One of the useful things I learned is counting to ten.  Boy.. it was effective… to count to 10 before you speak when u are seriously angry.  Served me really well today.  Apparently, this counting to ten kind of trick comes form the US president Thomas Jefferson.  Cool dude.  Really clever.  Bet he must have been an angry man.. to improvise something so useful and practical…

After some hard work… I have also managed to run through chapter 1 of the book and am left with 2 phrases to commit to memory:

Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than a man who conquers cities
Proverbs 16:32

Dear brothers, be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to anger.  For man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that god desires
James 19:20

The future of the car industry, he says, lies in design and marketing — not manufacturing, which involves high costs and increasingly can be farmed out to other companies.

Think designing is getting to be one of the biggest buzzwords in the business world… It can really make or break a product, i.e. Apple IPod and Creative Zen Players..

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1887070,00.html

If I were to do it, it will be:

• have journaling functions, i.e. allow you to write your thoughts on a passage
• tags (much like delicious and digg).  Allow you add tags to passages are groups of passages.  Easier to find quotes next time.
• journaling should have public and private segments… so that the public segments can be viewable by your friends!  It will be a super powerful evangelistic tool!
• daily walk ->  a daily reflection of your life (hopefully it conforms to the biblical principles…)

The combination of Wikipedia, which is a remarkable achievement of humanity, just phenomenal, and search engines like Google, mean that you can literally get it all if you’re willing to be motivated. So my idea about school would be that you would sit there with however many students you have and you’d say students, I’m going to give you a set of search terms to get started with. And we’re going to see which of you learn the most. And what would happen, of course, is about a third, the ones in the back row that are asleep are going to wait for the other two-thirds. And out of the other two-thirds, some of them will do great, some will do poorly. Then you have a conversation among all of them. It’s a complete inversion of the textbook model….

With reference from: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/07/eric-schmidt-tells-charlie-rose-google-is-unlikely-to-buy-twitter-and-wants-to-turn-phones-into-tvs/

Imagine the amount of energy just a bowl of rice will generate!  Hmmm… fats might even start accumulating at its side if the load is not heavy enough!

Have u ever wondered why machines had to use human beings to power themselves in the matrix?  Hmmm…… enlightenment…..

Well, figured out a way you can just launch your Microsoft Apps without too much of a struggle.  Just go to the run command by doing a:

Windows Key + R

Then for:

• Words – Type "winword"
• Excel – Type "excel"
• Powerpoint – Type "powerpnt"
• Calculator – Type "calc"

Well, with the advent of the RSS feeds, I hardly even go to Straitstime Online (even though I just paid for a 200 SGD subscription just 2 months ago… )  It used to be good… because online definitely works better for me compared to reading off a bulky 50 page stack of yellowing papers… but the problem became more of relevancy.

Well Google Reader together wih the Plethora of RSS feeds help to solve this problem.  I am able to tap on the latest technology news that I like.  One of my good friends send me an interesting TechCrunch article on some struggling i-Phone developer and I am instantaneously hooked.  Now, I am a TechCrunch subscriber.

I think StraitsTimes way of monetising content will one day be irrelevant.  You see… a large part of straitstimes news, especially the overseas segments are just bought… in-bulk from reuters, bloomberg, etc… These people just stream their content over the internet for free.  The only thing that is really being reported, i.e. sending someone down to a scene to perform your classic interview is generally for very local content.

An avid finanical news reader will just stream in the content from Bloomberg, CNBC, New York Times, etc… and they will be almost all covered save the little tit-bits of local news…. which frankly… did not quite interests me save the gst credits policy… which was really something ingenious.

In that case, should Straitstimes just do it the normal way, i.e. through pure advertising and give their content for free.  They can monetise their feeds through things like feedburner too.. to serve ads to customer.  But as my friend pointed out to me over lunch, this surviving on advertising model alone no longer works.  Online advertising has only worked for one company, i.e. Google.. and they key was in a great business model in the Pay-Per-Click system.

Hmmm… so what is going to happen to our StraitsTimes and SPH?

Me: "When is Street View coming to SG?"
Google: "Can you keep a secret?"
Me: "Yes, of course"
Google: "So can I."
#$%$^$%^

I was snooping around at Facebook when I saw an interesting ads point to recruit.net.