Alphabetizing Your **Favorites** List!
You know how it goes, you add a favorite site here - a favorite site there, and before you know it, your favorites list has grown beyond comprehension! It's hard for you to find anything because nothing is in alphabetical order.
You go crazy looking for that site you know you saved... somewhere, but then give up trying to find it.
Well, wait! Here's where this useful tip comes in and it only takes 2 secs, literally! To organize your Favorites list just do the following:
For Internet Explorer 7 & 8:
If your Favorites button is visible right away like mine is on my PC as soon as I open up Internet Explorer (as shown in the pic to your right), then just click on it.
If your Favorites button is visible right away like mine is on my PC as soon as I open up Internet Explorer (as shown in the pic to your right), then just click on it.
When the lists of all your favorite sites appear, just right click on one - anyone - and you'll see Sort by Name. Just click on it and that's it! Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, is now alphabetized! The list will stay organized any time you open Internet Explorer. However, if you add another site to your favorites list, you will have to sort it again. It doesn't take very long to do, but this can still be an inconvenience. Still, an inconvenience you can live with! That's it! This Week's HTML Goodie: A Halloween Scroll Box!
The Lost Meaning of Halloween
All Hallow's Eve, Hallow E'en, Halloween, Day of the Dead, Samhain.By whatever name it has been called,
this special night preceding All Hallows day
(November 1st) has been considered for centuries as one of the most magical nights of the year. A night of power, when the veil that separates our world from the Otherworld is at its thinnest.
As ubiquitous as Halloween celebrations are throughout the world, few of us know that the true origin of Halloween is a ceremony of honoring our ancestors and the day of the dead. A time when the veils between the worlds were thinner, and so many could "see" the other side of life. A time in the year when the spiritual and material worlds touched for a moment, and a greater potential exists for magical creation.
Ancient rites
In ancient times, this day was a special and honored day of the year.
In the Celtic calendar, it was one of the most important days of the year, representing a mid point in the year, Samhain, or "summer's end". Occuring opposite the great Spring Festival of May Day, or Beltain, this day represented the turning point of the year, the eve of the new year which begins with the onset of the dark phase of the year.
And while celebrated by the Celts, the origin of this day has connections to other cultures as well, such as Egypt, and in Mexico as Dia de la Muerta, or the day of the dead.
The Celts believed that the normal laws of space and time were held in abeyance during this time, allowing a special window where the spirit world could intermingle with the living. It was a night when the dead could cross the veils and return to the land of the living to celebrate with their family, or clan. As such, the great burial mounds of Ireland were lit up with torches lining the walls, so the spirits of the dead could find their way.
Jack-o-lanterns
Out of this ancient tradition comes one of our most famous icons of the holiday: the Jack-o-lantern.
Originating from Irish folkfore, the Jack-o-lantern was used as a light for the lost soul of Jack, a notorious trickster, stuck between worlds.
Jack is said to have tricked the devil into a trunk of a tree and by carving an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, he trapped the devil there.
His pranks denied him access to Heaven, and having angered the devil also to Hell, so Jack was a lost soul, trapped between worlds.
As a consolation, the devil gave him a sole ember to light his way through the darkness between worlds.
Originally in Ireland turnips were carved out and candles placed inside as lanterns lit to help guide Jack’s lost spirit back home.
Hence the term: Jack-o-lanterns. Later, when immigrants came to the new world, pumpkins were more readily available, and so the carved pumpkins carrying a lit candle served the same function.
Festival for the dead
As the Church began to take hold in Europe the ancient Pagan rituals were co-opted into festivals of the Church. While the Church could not support a general feast for all the dead, it created a festival for the blessed dead, all those hallowed so, All Hallow's, was transformed into All Saints and All Souls day.
Today, we have lost the significance of this most significant time of year which in modern times has turned into a candy fest with kids dressing up as action hereos.
Many cultures have ceremonies to honor their dead. In so doing, they complete a cycle of birth and death, and keep in line with a harmony and order of the universe, at time when we enter into the cycle of darkness for the upcoming year.
As you light your candles this year, keep in mind the true potency of this time, one of magical connections to the other side of life, and a time to remember those who have passed before us. A time to send our love and gratitude to them to light their way back home. - about.com
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