June 2011
1 post
Chopin
p. 3
Oct 30, 1849
Church of the Madeleine
p. 4
his friend, Delacroix
arrived in France in 1831
p. 5
portrait by Delacriox
p. 6
death - Oct 17
aged 39
Mozart’s Requiem
p. 7
special dispensation
remained invisible
behind a black velvet curtain
Funeral march from Chopin’s Sonata in b-flat minor
Adam and Alexandre Czartoryski — representated Polish exiles
Eugene...
May 2011
1 post
Web 1.0 VS Web 2.0
Educause
Mashing up the Once and Future CMS
By Malcolm Brown
Web 1.0
Publishing
Content management, presentation
Individual, large-scale websites
Directories
User observe, “listen to” websites
Subscription services
They, the media (control held by a few)
Macro content
Authority is key
Versions and major revision
Creator defines content, design
Taxonomy
Value indifferent...
April 2011
1 post
Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America
pimp to …
Amerigo Vespucci was born in 1454
March 2011
8 posts
Shift (Carlos Ghosn)
I’m not addicted to technology for technology’s sake! (p. 193)
Digital Communities of Interest
Paul Ormerod
Digital Communities of Interest
Business Information Review, September 1999
Seven Ages of the Leader
Warren G. Bennis
[1] Infant Executive
[2] Schoolboy, with Shining Face
[3] Lover, with a Woeful Ballad
[4] Beaded Soldier
[5] General, Full of Wise Saws
[6] Statesman, with Spectacles on Nose
[7] Sage, Second Childishness
From Harvard Business Review (January 2004)
Q&A
The brain is not an organ we are authorised to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.
Ram Mohammad Thomas
Smita Shah - lawyer Who Will Win a Billion?
Brian Dyson (Ex-CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises)
To quote the past CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises (1959-1994) Brian Dyson:
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, friends, and spirit - and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends, and...
Ten Proto-Bourbaki Meetings
Liliane Beaulieu (1993)
The Mathematical Intelligencer
December 10, 1934 - p. 28
the work of many people will allow better and more thorough coverage
Delsarte is particularly insistent on this issue, but he also realizes that by sharing the writing the group will leave no traces of individual authorship and mau thereby safeguard against future claims to individual property. (p. 28-29)
Law of Definite Proportions (Heys, p. 13)
or, Law of Constant Composition
The same chemical compound, however prepared, always contain the same elements in the same proportions by weight. (Proust, 1799)
Physical Chemistry (3rd Edition) Heys
Page 116
Neutrons
For a long time it was thought that atoms consisted only of electrons and protons. However, in 1932 it was found that when beryllium was bombarded with gamma-rays particles were given off what had properties quite different from those of electrons and protons. They were not deflected at all by electric or magnetic fields, and therefore possessed no charge. The new particles...
January 2011
2 posts
The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial...
Author: Hiroyuki Agawa
Translator: John Bester
Publisher: Kodansha International
======================================================
Yamamoto Isoroku was a physically small man (p. 1)
Yamamoto recommended reading the biography of Lincoln (p. 84)
I read four or five biographies, and came to feel a great respect for him (p. 84)
Committing errors is part of his attraction as a human being;...
Lim Goh Tong (My Story)
I am what many call a traditional Chinese entrepreneur, or more plainly, a Chinaman businessman. I don’t speak English. I communicate in my native dialect, Hokkien, [and] in Malay, Cantonese and Mandarin, which I picked up here after coming from China. When necessary, I also get someone to be my interpreter. Despite my apparent language inadequacies, communication seems to be the least...
December 2010
10 posts
Genting Taxi →
nonaka: observation, imitation, practice
[1] provide opportunities to observe an expert (e.g., Matsushita allowed Tanaka to be seconded to Osaka Hotel to observe the chief baker in action up close)
[2] imitation in the presence of the expert (this will allow the expert the opportunity to comment on the novice’s performance), and finally
[3] diligent practice (the novice has to find opportunities to practice in his own time and...
