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2005

Hexagram 45, line 1 and computer chaos

Where had I got to? Ah yes… started recording, and discovered exactly what could go wrong when Program X disabled my soundcard. Logged out. Restarted computer. Restarted browser. Logged in. Not going to try Program X again. Turn on the internal meeting room recorder instead…

Flashback to a reading a few days earlier:

Before the webinar, I was very worried about my computer’s habit of freezing – anything up to four and five times a day, and always at truly inspired moments. Much divination ensued.

What if I don’t reinstall Windows, how will the system cope?

Hexagram 45, changing at line 1, Hexagram 17.

Hexagram 23 and computer calamities

Wow!

The webinar with Stephen Karcher finished a few hours ago, and I’m altogether overwhelmed by the sheer intensity and information-density of it all. There will be a recording available, presently – free for ticket holders and on sale to everyone else. Watch, as always, this space.

For now I want to write about something altogether more trivial, while the big stuff sinks in.

Before the webinar, I did much computer-related divination, to thrash out technical problems as best I could. So let me share one or two of those readings…

Chinese artefacts in the British Museum

Search results for China from the BM’s online gallery of their collections. Stunning images of neolithic jade – and look down the bottom of the page for links to short articles and collections of images.

Chameleon Book

Chameleon Book – a new translation of the Zhouyi by Freeman Crouch.

From the downloadable pdf sample (introduction, appendices, five hexagrams), this looks fresh, bright and intelligent. There are very useful suggestions for divination and imagining yourself into the imagery. (Eg ‘you are soil to be worked, you are a mare’ or ‘seeing the self as a kingdom’.)

ICC: Light on the Dark Bird

ICC: Light on the Dark Bird Freeman Crouch, he of the remarkable Chameleon Book, has revived this topic. Light is being cast on the character and the trials of Jizi.