The competition between Microsoft and Apple is still inconclusive in the consumer sphere, I guess.

For one thing, what about the peripherals driver backward compatibility which is allegedly poorly managed in Apple computers?

J. slurps his noodle soup.

Sadly, the moral fiber has been massively undermined and mangled in Western countries, over the past decades.

Especially in the department of the institution of family.

Reap what was sown.

My fondness for Debian has burgeoned.

And that for openSUSE has dimmed.

It feels safe to know the plain old Windows is there and churning out new versions of its desktop operating system.

Unfortunately, we're apt to flatter ourselves.

软件开发前沿持续延烧，不要 burn yourself out。

I've been sincere in acquiring English proficiency.

Been there, done that.

It's tough allocating time to that task.

The gargantuan 2l soda bottles, as well as the elegant looking 330ml soda glass bottles, are ubiquitous in Montreal.

All of them embody the ostensibly neatly packaged yet ignorantly unhealthy lifestyles of some individuals and families.

I always disliked the seemingly radiant smartphones marketed by Samsung, since around 2014, when I got unsastisfied with my Samsung Galaxy S3 phone.

It's the bloatware (software) tied up in the phone which made me unhappy. And there's no way for me to get rid of them safely.

Now factoring in that batteries caught fire in some Galaxy Note 7 phones, well, Samsung, it's not easy to favor your phones.

Some fortune-tellers are storytellers.

And all fortune-tellers are not fortune makers. They may tell one's fortune, but the person himself makes his own fortune or misfortune.

Quebec seems to offer many gastronomic beers which are relatively expensive.

There are barflies. And there are butterflies.

They consume, therefore they are.

Many people must have murmured against globalization.

Oftentimes people need solitude to create, or even better, to innovate.

"Greenhouse Gas emissions". The dreadful phrase as the culprit for more severe storms and heat waves in our living environments.

Wow. Linux has got soooo many animated distros. And many individual distros offer quite a few sprightly spins.

It can be dizzying sometime.

The ongoing European Refugee Crisis is a real one with profound consequences.

No wonder the ongoing hullabaloo in the mass media.

In Canada, we see soda guzzlers and drinkers everywhere.

Drinking soda is normal.

But one thing is normal does not mean it is good. Death is normal, that happens a lot everyday in this world. But death is not good, right?

In this day and age, the women population has to be dissected.

You want your web browser to be rententive of its browsing history in order to facilate search functionality, don't you?

For that matter, Firefox does better than Google Chrome.

Are Japanese animatronics as good as their American counterparts?

After all, those Hollywood blockbusters are there to prove the American supremacy, aren't they?

Well, Google wanted to give Android a makeover by releasing its own Google Nexus line of smartphones.

I have a Nexus 5 phone. But now its storage is not big enough to accommodate all those Google bloatware updates, and there's no way to add external storage.

Well, bye, Nexus phones. Moreover, are Google Pixel phones also covert guzzlers of storage?

Why can't democracy make the Western family law systems be impartial between men and women?

White clouds billowed in the Chinese sky.

In this day and age, boys frolicked too much in the world of computer/mobile games.

They themselves and their parents will have to bear the consequences.

The seminal PGP signatures are everywhere.

It is a revelation the long and perpetual learning path required of a career software developer.

His great efforts came to fruition many years later. And the fruition continued growing.

I mangled my openSUSE virtual machine.

That's my own fault, but that's the last straw. My interest in openSUSE dipped.

The days in which they are truncated by harsh Winter will come to an end quite soon.

The ambience of Spring is already in the air.

"It's complicated." is a subtle thing to say.

He was made pensive by his very own poignant reflection of the incident.

Ignorance-induced tragedies are everywhere.

And sentimentality-induced ones too.

The sprawling choices of Linux distros seem daunting to you at first, then they get mesmerizing once you gain some fluency.

It's not exhilarating to use Windows applications on Wine for Linux.

They are, actually, Wine is apt to cause the system to freeze.

The American company Amazon has been becoming an increasingly gripping player over the years, especially since the launch of AWS.

Now the Amazon Alexa seems quite interesting too.

J fell into the mood for pensive solitude.

It appears that the blogosphere has passed its peak of contents output volume a few years ago.

And I have been consuming less and less of their contents, too.

I much prefer a GUI Linux to a GUI Microsoft Windows, each of which has got its own pros and cons.

The real clincher for me is the little Terminal application possessed in Linux.

The houses roofs in Montreal must be emblazoned with marks of severe winter weather.

For me, JOMO seems to be inherently elusive.

Horticulture and agriculture produce goods which please human beings' eyes and stomachs.

Yet, their monetary values have been steadily diminishing.

For that matter, so in this day and age, young people are disproportionately into synthetic goods. Well...

The debacle of Yahoo's massive web mail hack makes me for one think twice about security.

I need to beef up my own security measures.

There's one problem about today's formal education.

