A lively discussion has been taking place among commenters on Robert Reich's blog. We are fortunate to have there an international array of people who are in a position to do some comparative analyses among different countries. In particular we are fortunate to have Frank Thomas, an American exp...

I’m about to make a horribly shameful admission here on my website. Yes folks, I… watch… Oxygen’s… “Bad Girls Club.” Ah, it feels good to get that off my chest. Sure, I have probably killed off more brain cells in each hour I watch this show than in all eigh...

Big event of the weekend, the first Winter Movies on the Wall series starts with “The Mummy,” 7 pm Saturday night - then hours later, spring forward - set your clock one hour ahead at 2 am Saturday night/Sunday morning. But you’ll never miss that hour of sleep, just too much to do:...

It’s not as easy as it seems sometimes. My R44, parked on the side lawn at the Lake Pateros Inn in Washington State. Sadly, heat from my engine browned the grass. One of the benefits of operating a helicopter is that you can land it almost anywhere. One of the drawbacks of this, however, is th...

Chapter One SNOW!! It started Saturday afternoon and continued throughout the night. We got about six inches at our house. It was awesome! And so beautiful! I wish I had photos to show you, but my camera's not charged. Well...there is THIS: The National Weather Service reported that southwest Tennes...

Charles Erwin Wilson, a GM exec who eventually became Eisenhower’s Secretary of Defense, once told Congress “I thought what was good for the country good for General Motors and vice versa” (this is the source of the famous “What’s good for General Motors is good for the...

In spirit of the recent women2follow OR womentofollow (and also because today is followfriday) I give you "101 english tweeting Women to follow from Europe". :) Would you like to be listed as well? Only requirement is that you live in Europe, tweet 98% in english and don't have a protected profile. ...

Two dreadful, tunnel-vision articles in the New York Times suggest the “paper of record” must rethink how it covers the most important issue of our time. Yes, the NYT has the biggest climate team, but their reporting by stovepipe (rather than by team), renders that staff largely useless....

This is the fourth and final (phew!) episode in a four-part series: Episode I - Q408 in-depth analysis - available here with Q+A covered in an addendum (IA) (link) Episode II - Introducing the ChannelAdvisor Ecommerce Framework (CEF) (link) Episode III - eBay, Amazon an...

The day after national fencing competitions, we used to wake with a start at 2pm on Sunday, after a night out at the local with the other uni teams and a long dangerous early morning drive back to campus bumping along unlit backroads in the Hungarian's Hungarian "it brought me to England from Hungar...