We tend to swear by something because we don't know better.

Flavors

Coffee, strong coffee.
Python, free Python.

Java, Sun Java.
.NET, ASP.NET.


P.S. If you're not an IT person, don't worry at all if you don't understand this little poem of mine. :-)

Oh, I love the slick web design of The New Yorker website and its exceeding favicon.

Below is a pic of their slick paper mags:

(Pic from http://goo.gl/VUt59)

If legit gun usage could be guaranteed in the U.S. ...

In countries like the U.S., Britain and Canada, public politicians must have known that they would become fair game, when they started out at the beginning.

The Economist is the baddest British mag.

我觉得“被和谐”这个词极其有意思。

恩，和谐的社会与被和谐的社会是很不一样的。

The maelstrom of information streams can be maddening from time to time.

Tush, at least half of all the songs churned out every year have no effective cultural values.

Poetry illumes people's hearts.

The other month, I walked in a coffee shop and sat myself down.

Then immediately I noticed several men not far from my table. They were mostly in their sixties. And they were talking about stocks enthusiastically.

I personally think they were kind of playing with fire, at their ages, they shouldn't expose their retirement moneys to the risks of laymen playing in the volatile stock market. It's better for them to leave their retirement moneys in the hands of professional investment managers who they would VERY CAREFULLY choose.

It's interesting to see that people assailing each other happens all the time at the top political level of Canada, i.e. in the Canadian House of Commons.

Well, the business of politics is not for the faint-hearted.

Entreating wolves not to destroy lambs predatorily only wastes time.

Don't let ignorance take hold of you. Will ya?

Unfold yourself with others.

The largely sunless long winter in Montreal is capable of making people sick at heart.

Of course not today. I love you, sun grandpa.

The niubility of Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, knows no bounds.

The testimonial he put out for The Economist is as follows:

I used to think. Now, I just read The Economist.

http://ads.economist.com/the-economist/testimonials/

Man, that, is the most niubi magazine testimonial I've ever seen.

Can RIM forge an alliance with some complementary company in order to gather speed and strength?