I think Motorola makes picked phones.

風雪連路，街燈暗淡。蒙特婁，朔方之地。

Enthusiasts across the world have been snapping up any new product which Apple rolls out. Such a phenomenon.

There are two sorts of entrepreneurs. One sort are in purgatory, the other in limbo.

The former will eventually go to heaven, and the latter will perennially stay in oblivion.

A plate is twice as big as a stoup. :-)

See Cambridge Ale - NYT.

"If a stoup of ale were ordered, a quart pot would be sent; if a plate, a great tankard containing two quarts."

Cambridge culture. "...those still, book-lined chambers, the very air of which seemed saturated with the aroma of elegant scholarship".

It seems good that Quebec possesses an egalitarian streak.

I've seen many Chinese immigrants in Montreal whose English needs to get mended. But they put no efforts in it.

I'm afraid by that, they've drastically narrowed down their future career choices and flexibility.

Anyways, they made that choice. Who am I to insist they should enhance their English? Moreover, it's really very painstaking and time-consuming (been there, done that), as a matter of fact which most of native speakers of Western languages never have seemed to comprehend, by the way.

The word "publican" feels remote and intimately mysterious.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publican .

What sort of equity would you most like to own? Equity in your own business, equity in your mortgaged house, or equity in the public stock market?

How does it feel in public houses in Europe these days which are immersed in the steep economic recession?

I suspect that some failed entrepreneurs have cudgeled their brains about why they failed and probably they will never find it.

It's just in their blind spot, and it is that they don't know how to be a good man. As simple as that, and as profound as that.

Time is my enemy everyday. Time is my friend in the long term.

Is goodman Stephen Harper all about the economy of Canada?

The seventy-ish billionaire businessman Richard Elman 'started career as a "coolie in a scrap yard" after quitting school at age 15'.

See http://www.forbes.com/profile/richard-elman/ .

How grieved he must feel when he looks back to his puzzled scrapyard "coolie" years, I guess.

Many software developers have flocked to mobile dev in good faith. Is there a bubble in that industry?

I don't know how well Panasonic cherishes its own brand name. It would probably do well if it managed the quality of its products, many of which are made in China, BETTER.

If a Japanese major brand loses its quality appeal, it loses its way in this world, which is overflowed with commodity product suppliers with relatively shoddy workmanship.

By the way, the above thought of mine about Panasonic products' deteriorating quality can be accompanied by this piece of news: Sony, Panasonic Forecast Deeper Losses as Samsung Dominates.

Are the occurrences of poorer product workmanship and historical corporate loss just a coincidence for Panasonic? Probably not.

For a biz, amenability to market demands and customer demands are crucial. But for life, maybe unamenability to them are.

Many people think Groupon has done errantly with the investors' money it raised.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupon#Initial_public_offering_filing .

Life and competition is less equitable in China than in the U.S. and Canada. Why do some Chinese return to the former from the latter and try to snatch opportunities over there? What advantages do they have there? Or they mainly just wanna make a quick buck?

This is a tough era for the rulers in Arab countries. They must be afraid to be sent to the gallows by the mass one day.

Arab people's world is no longer the same as before, profoundly.