There's a "great-great-great-grandson" of an American president who lives in a hovel and delivers pizza for a living.

See http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/03/nyregion/our-towns-impeachment-as-legacy-for-pizza-guy.html?ref=andrewjohnson .

That guy's presidential ancestor is Andrew Johnson, who "was the first U.S. President to undergo an impeachment trial" and "is commonly ranked by historians as being among the worst U.S. presidents". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson )

How come more and more Mainland Chinese feel tristful? Because they want more respect and love but they can't get it.

Immigrating to Canada from Mainland China offsets at least 3 years of efforts for a Chinese.

I just woke from a slumber in action on my chair moments ago. How sweet sleep is to a brain deprived of it.

'Such a deed' and 'sweet religion'

'O, such a deed
As from the body of contraction plucks
The very soul, and sweet religion makes
A rhapsody of words.'
--Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 4

It seems that Oracle bought Java and MySQL, and intended to create some vendor lock-in chains around those technologies, without surprise.

Well, perhaps what Oracle did is just to pluck both technologies from the open source sphere and make people who are used to them lose their way and then tell them, "well, pay me and I'll show you the way".

Personally I think that those intellectuals and others who claim that China will become the No. 1 country, GDP-wise, in the world have their heads in the clouds.

Things probably won't develop linearly in their current fashion in China before it reaches there.

Will China make a market for more sophisticated and reliable products and services than the currently prevailing ones?

Perhaps the iPhones and the like over there are going to drive up the tastes of Chinese consumers.

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.