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How not to manage fat people on planes

I can’t believe we continually bump up against emminently-solvable problems, most often because people are simply pig-headed. Here is another great example. Overweight people being ejected from plane flights because, in the judgement of some individual, they are “too fat to fly”. Please. This is yet another example of how we hopelessly overcomplicate simple problems. [...]

CES distractions

I’ve been busy the past week attending the Consumer Electronics Show [CES] in Las Vegas, NV. Each year many of the world’s luckiest [or unluckiest, if you ask their feet] technologists, managers, and entrepreneurs get to attend CES, the world’s largest consumer electronics trade show. For the past several years this show has been held [...]

New themes are live!

After a flurry of WordPress magic, we now have an integrated look and feel for both The Book site as well as The Blog site! My thanks to Joel D. Canfield of Spinhead design for his invaluable help. Note the complete re-do of the site is not finished, but it does incorporate the new Celestial [...]

New blog, book site themes coming soon

A few of you [OK...who am I kidding, more than a few of you] have commented on the .. uh.. “sparseness” of my book website and of the “sameness” of my blog web site. Truth is, I’ve been concentrating on content first, and have been planning on revamping the containers later. But fear not; plans [...]

Publishing is a whole new ballgame – Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of my two-part series on how book publishing is changing in ways that are revolutionizing how information and art is being made available to all people. It really is a new ballgame. In Part 1, I talked about the process of using a traditional publisher to get your book published. I [...]