Challenges of Running an eCommerce Business from Albania
This is the fifth year since my business partner, Gjergj, and I started what has now become the premier online Albanian bookstore – ShtepiaeLibrit.com (Albanian House of Books). Still, we are faced with the ever present challenge of conveying to our local and international customers our reliability and trustworthiness as an Albanian business! In fact, [...]
Taking on a new responsibility!
This month I’ve officially taken on a new online responsibility working as the webmaster for a major newspaper’s website serving news to a growing audience of readers both locally and abroad. The audience numbers for this website are ten times larger than those for the Albanian House of Books (400 thousand/month) but the maintenance and [...]
Traveling: A quick visit to Burrel
My wife and I had anticipated visiting the city of Burrel for several years. However, that day came and went in March, though not as we would have wanted it! Her grandmother’s passing away (which helped raise her for several years during childhood) turned our trip there into a family obligation. Though the timing was [...]
Should Albanians learn Chinese?
During Albania’s budy-budy relations with China, the country’s ruling communist regime was very friendly and open to everything from the Chinese culture and language. Though it was not required in schools, there were those who committed themselves to learning the language, but that phase lasted for about ten years until relations broke in 1967. Today, [...]
Why I think that our political system needs maintenance!
The other day I went to get my car’s electronic system checked by a technician. There were some errors appearing on the dashboard that needed to get fixed. In fact those errors were nothing new to me. The car’s electronic system is such that every so many hundred kilometers it requires you to do a [...]
Welcome to the land of ancient sacrifices!
Ancient traditions and beliefs continue to have a strong hold in many parts of Albania. This picture shows the sacrificing of a lamb on the “Tomorri” Mountain as part of the annual festivities on this sacred mountain for the believers of Bektashi order an Islamic Sufi order (tariqat) founded in the 13th century religion. However, [...]
Youth and drugs in Tirana’s high-schools
High school is either a time period in our lives that we have forgotten because there was not much of value to remember about it or just a vague collection of memories for which there is now diminishing reasons to cherish as just childhood stuff. But then, we tend not to give up all of [...]
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Computer technology: I hope to be around by then!
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Challenges of Running an eCommerce Business from Albania
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Taking on a new responsibility!
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Traveling: A quick visit to Burrel
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Smart phones and battery life
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Problems with My Internet Service Provider Abissnet
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Eda Zari Gives Up Her Albanian Citizenship
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What Is Happening to Albanian Hospitality?
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Introduction of Eagle Mobile Disappointing
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EU to Liberalise Visa Regime for Albania in 2009
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Why I think that our political system needs maintenance!
The other day I went to get my car’s electronic system checked by a technician. There were some errors appearing on the dashboard that needed to get fixed. In fact those errors were nothing new to me. The car’s electronic system is such that every so many hundred kilometers it requires you to do a [...]
