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Fortune 500 is a list of 500 American cooporations.
And here’s the top 20 from the full list of 500 companies:
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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…
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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….
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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”
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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!!
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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.
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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.”
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Book Title: A Girl Needs Cash – Banish the white knight myth and Take Charge of your Financial Life
Author:Joan Perry with Dolores Barclays
Year written/published: 1997
Some extracts:
3 guideposts to financial successes:
the white knight myth…
while i was busy bathing myself in fairy dust and listening to my Prince Charming croon his words of love, I missed out on nurturing my soul. I also lost some self-esteem and the opportunity to grow because i didn’t accept responsibility for a major part of my life. The woman who is totally dependant on a man when it comes to money, and ignorant of her financial life, is compromising true love and paralysing herself in the process.
other myths and mis conceptions…
What truly gives you pleasure…
As you examine your spending habits, the operative wealth building question is:’What’s really going to add joy, peace and tranquility to my life, not just at the moment but down the road?’ The trick is to keep what gives you true pleasure and enhances your being, but spare back what gives you only a false sense of status. And lean to enjoy the possessions and activities that add a little spring to your stride for what they are and not for any prestige that may be attached to them. When this positive approach, you’ll free up yourself from the grip of consumerism and take charge of your financial life.
Stock…
Stock represents a share of ownership in a company. Normally, a stock is traded on one of the following exchanges: NYSE, ASE, NASDAQ, PSE, OTC. … … … Since a share of stock represents part ownership of a company, the prices of stock shares rise and fall depending on the earnings picture for the company.
Mutual Fund…
Mutual fund is a collection of stocks chosen by a fund manager who has developed a skill at buying and selling stocks. Mutual fund allows you to invest in the stock market without having to make individual buy-and-sell decisions; the fund manager does that for you. … … … Mutual funds are the best way for a beginning investor to tap into opportunities offered by the stock market…. … With a mutual fund, you’ll be more secure. After all, the fund is composed of many stocks that each perform differently. Some of the stocks will do better than others, but overall, the fund’s objective is to increase in value and grow your investment. … …. This chance to invest in many stocks, not just one, diversifies the dollars that you invest and in one of the major advantages of mutual fund.
Stock evaluation model:
Types of Financial Advocates:
brokers, financial planners, financial advisers, accountants.
A broker will receive a commission when you invest say in stocks or mutual funds. A financial adviser will change a fee on the total money in your account. Alternatively, a planner may charge a flat hourly fee to help you set up your investment plan.
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Book Title: The Success Principles - How to get from where you are to where you want to be
Authors: Jack Canfield with Janet Switzer
About the Author: Jack Canfield is the cocreater of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series
Year written/published: 2005
My Comments: A great book… loads of categorised chapters, short chapters with laods of inspirational examples and candid acronyms.
Contents Page:
Some Quotations found in this book:
You can’t hire someone else to do your push-ups for you – Jim Rohn
Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. – Lord Buddha
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose. – Elisabeth Kubler
Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have anything you want – Brian Tracy
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aims is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. – Michelangelo
I’m looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done – Henry Ford
If you wnat to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your enery and inspires your hopes – Andrew Carnegie
You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming – Jim Rohn
Success leaves clues – Tony Robbins
The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them – ALbert Einstein
How you do anything is how you do everything
If you are willing to do more than you are paid, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do. – anonymous
you are the average of the 5 people you spend most time with – Jim Rohn
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why. – Albert Einstein.
Listen a 100 times. Ponder a 1000 times. Speak once. – unknown
Some extracts:
The life purpose exercise:
Don’t live someone else’s dreams… (this is so true..)
As a result, we now do a lot of things we don’t want to do but that please a lot fo other people:
- We go to medical school coz dad wanted it
- we get married to please our mom
- we get a ‘real job’ instead of pursuing our dream career in arts
- we go straight to grad school instead of taking a backpacking trip to Europe
Don’t assume you need a college degree…
Here;s another statistic showing that believe in yourself is more important than knowledge, traning or schoolong: 20% of the America’s millionaires never set foot in college, and 21 out of 222 American Billionaires neer got college diplomas. So although education and a commitement to lifelong learning are essential to success, a formal degree is not a requirement. This is true even in the high-tech world of the internet. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle dropped out of University of Illinois … … … Bill Grates dropped out of Havard and later founded Microsoft. … Vice President Dick Cheney dropped out of college.
