Category Archives for General musings
Stuff your mother wouldn’t allow you to categorize
Steal not this unreadable blog
I’ve written here before about the almost religious feelings I have about WordPress (here and here)…and about the amazing community it has spawned. It was a big disappointment for me that I wasn’t able to attend WordCamp last month. As … Continue reading
reCAPTCHA isn’t Boston-ese for being repeatedly tagged for speeding on the Pike
Though I am not a native Bostonian, I have some experience with authentic Boston accents. My lovely wife can occasionally be unintelligible (“Alex, have you seen the sizzzahs?”). To wile away traffic-jam time, I sit in the car and mimic … Continue reading
AT&T teaches Apple a lesson about control
While everyone else was drooling over the iPhone, I knew to stay away. I suspected a consumer disaster of epic proportions when Apple, rightly famous for its brilliant products and exquisite marketing, collided in the marketplace with AT&T, one of … Continue reading
With Alli, my lunch is in my pants
(Photo courtesy of J. Star, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) OK, so I know that what you blog about is a more-or-less semi-permanent record of you. Plus, I have clients who read this blog. And I might be just a … Continue reading
Why the Red Sox are in first place
Unlike many members of Red Sox Nation, I don’t wear it on my sleeve. But my infatuation with the Olde Town Team goes back to my days as a BU student living in Kenmore Square, watching the ’75 World Series … Continue reading
Pharmas’ snake-oil marketing to voodoo doctors
If the title doesn’t make it clear that I’m upset, let me start by saying that an article I’ve just read on nytimes.com (registration required) has me neck-vein-throbbing apoplectic. (It’s my blog, and I’ll use 50¢ words if I want … Continue reading
‘Cause Google’s the taxman
Mid-April! So metaphor rich: the Boston Marathon…tax season in the US…EMI and Apple Corps have settled their disputes. What’s a blogger to do with all this? Easy: cram it all into a rant about Google. You will advertise your product … Continue reading
Brevity, baby.
To the surprising large number of people who’ve emailed, called, IM’ed and otherwise let me know that you’re wondering why I haven’t posted lately, I offer as a short interlude this post with its “a picture tells a 1000 words” … Continue reading
After being a yuppie…I got a BMW and an HDTV
Just when you think you’ve outgrown all sense of fashion, peer pressure and have resigned yourself to your own middle-aged individuality, along comes a jolting reminder than your cohort’s tastes may change, but the pressure to conform doesn’t. I was … Continue reading
Major league antitussive
A cold that I brought back from Europe resulted this week in a cough nasty enough to remind me of the incessant hacking, phlegm-ing and general mucous-ness of a smoker I once had the misfortune to sit across from. Yech. … Continue reading
