'Email marketing' versus outright email spam
While I think that the end effects are the same ,I think that there is a conceptual difference between what gets called'email marketing' and outright email spam, and that this differenceinfluences how the people who originate 'email marketing' think aboutit.
To put it one way, what I call 'email marketing' at least attemptsto be the logical extension of physical mail marketing; you gatherthe addresses of your customers, of business cards dropped into yourgiveaway draws at tradeshows, of people who have sent
讀中文，所為何事？
（按：這是星島一個月前的文章，與刊出的版本有微妙分別。其實我根本只想寫陳雲，但編輯說，因為文章主要由別份報紙的專欄文章合成，基於商業理由是不會推介的。哦。想想陳雲，我心領神會。但稿遲交了，已無時間再改
好好過生活--談卓韻芝及《走光再走光》
作者：卓韻芝
出版：明窗出版社 2008年12月
第一次讀卓韻芝的文集，算起來已經有七八年了，那本書名叫《生活全套》，真嚇人一跳，原來已經是那麼久之前的事，怎麼那種閱讀的喜悅卻恍如昨天？別怪
請問什麽叫新 人 薦 場 飆 星 獎？？
還是因為無位子安放這位新人而設的獎？
得獎者：胡杏兒
我只是一名小觀眾, 抒發意見，與所有留言者一樣
2008 年 度 傑 出 表 現 獎 （金 獎 ）？
難道TVB臺上的fold back真的那麼差？
最搞笑的是菊姐沒有“放手”過個獎。
i love eason!!!!
我鍾意他的態度“唔講喇！”
寸爆！(是應有的態度。)
i love eason chan!!!!!
憑什麽
oh my god.
對不起容祖兒。
對不起謝安琪。
床下底乜都有
How to help programmers (parts 2 and 3): os.environ and sys.argv
As it happens, the os.listdir() problem is just the tip of the iceberg of Python 3's Unix problems . Here are two more ways that it helps Unixprogrammers, from the release notes :
Some system APIs like
os.environandsys.argvcan also presentproblems when the bytes made available by the system is notinterpretable using the default encoding. Setting theLANGvariableand rerunning the program is probably the best approach.
Since the release notes are not explicit, let me fill them in