Rain sprinkled in these two soggy summer days.

Hillary Clinton is alleged to be a "habitual prevaricator".

I took a swipe at the rampaging fly with an empty facial tissues box.

And the reckless insect took the hit and snorted, which had been persisting trying to rob some of my foods in front of me and leave its bacteria in the rest of them.

The summer solstice corresponds to "夏至" in Chinese.

And the winter solstice does to "冬至" in it.

No money for vacation, and no time for staycation.

No money for upscale dining out, and no time for my own cooking.

Many small-town seniors in China are technophobes, as well as xenophobes, I reckon.

Under the guise of being "open-source" and being developed by Google Inc., Android has got its very own security vulnerabilities, as well as vendor lock-in (i.e. Google lock-in).

'Water meadow' corresponds to '皋' in the Chinese language.

Then, after viewing this pic at http://www.123rf.com/photo_14072061_cows-in-water-meadow.html , now you know what the name of the famous historic general '牛皋' means, don't you?

Well, do you really believe that the Ubuntu/Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth's “benevolent dictator”ship is reliably trustworthy?

Pop songs bring very effective influences, supposedly both consciously and subliminally, upon people.

So be careful with what you listen to.

The so-called job security is sheerly wishful thinking, in the face of erratic and unreliable employers and market segments.

The China Town in Montreal is not quite cultivated, in general. You can sense it after you're offered services in shops over there.

Will it be enhanced?

I normally swipe right to J-pop, but swipe left to K-pop.

The criss-crossing alleys in Southern Chinese towns...

And the criss-crossing lanes in their respective countryside...

When will those major PC peripherals companies optimize their hardware drivers and software applications for the Linux platform, or at least provide them?

That's the factor which drags down my full allegiance to desktop Linux distributions the most.

I've been continuing indulging my passion for Linux.

What a platform.

In the world of desktop Linux, there's too many hearsay.

And among all Linux distros, there's too much fragmentation. Is a consolidation of some degree heresy?

In a market economy, the buyers and the sellers reason with each other.

Sigh, the once budding Firefox OS smartphone just rolled over.

The phrase 'internet intel' feels a bit tongue-in-cheek, doesn't it?

Physical and ethnic communities have become much less close-knit.

In Canada, the pervasive requirement of punctuality, one of the pinnacles of the modern lifestyle, can be very subliminally frustrating.

Sleep apnea seems to be an area that medical people are profiting on.

A top-of-the-line PC, not a "top-line" PC. Come on.

From the perspective of many overseas Chinese, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are all areas governed by Chinese descendants. Aren't they?

It's the time in the year to gaze into the summer star sky.

It's also the time in the year to indulge myself a little with cool beer and Perrier water.

Salut, le français.

A tout à l'heure.

Maybe in the future genuine leather will largely become a faux pas, and faux leather will be the chic way.

For one thing, I like my faux leather coasters.

Some construction guys are husky hunks with beer bellies, apparently.

I'd like to see a movie description of the depthless individuals of the Western countries.

In the face of omnipresent and rising obesity among nearly all age groups, should Canada consider to realign its urban planning in order to facilicate more physically active lifestyles for individuals?

It's not fit at all to sit in vehicles, and then in chairs, day in and day out.

The proverbial "corporate ladder" has been toppling over in many companies.

It's reputed that many Chinese officials' family members absconded with funds and flew to live in the U.S. and Canada.

Obviously, they've been steadily undermining the "harmonious society" of China. Should they be "harmonized?"

What's the ethos of market economy?

Making money.

It's overly prevailing, I think. Its externalities must be carefully re-examined.

It seems that it's not wise at all for ANY individual woman to forsake her potential or current family life and motherhood for her career/life ambitions.

Otherwise, definitively she will regret. The writing is on the wall.

A bill of sale is the proof that the item of goods or services has been made over to the buyer by the seller.

I have never pored over an in-depth treatment of the delicate subject matter of Cryptography, yet(?).

The undergraduate curriculum of the Computer Science department must be looking curious in the eyes of some industry practitioners.

Almost no time to kick back.

Occasionally when I didn't feel like a regular supper or were super tired, I watered down two pieces of naan with tea.

It's my own brinner thing.

The so-called Brexit makes me wonder what defines a sovereignty and what its boundaries are.

Toy boys. And tomboys.

This world is in a mayhem.

Can tourism make a town or country affluent?

Probably not.

I for one don't want to see hair sprout from women's upper and lower lips.

Some old white women have their own natural moustache.

And some younger ones carry their arm fuzz. Well. Still...

At the whim of fashion, many girls now loyally wear jeans with large holes.

Oh my, a little fashionability has been instilled into me.

Women are very eager to be sophisticatedly fashionable, all in all.

Recalcitrant kids.

Troubles ahead.

Cut out the middleman, the arbitragers.

Linux is the de facto definitive operating system.

However, Microsoft Windows was the champ, at least in the consumer space. It's a fact.

It seems that studying musicology typically does not help pop singers at all.

Maybe I've gotten a wrong impression, though.

The Clintons family, or dynasty, if you like, has got great leverage on the American stage.

Is it a healthy thing?

