Entries for July 4, 2009

i have climbed to the mountaintop! while there, i gathered some seeds from wild growing lupine, and now that i have climbed down off the mountain i have commenced a jag to collect more seeds in the wild. took off today & walked to an unmowed field about a mile away & started gathering. i especially wanted to get the yellow salsify i earlier spotted there & i came prepared with a dozen or so rinsed out zipper tobacco puches. looking for native plants only, no aliens thank you, &...

GOOGLE-MICROSOFT

In the first year after I retired from FT work, July 1999 to July 2000, Google officially became the world's largest search engine. With its introduction of a billion-page index by June 2000 much of the internet's content became available in a searchable format at one search engine. In the next several years, 2000-2005, as I was retiring from PT work as well as casual and most volunteer activity that had occupied me for decades, Google entered into a series of partnerships...