Systems Approach Awards

Professor V.K. Choudhry recently announced that "the Management Committee of the Systems' Institute of Hindu Astrology hereby confers honorary titles mentioned against the names of following respective learned astrologers:

1.  Mr. David Hawthorne, Jyotish Bhanu.
2.  Mr. Thor Thorgeirsson, Jyotish Bhanu.
3.  Mr. Jorge Angelino, Jyotish Bhanu.
4.  Dr. Sankara Bhagavadpada, Jyotish Ratan.
5.  Mr. Andrew Schulman, Jyotish Kovid.
6.  Mr. Jagdiesh Sethi, Jyotish Kovid.
7.  Dr. Jonathan Miller, Jyotish Ratan.
8.  Dr. Ms Sloan Johnson, Jyotish Kovid.
9.  Mr. Nawal Kishore, Jyotish Kovid.
10. Mr. Rajiv Jamwal, Jyotish Kovid.
11. Col B K Kailash, Jyotish Kovid.  

Some more names are likely to be announced later.
Bhanu means a person who spreads the cause of astrology like Sun spreads the light.
Kovid means a learned person in the field.
Ratan means a person who made wonderful contributions to the field of astrology."

Congratulations to those receiving the awards and keep up the good work.

Also a reminder that the International Institute of Predictive Astrology International Conference will be held on the 24th and 25th of February in Gurgaon, India.  More more information click here:

http://yournetastrologer.com/gurconf.htm

Windows Vista and compatibility

Next week Microsoft's Windows Vista will be foisted on the public and I'm sure there will be few Jyotishis who will have to have it immediately (usually not a very good idea with Microsoft operating systems).  Now I have not tested any of my programs with Vista since Microsoft didn't send me a free machine with Vista or the development tools.  However from what I have read if you are trying to install a Jyotish Tools program on Vista you may get some kind of warning about compatibility.  Be aware if the program doesn't want to run to right click on the icon, select Properties and Compatibility (or something like that).  Yes just like Windows XP let you run older programs made for earlier versions of Windows you can do the same with Vista.  What seems silly is we know they could do this for you automatically so why the extra step is needed I don't know.  Apparently the Mac OS does this for you automatically.