So the world's richest man is a guy in Mexico, now worth $62B after a surge in stock. I wonder what his reaction was upon learning this...

"SELL! SELL! SELL! Now's the time! Cash it in! Cash it ALL in! Mwa-ha ha ha!"

From the article:

"Slim, known for his Midas touch in turning around struggling businesses and turning them into profit-making machines, told Reuters in an interview this year he was not in the habit of calculating his fortune on a regular basis."

"I have 247 people in my employ that do that for me on a minute-to-minute basis," he added. "As if I would do it myself."

After the overwhelming success of Apple's iPhone, plans are underway to expand the line. The most innovative member will undoubtedly be the iPhone Shuffle.

From Apple's marketing materials:

We found that most people were so entranced by their iPhone that they would just dial numbers from their address book, pretty much indiscriminately, just to say:

'Hey, guess what!? I'm calling you from my new iPhone! Yeah, I rock! Face on you! I gotta go call someone else!'

Our team of top designers and engineers felt that they could make what was an already perfect phone experience even better. Immediately dropping all work on the next version of the Macintosh operating system, code-named 'Has Anyone Seen Leopard? Anyone?', our engineers realised that the touch-screen interface was simply getting in the way of calling everyone the user's ever met.... thus the clean, elegant, smooth, uncluttered lines of the iPhone Shuffle.

One press of the 'Home' button is all you need to make a phone call. But who will you be calling? That's the beauty of the iPhone Shuffle. Strongly inspired by the iPod Shuffle, the iPhone Shuffle will randomly select a phone number from your contacts and simply place the call! Imagine the excitement of talking to friends and family members you haven't spoken to in a long time! The spontaneous conversations you can have that you wouldn't have had otherwise!

Apple has perfected the technology required for this device, which we have named Apple Shuffle Technology. Apple Shuffle Technology is an advanced new system, and is the heart of the iPhone Shuffle. It is able to take a list of possible values -- your phone numbers, your music -- and randomly rearrange them into a different order! This is years ahead of anything else out there, and is due to revolutionise the industry.

Of course, the iPhone Shuffle wouldn't be complete without an iPod. Simply rotate the iPhone Shuffle ninety degrees, press the 'Home' button, and you're listening to your favourite music, already shuffled by Apple Shuffle Technology for you. Press 'Home' again, and your music is paused.

Safari on the iPhone Shuffle? You bet. Simply rotate again another ninety degrees, and you're ready to browse the web with our innovative, advanced web browser Safari. It also works on the same shuffle principle: one press of the 'Home' button will take you to a random site on the Internet, where the content will be read to you by the computer generated voice built into the phone.

We're even saved the best for last. 'Where's the camera?' you might wonder. We didn't want iPhone Shuffle users to feel left out on that front. That 'Home' button? Also a high-resolution camera lens. But that's not the most innovative part. Taking full advantage of Apple Shuffle Technology, the camera will take photographs at completely random times -- or "shuffled time" -- leaving you with one less thing to worry about. Also included is Apple's new Fingerprint Smudge Removal filter as an iPhoto plug-in.

I don't know about you, but I'm pretty excited about this device. I think it really has a chance to change a person's life, opening up all kinds of new opportunities. Just think of the possibilities....

This is an interesting article:

Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

Favourite quote:

"Men have had to conquer foreign lands, win battles and wars, compose symphonies, author books, write sonnets, paint cathedral ceilings, make scientific discoveries, play in rock bands, and write new computer software in order to impress women so that they will agree to have sex with them."

Although I have to admit, the line "Dear Odin, look at him code, I can barely keep my pants on" somehow fails to have a ring of familiarity to it.