One's got to singe his own ignorant imagination and pipe dreams by constant reality checks.

Just now I pried a fact out of the long history of computing. Apple had been developing and selling the Newton PDA by its 1998 end, which people say is the very first handheld PDA.

See http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/PDA.

I wonder how much of that legacy has been used to prop up their roll-out of iPhone.

Perhaps I prate about English too much.

I'm not sure what the future holds for the Calgary Stampede.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary_Stampede#Animal_welfare.

It's improbable that unions are able to outface the employers. Time has changed.

IMO, Java will be largely out of mode.

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.