Category Archives: diversion

How to handle a political scandal [Updated]

[Updated on 11.13.2012 - While I would like to delete this post and pretend it never happened, I'll confess: Everything you read from here on is wrong. I showed extremely poor judgment and  wishful thinking on my part to think that … Continue reading

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I have a moustache, it’s Movember, and I approve this message

With all the news focused on disaster relief and tomorrow’s presidential election, I thought I’d take a moment and mention moustaches. As the world is beginning to notice, moustaches are not merely relics of the 1970s or the top-half of … Continue reading

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The Perfect Panic Pusher Storm

Man, did I get this 2012 prediction wrong back at the beginning of the year: “People will start growing tired of being panic junkies, so they’ll do one or both of two things: 1. Stop listening to panic-pushers. 2. Seek … Continue reading

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My review of The Catbird Seat (and why it took me a year to write)

This blog post took almost a year to write. It started when my blogger friend Joe Stirt, the Charlottesville, Va., anesthesiologist who maintains the cool-tracking website BookofJoe.com, the website I described eight years ago as the blog I would take to a desert … Continue reading

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After a tweak in its UI, Acqhire (or, Acquihire) seems to be hockey sticking

[Latest in the accidentally continuing series on "the journey of the buzzword, acqhire (and its variant spellings)"] The 12 readers of this blog have followed the journey of  the little buzzword, acqhire, first coined here in 2005, as recounted by … Continue reading

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