For the same vodka and whiskey, sometimes the former tastes better than the latter, other times vice versa.

Slow websites repulse people.

斷斷續續地試聽過一些近幾年紅起來的華語歌手。比較無愛的說。

I was brought up in the then nearly monolithically atheist China and still remains to be nonreligious. But now I guess that in any given country, joy and peace appear more often and abide longer in an average religious person than in an average atheist.

I suspect that even if I lived my life before the internet age, I would still be wrung by information overload. :-)

大商人的行藏、發心實在是奧妙無比。

於思於隨

“行成於思，毀於隨。” 

《唐˙韓愈˙進學解》

釋義：行事順利有成是由於深思熟慮的緣故。

- Copied from 台灣教育部重編國語辭典修訂本 (Dictionary of Chinese Idioms) at http://goo.gl/nt1fr

我個人給花費時間學習英文的同學們的一些建議

不管你每個星期花費在英文上的時間是多少，一定要注意有一個系統性的模樣，即：你每個星期在聽、說、讀、寫、vocabulary 等五個方面都得花時間，各方面的比例會因個人的實際情況不同而有不同百分比的分配，8% 等等。原因是那五個方面相輔相成、互相養育。則你的學力、能力的養成，可以邁上踏實前進之一途。

類似於一個少年人的飲食，在蔬菜、米麵、（肉蛋奶）、富含水分的飲品（如湯、水）方面都得有攝入量。

Enjoy.

其實，日行一善是不夠的。

Unknown shore

(Image from http://bit.ly/94Ic5G)

He was cast by sea waves on an unknown shore
Birds swarmed and swooned in cacophony
As if fain expostulating with each other

He walked and saw and thought
This would be a known shore in years

A company's employees must abide by the decisions of the company.

Digital assets are consequential.

“黑夜給了我黑色的眼睛，我卻用它尋找光明。” - 顧城詩作《一代人》

兩個名詞“運作”和“運營”在 Google Translate 上的英文翻譯都是 "operations"。

它們的動詞的英文翻譯呢？沒查過。我個人比較喜歡 "run" 的說。

“三十以後才明白”

很多人講究食物營養的滋養、運動的滋養。

但是，也許對心靈的滋養更加的重要。

電影《艋舺》中的黑幫殺戮和仇殺 - “擒賊先擒王”。

Should the favicon be rendered on every single web page in a user session?

In software programs and web services, up to how many characters can a text field receive?

The stress testing of Douban.com must be imperfect.

網絡論壇上的那些沒什麼營養的月經貼只是浪費人們的注意力和時間。

In Mathematics, the dread Lebesgue integration, which is named after the French mathematician Henri Lebesgue and is much more dreadful than the Riemann integration, looks interesting.

Integral Riemann-Darboux's integration (in blue) and Lebesgue integration (in red).

(Copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebesgue_integration)

Zionism, the very powerful Jewish political movement, is very intriguing.

And relatedly, the Christian Zionism is also very interesting.

I've heard that there's a free unlock package that can unlock iPhone and all of its paid apps.

I don't know if it contains spyware or something. It must be, right?

"Moral bankruptcy" is an interesting term.

I've become to like Canadians more and more.

People need to bide their time and then run when they need to run.

(Pic from http://goo.gl/2y6bH)

信、羅文裕的歌貌似也不是第一流。

巫啟賢的歌是曲好詞不好。

It seems that Facebook will become a dread company to most internet companies.

Sigh. The formidability of the Microsoft giant mirrored in the hearts and minds of the executives of Yahoo! in its early years has wrecked a hefty price of losing opportunities for the once promising company.

Many people like drawing. And they draw doodles everywhere, in the classroom, washroom, and so on.

In Canada and the U.S., you can see lots of painted doodles on building walls.

But I've never been able to draw.

The sometimes outrageous costs of law suits have made resorting to court largely only viable for the suits, especially in the U.S.

Can the existing glut of lawyers drive down the costs and benefit more average Joes and Janes?

My mind falls apart when I become tired and sleepy.

It seems that some native Chinese, even some with undergraduate and post-graduate degrees, don't know how to express their reasoning at all when they are expressing themselves. They simply reiterate their personal feelings.

