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The last three years haven’t been kind to retailers and every seasonal cycle has brought along the hope that it will mark the turnaround, only to have that hope dashed every time. But at least the Thanksgiging to Christmas holiday shopping period will add mightily to top and bottom line for retailers who are going [...]

Today Cisco announced the launch of the company’s new wireless router targeting consumers, the Valet M10 and its more high-powered version Valet Plus M20. Valet is designed to make the installation of home wireless networks easy and painless. Most household shun networks because they are perceived as difficult to set up and configure and retailers [...]

New England Patriots 2009 Regular Season Record: 10-6.Play-off record: 0-1. Lost 33-14 at home to Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Wild Card round. New England Patriots 2009 Regular Season Schedule 9/14 vs Buffalo Bills 25-24 9/20 @ New York Jets 9-16 9/27 vs Atlanta Falcons 26-10 10/4 vs Baltimore Ravens 27-21 10/11 @ Denver Broncos [...]

As you may have noticed I have made a few changes to the site over the last couple of days. There are two primary reasons for the changes: To reduce bandwidth consumption and to make it easier for the search engines to point users to the content they’re looking for. Most of my traffic comes [...]

Here’s the logo for some artsy event in Sweden: It must be sending subliminal messages because I feel like having a large cup of coffee. Delish!

Boston Red Sox fans are an obnoxious bunch. Their team having the second highest payroll in Major League Baseball isn’t enough of an advantage for them, they want guaranteed championships. Red Sox Nation? More like Red Sox Welfare State.

2007 was a pretty good year. Not as good perhaps as the magical 1999 when money, fun and excitement were everywhere, but still pretty good. It was certainly better than all the years between 1999 and 2007. Best of all was the turnaround in Iraq and the resulting drop in U.S. casualties thanks to the [...]

According to sources of probably ill repute a woman has to speak 6,000 words a day and she basically won’t stop talking until she’s filled that quota. In other words, ladies, when your married friends call, PICK UP THE PHONE!

I’ve added some updates and additional observations and links to my New England Patriots at Dallas Cowboys post. I’m terribly unhappy with how that post came out. My next post will have better structure and hopefully be less rambling. I’m thinking about doing a short podcast for readers who have minutes of commuting to kill. [...]

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick grew up at the U.S. Naval Academy, where his father was an assistant coach and scout for decades. Now, if Belichick were to run some kind of spy program, which he should and hopefully does, don’t you think he’d be more likely to model it after GRU, KGB, [...]