Month September 2008

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 those Banks that we followed…

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 collapse and a deep recession…

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 those who have just started…

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 matter? But this onslaught of…

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 with a transfer of funds…