German quality is laudable. The quality of SAP products must be superior than that of Oracle products.

When an egg is fried in oil, it first blisters and then shrinks.

I kind of wanna study that process a bit.

Personally I like the Shakespearean simile "as flush as May".

Audiences at classic music concerts always give out indistinct applause. But still, it must be a good thing.

The window is blurred by age and rain.

Well, how nonintrusive the Quebec government has been in beginning to repair the dilapidating bridges, overpasses, and the like in Montreal. And how people love having one more thing to keep their fingers crossed for.

I'm staring at the screen of my VIM text editor program, which typically is white fonts against simple black backdrop. And the words 'wag' and 'wagon' on the screen sort of remind me some winged dragons with sharp ears from some remote fantasy films.

How does human brain work in a visual environment?

According to Shakespeare, the "blush of modesty" is graceful.

Gee, the honey badger is named as "the most fearless animal in the world". It can attack and eat bees, poisonous snakes, and even more fearful predators. Gee.

Maybe some investment analysts wag their tongues without deep knowledge about and grasp of what's really going on in the financial world which actually has been churning out complex products at breakneck speeds every year.

Apparently, many Western countries have been setting up bulwark against Islamicism.

Bravura is Apple's swift rise to dominance in recent years. But how can that single company resist the rest of the industries it's positioned in?

I guess Apple's predominance will decline gradually, eventually.

An ongoing concern, sort of, for me has been drawing analogies between the Québécois mentality and the French one.

In the production of organic foods, pesticides are allowed as long as they are not synthetic.

Personally I think that Microsoft's been unobtrusively beefing up the UI part of its Windows OS.

For one thing, the Windows Flip 3D, since the Windows Vista, is a lot handier than its counterparts of the past. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_Vista#Windows_Flip_and_Flip_3D .

How's it going with China's regulation of downright trademark offences? Will more and more cases emerge following those of the brazen knockoff Apple and Ikea stores? It's nearly certain they will.

The delimitation of financial speculations must be being overhauled to be more subtle, sophisticated, and effective across the world. If it still isn't actually occurring, then it should do, I guess.

Tobin tax provides valuable trains of thought for that issue. Quote:

Keynes writes: 

Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the situation is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. (,[8] p. 104) 

The introduction of a substantial government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available, with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation over enterprise in the United States. (,[8] p. 105) 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_tax#Tobin.27s_concept

I didn't take enough care of my baby daughter the other day. And she caught a little cold. I had some guilty feelings that wrung my heart a bit.

I think there is a higher percentage of oval faces in China than in Canada.

Pinups are so retro.

See http://goo.gl/jJNiF .