While almost on vacation, I’ve been reading "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson. Here’s the summary: From primordial nothingness to this very moment, A Short History of Nearly Everything reports what happened and how humans figured…
A Bag Called Sandra… A tale of free parking, vomit and sucky travel adventures…
Traveling is always a mixed bag. I recently flew from Washington DC to London on United. More about that in a moment. The drive to DC was easy enough. It’s about the same distance as Phoenix to Vegas, which was…
More Amazon Sadness…
I love Amazon Web Services. I do. They are beyond cool in concept. I also like Amazon as a shopping experience. But as I mentioned before, I thought the Amazon Startup Challenge was a crock. And by "crock" I mean…
Warning!
Posting may be light over the next couple of weeks as I’ll be traveling for the holidays and possibly even taking some time off…
You can tell you’re a monopoly when…
Had lots of time to think in the recent darkness… And it occurred to me that there is a simple test of whether you are at the mercy of an unfair monopoly: Are the behaviors of the customer and the…
Another Day in the Life…
Straight from the "that was fun" archive… The last week and a half has been hell. But for once, it had little to do with browser bugs. My daughter came home will a low-grade fever last week, which turned into…