Now I know that "pike" is the name of one of the ancient weapons which I often saw in movies.

Here goes a very warlike picture of pikemen:
http://0-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/tg/image/1336/93/1336937170375.jpg

Everyone has his own moments of feeling powerless and helpless.

The trifecta of desktop OS, web, and mobile OS has grown complex.

I vote for open source.

Canada and the U.S. must be more forestal than Europe, I guess?

J arrived in Canada. And J embraces the freedom to do what he wants to.

Life gets stricken by misfortunes. It's inevitable.

But one becomes better with ill fortunes.

There are many extortive forces working against civilians in undemocratic countries.

The hand towels sold at Dollarama aren't bad nowadays.

There must be myriad of companies, large and small, which will waylay Google.

Microsoft and Amazon probably are the two most formidable ones among them.

By contrast, the tiniest among them are DuckDuckGo (2 employees), and even smaller, Newsblur (1 person, see the "Who" section at http://www.newsblur.com/about ). :-)

Apple Inc. is such a gigantic hoarder of money.

Scratch pads are always needed by people.

They are made of paper in the past, while they are digital nowadays.

Things in the mobile computing sphere are clearer nowadays than several years ago.

I think that even for average consumers, it's probably a mistake for them to brace their own mobile life in the walled garden of Apple's ecosystem.

Now more and more people must have foreknown that Microsoft will be in big trouble.

The mammoth trouble for the Redmond giant doesn't come from Apple, IMHO, it comes from Linux, as well as cheap DIY hardware.

I'm not privy to the licenses of open source software programs, but I rely on those applications much more than on proprietary ones.

Well, I used to think Fila is an American brand name.

But in fact it had been an Italian one, and now it's a Korean company headquartered in Seoul, Korea. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fila_(company).

There's a lot of corporate flimflam in this world.

"The credits have been added to your account," the girl at Domino's Pizza said.

"How much credit?" J asked.

Well, I'm surprised by the fact that Montreal's metropolitan area has a larger population than Cincinnati's.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal.

IT has always been in a state of flux.

I've always been fond of the RSS segment of internet browsing.

Many people say that Twitter and other social media replace RSS/Atom feeds. I beg to disagree.