Very Inspirational Quotes to Apply To Your Finances during GFC and GFC Mark II

“Worry, like a rocking chair will give you something to do, but it won’t get you anywhere.” – Vance Havner

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.” – Tyler Durden, Fight Club (via author Chuck Phalanuick)

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward

“Have patience, and endure” – Shakespeare, Much Ado

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.” – Gil Stern

Zen of the day – It is a cruel irony that the euro could be felled by an Italian trying too hard to be a German.

Time for Super Mario – MARIO DRAGHI, an Italian who becomes president of the European Central Bank on November 1st, top dog among central bankers.

Deng’s crucial role in China’s transformation from an impoverished and brutalised country into an economic and political superpower. Three and a half decades after Mao’s death, the next generation of Chinese will have no personal memory of the little man from Guang’an County in Sichuan province. All the same, they will be Deng Xiaoping’s children.

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The great stabiliser

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China. By Ezra Vogel. Belknap Press; 928 pages; $39.95 and £29.95.

Zen of the day – Coding is not a crime, debugging is …

Quick Poll: Do you want to pay the subscription fee for The Australian online service? (www.theaustralian.com.au)

The Australian, especially its Wall St Journal section, has a lot of high quality articles. Used to be free to read them online. But not any more, after the News of the World scandal.

After ego of touchscreen, there is coming super-ego OmniTouch.

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Microsoft OmniTouch: Turn your entire world into a touchscreen | ExtremeTech
Microsoft has something up its sleeve literally with two apps that make multitouch touchscreens out of any flat surface in the world, including your skin.

It runs Android, but a full customised Android that you don't have Google Market, Gmail, and the Android update … It officially only supports Amazon's services.

In other word, it's a branch out from Android master. And it will never merge back.

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Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet: Some important perspective

» Read more: Amazon’s Kindler Fire maybe not like what you want

Warning: Tech Content

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Troy Hunt: Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps
Troy Hunt on observations, musings and conjecture about the world of software and technology