Month: September 2008
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Follow the Leader
Bloomberg: Citigroup Agrees to Buy Wachovia’s Banking Business In my role of exploring new technologies, directions and strategies, we are often asked to investigate what others are doing: what are the “Leaders” doing? Wachovia was one of…
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I want your money
In an article with the above title, The Economist says we should support the pending bail out of the US Financial System. Two reasons: it could work, and if so it would prevent a “financial…
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A Musical Road Map for New Employees
Road Maps are a helpful aid in charting a course, whether it be the route from point A to point B or the deployment of a new technology. A friend sent me the attached for…
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The Feature Trap
With Photokina in flight visions of cameras, lenses and tripods dance through my head. So many new features: more pixels, bigger sensors, faster lenses, face recognition, video, higher ISO, faster processors. But which ones really…
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An e-mail from Mr. Paulson
Sent to me by a friend, The Nation reprints a Nigerian-scam homage joke making the rounds of inboxes around the nation that reads: “I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship…