Archive for September, 2010

Squirrels are pretty cute little animals when they hop around in your back yard or chase each other up and down trees. They are real pests, however, when they make their way into your house. Squirrels are furry little rodents who seem compelled to chew on anything made of wood and they can cause substantial [...]

Really, she did. It happened when I was in middle school, maybe 8th grade, probably 9th grade. It took place in Stockholm, in a building somehow affiliated with the Catholic Church (or so I was told). It was all a little bit hazy to me and I’m a Lutheran so I can’t say I particularly [...]

The United States Census Bureau released its annual report on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States for 2009 last week. As expected, income and health care insurance coverage were down compared to 2008 while the poverty rate increased in 2009 compared to the previous year. That’s not particularly starnge since the [...]

When New England Patriots traded runningback and 2006 first round draft pick Laurence Maroney to the Denver Broncos on September 14 it marked the end of a spectaluarly failed era of drafting for the team. The 2006 through 2008 drafts produced only three notable players for the Patriots: Kicker Stephen Gostkowski, starting inside linebacker Jerod [...]

It’s been talked about for a while in media circles and with today’s Boston Globe article it has become official common knowledge: The mere year-old sports station 98.5 The Sports Hub (WBZ-FM) is beating WEEI 850 AM in the ratings for key the demographics for sports radio (men 25-54). According to the article, The Sports [...]

New England Patriots clobbered visiting Cincinnati Bengals 38-24 at Gillette Stadium in the teams’ first regular season game of 2010. Patriots scored three touchdowns on offense one on defense and one on special teams. Quarterback Tom Brady threw two two touchdown passes to wide receiver Wes Wwelker in the first half and one to tight [...]

We used Groupon to snag some cheap tickets to Boston College v. Kent State Golden Flashes* at Alumni Stadium. It was a close game in the first half with Boston College up 6-3 at half time but the BC Eagles opened it up in the third quarter, starting with a 23-yard toss from quarterback Dave [...]

Google launched its Instant search on Wednesday, September 8, 2010, and it will likely prove to be one of the major wathershed events in the history of Google search. Instant uses the keyword suggestion drop-down list to populate the search engine result page (SERP) even befor ethe user has submitted the search query by clicking [...]

Yesterday we had breakfast at Nashoba Brook Bakery in Concord on our way to Honey Pot Hill apple orchards in Stow. I tried the baked French toast, which my wife refers to as the baked French banana toast. It’s OK, but not on par with the very good loaves of bread the bakery churns out.

The end of management is nigh proclaims Alan Murray in an article in the Wall Street Journal on August 21, 2010. Murray sees two main reasons for why managed corporate bureaucracies have or soon will reach the end of their road. The first is that bureaucratic corporations can’t keep up with the whirlwind of change [...]