English appreciation

"You should alike find rain, hail, frost, and thaw lingering in that dismal enclosure when they had vanished from other places; and as to snow, you should see it there for weeks, long after it had changed from yellow to black, slowly weeping away its grimy life."
--Littel Dorrit, Chapter 15, by Charles Dickens

The Canadian sensation Justin Bieber has got lots and lots of fawning girl fans, worldwide.

I don't know how humble he is and how humble he should be.

People have been inundated by information about and from their friends, trivial or not, all these years.

I don't know how they will think of that when they'll look back at that in future.

While in sadness, J's apt to converse with his life feelingly.

Things to do in companionship and in solitude

When one goes out with acquaintances, he wants to make the society enjoyable.
When one is in solitude, he wants to conduct deep and thorough thinking.

Personally I think cod is an absolute fish for dish.

即景

建筑们、街道们是不动的，树梢们是摆动的，人们是走动的，心是流动的。

What's the skeleton of HTML?

Structural elements such as div?

English appreciation - a quote

"He remembered with what a callous selfishness his uncle had treated her, how obtuse he had been to her humble, devoted love."
- Chapter CXI of the novel Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

It's said there are innuendos about drug addiction in the song "Hotel of Calnifornia" by The Eagles, however pleasing it sounds.

By contrast, in the songs by Chyi Chin, a Taiwanese pop singer, typically there are only insinuations about love and self-seeking.

I long for Linux for my future ease.

Updated - I really tanned my own hide

Problem:

Long ago, I wore a wrist watch whose belt was entirely plastic. And because I was apt to sweat a lot on my skin in the summer, the area which the watch belt covers on my wrist felt itchy from time to time. So I stupidly sprayed some Windex or something onto the watch belt and wiped it, on several occasions, then my wrist didn't feel itchy. Then few months later, that particular skin area began to look and feel significantly abnormally dry.

I treated my own wrist skin like a tanner tans animal skins. The difference is, he makes leather but I made a problem for myself ever since.



Cure:

Recently I've found that a calendula cream made by Boiron, however controversial the French company is, has been very effective in treating the above described skin problem of mine. That cream is a homeopathic medicine.

Modularity and reusability are at the core of the efficiency of software development, including web development.

Sometimes I can't help but feel journalistic writers are too verbose.

Why don't and can't they keep their writing short and simple? Why don't they just directly get to their points?

I'd had my days walking on slimy country field trails in rural China.

To invest on stocks is sort of like to wager on other people's perennially working hard and smart. It's apt to be highly risky and should be handled by really trustworthy and really competent professionals.

Unfortunately, it tends to be difficult to pinpoint those professionals, and then again, to let those professionals handle an investor's money is sort of like to wager on other people's perennially working hard and smart. :-)

It's quite easy to mistake some template language commands as the commands of the general programming language behind it. Duh.

My own complexion is apt to be serious.

Completed - Layers of the subtle changes of my perception of Mac computers over the years

At the very beginning, around the year of 2000, Mac was unheard of for me. It's simply beyond my world.

Then in 2005 or so, I watched a short video episode of Technology Review which was a piece of talk by its then editor-in-chief, a British gentleman. And the episode was named "Beautiful machine". By that, he meant Mac computer. But I didn't take that message seriously.

By about 2006, I heard, on and off, some people prefer Mac much than Windows, but my impression was that it seemed that those guys use Mac computers to edit images and videos. And Mac is significantly more expensive than Windows machines. Well, that's not my thing, I thought.

After then, it's the history everyone knows. With the help of the spectacular successes of iPod and iPhone, Mac computers have been keeping significantly gaining market share, especially among young generations.

So far, I've been satisfied with Windows 7. But one thing that I always don't like about Windows is its native lousy command-line interface, DOS. It is horrifically unlike UNIX command-line, which I'm fond of. I've been using Cygwin, but all in all, it's not the real thing and it's a great pain to update it. On the other hand, it's said that the command-line interface on Mac is somewhat like *nix, which is a blessing.

Anyways, I've locked myself into a choice between Windows and Mac. That might be wrong. Maybe I should just get a Linux OS and start to utilize it. And then after that, consider to install dual OSes and choose either Windows or Mac as my second OS.

I do 3 things: web development, sales, and marketing (a.k.a. strategy).