Tags: Business & Finance
Fortune 500 is a list of 500 American cooporations.
And here’s the top 20 from the full list of 500 companies:
Tags: Book Reviews · Life Skills
Book Title: Use Your Head
Author: Tony Buzan
Year written/published: 1974
My Comment: I loved the part about the Mind Maps. A great book nontheless!
Contents page:
Some extracts: `
Some false beliefs about Reading:
SMASHIN SCOPE of memory – The important thing in this and all other memory systems is to make sure that the rhyming word and the word to be remembered are totally and securely linekd together.
Mind Mapping laws:
Advanced Mind Map – there are many devices we can use to make such notes:
How the brain was used by geniuses…
At first glance history seemed to deny this finding however, for most of the ‘Great Brains’ appeared very lopsided in mental terms: Einstein and other great scientists seemed predominantly ‘left cortex’ dominant, while Picasso, Cezanne and othee great artists and musicians to be ‘ right cortex’ dominant. A more thorough investigation unearthed some fascination truths: Einstein failed at school in Fresh and numbered among his acitvities violin playing, art, sailing, and imagination games!!
Hologram as a model for Brain (and not a camera)…
The holograph certainly approximates more closely the 3-D nature of our imagincations, but its storage capacity is puny compared to the millions of images that our brain can randomly call up at an instant’s notice.
graph showing how properly spaced reviews can keep recall rate high!
Linear History of Speech and Print
For the last few 100 years, it has been popularly thought that man’s mind worked in a linear or lin-like manner. This belief was help primarily becasue of the increase reliance on our 2 main methods of communication – speech and print..
…. The linear emphasis overflowed into normal writing or note taking precedures. Virtually everyone was and still is prained in school to take notes in sentences or vertical lists. The acceptance of this way of thinking is so long-standing that little has been done to contradict it. Hoever, recent evidence shows that brain to be far form multi-dimensional and pattern making, suggesting that in the speech/print arguments there must be fundamental flaws.
recall rate…
Tags: Current Technology
loved this handy list right here… there are 43 of them! And here are some of the few I always believed were mistakes in web designs….
Tags: Book Reviews · Current Technology
Book Title: Core CSS Cascading Style Sheets
Author:Keith Schengili-Roberts
Year written/published: 2004
My Comment: This is an advanced book on CSS and much of the syntax here was something i have never seen before. It was a great book nevertheless… good to pick it up after a basic CSS book.
Contents page:
Some extracts:
W3C introduces CSS…
Tim Berners-Lee created the Web at CERN and the initial standard for HTML 1.0 and HTML 2.0 were governed by them. But CERN’s main focus is particle physics research and not the web, and so in 1994 CERN abdicated its role as the standard-setting body for HTML. It passed the torch to a newly created body called the World Wide Web consortium, better known as W3C. The W3C convinced many major software companies including Netscape Communications, Microsoft, IBM, Novell, Sun Microsystems and many more to become part of this standards body.
<span> and <div>
The <span> element is designed to temporarily override any existing CSS information that may have already been specified, and is meant to be used as an inline element. The <div> element works in the same manner, but is supposed to be applied to block-level elements.
attribute selectors
element[attribute] – matches the names of the attirbute contained within the brackets
element[attribute="value"] – a match is made when the attribute euqls the value of ‘value’
element[attribute~="value"] - a match is amde when the attribute roughly matches the valu of the “value”, in cases where the text “value” may be part of a larger word
element[attribute|="value"] – a match is made whenever the attribute matches the first few letters of a value whoe first few letter match the text “value”
Tags: Book Reviews · Business & Finance · Life Skills
Book Title: The Richest Man in Babylon
Author:George S. Clason
Year written/published: 1926
Summary: This book is in a story form set in the scene of the ancient Babylon.
My Comments: I found this book really different from other technical Finance books. I loved the way the concept was being simplified through gold coins and of course we have to relate it back to modern currency and stock systems. I read it like a thin short story book and it was enjoyable… had to read it slowly coz of the ‘ancient’ English. 
Some extracts:
Forward…
Money is the medium by which earthly success is measured
Money makes possible the enjoyment of the best the earth affords
Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition
Money is governed today by the same laws which controlled it when prosperous men which controlled it when prosperous men thronged the streets of Babylon, 6000 years ago
on fickle fate.. or sudden luck!
Fickle Fate is a vicious goddess who brings no permanent good to anyone. On the contrary, she bring ruin to almost every man upon whom she showers unearned gold. She makes wanton spenders, who soon dissipate all they received and are left beset by overwhelming appetites and desires they have not the ability to gratify.
simple rules..
Lo, Money is plentiful for those who understand the Simple rules of its acquisition
- Start thy purse to flattening
- Control thy expenditure
- Make thy gold multiply
- Guard the treasures from loss
- Make of thy dwelling a profitable investment
- Insure a future income
- Increase thy ability to earn
other values…
A part of all you earn is yours to keep
Men of action are favoured by the Goddess of good luck
Better a little caution than a great regret
We cannot afford to be without adequate protection
Where the determination is, the way can be found.
5 laws of Gold:
- Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than 1/10 of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of family
- Gold laboreth diligently and contentedly for the wise owner who finds for it profitable employment, multiplying even as the flocks of the field.
- Gold clingeth to the protection of the cautious owner who invests it under the advice of wise men in its handling
- Gold slippeth away from the man who invests it in businesses or purposes with which he is not familiar or which are not approved by those skilled in its keep
- Gold flees the man who would force it to impossible earnings or who followeth the allurance advice of tricksters and schemers or who trust it to his own inexperience and romantic desires in investment
Tags: Life Skills · Time and Place
Travelling for me is ideally by backpacking. Yep! I think via backpacking i can truly see the people, culture, food and places of that country. but of course i have never done that before :p So here are a few really interesting links that i found about how to backpack, things to bring, what to take note of etc… and i’m really surprised at the wealth of info available!
yes one day i’m really gonna venture out and immerse in backpacking!!
