The Windows Shell Common Dll is still dumb in Windows 7.

Two tidbits about garbage

• The prevalent automatic garbage collection was invented as a solution in Lisp.
• (Data) Garbage in, garbage out.

TIER (try, import, except, raise)

A lovely snippet of code pattern:

try:
    import service
    except Error:
        raise

In web apps, every step or user choice is a solution.

In excellent articles or texts, every sentence is an instance of mind stretching, informing, questioning, or problem solving.

針對新的需求特徵來進行公司內部的流程改造。

On the top of the heads of some well groomed men, grizzled hair shines elegance.

Maybe only the rich countries can breed excellent user experience designs, which can accommodate the changing usage needs of individual consumers, on a wide scale.

There are a lot of bimbos in this world. But the world needs them, definitely.

English proficiency is a definite competitive edge for people in the software and web development industry.

I tend to put a premium on accuracy.

A sib is not necessarily a very good friend. But a sib is a sib.

In reality, now who places much care on the hallowed grounds and spots of the indigenous peoples in Canada?

On the other hand, Jerusalem, the holy city of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, has always been in the spotlight on the world stage.

Think about that.

It seems that the Kobo ebook reader, made by a Canadian biz which is a local giant, is not up to par yet, in terms of sophistication.

How far will it be able to go, in the presence of the Amazon Kindle ebook reader, which is made by the, well, almighty Amazon.com ?

See the customer reviews of Kobo at http://goo.gl/6EbVM .

Now there's a term "APU", which means "Accelerated Processing Unit". An APU integrates a CPU and a GPU.

When one hallows money, he becomes a blind man.

When one hallows truth, he becomes a free man.

It is received that after having lived together for some years, some similarity grows between the countenances of a couple.

Even if the Blogger platform doesn't offer ritzy user experience, Google is still eating its own dog food and using it for its official company blog at

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

Building seamless information channels is very vital.

Music video - Jason Mraz - I'm Yours (Live)

Lyrics:

I'm Yours

Well you done done me
and you bet I felt it
I tried to be chill
but you're so hot that I melted
I fell right through the cracks
Now I'm trying to get back

Before the cool done run out
I'll be giving it my bestest
And nothing's gonna to stop me
but divine intervention
I reckon it's again my turn
to win some or learn some

But I won't hesitate
no more, no more
It cannot wait, I'm yours

Well open up your mind
and see like me
Open up your plans
and damn, you're free
Look into your heart
and you'll find love love love love

Listen to the music of the moment
people dance and sing
We're just one big family
And it's our God-forsaken right
to be loved love loved love loved

So I won't hesitate
no more, no more
It cannot wait I'm sure

There's no need to complicate
Our time is short
This is our fate, I'm yours

Scooch on closer dear
And I will nibble your ear

I've been spending way too long
checking my tongue in the mirror
And bending over backwards
just to try to see it clearer
But my breath fogged up the glass
And so I drew a new face and laughed

I guess what I'll be saying is
there ain't no better reason
To rid yourself of vanities and
just go with the seasons
It's what we aim to do
Our name is our virtue

But I won't hesitate
no more, no more
It cannot wait I'm sure

Well open up your mind
and see like me
Open up your plans
and damn, you're free
Look into your heart
and you'll find the sky is yours

Please don't, please don't,
please don't
There's no need to complicate
Cause our time is short
This, oh this, oh this is our fate, I'm yours 

- Corrected on the basis of http://www.lyricsmania.com/im_yours_lyrics_jason_mraz.html

Sometimes, to a certain extent, women are like sibyls for their children.

Some men tend to look kind frowningly. That sort of appearance signals maturity.

User-generated content (a.k.a. UGC) seems to have become a precious commodity that businesses compete for.

I am intrigued by the existence of content farms and the valuation of the contents they present for whatever reasons.

On a related note, obviously those content farms add a lot to the brunt of our information overload.

YouTube adopts the iFrame video format, which was developed and unveiled by Apple in around October 2009.

In China, people tend to hallow individuals with power or money. But power can be abused.

In the West, people tend to hallow law. And no one is above the law.

A sense of duty is actually pivotal for an individual or organization. That covers and speaks a lot which is not writ down in explicit contracts.

Screen space for some free information units on commercial websites is at a premium.

Sigh. For free stuff, sometimes we get what we pay for.

Yahoo! has been vanishing from our sight.

Sigh. What a legend it once was.

When my infant daughter sees my wife, she finds herself complete again.

Space is at such a premium in Hong Kong. I don't understand why some Chinese still want to go there.