Dr. Daniel Amen’s 18/40/60 rule:
When you’re 18, you worry about what everybody is thinking of you; when you are 40 you don’t give a darn about what anybody thinks of u and when you’re 60, you realise nobody’s been thinking of you at all!
Surprise Surprise!! Most of the time, nobody’s thinking about you at all! They are too busy worrying about their own lives, and if they are thinking about you at all, they are wondering what you are thinking about them.
on becoming….
Money, cars, houses, boats, attractive spouses, power and fame can all be taken away – sometimes in the blink of an eye. But what can never be taken away is who you have become in the process of achieving your goal. TO achieve a big goal, you are going to have to become a bigger person. You are going to have to develop new skills, new attiotudes and new capabilities. You are going to have to stretch yourself, and in doing so, you will be stretched forever.
9 guidelines for creating effective affirmations:
which are…
- Start with the words I am
- Use the present tense
- State it in the postive. Affirm what you want, not what you don’t want.
- Keep it brief
- make it specific
- Include an action word engin with -ing
- Include at least one dynamic emotion/feeling word
- make affirmations for youself and not others
- Add or something better
reject rejections…
Whenever you ask anyone for snything, remember the following; SWSWSWSW which stands for ’some will, some won’t, so what – someone’s waiting’.
some famous rejections…
the girl doesn’t, it seems to me have a special perception or feeling which would lifet that book above the ‘curiosity’ level. – form the rejction slip of the diary of Anne Frank
When Graham Bell offered the rights to the telephone for $100,000 to Carl Orton, president of Western Union, Orton replied, “What use would this company make use of this electric toy?”
It is impossible to seel animal stories in the USA – from the rejection slips for George Orwell’s Animal Farm
The mirror exercise. Stand in fornt of the mirror and appreciate your self for all that you have accomplished today:
The 4 D’s of completion:
The total truth stages:
Learn more to earn more (earn as in life… not $$)
Passions…
The most successful people I have met love what they do so much, they would actually do it for free. But they’re successful becasue they’ve found a way to make a living doing what they love to do.
some of jack canfield’s don’t do list… interesting i thought!
Speak with impeccability
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Book Title: The Speed Reading Book
Author: Tony Buzan
Year written/published: 1971
My Comment: was really frustrated… i wanted to read loads of books and it was taking me soooo much time!! My reading speed at the start of this book was 248 wpm. And Sean Adam has a world record of 3850 wpm!!!!!!! And president Kennedy famously had a reading speed of 1000 wpm Speed reading doesn’t only train people to read fast but also to comprehend and understand the passage better. A lot os emphasis was also placed in the vocabulary by learning the main prefix, suffix and roots of many words. This is truly a great book…. hope it’ll be the book which will make me read many other great books!
Contents page:
Some extracts:
Pilots were unable to distinguish planes seen at a distant. … … … To their surprise they found that with training, the average person was able to distinguish almost specklike representations of different planes when the images had been flashed on the screen for only one five hundredth of a second.
Reading – the new definition
Some famous speed readers:
using peripheral vision for speed reading:
… … while your clear focus is reading the one, thw and three lines on which you are concentrating, your ‘brain reader’ is using its peripheral vision to review that you have already read and preview the text to come. … … .An added advantage of this ’soft-focus’ appraoch is that your eyes have to do far less tight muscular fixating. They therefore become far less tired and you feel able to go on reading for longer periods of time.
On using a thin long object as a guide to reading…
… … common knowledge that speed readers read ‘down the middle of the page’ … …. This is beacuse the eyes can see up to 5/6 words at a time so they can easily fixate after the beginning and before the end of line, thus taking the information to the side. The guide therefore minimises the amount of work the eyes have to do, keeps the brain focused, and gives you constant and gives you contant accelerations in reading speed while maintaining high comprehension.
