讀過不少有關Zappos的報導，讓我成為了這公司的小紛絲，我更自動向他們表白，給人家的Marketing Director寫了個電郵，轉個頭來，人家不僅馬上回覆道謝，事隔數天，我更收到該公司每年推出的Zappos Culture Book。
Delivering Happiness是Zappos老闆Tony Hsieh的新書，我前天在HMV
Lifeisaprayer.com ranked in top .25% of all websites!
Due almost exclusively to the Articles section of this website, it seems that Lifeisaprayer.com (this website) ranks at number 422,290 of approximately 180,000,000 websites on the Internet (according to Alexa).
The most popular content on the site, by a very large margin, are the following articles:
The Feast of St. Louis IX, King of France
The Archdiocese of St. Louis is celebrating the feast of its patron saint today, St. Louis IX. Saint Louis was a very generous man, always giving to the poor, helping charitable organizations and religious orders, and generally being the kind of king who tries to please God rather than man.
You can read more about the feast of St. Louis IX (and about the man himself) on the Archdiocese of St. Louis' website.
Column in the Review: Catholics should be leaders in online communications
I recently had the first of, I hope, many columns on Catholic online evangelization in the St. Louis Review . I will post the column here for archival purposes, but you can read the column on the Review website as well:
The Digital Continent | Catholics should become leaders in online communications
by Jeff Geerling
The status quo is no longer acceptable.
That was the gist of the two keynote talks during this year's Catholic New Media Celebration in Boston. The Catholic Church needs to become a leader in online communications
If
If I were one of the hostages, I would definitely fight back after the first bullet was out. Judging from the snail-like actions by the local Phil police, I would rather fight for my own life. Of course, in that narrow aisle in the coach, with only a handful of men, it is a gamble of life - it either works, or I die.
If I were the police officer in charge, I would have asked two of my elite collegues (corrupt them if needed) to
If I were the police officer in charge, I would have asked two of my elite collegues (corrupt them if needed) to
教書和表演
加州政府財困，州立大學所得的撥款年年減縮，對我的其中一個最直接影響就是我教的通識課 --- 哲學導論 --- 學生人數年年增加，由四、五年前的七十多人，增加到去年的九十多人，今年更離譜，一下子跳到一百二十人！
A Windows moment on my laptop
I had a Windows moment with my laptop today. I normally leave itsuspended instead of powered off, and when I unsuspended it I discoveredthat its networking had stopped working. The network-controlling widgetin my taskbar just said 'Networking unavailable', and the various systemmanagement interfaces were opaque about what might be wrong and why; thenetwork devices were there, they weren't reporting any obvious problems,and so on. The system just wasn't having anything to do with networking,whether wired or
The limitation of templates for web design changes
Given that DWiki is template-based, in theory I could fix my commentform design mistake from yesterday. All I would haveto do is revise the 'write a comment' template that's used here so thatit included the entry and the existing comment, as well as a preview ofyour new comment and the comment entry form itself.
Except not so fast, because this revised version would be a usabilitydisaster as I've described it. The problem is that all of the links tothe '
公平社會 – Outliers
最近看 Malcom Galdwin 的《Outliers》有一段我覺得很簡單地形容了本書要旨 (大意)：
生物學家愛談「生態」：最高的橡樹之所以長得高，並非只因種子夠堅硬，也因為無樹遮光、泥土豐厚、無兔咬食、無人砍伐。我們皆知成功者種子堅實，但
