那些没有被墙的国外网站：英美新闻报刊篇
一直觉得大家对于是否被“墙”这回事看得挺重的，这个重一是表现在到处找梯子，二是总抱怨好网站都登不上去。Coolz酷·站 将陆续为大家分享一些很好的没有被墙的国外网站，欢迎关注“那些没有被墙的国外网站”标签。
第一辑以“英美新闻报刊”类网站为主要内容。以下网址均经过“高校教育网络”测试能够访问，如果您发现有不能访问的，欢迎私信，我将用 删除线 表示。
首先是美国的：
一、美国报纸
美国是世界新闻事业十分发达的国家之一。全国有各类报纸11000其中日报1600多家，包括晨报、下午报、晚报和星期日报及8000多家周报和半周报，街头小报无法计数。
1、最有影响的报纸有：
1）、The Los Angeles Times《洛杉矶时报》http://www.latimes.com
2）、The New York Times《纽约时报》 http://www.nytimes.com
3）、Washington Post《华盛顿邮报》 http://www.washingtonpost.com
4）、The Wall Street Journal《华尔街日报》http://www.wsj.com
5）、The New York Daily News 《纽约每日新闻》 http://www.nydailynews.com
6）、Chicago Daily Tribune《芝加哥论坛报》 http://www.chicagotribune.com/
7）、USA Today 《今日美国》 http://www.usatoday.com
8）、New York Post《纽约邮报》http://www.nypost.com
2、较有影响的报纸有：
1）、The Christian Science Monitor 《基督教科学箴言报》http://www.csmonitor.com
2）、International Herald Tribune 《国际先驱论坛报》http://www.iht.com
3）、Washington News 《华盛顿新闻报》http://www.newsday.com
4）、Washington Daily News 《华盛顿每日新闻》http://www.wdnweb.com
5）、Baltimore Sun 《巴尔的摩太阳报》http://www.baltimoresun.com
3、较受欢迎的报纸有：
1）、Herald Journal 《先驱日报》 http://hjnews.townnews.com/
2）、American Express 《美国快报》 http://home.americanexpress.com
3）、Journal of Commerce 《商业日报》 http://www.joc.com
4）、Tribune 《论坛报》http://www.tribune.com
5）、American News 《美国新闻》http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm
6）、News Weekly 《新闻周刊》http://www.newsweekly.com.au
7）、The World Report 《世界报道》 被墙
《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《洛杉矶时报》是当今美国最有影响的3大报纸。垄断美国报业的集团、公司有： 甘尼特集团(Gannett Newspapers)、科普利报系 (Copley Newspapers)、詹姆斯?M?考克斯报系 (James M. Cox Newspapers)、赫斯特报系 (Hearst Newspapers)、奈特—里德报系(Knight- Ridder Newspapers)、道?琼斯公司(Dow-Jones Corp. )、 纽约时报公司(New York Times Corp. )、 汤姆森报系(Thomson Newspapers)、 时报—镜报公司(Times-Mirror Corp. )、 斯克里普斯—霍华德报系 (Scripps-Howard Newspapers)等。其中，甘尼特集团是最大的报业集团， 它拥有90家日报、30多家周报和半周报、7个电视台和16个广播电台。
二、美国杂志
美国现有一万多种杂志，发行量在百万以上的有60多种。有影响的杂志如下：
1、Reader’s Digest 《读者文摘》：http://www.rd.com
2、TIME 《时代周刊》：http://www.time.com
3、Life 《生活》 http://www.life.com
4、People 《人民》 http://www.people.com
5、Cosmopolitan women《世界妇女》 http://www.cosmomag.com
6、American Home 《美国家庭》http://www.americanhomeshield.com
7、American Child 《美国儿童》 http://www.americanbaby.com
8、American Literature 《美国文学》未找到官网
http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/sites.htm （很多美国名著）
http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/
9、Scientific American 《美国科学》http://www.sciam.com
10、Playboy 《花花公子》 http://www.playboy.com（里面很多内容少儿不宜，只适合成年人阅读）
11、Beautify Home and Garden 《美化家庭和园林》未找到官网
12、Homes Circle 《家庭圈》http://www.newhomes.com
13、Good Manager 《好管家》 被墙
14、Magus 《麦哥氏》 http://www.magusbooks.com
15、、American Television Magazine 《电视指南》http://www.realitytvmagazine.com
三、美国主要报纸简介
1、《纽约时报》 (The New York Times) 1851年创刊，为苏兹贝格家族(Sulzberger)所有。
2、《华盛顿邮报》(The Washington Post) 1877年创刊华盛顿，属格雷厄姆家族(Graham)所有。
3、《洛杉矶时报》(The Los Angeles Times) 创刊于1881年，属钱德勒家族(Chandler)所有。
4、《华尔街日报》 (The Wall Street Journal) 1889年创刊。
5、《基督教科学箴言报》 (The Christian Science Monitor) 1909年创刊，由基督教科学出版社出版。
6、《芝加哥论坛报》(The Chicago Tribune) 创刊于1947年，在芝加哥出版。
7、《今日美国》(Gannett Newspapers) 由甘尼特集团于1982年创刊。
四、美国主要期刊简介:
1、《时代周刊》 (TIME) http://www.time.com
