Madness of investors

Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, 'I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.' If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.

Quoted from:

Berkshire Hathaway 2005 Chairman's Letter

Warren E. Buffett

Chairman of the Board

Disk defragmentation tool

Last weekend I was preparing to defragment my computer's harddisk. I first tried the tool that comes with Windows Vista, and found that it does not show the animated progress status anymore. That means I can't see how much the harddisk is fragmented and what is the analysis anymore and I don't feel comfortable with that.

I then searched for a 3rd party tool that would serve my need and found the Auslogics Disk Defrag. Downloaded and installed it. Tried it and it works fine! And I actually find that it works quite fast.

So if you are looking for a defragmentation tool, you may want to take a look at this one at:

http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/

It is one of the free tool provided by Auslogics. They also have other utility programs such as for finding duplicate files on your system, clean up the registry, and for recovery. Some are available for free and some needs to be purchase.

A relax and peaceful Sunday afternoon

A cup of Chinese tea, and a piece of crispy sesame seed/red bean paste pastry. Made my afternoon! Somehow I just enjoy this nothing to do, and a very peaceful afternoon, and the pastry is much much better than I have expected.