Reading Problems that slows us down…
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Just read this in ‘The Success Principles’ by Jack Canfield. He mentioned Azim Jamal talking about the hours of power which includes:
how true!! It’s definitely an hour of power
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Book Title: Franklin’s Autobiography
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Year written/published: 1791
Summary:
My Comment: Ever since reading Dale Carnegie, I wanted to read this autobiography becasue Carnegie mentioned that Franklin is a master of diplomacy and reading his autobiography is definitely invaluable. Yes! A big star… do read it! U can also download it from the gutenberg. Get the html version coz it has illustrations… enjoy or another website here also gives his entire book.
Some extracts:
his childhood…
I disliked the trade, and had a strong inclination for the sea, but my father declared against it; however, living near the water, I was much in and about it, learnt early to swim well, and to manage boats; and when in a boat or canoe with other boys, I was commonly allowed to govern, especially in any case of difficulty; and upon other occasions I was generally a leader among the boys, and sometimes led them into scrapes, of which I will mention one instance, as it shows an early projecting public spirit, tho’ not then justly conducted.
His first brush with the press trade…
This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already one son (James) of that profession. In 1717 my brother James returned from England with a press and letters to set up his business in Boston. I liked it much better than that of my father, but still had a hankering for the sea. To prevent the apprehended effect of such an inclination, my father was impatient to have me bound to my brother.
how he has the chance to run the press at a young age…
One of the pieces in our newspaper on some political point, which I have now forgotten, gave offense to the Assembly. He was taken up, censur’d, and imprison’d for a month, by the speaker’s warrant, I suppose,… … During my brother’s confinement, which I resented a good deal, notwithstanding our private differences, I had the management of the paper; and I made bold to give our rulers some rubs in it, which my brother took very kindly, while others began to consider me in an unfavorable light, as a young genius that had a turn for libeling and satyr.
in Philedelphia…
I began now to have some acquaintance among the young people of the town, that were lovers of reading, with whom I spent my evenings very pleasantly; and gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably, forgetting Boston as much as I could, and not desiring that any there should know where I resided, except my friend Collins, who was in my secret, and kept it when I wrote to him.
on his courtship to Miss Read
I had made some courtship during this time to Miss Read. I had a great respect and affection for her, and had some reason to believe she had the same for me; but, as I was about to take a long voyage, and we were both very young, only a little above eighteen, it was thought most prudent by her mother to prevent our going too far at present, as a marriage, if it was to take place, would be more convenient after my return, when I should be, as I expected, set up in my business. Perhaps, too, she thought my expectations not so well founded as I imagined them to be.
his visit to London…
Thus I spent about eighteen months in London; most part of the time I work’d hard at my business, and spent but little upon myself except in seeing plays and in books. My friend Ralph had kept me poor; he owed me about twenty-seven pounds, which I was now never likely to receive; a great sum out of my small earnings! I lov’d him, notwithstanding, for he had many amiable qualities. I had by no means improv’d my fortune; but I had picked up some very ingenious acquaintance, whose conversation was of great advantage to me; and I had read considerably.
on his moreal beliefs..
I grew convinc’d that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life; and I form’d written resolutions, which still remain in my journal book, to practice them ever while I lived. Revelation had indeed no weight with me, as such; but I entertain’d an opinion that, though certain actions might not be bad because they were forbidden by it, or good because it commanded them, yet probably these actions might be forbidden because they were bad for us, or commanded because they were beneficial to us, in their own natures, all the circumstances of things considered.
business success
I soon after obtain’d, thro’ my friend Hamilton, the printing of the Newcastle paper money, another profitable job as I then thought it; small things appearing great to those in small circumstances; and these, to me, were really great advantages, as they were great encouragements.
on habits…
I was under for the printing-house. In order to secure my credit and character as a tradesman, I took care not only to be in reality industrious and frugal, but to avoid all appearances to the contrary. I dressed plainly; I was seen at no places of idle diversion. I never went out a fishing or shooting; a book, indeed, sometimes debauch’d me from my work, but that was seldom, snug, and gave no scandal; and, to show that I was not above my business, I sometimes brought home the paper I purchas’d at the stores thro’ the streets on a wheelbarrow.
