I didn’t want to write this post. Blog posts are supposed to be succinct. Short and sweet. To the point. Disregarding the fact that this is intensely difficult for me (why I’d rather write books), some topics simply don’t lend themselves to a mere 600 words or less missive. This is one of them. Self-publishing [...]
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As most of you know, Kodak has been in the news lately. And not in a good way. Check out this article just put up on the web entitled The Rise and Fall of Eastman Kodak. I spent much of my professional career working at Kodak. 27 years to be exact. I learned a lot [...]
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OK…another one I just HAD to write… Today’s news is filled with articles about how the US Post Office is warning Congress that it will default if they don’t do something very soon. There are so many things wrong with that statement I don’t know where to start. The US Post Office is a shining [...]
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So everybody is looking to find out who “stole” the new iPhone prototype from a bar last week. Here is the latest. Turns out, the “thief” is a 20-something kid who found the prototype for the new 4G iPhone in a bar, realized what it was, knew it was valuable, and thought he’d make a [...]
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I thought I’d recall for you my recent experiences with Netflix. I really love this service, but in the past few months I’ve been concerned about the quality of service delivery I’m getting. Specifically, I routinely get DVDs which are unplayable. I would estimate that, on average, one out of every five DVDs I get [...]
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