Linux is the de facto definitive operating system.

However, Microsoft Windows was the champ, at least in the consumer space. It's a fact.

It seems that studying musicology typically does not help pop singers at all.

Maybe I've gotten a wrong impression, though.

The Clintons family, or dynasty, if you like, has got great leverage on the American stage.

Is it a healthy thing?

Since I came to Canada, whenever I watched TV news or read web news, I got inundated with the new development of disasters and crises across the world.

Why should individuals know every single disaster and crisis in every corner of the globe, and in such detail?

More and more job positions of editors, such as lexicographers, have been and will be ousted by the tide of our time.

But I, as an English language learner, am grateful for the lexicographers' fruitful labor over decades.

'Bill of sale' and 'bill of lading' used to be a little confusing to me.

'Estate sale', as well as 'garage sale', were much clearer.

It seems that in Montreal, many young primary school students dress like unsuitably aged fashionistas.

Evernote's web client failed briefly just a moment ago.

Users will pick up on it and pay attention to the feasibility of Evernote's competitors' services, if that kind of downtime happens often.

Flat vada snacks taste quite good.

'Shah' is a powerful surname.

The well-being of employers, such as private companies, is oftentimes obfuscated to employees.

I know 'blurb' and 'executive summary'.

But what's the word for their counterparts on websites? Web page blurbs, article blurbs, and news blurbs?

It seems that many, if not most, packaged foods and beverages companies in the U.S. and Canada have not been safeguarding their customers' health, especially against obesity.

For that matter, it is obvious that their consumers do not want obesity encroaching on their very own bodies because of the consumption.

Google, in its infinite wisdom, closed down the service of its very popular Google Reader.

That act, planted a seed of distrust in my mind.

I don't know anything about the current DDR4 DRAM thingummy.

A free market economy is advantageous for resource allocation.

But what about human costs?

The torrent of social media brought a deluge of additional information overload.

Please just give me a break.

Desktop Linux virtuosos are everywhere.

'Koala bear' originated in Australia.

However, 'kangaroo court' did in the United States.

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