Insight of the day

"Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do."

Neale Donald Walsch
Author of Conversations With God

"Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time."

Thomas J. Watson
1874-1956, Founder of IBM

"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad."

Denis WaitleyAuthor, Speaker and Trainer

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind
to find out they've got a second.
Give your dreams all you've got
and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you."

William James1842-1910,
Psychologist, Professor and Author

Jika Anda ingin berbahagia selama satu jam, silakan tidur siang. Jika Anda ingin berbahagia selama satu hari, pergilah berpiknik. Bila Anda ingin berbahagia seminggu, pergilah berlibur. Bila Anda ingin berbahagia selama sebulan, menikahlah. Bila Anda ingin berbahagia selama setahun, warisilah kekayaan. Jika Anda ingin berbahagia seumur hidup, cintailah pekerjaan Anda.

Promod Brata

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."

Benjamin Disraeli1804-1881,
British Statesman and Prime Minister

When is it Best to Design Websites in Black?

Colour is important to design, especially in designing for the web. many shops use the web as a sales tool now & using the correct colours can generate more sales, although picking the wrong colours can mean that fewer users & fewer sales.

Finding out about the psychology of colour is crucial for all website designers if they want to compose a successful web-site. This is because different colours affect humans in different ways, & can influence emotions & moods. this means that your colour choice could upset your users if you don't get it right.

Colour can also be used to guide users to a specific area of the page. For example, you may want a user to click the purchase now button, which means that making it bold is extremely vital.

Here's a guide to how different colours influence & affect humans:

White is a minimalist colour. linked to simplicity, cleanliness & purity, it can be used to highlight images.

Yellow is linked with comfort, liveliness, energy and joy. it is a vibrant colour that can be used to highlight specific areas on a web page.

The colour red can summon feelings of passionate, courage and strength. it is a strong colour and if used in small doses, it's great for highlighting points.

The colour black can be linked to death, mourning, power and style. many metal bands use black as their main colour due to its associations with death and evil.

Yellow summons visions of summer, joy and optimism. its a colour that can be overwhelming and if used in conjunction with black, it creates a warning feel.

Just like yellow, red is associated with love, sex and energy. it can also be overpowering if overused, although its fabulous to attract attention.

Grey can be linked with respect, humility, decay and boredom. it's used a lot to form shiny gradients in designing for the world wide web to give a slick, futuristic feel to a web site.

Orange is strongly related to spirituality and healing. it's the colour that represents Buddhism and its a calming energy about it. it's a bold colour that is not as lively as yellow yet not a deep as red.

Brown, particularly the the lighter end can have a calming effect.

Beige is also a popular colour in designing web sites because it provides an earthy and relaxed feel. it might also mean tradition, poverty and nature.

Grey can be linked to refinement, innovation and the future. The paler side is similar to white in that it's a fabulous colour to use on a website's background to form a sense of space and modernism.

It is evident that colours do not just make a website look alluring, although they also have an underlying effect of user experience and can thus dictate how successful a site can be. getting the colours right can create a web site that users can identify and will make them more willing to use, explore and promote the web site to friends. picking incorrect colours can accidentally put users off and have them leave your site for somebody elses.

Author: Sherryll Juarres

Preston Reed Slap Guitar

Quote of the day

A dog thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me. They must be Gods!
A cat thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me. I must be a God!

Make winning a habit, hope is not a strategy

Orang yang pintar cenderung bersembunyi dari kepintaran dengan cara tampil bodoh, sementara orang bodoh menyembunyikan kebodohannya dengan cara terlihat pintar

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."

Oprah WinfreyTelevision Host,
Actress and Producer

Angelina-Tommy Emmanuel

Angelina

Sweet song by Tommy Emmanuel

Roll Royce Phantom

My next car....