2、《新闻周刊》 (NEWS WEEK) http://www.Newsweek.com
3、《美国新闻与世界报道》 (U.S. NEWS &WORLD REPORT) http://www.usnews.com
4、《读者文摘》 (READER’S DIGEST) http://www.rd.com
5、《商业周刊》 (Business Week) http://www.businessweek.com
6、《财富》 (Fortune) http://www.fortune.com
五、美国的党报
1、支持政府的报纸：
《国务院公报》 (Department of State Bulletin) http://www.findarticles.com
《纽约时报》 (The New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com
《华盛顿明星报》 (Washington Star) http://www.washingtonstar.com
《美国新闻与世界报道》 (U.S. News &World Report) http://www.usnews.com
2、支持共和党的报纸：
《纽约先驱论坛报》 (New York Herald)
《芝加哥论坛报》 (Chicago Tribune) http://www.chicagotribune.com
《洛杉矶时报》 (Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com
《旧金山纪事报》 (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com
3、支持民主党的报纸：
《巴尔的摩太阳报》 (Baltimore Sun) http://www.baltimoresun.com
《芝加哥太阳时报》 (Chicago Sun-Times) http://www.suntimes.com
《圣路易邮电报》 (St. Louis Post) http://www.stltoday.com
4、中立的报刊：
《基督教科学箴言报》 (The Christian Science Monitor) http://www.csmonitor.com
《纽约邮报》 (New York Post) http://www.nypost.com
《纽约每日新闻》 (New York Daily News) http://www.nydailynews.com
《华尔街日报》 (Wall Street Journal) http://www.wsj.com
5、杂志方面：
1）、《新闻周刊》 (Newsweek) http://www.Newsweek.com
2）、《时代周刊》 (Time) http://www.time.com
3）、《展望周刊》 (Look) http://www.onelook.com
六、美国广播公司
1、全国广播公司(National Broadcasting Company 简称 NBC )于1926年创办： http://www.nbc.com
2、哥伦比亚广播公司(Columbia Broadcasting System,简称CBS)于1927年创办：http://www.cbs.com
3、美国广播公司(American Broadcasting Company, 简称ABC) http://www.abc.com
4、美国之音 (Voice of America,简称VOA) 于1942年创办： http://www.voa.gov
5、美联社 (Associated Press,简称AP)于1848年创办： http://www.ap.org
6、合众国际社 (United Press-International News Service,简称UPI)于1907年创办：http://www.upi.com
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然后是英国的：
一、英国全国性高级报纸有：
1、《泰晤士报》 Times：http://www.thetimes.co.uk
2、《每日电讯报》 The Daily Telegraph： http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk
3、《卫报》 The Guardian：http://www.guardian.co.uk/
4、《金融时报》 The Financial Times：http://news.ft.com/home/rw
5、《星期日电讯报》 Sunday Dispatch：未找到官网
6、《观察家报》 The Observer：http://www.observer.co.uk
7、《星期日泰晤士报》The Sunday Times：http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/
二、英国全国性通俗报纸有：
1、《每日快报》 The Daily Express：http://www.express.co.uk/
2、《每日邮报》 The Daily Mail：http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
3、《每日镜报》 Daily Mirror：http://www.mirror.co.uk/
4、《星期日快报》 The Sunday Express 未找到官网
5、《世界新闻报》 The News of the World：http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk （一个很有特点的英语新闻网站）
三、地方性报纸
它主要以刊登本地新闻和广告为主,具有浓厚的地方特色。包括晨报、晚报、周报、3日刊。
1、《格拉斯哥先驱报》 (Glasgow Herald) http://www.theherald.co.uk/
2、《旗帜晚报》 ( The Evening Standard ) http://www.thisislondon.com/
3、《新闻晚报》 (The Evening News)：http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk
四、主要报纸简介
1、《泰晤士报》(Times)：1785年由约翰?沃尔特在创敦创刊，誉为“世界第一大报纸”（the First Newspaper in the World）.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk
2、《卫报》(The Guardian)：原名《曼彻斯特卫报》(The Man- Chester Guardian),1821年创刊于曼彻斯特，后迁伦敦，1959年改称《卫报》.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
3、《金融时报》(The Financial Times) ：1888年于伦敦创刊，是英国金融资本的晴雨表. http://news.ft.com/home/rw
