One of the best book this year, I would say, is The Black Swan Theory. You may wonder why the theory is called “the Black Swan”. According to Wikipedia,
The term black swan comes from the ancient Western conception that all swans were white. In that context, a black swan was a metaphor for something that [...]
Filed under: Book on December 29th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I made a set of slides as X’mas eCard (3 Mb) and sent to my colleagues and friends. Many wonder how I made those slides and here are the details …
First, I took a lot of photos from shopping malls, those with X’mas decorations [Tool : Olympus E-1, E-300, E-510]
Picked 6 to 7 photos, processed [...]
Filed under: Off Topics on December 24th, 2007 | No Comments »
Editors of Amazon just picked their best 100 books of the year, and the web site listed another 100 customers’ favorite books. You know what, out of these 200 listings (some books are duplicated in both lists), I have only one - The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. You see, it is a good [...]
Filed under: Book on December 23rd, 2007 | No Comments »
Finished the book Chasing Daylight for quite some weeks, but only now manage to write something about it. Not that I was busy, but just not sure whether I shall recommend this book. This is certainly a good book and I learnt a few lessons from it as well, but I felt that the author [...]
Filed under: Book, Open-hearted on December 19th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
According to the book The Black Swan, a library is a collection of unread books.
How true ?! I reckon no matter how big a library is, there are always more unread books than books already read. So next question is, why a library wants to “collect” so many unread books ? I think it is [...]
Filed under: Book on December 13th, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s on cable TV again and I simply couldn’t help but watched it, one more time. I am not sure why it’s rated 5-stars, but no doubt it is a very good movie and every time I watch it, I find / learn new things. For example, there is a very moving scene in the [...]
Filed under: Entertainment, Search-a-holic on December 1st, 2007 | No Comments »
I admitted that I am not a fan of Facebook, but still I can learn something new from it once in a while. For example, there is one application in Facebook called “Cities I’ve visited” - you can tell (read … impress) your friends how many cities you’ve visited thru a Google Map interface. I [...]
Filed under: Off Topics, Travel on December 1st, 2007 | No Comments »
