It's so hard to locate the complete changelogs of some open source software projects, if they exist at all. What boo-boos for the projects.

Sexton is such a popular last name that I begin to marvel if sexton was among the top occupations in the ancient times in the West.

I wonder whether there are profound effects left on people's mentality about and perception of the stock market by the trauma of this Late-2000s financial crisis.

Canada's economic prospect, particularly that of Alberta, is galled by the potential irreversible damages to the environment by the production of tar sands (a.k.a. oil sands) in the province.

See this piece of news: Oilsands pose 'significant environmental and financial risk' to Alberta, says PCO.

It may be more common than one thinks that a person appears easy-going but he's actually not amenable at all.

E's ignorance and self-centeredness, or selfishness, stir arrantly, time and time again.

Dictionary.com claims that "people who can define Kibe may know 45,520 words".

(See http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kibe.)

It knows how to flatter me. But I refuse to accept the compliment.

If you think about an area's functionality, you get impressed by its complexity. For instances, the unphysical arrangements of snow removal and the physical sewer system. It's a lot of work.

Montreal's Mount Royal is actually only a hill called "Mount" by courtesy.

I used to think Google is nearly perfect.

Not any more, since it cancelled the "Shared items" thing in Google Reader and supplanted it with Google+.

But Google has retained some classiness here and there, still.

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?