Japanese products typically look elegant in their own subdued way, which I guess coincidentally match Anglo Saxon consumers' tastes.

Something must be afoot in the online payment industry.

Canada is apparently blest with its vast reservoir of natural energies.

Well, High-Speed Rail, a.k.a. HSR, seems to be an up-and-coming industry, however, the 7.23 fatal HSR collision in Wenzhou, China has terminated China's undue ambition of competing and exporting along that line of industry.

I threshed the material at hand, and developed several further questions. Constantly thrashing concepts and ideas.

Once upon a time, in the business world, Microsoft out-Heroded Herod.

And maybe, Yahoo! has never really walked out of its shadow.

For an individual, freedom of will, mitigated and balanced by pragmatism, is pivotal to happiness.

If he gives up that invisible yet precious freedom of will for a mortgaged house or a steady salary, then he gives up some of his possible happiness, as a consequence.

Prefaces are usually less interesting than prologues by people other than the author.

Every man holds at most ten friends in his heart of heart.

Shallow yet headstrong people don't admit failures. They always think those as buffets.

I don't know. Out there in this world, there're so many people who talk or write about some real entities, which are people or companies, but those talks and writings are just fictitious or imaginary. On the other hand, there're some talks and writings which are fictions or fables, about animals or imagined figures, but they are so truthful.

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民眾的 “兔死狐悲” 的心理驅動

此次 7.23 溫州動車追尾事故，死幾十人，傷數百人（據目前的政府公佈數據），引起了中國人的公憤。另一方面，中國的煤礦礦難常常也死亡數十人，ms往往不能引起如此大幅度的公憤。為什麼？

我猜測，客觀地講，驅動此次關於 7.23 溫州動車追尾事故的大幅度公憤的主要力量是一種 “兔死狐悲” 的心理，也就是這種事故有可能找上任何一個人；而煤礦礦難卻沒那種可能，有多少人會下井採煤？

There are so myriad people who constantly parse the stock market. It's too much of a good thing. Beside predicting and speculating, you also need to build.

The Chrome app of Personal Blocklist by Google is a policing act to filter out unworthy content farms on the web, I suppose. Well, since my daily Google searches normally don't encounter that kind of content farms, I don't need to keep it installed in my Chrome browser.

I guess that many women think that crooking a finger at a man works. You can see that in a lot of movies.

My baby daughter was squealing with excitement, scrambling on the couch.

Our baby daughter has become to like thrashing a baby spoon in her dinner bowl. Well, how industrious she is.

Some financial debts are never expected to be anted up, e.g. those held by poor African countries. On the other hand, some other financial debts are expected to, e.g. those held by Greece, Spain, and the like, I suppose.

How many fawners are in corner offices?

We can see a lot of spaniels in Montreal.