Since I came to Canada, whenever I watched TV news or read web news, I got inundated with the new development of disasters and crises across the world.

Why should individuals know every single disaster and crisis in every corner of the globe, and in such detail?

More and more job positions of editors, such as lexicographers, have been and will be ousted by the tide of our time.

But I, as an English language learner, am grateful for the lexicographers' fruitful labor over decades.

'Bill of sale' and 'bill of lading' used to be a little confusing to me.

'Estate sale', as well as 'garage sale', were much clearer.

It seems that in Montreal, many young primary school students dress like unsuitably aged fashionistas.

Evernote's web client failed briefly just a moment ago.

Users will pick up on it and pay attention to the feasibility of Evernote's competitors' services, if that kind of downtime happens often.

Flat vada snacks taste quite good.

'Shah' is a powerful surname.

The well-being of employers, such as private companies, is oftentimes obfuscated to employees.

I know 'blurb' and 'executive summary'.

But what's the word for their counterparts on websites? Web page blurbs, article blurbs, and news blurbs?

It seems that many, if not most, packaged foods and beverages companies in the U.S. and Canada have not been safeguarding their customers' health, especially against obesity.

For that matter, it is obvious that their consumers do not want obesity encroaching on their very own bodies because of the consumption.

Google, in its infinite wisdom, closed down the service of its very popular Google Reader.

That act, planted a seed of distrust in my mind.

I don't know anything about the current DDR4 DRAM thingummy.

A free market economy is advantageous for resource allocation.

But what about human costs?

The torrent of social media brought a deluge of additional information overload.

Please just give me a break.

Desktop Linux virtuosos are everywhere.

'Koala bear' originated in Australia.

However, 'kangaroo court' did in the United States.

Greenwillow Books is an imprint of the HarperCollins publishing company.

Ah. The ambience of subtropical drenching rain.

Maybe we'll eventually see the bit rot of DVDs because of the apparently increasing disappearance of optical drives in new laptop computers.

Sigh. Dangerously, beer is a refreshing sort of drink in summertime.

'Yellow and blue can make chartreuse and green and aquamarine.'

'Red and blue can make magenta and purple and violet.'

'But yellow and red can make marigold and orange and vermilion.'

Standing behind the high glass window, I enjoyed gazing the precipitation dotting into a cavity in the parking lot.

That's yesterday, though.

Appreciate the early vernal April.

What's beneath the emergence of the budding phenomenon of crowdbirthing?

A hyper level of competition infiltrated into every single aspect of the modern life?

Xfce is a speedster, compared with other major Linux desktop environments.

In the wake of the great decline of Blackberry Limited (formerly known as RIM), will the Waterloo, Ontario area be able to regenerate itself?

It's another major blow to the Canadian tech industry following the one of Nortel.

Linguine tastes better than spaghetti.

Personally I have lost much of my faith in the intelligentsia in the West.

On its up side, urbanization faciliates the enjoyment of cultural amenities for more people than before.

Apple's current dominance is still inconclusive, I feel.

Nowadays, some consumers are apt to find less and less reasons to justify craving and scrambling for a brand new iPad or MacBook something. As for iPhones, as well as Siri, let's just keep tabs on them for now.

On the other hand, the nascent Windows 10 with the Cortana voice assistant seems increasingly interesting.

Sometimes it's not good that people just blurt out slangs.

In this time and era, more and more people are losing their moral fiber, it seems.

There's a title 'Mrs.' There's a title 'Miss.'

And, there's a mythical title 'Ms.' in between.

Interestingly, the nascent Trudeau government claimed that they've unmuzzled Canadian scientists.

In a supposedly free society, which Canada claims itself to be, how could scientists get muzzled in the first place?

The burgeoning Vivaldi web browser looks stunning.

I think that I for one am apt to sincerely flatter myself.

Apple Inc. has been sitting pretty for very long time, hasn't it?

This week, I'm wondering how many customers will end up being annoyed by the nascent iPhone SE's small 4-inch screen eventually.

Is it an oxymoron?

People, all kinds of people, try to build and maintain their nest eggs by way of the fleeting and highly volatile stock market.

There appears to be very little wiggle room available for Hong Kong people's personal space.

It's unbelievable that crinolines only became popular in the Western world since the mid-19th century.

Interestingly, naan and roti are both South Asian breads.

They are my daily bread nowadays, especially the former.

Many Canadians' gargantuan bellies seem normal, because we see them everyday, everywhere.

But, they are actually very ABNORMAL, in terms of human health, I think.

Little children are radiant with their innocent ways.

Well, Mac is a PC (aka personal computer), although Apple Inc. the storyteller would like people to think otherwise.

Gastronomically, Canada is not a good place.

TL;DR is what I think of most articles and posts on traditional news media's websites nowadays.

Oh man, those journalists may be wasting our time.

When dealing with desktop Linux, there are no more butterflies in my stomach.

Well, St Patrick's Day is a Christian festival day for Irish people.

Nonetheless, the holiday's tradition of alcohol consumption, or guzzling, seems to have become stronger over recent times.

Don't be the tail that wags the dog. Stay out of harm's way.