The only way for you to truly understand Tai Chi Chuan is to understand its history and its development through the generations. Each style, and each variation of that style, was developed in a particular way for a particular reason. A teacher of one generation may emphasize a certain aspect of the curriculum, and if…
Author: Ian
Origins and Meaning of the Kung Fu Salute
The Kung Fu salute or bow is known in Chinese as wushu baoquan li 武术抱拳礼 which roughly translates to the “Kungfu courtesy of covering one’s fist”. The Kung Fu salute is generally characterised by an open left hand placed next to a closed right fist. The importance is that the fingers on the left hand…
Q Codes
Q-codes, sometimes also called Q-signals, are a collection of standardized three character codes that all start with the letter Q and were developed to help improve morse code communication in radio telegraphy. Q-codes were first introduced around 1909 by the British government for use in their ships and stations as a means to improve communication…
What is Credit and Why is it Important?
There are a lot of so-called personal finance gurus running around writing books, and getting rich, all while teaching about the evils of credit. Don’t use credit they say. Don’t get the credit cards they say. Don’t take out loans or use other forms of credit. But they are wrong. They are preaching to the…
What is Money?
I am a video game junkie. Going all the way back to my first console as a kid, an Atari 2600, I’ve played hundreds of video games and video game franchises over the years. One of my all time favorites is the Fallout series, particularly Fallout 4 (let’s be honest, Fallout 76 was a disappointment)….
The Body Positivity Movement Failure
Let’s talk about the Body Positivity Movement. It is failing. It’s making things worse. The underlying idea is not terrible. We can’t all look like cover models, super models, bodybuilders, movie stars, and whatnot. And that’s okay. We need to be accepting of ourselves and others. We need to stop hating, rejecting, not loving ourselves…
Cyber Security Full Course for Beginner
In this complete cyber security course you will learn everything you need in order to understand cyber security in depth. You will learn all the terminology related to cyber security. Which is very crucial in the field of IT security.
How the Best Hackers Learn Their Craft
Do you want to know how to build a top-ranked competitive hacking team? It’s all about the system. In sports, we understand systems that coaches can use to build a system for identifying talent, recruiting them, training them up, and competing in big games. Learn our proven system for building an elite team of hackers…
Digital Citizenship
Most of us in Western countries lead very insular lives. We understand, on an intellectual level, that not everyone has the same standard of living or access to technology that we do, but fail to really comprehend what that means. We also may fail to understand exactly how other people, other societies and cultures, interact…
TrueCrypt’s Demise
TrueCrypt has been the most popular disk encryption software on the market for the past decade. But this past week the developers shut it down, very quietly, and seem to have simply disappeared. The old TrueCrypt site at truecrypt.org now redirects to the Sourceforge page where a brief message simply states, “WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is…