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A dream and wishful, across the spectrum, Software App’s tag cloud:

Maya, 3DSMax, Avid suite, Collada, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Papervision3D, Adobe CSx Suite, HTML5, Flash, Flex, AIR, SAP, Salesforce.com, LiveCycle DS, SAP Web AS, Amazon Web Services, Oracle, MySQL, SaaS, Open source, Cloud computing, Cognitive interactions, Cross platform deployment.

…and throwing in any wanted/unwanted web x.0 technologies, mashups, widgets, libraries and frameworks!

Getting anything done close to this will make me soooo happy (as said in the tone of Craig! from Southpark)

found this interesting read while Googling around:

from ‘THE SATURDAY READER’ August 4 1866 VOL II No 48:
on “LONG LIFE”:
…Possibly after all, however, there are not many who think extreme old age worth striving for- worth taking a deal of trouble to obtain- who are of the same opinion аs Northcote, the painter, that life, after the power of labouring with, zest has gone, is like keeping the candles lighted in a church after the congregation have left – waste of time, waste of existence. It is not every one that can take the same pleasure in fourscore and ten that Cornaro and Fon-tenelle did. The latter, who lived to be ninety five, said the age at which he had been most happy was from forty five to seventy five because at forty five the condition of life was established, and dreams vanished or fulfilled, so that then really began the season of quiet enjoyment.

Southey said: “Live as long as you may, the first twenty years is the longest half of your life.” Dr Cadogan held that the life of man was properly ninety years instead of three score and ten- “thirty to go up, thirty to stand still ,and thirty to go down.” “Fortunately there is a tranquillity,” to quote Southey once more,”which nature brings with it as duly towards the close of life as induces sleep at tho close of day.”

Be life short or long, remember, with Carlyle, that, “to the pitifullest of all sons of earth, life is no idle dream, but a solid reality. It is (he adds) thy own, it is all thou hast to face eternity with.” Or better, perhaps, and still more brief, are the words of the old Scottish divine: “Time is short; and if your cross is heavy, you have not far to bear it.”

Our divine poet Shakspere pertinently says “The time of life is short: To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial’s point, still ending at the arrival of an hour” I Henry IV Act V Sc 2. If we spend our days in labour, selfishly for own sakes only, we shall spend them in “Letting down buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.”