4、《每日电讯报》(The Daily Telegraph) ：1855年于伦敦创刊，该报以“时效性”而著称。 http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk
5、《观察家报》(The Observer) ：1791年创刊。
http://www.observer.co.uk
6、《每日快报》(The Daily Express) ：1900年由比弗布鲁克爵士 ( Lord Beaverbrook) 在伦敦创刊。 http://www.express.co.uk/
7、《每日邮报》(The Daily Mail)： 1896年创刊，是一种知识性很强的通俗日报。http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
8、《镜报》(The Mirror) ：1903年创刊，1985年以前名为《每日镜报》(Daily Mirror) 。http://www.mirror.co.uk/
五、英国主要期刊简介
1、《经济学家》(The Economist) ：1843年创刊，与《金融时报》同属“皮尔逊父子公司”所有。
http://www.economist.com
2、《旁观者》(The Spectator) ：创刊于1828年，是英国全国性周刊中历史最久的杂志。
http://www.spectator.co.uk
3、《新政治家》(The New Statesman) ：创刊于1934年，主要发表有关政治、社会问题、书刊、电影、戏剧等方面的评论。
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk
4、《妇女界》(The Woman’s Own) ：1932年创刊，是图文并茂的妇女月刊，女性朋友必看。
http://www.ipcmedia.com
5、《妇女之国》(Woman’s Realm) ：创刊于1958年，适合新成家的青年妇女。
http://www.anagramgenius.com/
6、《泰晤士报文学增刊》(The Times Literary Supplement, The TLS) ：每周出一期，是英国最有影响的文学周刊之一。
http://www.the-tls.co.uk
六、英国其他周刊及科普刊物
1、周刊 (Weeklies) ：
1）、《现在》 (Now) ：http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk
2）、《侦探》 (Private Eye)：http://www.private-eye.co.uk （适合喜欢破案类小说的中学生）
3）、《笨拙》 (Punch)：http://www.punch.co.uk （非常不错的漫画类杂志）
4）、 《听众》 (The Listener) http://http://www.listener.co.nz/
5）、《新社会》 (New Society) http://www.newsociety.com
6）、《闲暇》 (Time Out) http://www.timeout.com/london/ （是伦敦一本很好的休闲杂志，它的网站也很棒！）
2、科普 (Scientific periodicals)
1）、《发现》 (Discovery) http://www.discovery.com/
2）、《自然》 (Nature) http://www.nature.com /
中国地区自然杂志网址：http://www.natureasia.com/ch/gta/index.php
3）、《科学通讯》 (Science News) http://www.sciencenews.org
4）、《地理杂志》 (The Geographical Magazine) http://www.geographical.co.uk
5）、《新科学家》 (New Scientist) http://www.newscientist.com
6）、《科学世界》 (Scientific World) http://www.thescientificworld.com
7）、《未来音乐》 (Future Music) http://www.futuremusic.co.uk
8）、《学科进展》 (Science Progress) http://www.scilet.com
简单介绍：《自然》系列期刊是由每周出版的多学科《自然》杂志和8种每月出版的期刊组成。《自然》杂志发表在某一学科内具有高最影 响、其它领域的科学家也会感兴趣的研究工作；8种学术期刊的名称是根据其报道领域命名的，它们都发表在其领域中质量最高、影响力显著的论文，这8种期刊的 名称分别是：《自然生物技术》、《自然细胞生物学》、《自然遗传学》、《自然免疫学》、《自然材料学》、《自然医学》、《自然方法学》、《自然结构和分子 生物学》。所有的这些期刊都是国际性的，它们在美国、英国和日本出版和印刷。
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[回杭]2月5号坑爹的航班
阿伟帮订的机票，厦门航空 MF8378 直飞天津，经停杭州
18：55起飞，由于天气的，到最后推迟了4个小时……NND
回到住宿已经是凌晨两点……还要烧水洗澡……看今天只能睡5个小时了。
疲惫……
2011年末
年末
公司是按法定节假日来放的，七天，仅仅七天。
想多休息几天？想在家多呆几天？多陪陪亲朋好友？那就请假吧。
绝不能带薪休假！
突然想起去年13天的带薪休假，再请两天假，15天，我可以在家多呆会儿……真好。不过去年来回都是火车，在火车就花了4天时间了。真……
今年买是的20号的回程机票，大年二十七》》》悲催呀，如果再坐火车回去，睡一觉醒来已经是新年了……什么时候回来还没定……能买到几时的票就几时回来。
机票好贵，来回一个月的工资没了。
其实这问题的根本原因是……》》》》工资太TMD少了。而且，老板还太抠……老扣工资……记得在上一家公司，每月发的工资都是“多发一点”的，而现在，都是扣我工资的，每次发工资，都会“少一点”，而且还呈越扣越多的趋势……
上班没激情了，我最不想跟钱过不去了……自从入冬以来，再加上繁重的工作和每月都扣钱的现象，就没激情上班了。
虽然我迟到并不影响我的工作，因为我晚点到公司，都是很自觉地晚点离开公司的，而且不影响工作，真不应该扣我工资。倒不是说为迟到找理由或者借口什么的……
研发部跟其他部门有性质上本质的区别，工作是要看效率的，而且这种工作都是纯脑力劳动，心情好坏，环境的因素……都会直接影响到心情，如果被环境影响，这时候写出来的代码是很有问题的。
所以，有时候回家后，洗个澡，安静地听些音乐放松放松，再想想白天的工作遇到的问题，这时候思路就会清晰，效率特别高，两个小时挺白天半天，有时候“趁热打铁”写到深夜一两点……
但是，这些时间却没有被记在公司的考勤系统上的。所以……。。。。。。
而公司上班是早上8：30 到下午17：30，如果晚于8：40打卡就会被算迟到了，只能推迟10分钟……太不人性太残忍了。
我觉得8：30上班，只要在9：00前打卡就不算是迟到，如果晚点来，那就晚点下班，只要期间的工作时间达8小时就可以了。给员工一个因赶路而喘息的时间。
而没必要死死地盯着这个8：40，逮到一个理由就可以扣工资，这对员工太抠了……话说回来，奖惩应该分明，如果我一个月全按时出勤，是不是该奖励呀，全勤奖什么的？实际上是没有！只有惩罚而没有奖励……Shit
