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Monday, February 07, 2011

I Is The AGNES

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About ten years ago, I went to some tech entrepreneurship something-or-other  - don’t remember quite what, but I believe it was held in the ...
Friday, February 04, 2011

The latest inductees into the Toy Hall of Fame (alas, no ant farm…)

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What with the lamented passing of Uncle Milton of ant farm renown, posted about just yesterday, I got to thinking that somehow I had missed ...
Thursday, February 03, 2011

RIP, Uncle Milton. The ant farm lives on.

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Even before the execrable comedian Milton Berle dubbed himself “Uncle Miltie”, there was a kinder, gentler, and probably funnier Uncle Milto...
Wednesday, February 02, 2011

The Dental Spa

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I fear rats. And (most) snakes. Heights – I’m definitely afraid of heights. Except when I’m in an airplane, when mile-high-ness doesn’t both...
Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Corporate Super Bowl spending’s back. (I’m relieved, are you?)

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I didn’t log much career time in the sorts of companies that spent big bucks on lavish customer entertainment. Genuity, which was on its s...
Monday, January 31, 2011

Hand me my smelling salts. On second thought…

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When I was in grammar school, one of the high points of any school day was the distribution of a recently mimeographed quiz, Christmas pagea...
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Friday, January 28, 2011

The Uninvited: snubbed by Davos, yet again

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The World Economic Forum – or, as those of us in the know refer to it, Davos; or, as I sometimes think of it as, the Big Kloster – is on th...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Protect your interests: start registering all those nasty domain names

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This is apparently yesterday’s news – or at least last month’s – but I just came across a PC World article that picked up on Bank of Americ...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Ay, cholita

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We all know that, in real life, no one looks like a super-model. That is, other than the super models themselves (and young girls who think ...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Funeral Advantage. (What’s in a name?)

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Product naming sounds like it should be fun, doesn’t it? After all, it’s creative – and creative’s fun! And, after all, it’s not brain-hard ...
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Seven brides for seven brothers? No problem if you’ve got the cash.

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Over the years, I’ve worked with a number of Indian men who were in arranged marriages. But I never knew anyone who’d married a mail order...
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Friday, January 21, 2011

Butling: yet another career in demand

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Why waste your time trying to develop valuable technical skills at ITT Tech? Why bother with an online MBA from the University of Phoenix? D...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

“Residue, residue, residue”: bad foreclosed house vibes be gone…

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There’s probably not a lot going on for the professional witches of Salem, Massachusetts, once Halloween’s over. Sure, a lot of them still...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

It may not be in the Comic Book Code, but…

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I just love a good say-something-stupid-on-the-web stupidity story and this one, as they say, is a capital L-U-L-U lulu. With a couple of Pi...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Nevergreen: more mfg. jobs exit the Bay State

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In terms of weathering The Great Recession, Massachusetts has been more fortunate than many other states. We were spared, of course, by havi...
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Monday, January 17, 2011

“There she is, lighter than air she is…”

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I saw in the news the other day that the Miss America contest was held over the weekend, apparently when I was watching football. It was h...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

See amid the winter snow. (All those recycled Yellow Pages….)

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I have a long and glorious history of complaining about the annual attack of the Yellow Pages, White Pages, Yellow Books.  Here I am on my o...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Snow Day

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When I was a child, there were no words sweeter than those uttered by the radio voice on WTAG or WNEB, informing the eager kiddies of Worces...
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