Should they voice their reasoning when they try to make their points? Well, sometime when a person doesn't make his reasoning known, his words appear to be kind of like unconstructive jibber-jabber, right?

Vintage music video - 巫啟賢 - 心酸的情歌

Lyrics copied from http://goo.gl/oocgT:

心酸的情歌
作词：刘德华　作曲：巫启贤　编曲：杜自持 

此刻深深的伤透了　我唱着心酸的情歌
歌声不再有那美丽结局　与你重燃爱火
风中凄清的一个　却有谁人可知心事么
谁想到为你付出热爱在那夜　竟是错
留恋情　是我　曾经爱你是那么多
无心人　是你　令我热炽热爱一切没希望
我甘心将空虚中的一切都交托在这首歌
祇想一生在寂寞内剩余绝情来伴我
我伤心将消失中的深爱都寄语在这首歌
如今再没有力气共你在这夜　玩火
如今再没有力气共你在这夜　玩火

我個人覺得哈，劉德華演電影演得不是很有深度，歌唱得不是特別的好，寫的歌詞一般也不是特別優美，但是這首歌詞裡反映出的情懷很是不錯。

I personally think that some career paths actually are formidably difficult, if the people pursuing them knew beforehand. Knowledge is power.

Some worthwhile voices are lost in the massive noises on the internet. Can that be called an example of market inefficiencies?

Well, I don't know much about Mr. 周立波. But honestly, some of that Shanghai person's behaviors speak of bad taste in life.

I try to not lose any moment.

The details of people's daily life are more and more told of in this internet era.

What's the news with you, American economy?

For some, if not many, entrepreneurs who hold full-time jobs, the lack of time forbids them from sustaining their endeavors.

(Pic from http://goo.gl/97ldI)

The said "moral bankruptcy" of Goldman Sachs and the likes of it & "a global financial levy"

The former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown once mentioned "a global financial levy" for banks and financial institutions. I wonder how well the actual implementation of it goes worldwide. I believe many people are watching that.

Take this as at http://goo.gl/QrekV:

Mr Brown said: "We need a global financial levy for the banks, we have to quash remuneration packages such as Goldman Sachs. I cannot allow this to continue. 

"Everything I find out convinces me we've got to go in deeper and I believe I'm the man to go in and deal with these problems with the banks." 

Last week Mr Brown said he made a "mistake" when he acceded to call for lighter regulations on financial institutions during his years as chancellor. 

Today he said: "Every time I moved on regulation I had people saying this is ridiculous - deregulation is the only way forward. I accept we didn't know what was going on inside independent companies. 

"The banks have let us down. There is a moral bankruptcy reflected in what I've been reading about and hearing out. I want a special investigation." 

Mr Brown added: "The banks are a risk to the economy. We've got to make sure they behave in a proper way. We've got to do it at an international level. We need agreement about what we need to do. A new global constitution for the banks is a big issue."

The forbiddingly tough economic situations in Europe, the political upheavals in the Mideast, and their potential interplays given the two regions' geographic proximity look worrisome for the still weak global economy.

Has the U.S. treated its financial debt to the U.N. too blatantly?

Hotmail is so apparently poorly managed. I don't understand why a myriad of people are still using it. Over time, it will wither, anyways.

Gmail by Google is the way to go.

I really think that the problem of information overload is formidable and consequential.

從太平洋中國到大西洋加拿大的洲際長程，

我的身軀是花費十幾個小時嗖地一下子飛過來的，我的心、腦、舌卻是花費多年一步又一步地走過來的。

I suppose that Beijing has become a forbidding mega city because of its extremely high housing costs, annoying traffic jams, and so on.

Perhaps I am lucky in that I came from China to Canada to seek my future, although many people think that great opportunities exist in China.

所謂的"客戶黏性" (Customer Stickiness) 是一個比較有意思的東西。

I admire the level of capabilities an individual can achieve at which he cuts through problem solving like a hot knife through butter.

Shrews are a dangerous category of women.

The Shins' lyrics are so esoteric and gnomic.

They are poems, in fact.

Web 2.0 services have to set their basic services at free of charge as trolls.

It seems that more and more aspiring Chinese financiers' hiveminds want to study Financial Mathematics.

Wow. A grandly refreshing picture.

