Month: September 2006

  • A message for [email protected]

    Dear Mr. or Ms. Someone-who-knows-better, I owe you an apology. I didn't approve your comment of August 27th in reply to my post of July 21 until today because it ended up in the spam bucket (imagine that!) and I didn't see it until today. Sorry about that. It's my policy to allow all comments…

  • That feeling of self-satisfaction

    Today, I learned a lot about complacency . Not mine (though I'll bet I'm guilty more than just occasionally). This time, it's the complacency of someone else, which makes it a lot easier to see. In the business world, that "I've got it covered, don't worry" attitude sometimes goes along with being in an established…

  • Grammar Girl gets me going

    I found this astonishing podcast the other day, and I have to tell you, it's may be the best podcast I've heard in a long time. Right, you say….a podcast on English grammar? I run three miles every morning. Because I am not a natural athlete and at 6am my body is…shall we say…reluctant, my…

  • Please…is there something I can take for this problem?

    I take a lot of guff from people about my obsession with cars. In particular, I am currently getting no pity — none — for lusting after a new car. Not this one (it's a coupe)…but the one rumored to follow later in '07: a 335i sedan.  I gotta have one in this color. Why?…

  • Weg, du verdammter Fleken; weg, sag ich!

    Like Lady Macbeth, Germany once again is trying — mechanistically, naturally — to deal with its criminal past. This time it turns out that a famous author signed up for the Waffen-SS. And just like it ever was, Germany’s celebrated Günter Grass turns out to have the same damn’d spot Lady Macbeth tried hard to,…