Many stagnant businesses dream of turnarounds.

But it's always very tough to make turnarounds happen, unless you only want to split and sell business units, so to speak.

A crossing guard may be paid or a volunteer.

The Linux kernel rules the roost.

However, when people purchase Windows computers, they are NOT buying the Windows NT kernel, but they are buying the convenient access to all the useful applications available in the Windows ecosystem. For instances, OCR software programs, and audio and video editing programs.

The word "jump" has an obsolete meaning - "exactly", as an adverb.

I frown at information overload.

But what can I do?

I must keep relevant.

It's said that Bill Clinton is a power broker and kingmaker in American politics.

Why, and how?

It seems that McGill University's head is called "Principal", while Queen's U's head "Rector".

Confusing.

Only now I've known that Maritimes and Atlantic Canada are almost synonyms.

I for one don't like to see bad blood between teachers and the government over labor disputes.

Should all schools be privatized and all parents get monetary vouchers and then get to choose their children's schools freely? i.e. let the free market mechanism, instead of unions and the government, decide which teachers get paid more and which ones less?

It appears that many pundits have sanguinely predicted that we'll PROBABLY see an economic boom by the end of the current presidential term of Obama.

Facebook wants to parlay its success in desktop sphere into another one in mobile sphere.

Let's watch. Anyhow, I've always felt Facebook is a little stale. Maybe it's just me.

Having seen Canadian hi-tech firms smitten, or bought up, by competition doesn't leave Canadians sanguinity about the country's tech sector.

Nortel, ATI, RIM, ...

I had lost a certain prospect with a cost-driven project.

I never felt loss for that.

The parley between Israel and Palestine has been on the focus of world media, again and again and again.

See Israel and Palestine: Barriers to peace | The Economist.

风漫天，雪舞银蛇。

在这个雪夜，想起了姜夔的“夜雪初积”（《暗香》）。

The topics and discussion about iPhones and iPads have been taking a whopping chunk of web sphere.

However, Steve Jobs, who reputedly had single-handedly created the Apple legend and the cult around its products, ALREADY passed away. Are there sufficient reasons to support that Apple will go on dominating the world and the stock market capitalization?

Randall is a good name.

A kernel in any relationship is, trust or distrust.

If one is stuck in enjoying creature comfort, then he's hopeless.

I guess that's why some aristocrats are apt to somewhat despise nouveaux riches.

Busted has been the avouchment that essential oils used in aromatherapy are good for people's health.

"... aromatherapy oils are volatile oraganic compounds (VOCs), which are considered indoor air pollutants that can irritate the eyes, throat, and lungs."

"... spas that offer massage therapy using fragrant essential oils may have elevated levels of potentially harmful indoor air pollutants such as VOCs and ultrafine particles, according to an article in the journal Environmental Engineering Science." 

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/2012/12/03/aromatherapy-soothes-stress-but-don-breathe-too-many-vapors-study/KlItTjOzvxFSHjhNGGLSQI/story.html

In this era of people earnestly combating environmental pollution on this Earth, why at the same time do some of them pollute indoor air that they themselves breathe in?