Archive for June, 2008

On our way home from eBay Live! 2008 in Chicago we walked by an airport book store that displayed Jeffrey Gitomer’s book Sales Bible. The copies had stickers announcing that the book had the author’s autograph (see picture below). My wife concluded that Gitomer had autographed the books on his way to or from eBay [...]

When I surfed the United States Census Bureau’s website earlier today I was asked to fill out a survey. It had thirty-seven questions, including “how much do you think we can trust the government in Washington to do what is right?” and “Please rate the amount of information displayed on each page of the site.”
I’d [...]

Last year then-Boston Globe columnist (now Bloomberg editor) Steve Bailey wrote a piece on the Feds’ dismantling of local non-profit The Environmental Careers Organization. Today the organization’s web site domain name - eco.org - sold for $48,002 in an online auction. The name is valuable because it is short, and perhaps also because it still [...]

Tom Casale, writer for Patriots Football Weekly, announced yesterday that he’s ditching Massachusetts for a gambling-related job in Las Vegas. Now, Casale is neither a native New Englander (or even a fan of the New England Patriots) nor one of those highly skilled workers the state is hurting for (I think he has a liberal [...]