In addition, will the future of HK be a bright one? I doubt it.

People's confidence in an institution is proportional to the accountability of that institution.

These years, I've been harrowed by the almost disastrous complexity of information acquiring and filtering.

There was a two-year long Klondike Gold Rush in Yukon, Canada roughly a hundred years ago. Given the proximity of Yukon to Alaska, did one or more similar gold rushes happen in Alaska?

Elegance is the moniker of France.

Music video - 水木年华 - 再见了最爱的人

Acquiring proficient oral English seems to be a hallowed pursuit among the ESL learners in China.

However, I personally consider what really matters is not what the tongue can voice, instead, it is what the mind can deliver.

It intrigues me why the national policy makers across the world all make parents pay for their children's daycare, while they make the society, a.k.a. taxpayers, pay for the children's elementary and secondary school education.

A long enough rally in American spirit will be tough to bring about.

Thrice a day we eat, once a day we sleep.

A million times in a life we work, once in a life we die.

中國的三大門戶網站裡面，網易、新浪的名字都很好，就是搜狐好像差一點。

“搜狐”這個名字，我隨便猜猜，大概是模仿“雅虎”的名字吧。但是“搜狐”在“搜”的領域貌似一直沒有做起來。

Well, who doesn't like premium user experience? The problem is, how much are you willing to pay for that?

Web development, web design and other allied professions are a preeminent driving force of change in this world.

A Chinese tends to compare his material well being to that of others.

And that tendency embedded in the Chinese conscience harrows generation after generation of Chinese people.

When you go to a battle, go armed cap-a-pie.

(Image from http://goo.gl/vD58n)

Protest rallies have been mushrooming across the world. 'Tis "the worst of times", 'tis "the best of times".

My impression is that the group of the Canadians of Eastern Asian ethnicity are normally judged sort of more leniently than some other ethnic groups, because they have the reputation of being law-abiding denizens.

Okay. Now Sony Ericsson has also climbed on the bandwagon of making Android phones.

The smart phone and tablet industry is and will be an industry in which the greatest business war I've ever seen takes place.

Sometimes I tend to think that a little more leniency should be introduced into the corporate world so that workers can have just a little more breathing room.

To copy my own input contents:

While in a form input box: Ctrl + A to select all
vs.
While on an output web page: Ctrl + A to select all

For all the risks of potential traumatic earthquakes, many people, especially rich new immigrants from China, are still flocking to Vancouver and pushing the real estate prices over there higher and higher.

I don't understand that. It's a risky area to live in. Quakes are coming sooner or later.

We must constantly ask ourselves these questions: Do I have time to season myself for nuance? And, should my worldview ever stop evolving?

There are all sorts of hidden premiums you have to pay for financial products. So you have to be very very careful when purchasing them. This is a very complicated world.

The U.S. will rally to lead the world again very effectively, I guess.

For all its seemingly limitless potential in a naive eye, life develops within various very powerful constraints and much potential is doomed at the beginning.

Artwork of digital music pieces usually looks very goodly and hence makes the music more appealing to potential listeners.

(Image from http://goo.gl/mw9PR)

The manipulating effects of arts on human consciences are not to be ignored.

Herbal lenient medicine is well known and widespread in China's homes. On the other hand, I don't know many existing in Canada.

Well, the existence of divisions within any alliance is always inevitable.

Well, I suspect that Christianity already is the premier religion among the Chinese descendants overseas who are religious.

Lately I encountered a person that likes to attack people, with no good reason, in an internet forum.

She may do that out of irrational thinking, jealousy, or something else, for all I know.

People like that will eat their own folly, for all I care.

Methinks Egypt will have a very difficult journey ahead. Just my gut feeling.

Neither democracy nor the Chinese economic model is a silver bullet for economic prosperity.

Music video - 7 Years and 50 Days - Groove Coverage

Groove Coverage is a German band.

Lyrics:

7 years and 50 days
7 years and 50 days, the time is passing by
Nothing in this world can be as nice as you and I
And how could we break up like this?
And how could we be wrong?
So many years, so many days and I still sing my song 

Now I run to you like I always do
When I close my eyes I think of you
Such a lonely girl
Such a lonely world
When I close my eyes I dream 

I return to you like I always do
When I close my eyes I think of you
Such a lonely girl
Such a lonely world
When I close my eyes I dream Of you 

7 years and 50 days, now just look at me
Am I the girl I use to be
So damn what do you see?
And how could we break up like this?
And how could we be wrong?
So many years, so many days and I still sing my song 

Now I run to you like I always do
When I close my eyes I think of you
Such a lonely girl
Such a lonely world
When I close my eyes I dream 

I return to you like I always do
When I close my eyes I think of you
Such a lonely girl
Such a lonely world
When I close my eyes I dream Of you

Google's been churning out numerous products and platforms. 'O most wicked speed!'

