Posts Tagged ‘North America

The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
Week of September 19-25, 2005

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The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
This Week’s Notes

ERTW.com Agent location taken offline
Addition of Google Blogsearch to the Index
Numerous performance improvements to the GrabPERF interface

Week of September 12-18, 2005

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The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
Week of September 4-11, 2005

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The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in. Sorry for the delay.
Week of August 29, 2005 – September 4, 2005

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The first weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
Week of August 22, 2005 – August 28, 2005

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Kathy Sierra writes on the geography of context. The main takeaway: North Americans remove objects from their context; Asians always consider the whole picture.
A thought-provoking reminder of our differences as a species. I am defiitely guilty of removing objects from their context and looking at them in isolation. However, working with computer systems on a [...]

eBay woke up. What a concept! A real person answering your e-mails. Now, of course, the downside of this is that the e-mails will be answered in Bangalore and Mumbai, and will still be from controlled response scripts.
But still, it’s somewhat of a concession from eBay that they stumbled a bit…and that the response to [...]

Samantha and I hail from Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, the largest island off the Pacific Coast of North America. It is blessed with a mild mediterranean climate, year-round.
Except now.
Apparently they are having a winter storm that has dumped more snow on the area than we have seen in Massachusetts this year.
Have fun!

A sordid tale

In: smp

21 Nov 2004

After reading the statement of claim for the "Hockey Night in Canada" theme (available here), it is clear that it is as much about the history of HNIC itself, as it is about the composition. The constant to-ing and fro-ing (Molson/Molstar, CBC)  of ownership of the broadcasts, the growth of product placement marketing, and the [...]

Link: CNN.com – Scientist:Man in Americas earlier than thought – Nov 17, 2004.
An archaeologist from the University of South Carolina on Wednesday
announced radiocarbon tests that dated the first human settlement in
North America to 50,000 years ago — at least 25,000 years before other
known human sites on the continent.

Wow. Transatlantic Hide Boats…
Where’s Thor Heyerdahl when you [...]


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