his proposal for library
Finding the advantage of this little collection, I propos’d to render the benefit from books more common, by commencing a public subscription library. I drew a sketch of the plan and rules that would be necessary, and got a skillful conveyancer, Mr. Charles Brockden, to put the whole in form of articles of agreement to be subscribed, by which each subscriber engag’d to pay a certain sum down for the first purchase of books, and an annual contribution for increasing them. So few were the readers at that time in Philadelphia, and the majority of us so poor, that I was not able, with great industry, to find more than fifty persons, mostly young tradesmen, willing to pay down for this purpose forty shillings each, and ten shillings per annum.
on his reading and some esteemed habits
This library afforded me the means of improvement by constant study, for which I set apart an hour or two each day, and thus repair’d in some degree the loss of the learned education my father once intended for me. Reading was the only amusement I allow’d myself. I spent no time in taverns, games, or frolicks of any kind; and my industry in my business continu’d as indefatigable as it was necessary. I was indebted for my printing-house; I had a young family coming on to be educated, and I had to contend with for business two printers, who were established in the place before me. My circumstances, however, grew daily easier. My original habits of frugality continuing, and my father having, among his instructions to me when a boy, frequently repeated a proverb of Solomon, “Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men,” I from thence considered industry as a means of obtaining wealth and distinction,
on religions…
These I esteem’d the essentials of every religion; and, being to be found in all the religions we had in our country, I respected them all, tho’ with different degrees of respect, as I found them more or less mix’d with other articles, which, without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serv’d principally to divide us, and make us unfriendly to one another.
how he planned to attain moral perfection…
I determined to give a week’s strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus, in the first week, my great guard was to avoid every the least offense against Temperance, leaving the other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking every evening the faults of the day. Thus, if in the first week I could keep my first line, marked T, clear of spots, I suppos’d the habit of that virtue so much strengthen’d, and its opposite weaken’d, that I might venture extending my attention to include the next, and for the following week keep both lines clear of spots.
The precept of Order requiring that every part of my business should have its allotted time, one page in my little book contain’d the following scheme of employment for the twenty-four hours of a natural day.
But, on the whole, tho’ I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it; as those who aim at perfect writing by imitating the engraved copies, tho’ they never reach the wish’d-for excellence of those copies, their hand is mended by the endeavour, and is tolerable while it continues fair and legible.
on Franklin Effect…
I therefore did not like the opposition of this new member, who was a gentleman of fortune and education, with talents that were likely to give him, in time, great influence in the House, which, indeed, afterwards happened. I did not, however, aim at gaining his favour by paying any servile respect to him, but, after some time, took this other method. Having heard that he had in his library a certain very scarce and curious book, I wrote a note to him, expressing my desire of perusing that book, and requesting he would do me the favour of lending it to me for a few days. He sent it immediately, and I return’d it in about a week with another note, expressing strongly my sense of the favour. When we next met in the House, he spoke to me (which he had never done before), and with great civility; and he ever after manifested a readiness to serve me on all occasions, so that we became great friends, and our friendship continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, “He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.” And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue inimical proceedings.
Tags: Book Reviews · Life Skills
Book Title: 33 Killer Persuasion Tactics to Multiply Your Sales and Business
Author: Stuart Tan
Year written/published: 2006/2005
My Comment:Very focused manuscript on 33 tactics for persuasion. I really like this one! The author first goes on to explain the meaning of Influence before telling the reader about the 33 tactics. He dabbled a lot with psychology and body language to go in depth about understanding the other party. And what i loved most is a table that displayed all the names of the 33 tatics and told us exactly in which stage of buying we can use them… very clear and concise!
Some extracts:
Here are some of the definitions/theories he mentioned:
The stages of buying process:
And here’s tactic #12: Reduce Resistance by getting a favour (Franklin Effect) I didn’t know about this tactic before, so i’m mentioning it here…
Benjamin Franklin himself said, “He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged”.
