The Pepper Ball Log
One of the joys of having a personal web site is the feedback received from people around the world. Through the years — since 1994 — this has been a source of much learning for me. Once in a while I receive a flame or barb of criticism or crazy question but for the most […]
Oxinium
Like most people, I had never heard of Oxinium. I vaguely remember the Table of Elements from high school chemistry. Near the middle of the chart is Zirconium, a chemical element with the symbol Zr and atomic number 40. Zirconium is a lustrous, gray-white metal that has no known biological role but due to significant […]
Open, Please – Epilogue
This epilogue to the “Open, Please!” blog posting is based on feedback from a Canadian reader who agrees that overly aggressive marketers intrude on our private lives, but feels there is a “rub”. He says that if you “filter” your email or snail mail without actually opening it, you will occasionally miss something very important. […]
Open, Please!
As more and more things move to email and the web, financial services companies are showing signs of advertising frustration. Since their email gets blocked by our spam filters or we just hit the delete key, they continue to rely on paper mailings. Solicitations to take out a loan, get an investment advisor, set up […]
IBM Happenings: September 2008
The month of September was a month, as usual for IBM, filled with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. The list of announcements made during the month is below and the complete index of IBM Happenings (by year and month) is here. Included was the revelation that IBM scientists […]