What is this? →
Web Hosting in Malaysia →
Business Information Presentations (Bloomberg)
[1] “The Facebook Effect” by David Kirkpatrick (Simon & Schuster). An engrossing and scrupulously fair history of how Mark Zuckerberg built the social-networking website.
[2] “The Sugar King of Havana” by John Paul Rathbone (Penguin Press). An evocative mixture of history and memoir that traces the rise and fall of Cuban sugar magnate Julio Lobo.
[3] C. J. Chivers, The Gun (New York: Simon...
Picture Code →
The makers of Noise Ninja — noise reduction — standalone or Photoshop plug-in
Airport Bus Phuket →
Cheap fares from Phuket Airport to Phuket city.
The Club →
Boutique hotel in Singapore - Chinatown area (near Club Street, etc.)
Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and... →
Wow
Freedom Imput →
Keyboard for mobile phones
November 2010
3 posts
OER (Open Educational Resources) Commons →
Free Technology for Teachers →
Road to Grammar →
October 2010
9 posts
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading →
MIT Open Courseware →
No Significant Difference →
Thomas L. Russell
Emeritus, North Carolina State University
The NSD research was originated and is still edited by Thomas R. Russell.
This website has been designed to serve as a companion piece to Thomas L. Russell’s book, “The No Significant Difference Phenomenon” (2001, IDECC, fifth edition). Mr. Russell’s book is a fully indexed, comprehensive research bibliography of...
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ChaCha - Powered by People →
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Unwise action by youth
Teen gets death for killing shopkeeper over noodles
SEREMBAN:
A 60-year-old shopkeeper who refused to sell a pack of instant noodles to an 18-year-old youth was killed when the youth returned the next day and stabbed him to death. High Court judicial commissioner Ahmad Nasfy Yasin sentenced the teenager Thamorhran Ramarao to death. He said that claims by the defence that the teenager was...
Book Depository →
Free delivery worldwide!
September 2010
10 posts
Tuition Class in Penang →
With photos
Justice @ Harvard →
Elearning Opensource →
AVAX Home →
Minamata Photos
Title: Engaged observers: Documentary photography since the sixties
Author: Abbott, Brett
Publisher: Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum
Year: 2010
Location: ACRC Library
Refer to page 98 to 119. Article about ‘Minamata’
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Leonardo da Vinci
The Flights of the Mind
— Codex Atlanticus
— Codex Arundel
— Codex Ulbinas
— Codex Huygens
— Codex Leicester
— Codex Turin
*****
Codex Atlanticus — Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
put together by Pompeo Leoni
nothing to with the ocean
it’s atlas-sized (over two feet tall, containing 401 folios)
name given by Baldassare Oltrocchi in 1780
...
ANIANET →
IP HBR Case Studies
Harvard Business School Case Studies:
Intellectual Property —The Ground Rules
The Langer Lab: Commercializing Science
Priceline.com vs. Microsoft (A)
Hagström, W.O. The scientific community. New York: Basic Books.
Science References
References American Association for the Advancement of Science. (1990). Science for all Americans. New York: Oxford University Press.
American Association for the Advancement of Science. (1993). Benchmarks for science literacy. New York: Oxford University Press.
Hagström, W.O. The scientific community. New York: Basic Books.
Jared Diamond
Yali - local politician
cargo defined - p. 14
question - why is it that you white people develop - p. 14
wealth and power - p. 15 (three times)
different rates of development on different continents - p. 16
human development proceeded at different rates on different continents - p. 16
historical trajectories - p. 17
some people came to dominate other people - p. 17
proximate vs ultimate...
August 2010
3 posts
Chinese Examination Questions →
Journet Through Africa →
Pelangi Books →
July 2010
6 posts
Ensemble Music →
Tycoon sends jet to S’pore for durian purchase
Wednesday July 14, 2010 (The Star)
Tycoon sends jet to S’pore for durian purchase
THE Musang King durian from Malaysia has proven to be so delicious that Stanley Ho, who is Macau’s Gambling King, sent his personal jet to pick up 88 durians from Singapore.
China Press reported that Ho bought about RM4,800 worth of the durian from the 818 Durian Stall in the island republic.
Ho then shared the...