Month: November 2012

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• Sky City will stand 2,749 ft tall and have a phenomenal 220 floors

• It will house 17,400 people as well as offices, schools and even a hospital
• Builders intend to put it up at an amazing five stores a DAY

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2236300/Chinese-company-plans-build-worlds-tallest-skyscraper–just-THREE-MONTHS.html

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Chinese company plans to build world’s tallest skyscraper – in just THREE MONTHS
Sky City in Changsha, south-east China (pictured in an artist’s impression), will be a 220-storey structure standing at an incredible 2,749ft (838m).

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TIBCO Introduction

Attend a workshop presented by a TIBCO architect today, from TIBCO history to its latest development in Enterprise scope. 

Basically, from an Oracle Fusion user's perspective, TIBCO is a light version of integration solution, friendly, robust and performance well above its peers. Everything in TIBCO integration solution is developed in Java, but for TIBCO designers and developers, there is NO CODING. You just drag and drop the icons then job is done, which I reckon is very smart. So maybe that's why TIBCO people reckon they are more artists than blue collar's coders.

Now, come to the highlight of the presentation. 

Question asked whether TIBCO could be more Agile.

"Well,if we could plan better", answered by this TIBCO guru, "integration work could move very quickly. However TIBCO doesn't fit in Java Domain, it's hard to have Continuous Integration and Continuous Improvement for TIBCO".

So the conclusion is "Integration is not compatible with Agile".

Just brilliant!

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Excellent excuse for another round of beer …

Excellent excuse for another round of beer …

Reshared post from +Kate Savage

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full.. The students responded with a unanimous ‘yes.’

The professor then produced two Beers from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand.The students laughed..

‘Now,’ said the professor as the laughter subsided, ‘I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things—-your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions—-and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.. The sand is everything else—-the small stuff.

‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued, ‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.

Spend time with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit with grandparents. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and mow the lawn.

Take care of the golf balls first—-the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the Beer represented. The professor smiled and said, ‘I’m glad you asked.’ The Beer just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of Beers with a friend.

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The latest Quality-Of-Life index, links the results of subjective life-satisfaction…

The latest Quality-Of-Life index, links the results of subjective life-satisfaction surveys — how happy people say they are — to objective determinants of the quality of life across countries.

Top rank is Switzerland, no argument with that. Other important countries like New Zealand, no. 7; United States, no. 16; Japan, no. 25; Britain, no. 27; China, no. 49.

Australia is No.2!

Let's have a tad bit complacent, just like our always-feeling-good Reserve Bank Australia, and go back to do the damn work tomorrow.

Read more: http://www.economist.com/news/21566430-where-be-born-2013-lottery-life?fsrc=scn/gp/wl/co/worldinNov24

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Good week

our dear Aussie dollar. Much like Shane Warne, continues to bat well above its weight. The Aussie dollar is in fact too high. Even though commodities prices have peaked and the mining boom is deflating, our dollar is being propped up by our relatively high domestic interest rates (for now). 

Bad week … former coal baron Nathan Tinkler. Last year he was a billionaire rich lister who liked a punt (so much he reportedly blew $300 million setting up his own horse racing stable). This week Tinkler's head trainer revealed he didn't have enough money to cover the cost of the hay for the horses! 

Deal of the week … Buy a Spanish home for 160,000 euros ($A197,000) or more (thinking about sunshine and beach in winter holiday), and for a limited time the Spanish Government will grant foreign investors free residency and citizenship – and presumably the right to pay ever-increasing amounts of tax.

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