Monthly Archives: February 2009

Hiding in a Very Dark Place!

I chuckled when I read this article in today’s New York Times about how both attendance and revenues at movie theaters have spiked upward so far this year. Americans, for the moment, just want to hide in a very dark … Continue reading

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Listening to Our Hunches – and Acting on Them

Titled “The Crisis The Gurus Punted“, David Ignatius’ column for tomorrow’s Washington Post begins: The big mistakes we make in life aren’t the ones that sneak up on us, but those we make with our eyes wide open. He goes … Continue reading

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The Obama Budget

Looking for some weekend reading? Try the newly proposed Obama budget – titled “A New Era of Responsbility‘. The time has come to usher in a new era – a new era of responsibility in which we act not only … Continue reading

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A Late February Friday

I took a day off today for some R&R with my new Canon 5D Mark II camera. I headed up to San Francisco, spent some time in Golden Gate Park (Stow Lake), crossed the Golden Gate Bridge, and headed up … Continue reading

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Shoes

Walking back from lunch today, I came across this collection of shoes at the Menlo Park Caltrain station. A commentary on the times?

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and the Audacity of Hope

Sometime back in the mid-1970′s, I attended the 10-week class at IBM’s Systems Research Institute in New York City. SRI was a special treat – an opportunity to step away from the day job and immerse yourself in a bunch … Continue reading

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Confused: Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed

Frankly, I’m a bit confused. Confused between Facebook, FriendFeed, and Twitter – and my status updates. At the moment, I’ve got FriendFeed posting updates to my Twitter account – but I have left Facebook out of that loop. I had … Continue reading

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Creating an iPhone-friendly Home Page for a TypePad Blog

Over on our Payments News blog, I’ve created an iPhone (and iPod touch) friendly version of our home page. The URL to view the iPhone version is http://paymentsnews.com/m. Here’s more about how I did it. Basically, the process involved building … Continue reading

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The Last Ace and the Amazing F-15

One of my favorite writers, Mark Bowden, has a new article titled “The Last Ace” in this month’s Atlantic. One section of the article is devoted to the McDonnell Douglas F-15 – an amazing airplane. I remember the first time … Continue reading

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Starting a New Blog Using WordPress – PaymentsViews.com

At Glenbrook, we’ve started a new blog called Payments Views. It’s intended to be a complement to our main Payments News blog that covers the news of the day in payments every business day. Instead, Payments Views will be a … Continue reading

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