"Blub" is solely a British English word, while "blob" exists in both American English and British one.

And their forms are so simplistic and easy to be confused with each other.

A well written sentence

Billy dozed off first, and roosters were crowing somewhere in the distance when Saxon's eyes closed.

-Chapter II, The Valley of the Moon by Jack London

Naturally, seeing and being close to sunshine makes me feel sanguine.

About the flick Exiled

Intriguingly, the Jonnie To movie Exiled has only a Hong Kong box-office gross of HK$687,434 and merely a U.S. box-office gross of US$49,413.(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exiled#Box_office.) By contrast, the film won quite a few awards, including Hong Kong ones and international ones. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exiled#Accolades.) Plus, the particular Wikipedia web page has got a PageRank of 4, which indicates the web page, hence the movie itself, is important.

Anyways, I watched the flick months ago. And I must say it's not my cup of tea. It's largely only appreciated by experts, critics, and real buffs of movies, I'm afraid.

Time goes by quickly in the noises of the news about this and that social networking website coming up from nowhere.

About the novel A Christmas Carol

From Ten things you never knew about Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, we know:
1. The Dickens novel has been really popular.
2. Pirating others' work did exist in England. For instance, Parley’s Illuminated Library, an ephemeral magazine, pirated that novel of Dickens. It's only the laws and their enforcement which can prevent pirating.

Short video - North Korean military march

What a martial stalk by North Korean military women in the first half of the video piece.

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.