Evil = Money x Money, get a girl and you’ll be rich!

Have you ever heard of the saying, Money is the root of all evil? I used to ignore this line, because Money isn’t the only root. However, after reading several pages on John Chow’s website, Market Matatdor and Angel’s website. This line came back in focus.

It started out as a joke around my high school days, it was our introduction class to mathematical proves. A friend of mine found the following prove on the old Internet, the BBS systems.

Proof Girls are evil

Let Money = Evil^(1/2) …(1) (Money is the root of all Evil)
Let Time = Money …(2) (Time is Money)
Let Girls = Time x Money …(3) (Girls requires time and money)
Then, we get
Time = Evil^(1/2) …(Sub 1 with 2) …(4)
Girls = Evil^(1/2) x Evil^(1/2) …(Sub 3 with 2, 4) …(5)
Therefore Girls = Evil (5, definition of ^)

At the time, I was simply smiling, because it is funny, but it didn’t really make much sense. Because the equal sign is a bidirectional sign, so Money is root of all evil must also mean root of all evil is money. Yet that is not the case with life. If that last sentence lost you, don’t worry, its the curse of a mathematic student, me, just continue on and ignore that line. This fact stayed true until I was proven wrong once again by John Chow.

As an Internet surfer since the early 90s, I am immunized to most Internet marketing strategy. It is not like I intentionally skip it, I simply grew to ignore them. However, JohnChow’s evil marketing strategies did get my attention. It wasn’t the Ad Words that he used, nor is it the colors or pictures, it is the articles that caught my attention. I especially liked the evil marketing scheme page on his site. He used humor to sell his ideas across, and simply talks the reader into believing they can earn as much money as he does.

So, yes, Money is the root of all evil, and root of all evil will bring you money. As we all know John just got himself a girl, we now know where his money came from eh?

Copping with Writer’s block

To create a successful blog or website, everyone knows that great content is a requirement. This mean the owner’s writing ability and their ideas are very important. Once a person starts blogging or writing articles on his or her website, they would usually start off with lots of interesting ideas. Once some of those ideas, if not all, are written and posted, the source of those ideas would start to act like a dying well. As the well dries up, the author is slowly experiencing what is known as Writer’s block.

As a Blogger, writer’s block is the worst thing that could happen. Yet, it is a standard part of any writer’s life. If you experienced writer’s block, it would become progressively difficult to write about anything. Eventually, you might simply give up writing. Personally, I attain this level of blockage several times per week. My solution is to rediscover my muse via other means. When I am lost on my blogging path, I would turn to several places online for ideas. First and foremost, Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the world’s free encyclopedia maintained by everyone online. This means you can contribute to this encyclopedia, any errors are removed immediately if found by other users on the Internet. Don’t underestimate the people online, if you were to falsify an entry, it may take a maximum of several seconds after posting for your entry to be removed and IP address banned from editing. Wikipedia is one of my muse for several articles on this site. On this list are the articles on Melvin Franklin and Jean Chretien. Honestly, there are way more information on Wikipedia that anyone can imagine. You can locate history, facts, sometime even mathematical formula on this handy site.

A second source I visit is YouTube. If you read around my site, some of my post actually contain videos linked from YouTube. Sometime I might find a funny video on YouTube or similar sites and just want to share it with the world. That’s one post!

Lastly, visiting your neighbor’s blogs. I maintain an active list of worthwhile blogs on my blogroll. This is actually more for my personal benefit then for my readers, otherwise known as YOU. My blogroll is what I suggest you to read, simply because I find it the site interesting enough for a revisit. So, I visit them myself on a weekly basis to ensure they still deserve a place on my blogroll.

There are always some offline sources. For example, my favorite is the box in my living room known as Television. Browsing for interesting shows or seeing some guy paddling a boat in a sea of cow excretion is really interesting and could easily reignite my ideas or recall my personal muse.

Money Talks - TSX’s healthy gains

Finally, on Friday, after several reports indicating a better then expected 3Qtr, TSX stop the radical decline experienced on Thursday and gain 66.42 points.

Research in Motion is now stabilized at 110. Hopefully we won’t be seeing another sudden drop in stock price.
October seems to be the historical sad month for Financial related stocks. All the major banks stocks either have negative gain or their gains are inching upwards.

The Tech sector on the other hand have a pretty nice rally so far. With Research in motion still in my personal top picks. RIM spilt  3 to 1 on August 15th, it grew 40 cdn in less then two months to today’s 110.63. If RIM’s partnership with other companies continue to grow, i.e. Network expansion in Asia, we might see the stock grow to 200 dollars(again).

Money Talks - TSX roller coaster ride.

Today was a thrill packed day for the Toronto Stock exchange. Within 15 mins during the afternoon, TSX went from +50 to -50 and back. This happened a few times until closing with a negative 46.75.

The leader for today’s downward rally was Research in Motion, which drop a total of 4.59 and closes at 109.9. At one point, RIM was down near 10 dollars, but was able to recover at most of that lost by closing time.

Imports and exports number for August are down, my guess is, with the looney raising, we’ll see these numbers drop in September as compared to August, and further more in October.

One fear I have is that we are really heading for a recession, with exports down, businesses would eventually loose money and may go bankrupt. If this happen to enough of the Canadian businesses, especially the smaller ones, we might really be heading for another recession.

Technorati - Let’s see why it is important

I have been reading mean posts on the internet, a lot of them seems to point back to technorati. At first, I was just saying ‘So, I still have more faith in Google then anything else’. But then I’d miss out what technorati is.

So I am planning to join Technorati and see how it works, what kind of benefits I can gain from it.

This is my Technorati Profile.