In fact, based on a situation that old Ben reported on, there is now a phenomenon known as the Franklin Effect, which states that enemies who do you a favour will be predisposed to doing more favours for you.
Tags: Book Reviews · People Profile · Time and Place
Book Title: Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
Author: Adolf Hitler
Year written/published: 1924
Summary: Hitler wrote his beliefs and outlook on various issues like state, government, nationalities, war, race and how and why he has grown these strong beliefs within him.
Contents page: This book is actually divded into 2 volumes. Volume 1 – Home of my parents, years of study in Vienna and his Political reflections there, Munich, World War, War Propaganda, Revolution, Start of political activities, German Labour Party, Race and People etc.
My comments: You can read them all here to get a tiny glimpse into why he did it all. This book is a mixture of his autobiography in the start and then later he goes on to explain how his ideologies arose and finally some of his hard beliefs on race, state, war propaganda etc.
Some extracts:
He went to vienna to study arts and architecture and he passionately wanted it
To study it was for me not work, but pleasure. I could read or draw until the small hours of the morning without ever getting tired. And i became more and more confident that my dream of a brilliant future would come true, even though i should have to wait long years for its fullfillment. I was firmly convinced that one day I should made a name for myself as an architect.
the 2 perils he discovered in Vienna
It was during this perios that my eyes were opened to 2 perils, the names of which i scarely knew hitherto and has no notion whatsoever of their terrible significance for the existence of the German People. These 2 perils were Marxism and Juadaism.
And he finally found the link between the 2 perils… the Jews
I gradually discovered that the Social Democratic Press was predominantly controlled by the Jews. … … … From the publisher downwards, all of them were Jews. I recalled to mind the names of the public leaders of Marxism, and then i realised thaty most of them belonged to the Chosen race. … … … Everywhere the same sinister picture presented itself. … … … One fact became quite evident to me. It was that this Alien race held in its hand the leadership of that Social Democratic Party with whose minor representatives I has been disputing for months past. I was happy to know at last for certain that the Jews is not a German.
on the importance of a homogenous nation…
When a state is composed of a homogenous population, the natural inertia of such a population will hold the state together and maintain its existence through astonishingly long periods of misgovernment and maladministration.
On his fate and destiny…
Why could i not have been born hundred years ago? I used to ask myself…. … Thus i used to think it as ill deserved stroke of luck that i arrived too late on this terrestrila globe and i felt chargined at the idea that my life sould have to run its course along peaceful and orderly lined. I as a boy i was anything but a pacifist and all attempts to make me so turned out futile.
On Aryan race…
Every manifestation of human culture, every product of art, science, and techinical skill, which we see before our eyes today is almost exclusively the product of the Aryan the creative power. This very fact fully justifies the conclusion tha it was the Aryan alone who founded a superior type of humanity; therefore he represents the archtype of what we understand by the term: MAN.
Tags: Current Technology
I wanted to install the wordpress in my own domain. And guess what! It was just a click of a button away thanks to Fantastico.
Fantastico can be found in the cPanel and it automates the installation of many web-based applications like Wordpress. It is a product of Netenberg. And some applications that it can install are:
And along with knowing how to use Fantastico, i also learnt the names of many other common applications. No wonder i often see people changing and adding so many things into their website… i always wondered how they did it so quickly and easily. it must be this easy! Now i know how they do it all 
Tags: Current Technology
because i wanna know more. Here are the top 6 brands of camera brands in Flickr:
and specifically i wanna know more about DSLR. Here are some sites to know what is a DSLR…
And until i get a really goody DSLR, i know my camera is great too coz i see so many great pics taken with this model 
Shouldn’t be an excuse not to take great pics just coz i don’t have a DSLR yet
Tags: Culture and Society · Music and Arts
wonderin… i didn’t bother exploring this site until now?? There are simply brilliant talented artists out here in this forum sharing their works. And these are some of my favs…
Deviantart is like a community forum where all types of artists can display and share their work.