还有项目分配，时间安排……等问题， 一大堆问题……
项目管理问题，这也是我最受不了的问题。那么多项目，看项目安排项目计划，多美好呀。实际上一旦实施起来，全都拖延，没一个能按当初的计划按时按量完成的……而且不少项目都是在立项后，先做别的项目，到了最后两三个月了才抓紧做这个项目，这时一又出现一堆问题，整个工作内容，呈现的现象都是在不停地赶项目，不停地修改以前的内容……算了，不说也罢……反正跟领导提过了几次，没用。他们说了算……在我看来，做为一个项目管理人员项目经理，不了解项目实质的实施、实现过程，不了解自己队员的能力，以自己自信心为基础，和一个“外人”（此项目之外）的领导者管理者的姿态，来安排项目计划，怎么可能让这个计划顺利实施？按时按量完成？在他们安排的这些计划里，全都只是停留在表象问题上，按这个表象来安排时间，而实际上，具体地实现这些功能的时候，不知道在做多少事情，做多少基础的辅助工作才可以完成这些功能。但是在项目计划或和时间安排表上，根本没有安排这些“基础的辅助工作”的时间，而这些时间从哪里来？只能靠个人的“课余时间”去完成……想不加班？不可能！加班了还不一定能完成！更不用说完成的质量了。
而出现这些问题的时候，并且花时间去解决的时候，你会发现，其实项目时间被拖延了。这些项目几乎都是新项目，就是以前没有做类似的项目，都是公司第一次接的项目，所在这些新项目上，没有积累的经验，没有积累的资源，没有成熟的可重复使用的代码。所有的代码都是新写的……
最悲惨的是，给项目安排的设计时间非常少……粗略地花个草图，直接写代码……根本没有按项目管理流程和软件开发流程来做项目，领导把所有项目都用敏捷开发模式来做了，再加上队员的能力问题，结果……你懂的……
一边写代码一边设计一边调试，期间发现的问题，从未想到的问题……多如牛毛……接着拼命地不停的改，想办法充分利用自己的“课余时间”，自己加班加点赶项目……最后的最后呢？项目拖延，没足够时间测试，完成质量还很差，还半成品直接赴现场安装，接下来是不停地跑现场去修改、调试本应在公司里做好了的程序或硬件，结果……被领导说，被客户说……费时费力费感情不讨好，热脸粘在冷屁股上……
烦透这种工作了，工作内容枯燥乏味，任务又繁重，工资嘛又少得可怜，还不按时发工资，比MM们的大姨妈来得还不准时和无法预测，吃饭睡觉后一个子儿都不剩，过年回来一定要换……必须的！
1.20号，大年二十七才能回去，哎……心已回家，确实没心情工作了，何不早点放，大家高高兴兴回家过个年？
杯具的本命年，龙年再另做打算了……愿一切安好！ 加薪不加班！
{ 在那山的那边海的那边有一群蓝精灵，
他们苦逼又聪明，
他们加班到天明……}
JK Rowling:The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination
President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates.
The first thing I would like to say is ‘thank you.’ Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I have endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation! Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world’s largest Gryffindor reunion.
Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can’t remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, the law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.
You see? If all you remember in years to come is the ‘gay wizard’ joke, I’ve come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable goals: the first step to self improvement.
Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today. I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that have expired between that day and this.
I have come up with two answers. On this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. And as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called ‘real life’, I want to extol the crucial importance of imagination.
These may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with me.
Looking back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation, is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become. Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected of me.
I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension. I know that the irony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil, now.
So they hoped that I would take a vocational degree; I wanted to study English Literature. A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents’ car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor.
I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day. Of all the subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. What is more, I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.
At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my peers.
