You pick any established entrepreneur, and I can tell you that he's gone through many purgatories yet he's carried on, bearing his persistence and vision.

For some years, I had been snatching at almost every moment to enhance my English proficiency.

Now that activity can abate since my English has reached a certain level and I can treat it as a side project. It had been an outland journey.

Java used to be my favorite runtime, when I was in school. No more.

And the acquisition of it by Oracle didn't help it in my eyes.

One of the worst scenarios for this world in the coming years would be that an international war between or among major countries breaks out.

If that really happens, the world economy which has been sluggishly climbing out of the mess of the Late-2000s Financial Crisis will be traumatized again, deeper in troubles.

Let's wish it won't happen. Knock the wood.

Sarah Palin published a memoir titled "Going Rogue" in 2009. What did she mean by that book title? Gee.