Good advertisements sort of play on people's feelings. That's a must.

Linkedin.com tends to pester users with emails about more available information which essentially are meant to remind people to use more of their services and stay longer on their website.

But hey, it'd better to stop badgering users, otherwise, they'll jump ship as soon as competitor companies emerge.

How to break the things and habits which throttle my creativity? Break through them.

I had been somewhat unmannerly in some situations in the past. Civilization comes from enlightenment and civil education, not schooling.

Some people who are in their fifties or older habitually ignore the quarry of the internet, to their own detriment.

(By Alfred Weidinger / http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-weidinger/6100934944/ / CC)

Personally I've never used Facebook much. And Facebook has never passed for some profound innovation in my mind.

Maybe I've been too numb in that arena. On the other hand, maybe I've been right in my consideration about it.

精益

精英都有
“精益求精”的

精神。

Modern life is so complex that people can't help with getting hit by stray bullets from all sorts of misfunctions of the societal and economic systems.

The stock markets tumble. Pensioners' funds lost. Whoops.
The Greeks cannot pay back their debts. Jobs creation in Canada slapped. Whoops.
On and on and on.

Complex systems, such as the societies which we live in as modern human beings, are prone to producing rounds after rounds of stray bullets. Stay out of trouble if we can. But how on earth can we?

Google+ has been brought to the fore and gaining popularity. Facebook must be a little nervous about that.

I've never grown into a fan of Facebook.

The howls of the Montreal winter blasts aren't far away.

People's feelings are seasoned.

Does the free flow of information really facilitate the free flow of intelligence?

Anyways, when the former gets strangled for some political reasons, the latter suffers.

Musty are some old residential buildings in Montreal.

In my childhood, there was a tall wooden one-bar main door in the house which my peasant grandparents on my mother's side used to live in.

The word 'wench' must be rarely used nowadays.

I'm not sure if China's REAL GDP growth rates are that gleeful, on the magnitude of 9% or so.

Shouldn't China hire an auditing firm to audit its GDP data?

The saga of the overthrowing of Gaddafi's reign in Libya by rebels has only taken about half a year to reach nearly the end.

Without the support and supply by the U.S., U.K., U.A.E. and the like, anti-Gaddafi forces such as the National Liberation Army (Libya) wouldn't be capable of mobilizing and organizing so quickly and effectively, we can guess.

Well, the global consumers' confidence in Chinese products' quality may have been gradually built up. Just don't let it be dismantled.

I don't know why the opposite of "explicit knowledge" is called "tacit knowledge" instead of "implicit knowledge".

Discern the people who voluntarily or involuntarily convey the distortion of facts.

It appears that nuclear plants reign in the energy development plan of China. Given that China's engineering and technology prowess isn't that impeccable, that may be a prescription for terrible disasters.

I'm not deeply trained in Physics at all. But Einstein's theory about Brownian motion kind of moves me.

"
If ρ(x,t) is the density of Brownian particles at point x at time t, then ρ satisfies the diffusion equation: 

 

where D is the mass diffusivity.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion#Einstein.27s_Theory

How will the climate change affect the situation of vegetable pests? Is there gonna be more of them or less of them?

Will EU be dismantled?

The queen, princes, and princesses of the U.K. travel the world to other Common Wealth countries every once in a while.

We can guess that the loosely connected realm provides a complementary mechanism to NATO, in terms of international defence systems.

The integers 0, 1, and 2 are sort of intuitive devices for human beings to understand and explore the nature.

The following is sort of typical in Canada, a country in which individuals' independence is stressed. Without a proper values system established in place, one becomes awry in life.

The past several years have been especially auspicious for Apple. Let's see how it will fare in its further and further pushes into overseas markets.

J drank a little whiskey to take the edge off his tiredness.

It appears that Saudi Arabia is a crucial country. It's got oil, it's rich, and it's got Mecca, the holiest city in the Islam world.

Does the trust between Damon and Pythias represent the highest level of trust between human beings?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_(mythology) for the two famous figures in ancient Greek mythology.

Canada's Jack Layton died immediately after his NDP party had risen to its peak of prominence. And Apple's Steve Jobs resigned from his CEO role just after Apple's market capitalization had been in full cry.

Life's transitoriness.

Pic - Hecate

The triple-bodied Hecate is a Graeco-Roman goddess associated with magic, sorcery, and crossroads. And it appears that she always holds one or more torches in her hand or hands.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AN00969955_001_l.jpg / Public domain picture)

My baby daughter has never gotten used to soothers.

