May 31st, 2007 | 
A while back, I had the opportunity to visit the Boulder Center for Sports Medicine, home to Andy Pruitt and his gang of cycling experts. I’ve posted about Andy before and how his books have been very helpful in assisting me in ridding myself of many of the aches and pains that are associated with long [...]
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In my career, I’ve been fortunate enough to have sold a handful of public and private companies that I was running at the time and acquire about a dozen others. Looking back, the activities and process around mergers and acquisitions may have been the most fun I ever had as CEO. Probably even more fun than the [...] This blog was moved to a new, external server at 1&1 last night. While I’ve tried to think through and take care of all the scenarios of broken links, screwed up widgets, bad sitemaps, non-functioning plugins and so forth, I’m sure that I’ve screwed something up. If you notice anything strange, I’d appreciate your [...] Oh, how I love when the market research and resulting SWAGs of reputable people or organizations backup claims I’ve fabricated out of thin air! In this case, it appears that two such organizations – UBS and Ricardo – are projecting that diesels will outsell hybrids (gasoline/electric) in the US by 2012. Their report (download the full UBS report [...] As I write this, I’m traveling between Boston and New York on the Acela Express, Amtrak’s “high-speed” train that runs between Boston and Washington. I’m a huge fan of this service and take it to New York, my current destination, several times each year. It is far superior to driving the route and in [...] It never ceases to amaze me just how far a service provider is willing to bend backwards to save a customer who has made the decision to bag a service, especially given how little effort they put into retaining the customer in the first place. I recently went to the eFax web site to cancel [...] While cleaning out my desk the other day, I ran across this fortune that I found inside a cookie at a Chinese restaurant several years ago. I was shocked when I got it. Perhaps because it wasn’t the normal Confucianist blather or uplifting or inspirational in any way. Or maybe I was surprised because I feared [...] I recently read a story about how Volkswagen is considering NOT bringing the upcoming Scirocco (an updated version of their 80′s hatchback sports coupe) to the US market because it might take market share from their currently offered GTI hatchback. While this may be an excuse masking other reasons for such a decision, if it [...] Jeez, I completely missed this one last week. Apparently, Amazon acquired Dpreview.com on May 14. The DPreview press release is here. For those uninitiated, Dpreview is a one-stop shop for in-depth reviews about photographic equipment. Phil Askey started the site in 1998 as a hobby, but the level of detail in his reviews and his [...] I’ve tried several Bluetooth headsets before, always punting on them because they didn’t connect with the phone well, had crappy battery life or let in too much background noise to have a reasonable conversation. Disappointed with the poor performance of the devices, I bagged them completely and chose to use a wired headset or [...] |
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