(Photo from http://goo.gl/5QqO6)

Note that the photograph "was taken on June 21, 2009 in Battle Creek, Michigan, US, using a Nikon D90", as stated at http://goo.gl/5QqO6 .

The piled snow on the balcony looks pretty like a loaf, in the pleasant breeze.

There are a great many shrewd businesspersons out there. But are all of them really sagacious?

Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln, was depicted as shrewish.

See this: http://goo.gl/a6AtS .

(Image from http://goo.gl/0kngY)

Is there an easy way to retrieve the history of the "Find" action in the Chrome browser?

The gait which Anglo Saxon people do things with tends to be understated.

孟郊之“月明直見嵩山雪”

“
天津橋下冰初結 

洛陽陌上人行絕 

榆柳蕭疏樓閣閒 

月明直見嵩山雪
”

--孟郊之《洛橋晚望》，未錄入《唐詩三百首》

“孟郊（751～814年），中國唐代詩人。... 孟浩然孫。”
- Excerpted from http://goo.gl/VKERK

The number of people one loves is much greater than that one trusts, in the Western world.

台灣演員阮經天在電影《艋舺》中的演技比較有愛的說。

Slashing snow

The winds blow
The street lamps hang low
I look out of the window

I don't know. Some of China's IT journalists seem to be a little blithe in their writing. Well, anyways, things with high hopes sell best.

The online searching expeditions take much time and intellectual resources and the like.

It is pivotal that there is a civil market of ideas, which compete with each other.

'Blissful' is a very rich word.

Blissful treatment of people leads to nowhere.

In my young years, I was ignorant but not blithe.

It seems that China's video streaming websites, such as tudou.com, are bedrid due to their lagging in technological capabilities.

And 56.com seems to be the best, relatively, among them.

The consequences of social networking services are writ large on the face of the forthcoming years.

People will use them more and more to find information.

Is immigration to overseas a go for more and more businesspersons in China?

Jobs not allowing for career advancement tend to not retain workers.

Globalization has swelled the ranks of futureless people in the U.S. and Canada, as it were.

In Economics, the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility is "the central hypothesis of" the Utility Theory, which often gets criticized by some economists.

However, I have found it a powerful concept.

The accelerating pace of paradigm shift, which is pestering, costs us very much time and too much time.

我現在還不需要入 tablet.

One or more pragmatic ideals are among the best life companions of a boy then a man.

If you are using Internet Explorer, you might want to consider to switch to Firefox, or even better, Google's Chrome browser.

(Image from http://goo.gl/TIq5a)

我很喜歡 Google 產品的 understatedness, effciency, 與 effectiveness.

然而，Google 產品匱乏一些治愈系的感覺。

從此刻開始，我自己在這個部落格上面寫的中文文字，一律採用我心儀已久的繁體中文。

離根更近。

It seems that the high school and university students with the best critical thinking capabilities are concentrated in Beijing and Shanghai, the two hugest mega cities of China.

Well, it's obvious, isn't it?

I'm abandoning the labeling of the posts on this blog.

It's just neither necessary nor helpful. For finding information on this blog, a search will do.

Fluorine is everywhere in our daily life.

Fluoride toothpaste, fluoridated tap water, and fluorescent lighting are good examples.

Many old people are out of the frame of the web evolution.

Much of the hurry-scurry of smart phone apps is fads, for my money.

The colors and fonts of the Chrome browser on Linux machines seem to not be on a par with their counterparts on Windows and Mac machines.

Now that the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons has stripped the license of the disgraced Toronto pathologist Charles Randal Smith and found him "incompetent" and "unprofessional".

Note that Mr. Charles Smith had obtained his pathology training at University of Toronto in the 1970s. And now we know that an education from a prestigious university does NOT equal to high quality of a professional's work.

I adore and admire LSE.

Cost of living is spurting in Montreal this year.

What is wealth? Paper monies?

What major elements have driven the current tectonic shift of the political landscape of the Arab world, such as what have been happening in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen?

It is said that the steeply rising cost of foods is one of them.

Gosh, introspective men's appeal may be rising.

The BURSTS of innovations happening in China are still not on a par with the SPURTS of those in the U.S.

Is China spurting its accumulated mammoth amount of U.S. dollars?

Or will it be?

There are many dirges in pop music.

The North American life is more or less mirthless for some first-generation Chinese immigrants.