Tags: Book Reviews · Current Technology
Book Title: Cascading Style Sheets – Designing for the web
Authors: Hakon Wium Lie & Bert Bos
About the Authors: They were the creators of CSS
Year written/published:1997
My Comment: Reading a book written by the very creators of CSS was extremely useful. This is my first book for learning CSS systematically.
Contents page:
Some extracts:
introduction:
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) represents a major breakthrough in how Web-page designers work by exapanding their ability to control the appearance of Web Pages, which are the documents that people publish on the web.
why we should use em for measurements:
The foremost tool for writing scalable style sheets is the em unit, and it therefore foes on top of the list of guidelenes that we compile throughout this chapter: Use ems to make scalable style sheets. Eg:
H1{ font-size: 2em }
some advices:
Basic syntax:
h1 { color:green}
h1 –> Selector
color –> property
green–> declaration
Class Attribute:
The class attribute enables you to apply declarations to a group of elements that have the same value on the class attribute. All elements inside BODy can have a CLASS attribute.
<P CLASS=POLONIUS>Polonius: Hello!</P>.POLONIUS{font-weight=bold}
ID Attribute
The ID Attribute works like the CLASS attribute with one important difference: The value of an ID musy beunique throughout the document
#xyz {text-decoration:underline}
<P ID=xyz>underline</P>
combining selector types
by combining a type selector and a class selector, an element must fullfill both requirements: It must be of the right type and right class in roder to be influenced by the style rule.
P.POLONIUS {font-weight: normal}
Contextual Selectors
H1 EM{ color:blue}
For any EM that in inside H1, make it blue
CSS font families categories:
Absolute units:
Some font properties:
an intro to XML in 10 points:
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some sites…
Tags: Book Reviews · Business & Finance · Life Skills
Book Title: Paving the way to the top (Audio Scripts)
Author: Adam Khoo and Stuart Tan
Year written/published: 2005
Summary: This contains the audio scripts of 6 CDs:
Some extracts:
I thought CD 2: becoming a best selling author was really different from anything i have heard. And here are some examples of sites and authors given which can be helpful:
Well, it was a counter example to dispel the belief that we need to be good in language commands to write a best selling book.A small extract from this CD:
So to summarise this whole thing, if i could just — so number 1 is mass appeal; no 2 is to have a good title; be willing to invest in design, layout and design; you must have a rags-to-riches story, … …. … Writing syle must be simple and conversational, first person. Have a combination of practical strategies as well as emotional inspirational stuff.
Tags: Book Reviews · Business & Finance
Book Title: MacMillan Teach yourself Personal Finance in 24 hours
Authors: Janet Bigham Bernstel and Lea Saslav
Year written/published: 2000
My Comment: Great Book
Contents page:
Some extracts:
compounding it…
What makes investing your money so attractive is the idea of the time value of money. Basically, a dollar earned today is worth much more in the future because it can earn interest until it’s used. It gets even better. Once you have invested, your interest earns interest, a concept called compounding.
Broker definitions…
Don’t let the terms ‘broker’, ’stock broker’, ‘account executive’ or registered representative’ confuse you. These people all work for full-service brokerage firms and do basically the same job – sell investments.
Eg. of full service brokerage: Merill Lynch, Paine Webber, Prudential Secutirites, Salomon Smith Barney
Eg. of discount brokerage: Charles Schwab, Fidelity Investments, Quick and Reilly
stock exchange…
is a public market place where shares of a company’s stock are bought and sold. Because a company wants the stock to be available to the widest numbe rof people, it applies to be listed with an exchange. The exchange measures the company by its own criteria such as overall stability, in the number of shares the company will sell and the price of the shares. Once accepted, the company pays a fee to the exchange to get and remain listed.
A stock’s performance is affected by manu ways…
types of stocks…
swindlers and schemers
some questions to seperate good offers from the bad ones (phone calls from brokers):
Investment risks…
main categories of Mutual Fund:
Bonds…
Bonds are loan agreements made between you and a business or a government organisation. Basically, IOUs, the borrower issues a certificate promising to pay the loan back by a particular date. The borrower also agrees to make regular interest payments of a predetermined amount.
When a company needs money for growth, they have a few options. If they don’t ahve enough profits to plow back into the business, they can sell off portions of ownership through the stock, or they can borrow money.
bond frauds…
Types of Isurance…
Estate planning …
Estate planning is the creation of a definite plan for managing your wealth while you’re alive and distributing it after your death. When we talk about an estate, it include:
- real property
- business interests
- investments
- insureance proceeds
- personal property
- personal effects
- retirements accounts
4 basic estate plannign methods:
Kids and Money
Older children become very interested in board games that include money as a tool to use to win the game. Even though play money isused, oftentimes such play is a child’s first introduction to money as a tool that can realise financial objectives and can be used to further their momentum towards acquiring personal financial strength.
Children can also be taught about investing even at a young age. For eg, how many children know that you can buy little pieces of companies like Coca-Cola and Disney for as little as $25 per month??
women and money
once women clear that mental block in their minds that associates money with difficulty, the doors to enlightenment will fly open and they will be ready to take responsibility for their financial destiny
women only need to spend a little time learning about the financial world before they realise that it isn’t so hard after all. … … “I realised that if you taught the woman of the household the financial management process (that same woman who makes 80% of all retail purchases), then you would teach the whole family.”