It makes one be more apt to consider that many jobs are menial work.

Is Mr. Donald Trump exploiting any loopholes in the American system?

By the way, that guy seems to have skills to make more and more people vehemently protest against him.

For that matter, any kind of serious reforms are likely deemed to cause public stirs in a democracy, for better or for worse.

Women ask, "where did all the chivalrous men go?"

Duh.

What goes around comes around.

Now Evernote is back in full gear from the downtime hours ago.

Way to go, the Ops people at Evernote.

Many American female celebrities' publicity gimmicks know no boundaries.

T'is flu season in high gear.

And saliva is an omnipresent way by which diseases spread to more and more people.

The two words 'abjure' and 'conjure' are still hard for me.

I cut my teeth on Linux Mint 13, and now I'm eyeing Fedora and Ubuntu Desktop.

People like to call their pets names, such as "Michael" and "Elena."

And people like to call their Linux boxes names like "Euphoria" and "rob-notebook". Mine is named "Mint-17-*", and it sounds euphonious.

"Global variable." The name rhymes, doesn't it?

Software developers in the know endeavor to find advantageous Linux distros for dev.

However, the leading pack of distros seem to be always in a state of flux.

Since I came to Canada, I've been fond of document sheets with perforated lines.

The widespread unmitigated poverty in Kenya seems to be beyond comprehension.

Wish them prosperity.

In this day and age, a woman wants to be on his man's back, and vice versa.

Order, please.

People in different countries jostle for opportunities.

But what kinds of infrastructure are supporting them? And how much are the costs?

Chillax, folks.

I'm not asleep. Not by a long shot.

I've been nearly absent from Facebook for years. I went JOMO and avoided wasting my time on social media.

For a long time, I've been titivating my Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon, an OS that is efficient and elegant.

Meanwhile, the budding Elementary OS is a swankier distribution of Linux. But I'm concerned about its immaturity as well as possible security risks.

The free Sublime Text editor is such a nagware.

Try to empty vainglorious thoughts.

Nothing good comes out of it.

Today I've gotten to know that 'paladin' is a real word and it occupies its place in the formal dictionary.

Chez moi, c'est froid.

How should a woman who uttered the word "udder" be thought about?

I'm befuddled by the South Korean society reported in news media.

The commonplace North American cuisine is the opposite of the reputedly delectable French cuisine.

Vim, the terminal skill.

I've only dipped my toes in that jam.

As a man grows mature, he becomes circumspect.

It's alleged that Uber regularly flouts laws.

Now the bracing winter holidays are over. Back to business as usual. And the world is still chaotic.

It seems that the seemingly demure Fortran programming language is still well alive in the field of scientific computing.

Où est mon temps?

"Rien ne sert de courir, il faut partir à point."

Mammon almost rules the United States. And the United States almost rules the world.

Now what are the consequences?

Generally speaking, Italians look snazzier than the French, I guess?

We are used to that Canadian luminaries are overshadowed by their American counterparts south the border.

Let's just live our somewhat quieter Northern life, whilst watching the world come and go.

In the deluge of increasingly rapid changes in this world, there is much frivolity.

What does Qatar want to do?

Its aspirational Al Jazeera is a marvelous news medium.

In my mind, Latin America has got a festive flair associated with it.

There are Linux enthusiasts. There are web design enthusiasts.

And there even are self-styled "life enthusiasts."

Well, we as individuals have to withstand the market economy.

A blizzard of abnormally warmer days might be awaiting Montreal this winter.

I could never get how Mr. Stephen Harper, the previous PM of Canada, could say that there was no climate change.

Financial Times is a lucid news medium, as well as Nikkei BP. Last year the latter bought the former.

All in all, the number of superb major news media companies is one less than before in the world.

Let's get down to brass tacks. Why did the cheap yet shoddy products become so prevalent in Canada in the first place?

As a people, Chinese needs to ameliorate its negative legacies, as well as to cherish its positive heritage.

Many Chinese bean curds have pungent smells.

But they are tasty in the mouth, as well as nutritious for the body.

So if they were expunged from the diet, that would be a poignant loss.

Somewhat like the case with many kinds of cheese.

"Demain C'est Toi".

François Feldman, un "Magic Boul'vard". Salut.

Les jupes en été.

Une déception.

The relatively nascent webrooming actually helps Walmart and alike and hurts Amazon and alike, essentially.

It's the opposite of showrooming.

There were too many things and some were over B.'s head. So he was too busy to come.

Yesterday's snow flurry made the sight a little blurry.

Many things carry tacitly.

It's said that Mr. Donald Trump voiced a lot of bombast.

You see so many young guys recline into their seats day in and day out.

Probably those think that's swag. But then you wonder what will happen to their backs.

Un hot dog.

Un nom, deux prononciations, en le français et en le anglais.

"Je pense donc je suis."

Couler à pic.

La algae pour mon riz.

To breach a wall, you need a tool, a means.