aBesides selling merchandise directly to consumers on its own account, Amazon is entering into alliances with other Internet retailers to broaden the offerings that consumers can acquire at its site. 除卖商品以外直接地对消费者在它自己的帐户,亚马孙加入联盟以其他互联网贩商扩展消费者能获取在它的站点...
This post isn’t meant to be more than an introduction to my approach, but I figured I’d start myself back into updating this site. I’m hoping to document some of my methods…they were frustrating enough that I don’t want to repeat the troubleshooting phase, and hope it may be of...
It was 1969, and Mike happened to be in the first user’s group of the ARPAnet, which is the internet, when they threw the operational switch about two months before. He and his colleagues sat at dumb terminals sending the first emails to communicate with government contractors in places li...
Here’s the problem: We’re not under-appreciated. Most places I’ve worked, the SysAdmins get bribed on a regular basis with brownies and cookies so we won’t crack down very hard on IMs and social media sites. Sadly, nobody does that at my current company. (You reading this guys?
And, no matter what the topic may be, my research process always includes digging deeply for as many primary sources as I can find, traveling to the places where the narrative took place, using chronologies as organizational tools and story structure devices, and trying to re-trace the footste...
So in the back of my mind, I was formulating a future trip down to New Haven to at least try Modern Apizza so I could say I have tried all three places. Now I know that some purists would say that the newer stores of Pepe’s and Sally’s do not quite measure up to the original...
As we sit here, waiting for the other shoe to drop, almost weekly, if not daily, I field the question “Why isn’t anyone doing anything yet?” This is usually followed by wails that we’ll do nothing that we’ll just sit here and take it. There are two things to take into ...
ships can travel along it for a thousand miles.Other great rivers are the Congo in Africa and the Mekong in Southeast Asia.The greatest of all for navigation (航海),however,is the Amazon in Brazil.It is so wide and so deep that large ships can go about two thousand miles ...
I finish this post, and Poetry Shelf 2024, with the verve and inspiration ofRachel McAlpine: “Roll on 2025, when I’ll be taking poems into other unexpected places.” Here’s to all of us nourishing the scope and possibilities of poetry in Aotearoa in 2025. ...