I spent the day doing nothing. (Oh, I’m sorry – maybe that should have been a tweet?) I’m feeling these days that blogs are as dead as Flash, but recently I saw a tweet heralding the decline of Twitter. All things must pass, I guess. But in the throes of my nothing-doing today, I spent [...]
When I was growing up, I often heard the maxim that “nobody can forget where they were when they learned that JFK had been shot.” I was on Twitter when I learned that Michael Jackson had passed. Not quite sure, but I think I was at work in Cambridge. When you’re in Twitterspace, do your [...]
Dear Frank, I’m hitting another milestone year. On my next birthday, I will have officially lived longer than you did. My first one of these milestone years was when I turned 38, and I realized that I had lived as long as my dad had until he was killed in a motorcycle accident in Manhattan. [...]
I was devastated to learn this week that my pal, colleague, confidante and mentor Laurel Bowman passed away. Wait a minute – weren’t we supposed to grow old together and sit around the Old Ad Folks Home and talk about how kids know nothing anymore and how it was back in the day? Weren’t we [...]
Think back to ancient history – like before Al Gore invented the Internet. I don’t recall ever hearing the top story of the hour being “American Stock Exchange futures are down, due to heavy losses in Asian and European markets”. I reckon that we can now know this because we can all see stock performance [...]
I’m thinking hard about a site redesign for my minimalist, boring link page casually known as sendai77.com. The problem is me of course: i’m the client, the writer, the designer, the technical consultant, the developer, and the cobbler. More about me: I’m a busy consultant for IBM. I use the word “consultant” loosely: in the [...]