In the word "cyber-war", the part "cyber" which qualifies "war" also increases the dimensions of the potential losses wreaked by "war".

Somerset Maugham wrote or spoke wryly, "If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts."

Well, that remark must have done tremendous good to the tourism of England, I'm positive.

Well, does Wall Street care about its black eye? How come I'm even doubtful about that?

The stooge media in a certain country dumb down its people.

So many scars and inferiority complexes had been seared into the national memory of China.

The finance industry has constantly badgered the rest of the economy into yielding to its wills. What would happen if less and less people borrowed money from the finance industry? What if the economy pattern changed away from the current model based upon credit?

Will fortune turn Turk with the white collar workers in China? Possibly.

Men typically thrash out wisdom over their life. On the other hand, what do women typically thrash out over their life? Families? Wisdom?

Having snubbed truth in the past appears to be the biggest fault of the plaintiff in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case of the alleged sexual assault.

Life's short. You can explore. But you can't stray.

It's inadvisable to party a lot.

This seems to be a women's rights statement: "Whatever we wear, wherever we go, yes means yes, no means no." What a bon mot.

It's been reported that the case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been dismissed by a judge.

The veracity of the plaintiff has been cast into doubts for good measure.

Well, in some Hollywood action flicks, the brave actor hangs onto a winch which is attached to a helicopter or something and swaying in the high winds.

What is that for? For impressing the audiences. But not deeply, I suppose.

High finance runs away with the world.

Should that change?

The European economy has gradually maneuvered into dire straits.

Across the Atlantic, beside the U.S.' problems, there are more and more very rich Chinese immigrants fleeing China for Canada. Are there deep troubles in store?

Enjoyment is different than glee. Enjoying my life is different from living my life gleefully.

The interests in ancient Greek and Roman cultures remain extant among some mainland Chinese people. Mostly they access the information about those cultures via texts in Chinese.

I'm not sure if the translation supposedly from English to Chinese takes some edge off the tastes of those cultures.

Since when has the finance industry taken the mantle of ruling the whole world? Perhaps since four or so decades ago.

I guess that the universities in Israel are very auspicious.

A contradiction of marriage vow and divorcing act

The customary Roman Catholic marriage vow reads like this in English:

"Do you, ____, take , ____, to be your (husband/wife), to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part. I, ____, take you, ____, to be my (husband/wife). I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life." 

(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_vows#Traditional_Roman_Catholic_vows .)

But it's a fact that some Roman Catholics do get divorced, at least in Canada. I wonder if that tends to turn them astray from their Catholic religion. After all, they broke their serious Catholic marriage vow.

We can see a lot of usage of the word "extortion" in political articles circulating the U.S. Why?

Because in biz deals, you, as an individual, can simply walk away from the deals you don't like to accept; but in political deals and arrangements you CANNOT walk away and you will be affected by them in all sorts of ways.

Under the auspices of Google, the strategically crucial Android will have its place in the world, however weak the patents which it holds now are. The question is only whether it will be among the top three mobile OSes or not.

On a related note, Samsung's fledgling Bada mobile OS will be interesting to watch.

Some people write plain English with an edge of literariness. Some don't.

(By A_minor / http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotogiraffee/375202438/ / CC)

(By Thoth, God of Knowledge / http://www.flickr.com/photos/thoth-god/4179063773/ / CC)

I saw steely glints in O's eyes from time to time.

The severe dilapidation of trust in the society of China is a prescription for further and further troubles. Maybe huge troubles.

Can SNS decelerate people's information overload?

The relative transparency of the U.S. has gotten it castigated more yet gotten it out of more troubles.

Some people, especially in the past, beguile their tedious days with TV watching in the evenings. That's why it's important for one to establish better pleasure patterns, such as studying, in his teens and twenties.

Life's short. Distance's long.

What elements have prevented the disintermediation of the big credit cards such as VISA and MasterCard, by payment solutions such as Interac?

J tucks in chili sauces.

Along with the surging sales of iPhones and iPads in China, it's reasonable to expect a surge of iPhone and iPad apps warez activities.

I've been confused by the difference between a kindergarten and a preschool. Well, I've just figured it out.

A preschool is "a school for children between the ages of about two and five", while a kindergarten is "a school to prepare children aged five for school".

You are keen, Apple, you are keen.

It's reported that the hot sale of iPads and iPhones also boosts more users to turn to Macs from Windows computers. The adoption of iOS facilitates that of Mac OS.

There are many sound bites in English that ESL learners don't know.

The U.S. is the leader of the impious world. And it seems to be one of the leaders of the pious world too. Think about that.

