Looping: When the Christian Science Monitor ran the 2004-version of the hackneyed “product placement goes to print” story, it wasn’t news. Today, when they recycle yet again the 2005-version of the hackneyed “product placement goes to print” story, it still isn’t news. In 2006, it won’t be either.

By the way, when are the folks at the Monitor going to drop the brand name of a that religious denomination from their name as it appears to be a product placement to some observers?

Travel day: Despite my unsuccessful attempts to label all trips “unnecessary” and therefore follow presidential suggestions to cut back on travel, I am once more in the air. Which reminds me, a while back, I made an obscure reference to a small item in the September issue of Business 2.0 magazine and said something like, “it is about how I pack my underwear.” It actually is a small (brief?) item about how I pack using this Eagle Creek stuff and if you’re a subscriber, you can read it here. However, the article does not actually say anything about my underwear.