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Sunday, September 30, 2007

Look what they've done to my song, Ma.

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Look what they've done to my brain, ma Look what they've done to my brain Well they picked it like a chicken bone And I think I'...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007

Day 1068.

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Since Malcolm Gladwell published The Tipping Point, I have gone one-thousand sixty-eight days without using that term.
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$190,000,000,000.

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That figure above is the one-hundred-and-ninety billion dollars that defense secretary Gates has said we need to continue fighting in Iraq. ...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Another new word.

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This one I didn't make up. It was revealed to me by the ex-boss I referred to in my previous post. Apparently someone showed him storybo...

I've just created a new word.

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When something is stupid or utterly foolish, you can call it asinine. But what about when something is beyond stupid and beyond utterly fool...

I hate them both.

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The president of Iran, who got his PhD. in traffic management, spoke on Monday at my almer mata, Columbia University. And yesterday the pres...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Ad Aged for sale.

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Microsoft bought an agency recently. Google and Yahoo! are rumored to be buying whole networks, so I guess it should come as no surprise tha...
Monday, September 24, 2007

Mission statements and dumbness.

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The New York Times had a good article in it's business section yesterday on the ubiquity of mission statements and how they are infected...
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Sunday, September 23, 2007

The Siberian Dilemma.

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"The fishermen of northernmost Russia go out onto the frozen lakes of Siberia in temperatures at times approaching 60 degrees below zer...
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Friday, September 21, 2007

Is "blogging" new?

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Yes and no. Posting things online for the world to read is new, ie. the delivery system is new, but as a form, blogs are really "feuill...
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