Green Way Research serves up over 45,000 webpages each month.    Finally, after being down from 7/1/2003 until 7/11/2003, the many webpages at Green Way Research are now up and running on new web servers. My e-mail is again working properly.   Here is what happened:  1.  In December 2002, I paid cash up front to Feature Price to host my website, and things were going just fine at www.egreenway.com. 2.  Atlantic.Net "acquires" and takes over accounts of the Feature Price company, then without any warning or explanation my website and email disappear on July 1, 2003.  3.  I read a message from Atlantic.Net on 7/2 that I need to join up with them and pay more money to them to get my website back up.  If I don't, I don't get a refund, and my website and e-mail disappear, even though I have already paid for six more months of service.    4.  Atlantic.Net falsely "talks" at its website (Feature Price FAQ) about demonstating its "good will" and "positive intentions" and "customer service" and providing "excellent web hosting services" ....  Hooey!!  No service, take your money and run, don't respond - that is the REAL deal you get from Atlantic.Net.    5.  My e-mails to Feature Price and Atlantic.Net went unanswered, and their phone lines were always busy.    In my opinion, if Atlantic.Net was a decent and businesslike web hosting company, a company wanting to keep its paying customers, they would have kept my website and email running, sent me a informative e-mail about the change in ownership, told me about their fine services and reasonable costs, told me when I would need to pay them to renew in 12/2003, and welcomed me into to the Atlantic.Net family.  I would have patted them on the back for a transitional job well done and signed up and paid another year in advance.      Atlantic.Net's inept and avaricious transition leadership "team" has jumped offsides so many times and fumbled the ball and threw interceptions, just like the Raiders did in the last Super Bowl, and lost the game for them.    What a very disappointing two weeks for a webmaster.  I recommend that you not subject yourself to the fumbling and stealing and duplicity of the Atlantic.Net Web host ISP.      5:38:19 AM    comment []

Thursday, July 03, 2003

Feature Price and Atlantic.Net Are Ripoff Internet Web Hosts   My web host, for www. egreenway.com, was Feature Price, in Florida.  They have been "acquired" by Atlantic.Net. Suddenly, without notice, my website and e-mail are no longer working. Atlantic.Net replaced my index.htm webpage with their own.  They say I must pay them more money to get my website back up, even though I am still paid up for another 6 months.  What a racket!!  Based on my experiences, Atlantic.Net and Feature Price are a ripoff team, can't do the work you pay them to do, can't run your webpages or mail server, make excuses, and don't answer your e-mail or phone calls.   Beware!!!    6:39:01 AM    comment []

Tuesday, June 17, 2003

Cloud Hands: Tai Chi Chuan and Chi Kung All my efforts at writing the last few weeks have gone into my Cloud Hands website. I keep a journal/blog at the Cloud Hands website.  It is called the Valley Spirit Taijiquan Journal     11:16:32 PM    comment []

Monday, June 02, 2003

Gardening and Taijiquan   I worked all day on mowing lawns, mulching, installing some pipe, and repairing drip lines.  A beautiful, warm, and breezy Spring day.  Taiji at dawn.     Tai Chi Chuan and gardening have a lot in common: a productive use of the body, relaxing the body by exercise, calming to the spirit, natural and close to the earth, a backyard activity, unhurried, consistent with the Five Precepts, environmentally low impact, nurturing, the cultivation of beauty, gentle, open-ended, pleasing to the senses, a daily effort, and endless.   Gardeners must be patient, so too Taiji players.  Our gardens are never complete, neither are we.  Our gardens need improvement, so does our form.  Another day is a fine opportunity for cultivating our garden, so too for ourselves.   We just have now, and a plan for tomorrow.  The past and distant future are interesting, often compelling, but we have our true being defined by what we will accomplish today.  So, on this fine late spring day - water the garden and discover the Cloud Hands.     "Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness." -   Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra     11:21:42 AM    comment []

Sunday, May 25, 2003

Chen Style Tai Chi Chuan   Chen Style Tai Chi Chuan: Links, Bibliography, Notes, and Quotes. Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo. Chinese Poetry: Han Shan   6:54:59 PM    comment []

Friday, May 23, 2003

Tai Chi Chuan, Short Form, 24 Movement, Peking Version   "While making a stride, it is as quietly as a cat walks, and while putting forth strength the exertion is so mild that it looks like reeling off raw silk from a cocoon.  The movements, like clouds floating in the sky, are spry and light, but well-balanced and steady.  Motion is even and fluid, the muscles neither stiff nor rigid.  Breathing should be deep and even ... the mind is tranquil but alert, with consciousness commanding the body.  In practising T'ai Chi Chuan it is essential that movements be guided by consciousness and that there be stillness in movement - a unity of stillness and motion." -  Official Chinese instruction manual for the 24 movement short form, quoted by Howard Reid in his book "The Way of Harmony," p. 90.   Cloud Hands Tai Chi Chuan and Qi Gong       6:07:01 AM    comment []

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