Typing on the computer keyboard gives my daily computing a tactile quality.

The notion of "rogue state" is interesting.

Quote:

Rogue state is a controversial term applied by some international theorists to states they consider threatening to the world's peace. This means meeting certain criteria, such as being ruled by authoritarian regimes that severely restrict human rights, sponsor terrorism, and seek to proliferate weapons of mass destruction. The term is used most by the United States, though it has been applied by other countries. 

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A common presumption applied to rogue states is that they do not necessarily behave rationally or in their own best interests. In political theory it is generally believed that a stable nation, ruled by a leadership that is subject to broad scrutiny (though not necessarily democratic scrutiny), will tend to act in its own best interests and will not take actions that are directly contrary to its own interests, particularly not to its own survival. Rogue states, however, may not be subject to this assumption and, as such, relations with them may be more complicated and unpredictable. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_state

We are all groping or fishing for opportunities in the sea of information.

Once upon a time, Microsoft far exceeded Apple. Nowadays, it's the opposite.

The inversion of their relative competitive positions makes me astonished by showing what time can change.

E. X. is cranky. Anyways.

The new generation of websites usually have simple web page layout, but not all instances of it are pleasant.

To a certain degree, many free websites supported by ads are in the experience business, I think.

For instance, when I look up the definition of "bilbo" at dictionary.com on my Android phone, the website presents several ads of cruise trips in front of me, alongside the word's definition. So by injecting semantically relevant ads into my browsing experience in which I look up a word, it remakes and tries to maneuver my online experience and tries to automatically generate sales leads for advertisers.

In this world, many business negotiations are greatly encumbered by the lack of trust and creditability. One option is to just let them go.

I'm completely untrained in music. But I'm curious about why a galopp (the German word for "galop") is a Polka.

I found that while googling about the Chineser Galopp by Johann Strauss I. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Strauss_I#Polkas.

Shipboard mutinies are especially harmful for a country's military actions.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny#Famous_mutinies.

Do the recent labor strikes at Air Canada, both legal and illegal, resemble them?  :-)

It seems that when a sales agent finds out that a competing supplier has a much lower price, then how his current supplier treats him becomes questionable in his own mind.

《春雨》

悵臥新春自祫衣 

白門寥落意多違 

紅樓隔雨相望冷 

珠箔飄燈獨自歸 

遠路應悲春晼晚 

殘宵猶得夢依稀 

玉璫緘札何由達  

萬里雲羅一雁飛

--李商隱之《春雨》

Music video - 江南 - 林俊杰

四月二十二日。Montreal。小雨雪。

我喜歡看晚春斜雨細雪裡，方形路燈側畔的綠楓樹、綠楓樹側畔的方形路燈。

Video - Erzberg Rodeo 2009

The hill climbing in the first minute is sick! Those motorcycle rodeos rock.

The chalices of spring flowers in Jiangnan must be filled with rainwater now.

The faces of some Caucasians are so palish white that there would be no rosiness at all on their cheeks if they didn't rouge them.

I look forward to the day when our toddler daughter will begin to eat her dinners completely by herself. On that day, my wife would happily quit waiting on her and save a little more time.

Before our daughter was born, I'd never realized that it takes so much time and energy to take care of an individual without self-care abilities. Even the smallest things which hadn't previously passed my mind add up to take a good chunk of time.

Throughout the years, I've been doubling down on building my life and career based in Canada. I'm not sure if my parting with China was a river of no return.

My wife and I used to buy instant miso soup paste made in Japan.

No more since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster broke out in Japan in March 2011. Because we became afraid of potential radiation pollution of foodstuff made in Japan.