I am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted and well-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak. Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment.
However, the fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure. You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success. Indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person’s idea of success, so high have you already flown.
Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it. So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears that my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.
Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.
So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
Now you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books. This revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day jobs. Though I was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, I paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the African research department at Amnesty International’s headquarters in London.
There in my little office I read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to them. I saw photographs of those who had disappeared without trace, sent to Amnesty by their desperate families and friends. I read the testimony of torture victims and saw pictures of their injuries. I opened handwritten, eye-witness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings and rapes.
Many of my co-workers were ex-political prisoners, people who had been displaced from their homes, or fled into exile, because they had the temerity to speak against their governments. Visitors to our offices included those who had come to give information, or to try and find out what had happened to those they had left behind.
I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had become mentally ill after all he had endured in his homeland. He trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera about the brutality inflicted upon him. He was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a child. I was given the job of escorting him back to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished me future happiness.
And as long as I live I shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenly hearing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as I have never heard since. The door opened, and the researcher poked out her head and told me to run and make a hot drink for the young man sitting with her. She had just had to give him the news that in retaliation for his own outspokenness against his country’s regime, his mother had been seized and executed.
Every day of my working week in my early 20s I was reminded how incredibly fortunate I was, to live in a country with a democratically elected government, where legal representation and a public trial were the rights of everyone.
Every day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans, to gain or maintain power. I began to have nightmares, literal nightmares, about some of the things I saw, heard, and read.
And yet I also learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I had ever known before.