Apple's Mac OS is a steady eddy. Compared with it, other UNIX siblings, such as Ubuntu, aren't as user-friendly.

How can people bear with the wry fact that China, whose GDP per capita is merely about one sixth of that of the U.S., is the single nation who holds the most American government bonds?

How come the capitalism system wrings people's hearts and makes them on their nerves from time to time, its efficiency and effectiveness aside?

Anyways, it's a grand game.

Given Canadians' easy mobility into the U.S., why haven't the talents drained in Canada after so many years?

Wow. I didn't know that Somalia, the country which is currently suffering the big famine, is very largely Muslim.

Does that fact have something to do with the historical influences of the Umayyad Caliphate, a huge ancient Arab empire? Or with those of some other Persian or Arab empire(s)?

The U.S. has been thrashing some Arab nations all these decades, why exactly?

Almost everyone is an armchair CEO. They can dress down companies' acts and management.

Unfortunately, I suspect I'm one of them too. :-)

They backed out of the deal. And everyone just moved on.

From a company's perspective, how to avoid jading its software developers?

In the current economic climate, if something happens to the economies of the so-called BRIC nations, will the world go into a long-standing funk?

That would be tough.

Well, I don't know how galled many middle-aged and old-aged Canadians are with lay-offs. Some of them must be fairly galled.

You iterate, you recur. Over time, you develop.

I don't know. The value of many people's lifetime work just goes astray time and time again in the highly volatile securities markets in which the pension funds and pensioners themselves heavily invest into. Has the value vaporized or been turned into the hands of speculators, market middlemen, or some other party?

How will the possible eventual dismantlement of RIM look like? Anyway, what a loss for Canada as a nation.

It's been reported that beside the presence of an Apple store knockoff in China, there's also a knavish Ikea store copycat in China. Gee.

I want to study orbs and orbits, from the mathematical perspective.

Are those termed as "spheres" in Mathematics? I did my high school in China, so I don't know the exact English names of those mathematical objects.

Pic - Tellus (a.k.a. Terra)

(By ortygia / http://www.flickr.com/photos/roger_ulrich/4187205643/ / CC)

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Ara Pacis: Tellus Relief

From the east side of the Augustan altar of Peace (Ara Pacis) in Rome. Roman marble relief of "Tellus" (the identification is controversial). A velate female holds two babies; personifications of winds (aurai) flank her.

Date: 13-9 B.C. Set up in honor of Augustus.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/roger_ulrich/4187205643/

In Roman mythology, Tellus, a.k.a. Terra, is a goddess personifying the Earth.

By the way, I suspect that the Telus Corporation, one of the few big telecom carriers in Canada, is named after the ancient Roman goddess Tellus.

Old age comes anon. That for sure will be how I'll feel.

I'm especially intrigued by the notion of the dissipation of economic rents in Economics. That must be positively related to competition in the marketplace.

In addition, the economies of scope also somewhat intrigues me.

It's been said that lots of people experienced glee when they saw Murdoch is in trouble due to the scandal of his News of the World paper.

Has Sohu.com always been a mere knockoff?

Economic recessions and uncertainties have been mantling our Earth during last several years. Is there a proper attitude to face them?

After all, our world is a set of highly interdependent nations and individuals. People's demands for goods and services are always there to be met. People just postpone the placement of orders which would fulfill their demands sooner or later.

It's reported that Edmonton, Alberta has become the capital of crime of Canada. And it's said that many of the offenses having happened over there are related to drugs and young people from elsewhere seeking opportunities in the booming Alberta.

Well, why is the fluid group of mobile job seekers associated with drug problems?

Wry and (somewhat?) unclean industries

To some or a large degree, the Canadian government controls the gambling and lotteries industries because by doing so, it can supplant illegal activities in those areas which surely would happen due to the human nature and would usually be gang-related and gang-controlled otherwise. So the government runs those industries which inherently aren't clean. Think about the wryness of that.

裝B不是你的錯。但裝B裝到讓人有看到大海的感覺就是你的錯了。

People use tropical expressions to illustrate their points. How logical or accurate is that process?

Money is an inanimate thing. It's a token of value, or economic value, so to speak.

"But you ...", K squealed a bit, raising his voice.

I think that every programming language textbook should introduce a little bit of the stored-program concept, which is very fundamental.

Once the myth that one can get a lot of rewards from pursuing an MBA degree is debunked further and further, one can deallocate at least two years of his life by not getting into a B school.

I feel that in the moments other than now, we human beings live in our own feelings instead of in the physical world.

For instance, how much do our possessed feelings and emotions distort the memory of our real past years?