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Letters from my mind

SharePoint 2007 Email SPUtility.SendMail() Guide

This is just a note that I have for using the email server specified in the SharePoint central admin.

StringDictionary headers = new StringDictionary();
headers.add("to","admin@test.com");
headers.add("cc","manager@test.com");
headers.add("bcc","user@test.com");
headers.add("from","myAddress@test.com");
headers.add("subject","How to use SendEMail from SPUtility");
headers.add("content-type","text/html"); //This is the default type, so isn't neccessary.

string bodyText ="This is the body of my email, in html format.“;

SPUtility.SendEmail(web, headers, bodyText);

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Monsoon

Lightning and rainfall,

The guillotine is ready,

Severs, Dismembers.

 

The wet pouring rain,

Washes away past sins and pain,

Absolution though pain.

 

Hallowed Be Thy Name,

Salvation through severance,

Decapitation.

 

The cold rain and pain,

Inquisition blames thy path,

False paths and blasphemy.

 

The rain does not slacken,

The inevitable comes,

The blinding sharp pain.

 

The cold howling wind,

Transcendence from bonds of past,

Iron will remains.

 

Angry rain still falls,

Dismemberment is my state,

Broken are my chains.

Herds of Insecurity

In a herd one is not allowed to stand out. If one does stand out, the outstanding one is usually beaten down as the rest of the herd does not want to feel any less than anybody else. In the wild, these are usually ostracized or at worst, left to fend for themsevles and perhaps fed to the predators. I suspect the the phrase "don't rock the boat" is an axium that cuts across all types of social life forms. 


Unable to accept diversity, unwilling to learn to be different, unwilling to enrich one's identity due to pride or insecurity. The latter is most likely the main reason as it is within the nature of most to fear the unknown.


Herds come together for security and a common need. The former being the most important as it helps the members of the herd to feel secure. The latter may be safety in numbers which also indirectly promotes conformity. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, however does making oneself lost in a sea of sameness really promote humility?

Truth & Reconciliation

Truth,

Something can be both liberating and suffocating,

Something we deeply want and fear,

Something we pray to a higher power for,

Something we wish to go our way,

Alas,

It does not always happen that way.

 

Reconciliation,

An act of compromise and resignation,

Acceptance of something that was deemed unacceptable,

Bittersweet endings and new beginnings for some, 

For others,

It is also a moment of triumph,

Truth and aspirations converging,

Bringing joy and happiness.

 

Pray for the truth,

Yearn for the truth,

Fear it will not be what I hope,

Still I go on,

For I seek reconciliation,

Be it bitter or sweet,

Liberating or suffocating,

A hell with truth is painful but liberating,

A false paradise is merely a temporary respite,

For when the false paradise is shattered,

By the truth,

Devastating

Steve Jobs, Apple and Life

Those who know me know that I was an early user of Apple right up to their pre-iMac days before I took the plunge to use the PC due to my financial situation and the increasingly scarce software for Mac OS 9. I have followed his progress through the times and he did stumble, he mostly succeeded. Through iron will and belief that his ideas were right he led Apple, Next and Pixar into success. 

Despite him being diagnosed with cancer, he fought a battle that would be to many, a lost cause. Still he soldiered on and led Apple though its most successful years since his ousting from Apple computer by the board in the 90's. Despite the pain he must have been feeling having death hanging over his head emotionally and physically, he was always all hands on deck and got things moving. Only when things were very bad was he forced to stay out of the front. 

His dedication and drive should be an inspiration to us all on how one should live. Achieve all you want in life through sheer determination on what you want, it may not have worked out the way you wanted but at least you tried and furthermore success will come eventually though sheer hard work and belief in one's self. Setbacks happen so just suck it up, mope around for a bit, man up and move on.

As cliched as it sounds, a bad start does not mean a bad end. Guess his death has made me realize many things and  I will do my best to go out and do what I need to do. We won't live forever and as a character from the series "Game of Thrones" mentioned, "Death is the only god there is, all you can say is not today". It may not be an exact quote but it does illustrate that the fact that we are all waging a fight against death himself and he will eventually win. We may not have had the best start due to circumstances or poor decisions, all we can control is how we end it. I personally would rather stare down death when he claims me and say, you may have won but I have done all I wanted with life and you have not taken anything away from me. Will death @ The Grim Reaper flinch at that remark? I won't know but what I do know is that I won't be the one flinching.

I leave this post by this Youtube Video of his speech in Stanford University. Perhaps his best speech ever.

Scenes of London : London Liverpool Street, St. Mary Aldermary, St Stephen Walbrook, Mansion House, THe Iron Duke, London Royal Exchange, St. Micheal's Church, Leadenhall Market, Lloyd's Building & The Gherkin - 1 [31st August 2011]

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Some pictures I snapped with my sister's Nikon =)

 

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