Monthly Archives: November 2008

Easy Peezy

Creamy center = sketch of business plan

We used to have a running joke within my group which surfaced every time more demands were placed on us.  “It’s the Internet,” we’d say, “how hard can it be?”  As companies have found out with increasing frequency of late, it can be quite hard indeed. Continue reading

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Simplify

Reproduction of Thoreau's hut

When I was in college, I concentrated in American Literature as the focus of my English major.  One of my favorite authors was and is Henry David Thoreau.  I got to thinking about one of his quotes this morning and I think it’s one that is as meaningful as when Walden was written over 150 years ago (1854!). Continue reading

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The Beginning

The critic Anatole Broyard once opined that

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

Today is one of those days that isn’t. – Please keep reading >

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