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Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Here’s a Taco Belly-ache for You

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I like an occasional taco. Or two. Mostly ones I make myself, using some doctored up combination of El Paso or Ortega taco-making kits. (Wis...
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Monday, April 05, 2010

The Bullies of South Hadley

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In January, we read the news that Phoebe Prince, a 15 year old girl from South Hadley (Massachusetts) High School, had killed herself in des...
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Friday, April 02, 2010

Product innovation is alive and well in the peep-able kingdom

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Well, it’s Easter this Sunday and while I’m mostly looking forward of it because it’s also Opening Day for the Red Sox (against the Yankees,...
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Thursday, April 01, 2010

PAX vobiscum

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Sure, it’s Holy Week and all, but this title has nothing to do with the holiness of the week. It’s a shout-out to the nerd-o-rama that too...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

It’s only money

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Just about a year ago, a man armed with two Berettas killed 13 people, and wounded another 4, in a Binghamton, NY immigrant aid center befor...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Yes, we have no location for The Banana Club Museum. (We have no location today.)

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Sure, you can read the Wall Street Journal to learn all about WaMu going Chapter 11, who’s going to buy Volvo, and what surprised-to-hear- ...
Monday, March 29, 2010

In the beginning, there was the Filet-o-Fish ad, and it was good

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I was in CVS the other day – looking for Good ‘n Plenty, if you must know – when my eye was grabbed by a bright blue box that held a fish pl...
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Friday, March 26, 2010

Crimes and Misdemeanors, 2010 (Failure to tweet?)

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Because I have much beloved nieces who are 12 and 13, I tend to keep a close eye on what’s in the teen news – especially when it comes to an...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Call center job from hell

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Like every one else with a telephone and an occasional gripe, I’ve called into many a call center. Like every one else with a scintilla of...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

A pearl of not-so-great price

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I'm embarrassed to admit it, but for many years of my life, there was a secret, longing little part of me that wanted to be an impeccabl...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Suppose they gave a prize, and nobody claimed it? Grigori Perelman wins big.

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Not that I'd win it, but, as far as I know, there is no million dollar prize for B2B technology product marketing. No, the million dol...
Monday, March 22, 2010

Who's gonna grab your yacht? Baby, it's the repo man.

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One man's Great Recession is another man's business opportunity. At least this is the case for Ken Cage and Randy Craft (great nam...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

Test-a-roon-y

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OK – On Sunday morning, I awoke to find out that my laptop had decided it was time to head to the glue factory. RIP, my trusty steed. Two ...
Friday, March 19, 2010

Season passes to Jerry Remy's sports bar? Think I'll pass.

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Jerry Remy is a local guy who made as good as it gets in Boston. He played  second base for the Red Sox for a number of years in the way-bac...
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

"The Big Picture" (Can this be right? A business book that's actually entertaining?)

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Occupational hazard - and I do mean hazard - but I end up reading a fair number of business books.  Most of them are, for better or worse, s...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

St. Paddy's Day No More We'll Keep

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As I write this post, it is the Saturday before St. Patrick's Day. It is late in a cold, dreary, rainy afternoon - not unlike a typica...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Don't let the bedbugs bite. (Arf.)

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Well, there are dogged workers, and then there are dogged workers. And it's truly dogged workers that are walking the bedbug beat in N...
Monday, March 15, 2010

Day-O, Day-ay-ay-O. Daylight come, and I want to go out.

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This has been a particular winter of discontent. We may have gotten less snow than normal, and may not have had as much ice and bitterly b...