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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

A Complete Lifetime Supply

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When I need, or just plain want, office supplies, there are a couple of Staples within walking distance. So when I needed a box of staples, ...
Sunday, October 29, 2006

Jobs of the Past

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I am currently reading – and greatly enjoying – a book called Sweet and Low , which I will blog on later this week, once I’ve had the chance...
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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Moneyball Redux

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A few weeks ago, after the Tigers took down the Yankees, I wrote about the fortunes of the best endowed MLB teams during the 2006 . We now k...
Friday, October 27, 2006

Alas, Ford Taurus...

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I'm not much of a "car person" to begin with. I've only owned three of them in my life, each purchased only because I need...
Thursday, October 26, 2006

RIT Large: Dying for Good Color

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Having worked for so many high tech businesses that are out of existence, I'm always curious about some product or other from my childho...
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Animal Compassionate

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Yesterday morning, while negotiating the treacherous merge from the Mass Pike onto 128, I heard a mention of Whole Food's Animal Compass...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006

No Period at the End of the Skilling Sentence

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Like many people who've been observing the Enron follies without having any personal involvement - we're not employees, shareholders...
Monday, October 23, 2006

Risky Business

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I just heard the news that there has been yet another coal mining accident , this time in Pennsylvania, this time taking one miner's lif...
Sunday, October 22, 2006

Old Money Wanted

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Yesterday, I passed a shop with a sign that read "Old Money Wanted." My first thought was, who wouldn't want old money? The sh...
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Saturday, October 21, 2006

Lawn Flamingos Fly Into the Sunset

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“Birthplace of the flamingo will go the way of the dodo,” was the headline in the Boston Globe. The end to lawn flamingos? Say it isn’t so....
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Friday, October 20, 2006

Badmouthin' the Boss

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One of the great pleasures of the workplace is grousing about the boss, and who among us hasn't availed ourselves of that great pleasure...
Thursday, October 19, 2006

Why Me? (Got the Pink Slip Blues?)

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Lots of lay-off news in the news lately. EMC, waking up with a post-acquisition hangover, is trimming 1250 employees. The cuts coming up ove...
Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Turkey Shoot – Jack Welch on Underperforming Employees

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Chairman Jack, or ex-Chairman Jack, is lecturing at my alma mater, and his class, C onversations with Jack Welch , has gotten a fair amount ...
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Friday, October 13, 2006

Courts to WalMart: You Gotta Start Giving Employees a Break

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Good news on the "Solidarity, Forever" front. Yet another state court has ruled against WalMart in a class-action suit over the co...
Thursday, October 12, 2006

How Deep the Options Scandal

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It appears that even more corporate heads are rolling in the ongoing options scandal. Bloomberg's reporting that CNET and McAfee have be...
Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Irrepressible, that's what you are

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At today's Gartner ITxpo, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer was quoted * as saying that MSFT is "irrepressible." On the subject of...
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

You, Tube, Can Become a Billionaire!

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I know it's only money (errrrr, stock), but $1.65B for Google to grab YouTube? This is clearly a case of "money is no object" ...
Monday, October 09, 2006

Lap of Luxury: Gramercy Park Hotel

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Yesterday's Boston Globe's travel section profiled the Gramercy Park Hotel , which has turned into an ultra-swank, ultra-hip, ultra-...
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Moneyball: Do You Get What You Pay For

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OK, it doesn't exactly cover Red Sox Nation with glory for yet another member to state just how gratifying it was to see the Yankees go ...
Saturday, October 07, 2006

No Way to Shop!

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Every time I walk past Filene’s, I get a bit depressed. It’s been semi-closed for months now, part of Macy’s strategy to buy up every regio...
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