The New York Times Magazine has published their Second Annual Year in Ideas. It includes interesting revelations such as the fact that photographic proof is now available that Geri Halliwell has had need of a plunger lately. Also, enterprising criminals are apparently able to train themselves to fool polygraph machines by taking Valium and performing [...]
Beware of drunk elephants! Drunken elephants kill six people in northeastern India.
It’s official. United files for Chapter 11. And to think, just a couple of years ago, I actually ran into two other consultants on an early Monday morning flight from Chicago to New York on United. We worked for three different consulting companies and yet we all ended up on the same United flight bound [...]
IBM has agreed to acquire Rational Software. Here’s the official press release. I don’t know if this is good news or not. Rational Software makes some of the worst software I have ever seen. This is pretty ironic for a company that claims to help people write better software. Anyone who has used any Rational [...]
Chicago based United Airlines is in dire straits now. Bankruptcy may be all but imminent now. However, United’s CEO remains optimistic about the company’s future. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what transpires…
I’ve finally updated the links page. Have at it–or not…
Quote of the moment:
“The letters pages of magazines are often good places to preview the great bad ideas of tomorrow…”
–Jonathan Rauch from his article in this month’s The Atlantic Monthly titled The Fat Tax.