Amnesty mobilises thousands of people who have never been tortured or imprisoned for their beliefs to act on behalf of those who have. The power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees prisoners. Ordinary people, whose personal well-being and security are assured, join together in huge numbers to save people they do not know, and will never meet. My small participation in that process was one of the most humbling and inspiring experiences of my life.
Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places.
Of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral. One might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or sympathise.
And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.
I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.
What is more, those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.
One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.
But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people’s lives? Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. Even your nationality sets you apart. The great majority of you belong to the world’s only remaining superpower. The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your borders. That is your privilege, and your burden.
If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
I am nearly finished. I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children’s godparents, the people to whom I’ve been able to turn in times of trouble, people who have been kind enough not to sue me when I took their names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.
So today, I wish you nothing better than similar friendships. And tomorrow, I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom:
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
I wish you all very good lives. Thank you very much.
Link:http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/06/the-fringe-benefits-failure-the-importance-imagination
如果说中国的程序员技术偏低，原因可能在这里
Click Once 安装及部署
部署安装及后期的维护，和自动更新，确实比较麻烦。整得我快累死……
可用方案有如下：
1.使用Windows Installer
可以使用Enterprise Library 中的Auto Update Block 来实现。或者自己写自动更新组件。
2.使用现成开源组件
CodePlex上有不少开源自动更新组件。
3.使用Click Once
Click Once 无疑是最简单方便的，同时也是可自定义功能最少的方式。集成于VS，只要在发布时选择它，直接发布就可以了。可以指定程序检查更新方式与频率。
可以参考：《在决定使用clickonce发布你的软件前，应该知道的一些事情》
如何在 ClickOnce 和 Windows Installer 之間作選擇？
可参考微软官方博文：《在 ClickOnce 和 Windows Installer 之間作選擇》
Macolog for Google App Engine
Microlog 安装
非常感谢Micolog的作者徐明。写了这么一个优秀的作品。
早些时候就看到新浪的云SAE了，但一直没动手，今天突然想写开个博客，有空写点东西，记录自己的生活点点滴滴。
于是去新浪SAE安装了一个WordPress试试，http://fadingcloud.sinaapp.com/ 第一感觉是速度很快。
其计费是按云豆来计算的，1K PV收一个云豆。第一次注册后赠送200豆……但目前不支持域名绑定。语言只支持PHP，而PYTHON在测试中，
以后应该还会支持其他语言JAVA之类的，就像GAE，起初只支持PYTHON。
在看了新浪的云SAE后，考虑了一下，最后还是决定在GAE上写博客好了。
国内的网络环境太复杂……不适合没有任何权势和Money的P民。很可能在莫明其秒的原因中所有的东西就消失得无踪影。
如果在新浪SAE中写东西，那我要做事情太多了，文章里不能有敏感词，不能说真话，甚至心情不爽的时候连一句牢骚也不能发。
需要自我审查，自我阉割……真TMD操蛋……
域名还需要备案，国外申请的域名备案更加麻烦。而国内申请的域名……你懂的（贵得离谱，所有权不是你，它们可以以任何借口为理由，将你的域名收回等等）
之前在万网申请的域名就是这样，最后还是把我的域名给收了，当然那个域名是CN域名（在CN域名大清理前就被收回了），在网上看到太多的网友受到同样的待遇，这就是国内服务商的作为。
如果使用GAE服务，那么最重要的就是被GFW围堵的问题了，不过这个可以使用域名解析来解决……
还有一个问题就是国内的搜索引擎无法收录，这没关系，我只是记录自己的事情，不做宣传，不写广告，无所谓。还能给我省点CPU和流量。
需要共享的技术文章有时间就把它粘到cnblog 上就可以了。
安装Micolog
在安装完成遇到一点小问题，就是如果删除默认的那篇日志，就会报出如下错误：
404 Error Sorry, we were not able to find the requested page. We have logged this error and will look into it.
网上查了查后来才知道没有日志时出现的默认“隐藏”的错误。
直接登陆后台新添加一篇日志。
但是还是出现很多错误，无法索引到文件，后台却可以正常登陆和使用。
再网上查查，才知道GAE添加索引是需要时间的（详见Micolog的安装及使用），12H内就可以访问了。