Do the insurance companies earn profits by taking insurance premiums from customers? No, they earn their profits by managing risks sharing for customers, and lobbying governments.

Don't ally yourself with the force of money. But take advantage of it nevertheless.

As more and more domestic and international students, either young or adult, are rallying around an education in an American or Canadian university, the point right after the peak will mark the beginning of the end of the myth of the value of a traditional higher education, whose price has been getting more and more expensive, I guess.

Many Egyptians have endured living in hovels for so long. Some people even live in cemeteries.

I don't know if a similar situation will appear in Shanghai and Beijing.

A man must know how to shun sucky career paths.

Black hats hide well.

And white hats don't expose themselves very well sometimes.

Actually homilies are often necessary, I think.

In fact, when a person actually disrespects others, or even both disrespects and takes advantage of others, that does not equal to gaming them.

However, it doesn't look pleasant in the eyes of others.

Go = 圍棋.

The Blogger platform should incorporate more keyboard shortcuts in order to make online writing more convenient and smooth and less tiring for its users.

My impression has been that the Canadian laws and courts are generally very lenient with petty crimes, such as grocery store thefts. And that, drives small retailers crazy.

I guess that many people are waiting and discerning for the premiere, the debut, of the next Facebook.

Human dealings run deep.

The Gang of Four = 四人幫.

The force of money is not necessarily in alliance with that of morality.

If Apple becomes more web oriented, then I'll seriously consider gradually parting from Google and embracing Apple.

The other day, a friend sensed my perturbation just over the phone, immediately.

I was amazed by that.

Facebook is still a waste of time for many people.

I am waiting for that inflection point to happen after which it won't be the case any more.

However, well, maybe Twitter really is better.

Maybe ten years down the road, I'll be capable of smoothly grasping the contents in The Economist, the premier British mag. Or even earlier than that.

Sometime I think I have the potential to become a premium chef.

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

The question is, if I chose the profession of chef, would I have the luck to become an excellent one?

Anyways, just some gibber-jabber. :-)

My ignorance galls me. So I set out to enlighten myself. Now the information overload galls me.

Heads I lose, tails I lose. :-)

In the great endeavors of people rallying behind monetary gains, China has lost its soul, I'm afraid.

Canada, a medley of people of all races, all backgrounds, and all cultural identities, is run by Anglo-Saxons' ideas.

Was the Soviet Union, the former state of Russia, a good member of the Allies of World War II? Seems not.

The payload part in a URL reveals quite a few things.

Canadian consumers are not allying with RIM, which is a Canadian company. Market economy is market economy. After all, RIM is just a business which must eat its own folly.

That's the iron rule of free market.

I guess that during difficult economic times, the alliance between the government and the industry is tighter and closer.

The dynamics within a country and nation is not easy to grasp at all.

Images - Hercules

"Hercules" is the Roman name for the Greek demigod "Heracles".

Keywords: Twelve labors of Hercules.

It seems that the gnarled club in Hercules' hand is his favorite weapon to attack and kill.

(Image from http://goo.gl/f1e5i)

(http://goo.gl/R3Stg)

(http://goo.gl/NZEUM)

(http://goo.gl/Nfwce)

There seems to be a self-indulgent flair to most jazz pieces.

Unwind. Unwind.

As a matter of fact, acquiring sophisticated English is a long long slog for ESL learners.

Well, it seems that Dr. Dambisa Moyo, a prominent economist and popular author, is not currently affiliated with any academic institution.

(Pic from Wikipedia)

Politics plays intimately with economics oftentimes. No wonder the exitence of the term "Political Economy".

I'm sorry. But for the time being, I don't trust the quality of customer service of Bell Canada at all. In addition, for the time being, I don't trust their mobile phone branch.

Well, so I won't purchase a Motorola Atrix 4G smart phone, which must be accompanied by a 3-year contract with Bell Canada, the sole seller. Sigh. The phone itself, is such a marvelous monster machine. I have to let it go.

Nomads from Asia.

As a matter of fact, both the WWI and the WWII were initiated by Germany.

Think about that.

And think about how people consider the Russia power.

During a certain period, I felt quite retarded, especially at school, mainly because my English level was very primitive and inadequate, comparing with my native speaker classmates.

"All tears", "and press the rue for wine."

I've become intrigued by the subject matter of China Studies.