The realization of F. R.'s business vision will encounter and get impeded by dozens of obstacles. But good luck. Achievement in life is never easy.

I think the word "swound" sounds a little prettier than "swoon".

J's become apt to treat everyone equitably. And interestingly, everyone has gotten himself gauged, day in and day out, with his own behaviors.

For companies in China, the so-called "Sina structure" is an inconvenient entresol to reach overseas capital markets which is a sad consequence of some imposed closed economic policies.

See "Structuring Private Equity Investments in China: The Need For Flexibility," Private Equity Focus.

I don't think many small biz owners have time and the know-how to curate their existing websites by themselves, currently.

1,200 days of study make up the amount of efforts that a native Chinese, who already has an overall understanding of English grammar but not much vocabulary, needs to cross the chasm to true English proficiency.

Ah, that complies with the well known "10000-hour Rule".

好笑的是，有些沒什麼成就的人，有一種『順我者昌，逆我者亡』的心態和氣勢（當然，這種氣勢是虛弱、沒有力量和實力的）；而有些有極大成就的人，反而有一種仁慈的心態。

想想也是，本來，成就就是指對社會的貢獻度。

Fortune and misfortune cannot be plucked asunder.

Either one can bring forth the other. Because the possibilities of choices are still apt to be numerous after the happening of either of them, in a typical modern democratic capitalist society.

Memory from that era

I was greatly influenced by the traumatization of Xia Gang (see https://www.google.ca/search?ix=aca&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=xia+gang) upon individual Chinese workers which took place massively in the 1990s and 2000s. I'm not saying that fate fell onto me personally, but that great phenomenon in China had ever since altered many things in my mentality, greatly.

Looking back, it was wise for EU to try to bar Microsoft's packaging the Internet Explorer browser into its Windows OS.

It's reasonable for people to hate the extension of any monopoly or quasi-monopoly into another area, which looks however small initially.

But, the question still remains: was Microsoft a monopoly? After all, it had gained market dominance through fair competition in the market.

The "comment token" thing in the C# programming language should be renamed as "token comment", which would make the term more natural and easier to understand and remember.

Wiseness tells us to know our customers.

I've seen a few people slightly vent spleen against the richest people in their regions.

Well, "many honours I want not, nor great treasures: they excite the spleen," Nietzsche wrote in his philosophical fiction Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None. How prudent that is. And how complicated life is.

Web typographers' tastes are very detailed and hard to understand, for my untrained eyes.

I still can't see why Facebook has conjured so myriad people and make them waste tons of time in that labyrinth.

What's the point of mapping your offline relationships with people onto an online platform which keeps bombarding you with trivial information? For that matter, we need something deeper than the current form of Facebook.

If you just like to share and see interesting pictures on social media, maybe you would just go to http://pinterest.com/ and get visual there instead of on Facebook?

I saw a software program spit out a string "hello master", and I considered that antic and smiled.

Looking at the Incoterms (i.e. International Commercial terms, which are defined by the International Chamber of Commerce), you know, CIF, FOB, things like those, I wonder that if something similar will emerge in the web world in the future. Just some outlandish thought of mine.

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

It appears that there is more and more important emergent stuff which is not covered in the skyish Wikipedia.org. I guess people just don't bother to edit an entry over there.

Canada's pending big oil pipeline projects have been clogged by some disagreements with the U.S., to my vague knowledge.

What clogs the economy? Politics. On the other hand, what facilitates the economy? Politics again.

Looking back, we now know that RIM's launch of Playbook tablets was just piling Pelion on Ossa.

RIM has just recorded its first quarterly loss since its fiscal year 2006 or so. (See http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/wire-news/analysts-cut-rim-price-targets-after-qtly-loss_687013.html .) For a big company of that size, having a quarterly loss isn't a big problem in itself. But it's a tremendous problem for it to lose more and more of its competitiveness quarter after quarter for multiple straight years, as well as slide from being profitable to losing money, while its successful competitors, i.e. Apple, Samsung, etc., have been getting higher and higher profits during the same multiple straight years.

People would think, if RIM doesn't sell itself as soon as it can while there's still a narrow window open for it to do so, then the guys who actually run it must have lost their senses.