Pinups are so retro.

See http://goo.gl/jJNiF .

What reasons essentially make the different approaches exist, which are that people should follow the orders of their betters in military while people don't in a democratic political system?

"A heart unfortified"

Your mind knows the importance of science
Yet your heart from time to time sighs
The feelings you as a human being feel
Cannot be denied and be not real

Our baby daughter, who's a little peevish sometime, clings to her mother in weekends. She seems to know that mom's available in weekends.

Maybe many British don't like rashness. On the other hand, maybe many Americans don't like conservativeness.

Music video - 李香蘭 - 張學友

The market share of a company is just a DERIVED thing. It's NOT DEEP, just superficial. The REAL DEEP THING is the competitive/uncompetitive edge of the company's product(s) and/or service(s), compared against its competitors.

Just see how swift RIM's market share, as well as its stock price, has been declining in the recent two years. Such a good case it's made.

It seems that many people in the investment field think that Carol Bartz had delivered maladroit management at the sickening Yahoo! . So she got sacked from her CEO role lately, just over the phone.

What a mess the whole thing has been. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Bartz#CEO_of_Yahoo.21 .

"He broke into her conversation" is such a good metaphor. So is "he was dressed rather vulgarly in a loud checked suit", too.

A Chinese ESL learner often feels that his or her English level wouldn't budge. That's because to acquire advanced English proficiency is a very long term enterprise.

在這個 知識爆炸 的時代裡，對知識、新知的 “弱水三千，取一瓢飲” 是非常必要的。

然而，這 “取一瓢飲” 的取法應該是有講究的吧。

[No Name] + - VIM

There are analogies between objects in OOP and those in real life. But where do those analogies end?

Twitter is about messaging. Twitter is flush.

The Japanese design has been appreciated and lauded across the world. But the core of it still looks mystic to me.

I can never escape the relish of Asian meals.

Twitter and Facebook can aggregate and channel people's emotions and actions.

See what their roles have been in the ongoing 'Arab Spring', which is a tectonic shift in the Arab world.

Whatever people have accused Microsoft for, it deserves a round of applause for what it has done for the successful democratization of modern computing.

'A tempest in a tea pot' is one of my favorite figures of speech. It's an excellent metaphor for not grasping the big picture hence making a fuss about something.

It's hard to escape pat generalizations.