Inspiration

Inspiration

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." ~ John Quincy Adams

"Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow." ~ Vince Lombardi

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creativity

I have often wondered why most companies have a creative department with a limited number of people, usually a very small percentage of the people which are on the payroll.
Every department in a company is a creative department as long as the department has people in it. All people are creative. Creativity has its root in the creator which is within each of us. As you permit the higher side of your nature to express itself in a greater way for good in your life, you are being creative.
There are an enormous number of people who deprive themselves of many of the joys life offers because they believe they are not creative.
"Musicians are creative, writers, artists and designers are creative but I'm not."
You should realize there are creative auto-mechanics, carpenters, secretaries and warehouse people. There are lawyers, accountants and dentists who are creative.
Creativity has absolutely nothing to do with what you do but it has everything to do with how you do it. William James said, "Creativity is the ability to think in unhabitual ways."
Pay particular attention today to the various people you come in contact with. Observe closely how these people apply themselves to their jobs.
Some will be an absolute symphony in every move they make. It will be obvious they have given creative thought to their work while others move in a very mechanical way. If they are asked to do anything which may be out of the norm you may very well hear the reply, "I'm sorry, that is not my job." There are definite self-imposed limitations to their activity.
They have never learned that they are a truly dynamic being with limitless creative potential in every fiber of their being. Nor have they learned that this creative potential is awaiting recognition from them.
You have the opportunity to express your creativity staring you in the face every minute. If you haven't begun to express it, do so today.

Bob Proctor

What is Brain/Ear Reference ??

We know that hearing and listening are two different facts. For instance if we don't know Chinese, we will not understand if somebody speaking Chinese (Yes sure, yeah :-)) Not so much familiar people may confuse French versus Italian. By the same logic, as an example if we don't know viola sound well, we may confuse it quite easily with a violin playing at upper octaves or with a cello playing at the lower octaves. If we are not so much familiar with a live acoustic sound of a violin, we can not identify which record or which equipment reproduces the most natural sounds.

Hearing happens 24 hours a day even in sleeping mode. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to hear our alarm clock or screaming of our boy. Our brain scans every sound but rejects unimportant ones for the one. Brain does not only scan and select the sounds, but processes them actively. If a viola sound is heard, brain recall the memory, compare with experiences and historical events and decide if it is viola or not. Listening, in other words can be described as active hearing. If brain does not participated to the process, it is called hearing but not listening.

Have you listened your recorded voice ?, You liked it ? Was that similar to your voice or quite different. Everybody else will agree that it is your voice except you ! Our voice is transmitted to a listener directly via his/her ear but it is transmitted to us by internal vibrations as well as externally by ear, so sounds different. This is the brain reference. Brain reference for our voice is what we heard in our life.

Brain will decide if the sound is coming from piano or from a violin. The fact for such a judgement is our memory. If someone who did not listen piano in live acoustic concert properly, his brain reference for piano will be the one "was listened in a good hi-end system", may be his own system. He will obviously distinguish the piano sound immediately but may not like it or may not find it realistic or natural. If this is the case, how do we choose our equipments and how we will realize which system or component is better ? Is the only way to trust Stereophile or Absolute Sound writers, I believe the key element is to attend live acoustic concerts (not amplified) as much as possible and locate to the performers as close as possible. This is a must to adjust our brain references.

A couple of examples here. A friend who visited us heard my daughter who was playing piano in her room, went to her room. He did not like the sound of the piano at all. He said that a piano can not be such a dark and dull. No inner details, no resolution nothing !! Our piano surely can not play at the same league with a long Steinway&Sons but it is a live piano, live music and we are only few centimetres away. I know he likes such piano records that the mikes were located inside of the piano body and every inner timbre was recorded and boosted. Even the musician himself can not hear such details. His brain reference served him his memory of piano sounds and once he listened a real piano, he found it unrealistic.

Years ago, when I commenced attending the regular concerts of Istanbul Symphony Orchestra, I found the sound do dull at that time. The sound was as if covered by a cloth. Mid and upper frequencies were not exist. Timpani and the big drum was kicked like hell but their sounds were not killing powerful. I got used to it in time and perceived the neutrality and the purity of the non coloured sounds. A couple of months ago I invited an audiophile friend who does not attend to acoustic concerts. He was shocked. He told that the entire orchestra was covered by something, there was no details and upper frequencies, sound was so soft and gentle. He said that he can not perceive the violins, rustles of soprano, drums are not shaking the floor. We were located only at the 8.th raw. During the entire concert, he strived to find the reasons but never judged his brain references. It is obvious that we will not like our systems each other due to our expected sounds and brain reference points are different.

May be the last example that; years ago, we visited an audiophile friend for a long listening session. He is very good audiophile and very good music listener too. He used to have very good systems. Please see his system for more details ; Mufit Olcar We listened mostly classics for hours and admired the sound of the system. When we wanted to try our own reference CD's (Patricia Barbers, etc) his system sink and disappointed us. Actually we should have judged our own brain references but not the system. We had coloured our systems to achieve more details but estranged by neutrality.

We, most of the audiophiles make this fault unconsciously. We load our brain references with wrong information then accuse better systems, better equipments, better sounds even better records. We don't like the sounds of better systems, we can not come to an agreement or can not compromise on fundamentals due to our own particular brain references

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