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Up-and-out at Microsoft 27 Aug 2013 | 07:36 pm
I experienced the stack-ranking method of subordinate evaluation during my two years at PricewaterhouseCoopers and had very serious reservations about it. Now, in just the past few days, I’ve learned ...
The Peter Pinnacle 25 Aug 2013 | 09:17 pm
Michael Swaine has been around, well, possibly even longer than I have, and has been far more prolific as an author and editor in both the programming and personal computer industries (many will remem...
War and comics 22 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Harvey Kurtzman — to the extent he is remembered — is remembered for his iconic stories and drawing style from EC’s classic (and ultimately banned) horror comics, such as Tales from the Crypt. But, as...
Dell drops keyboardless Windows RT tablet 20 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Over at IT World (via Slashdot) comes the news that Dell has stopped selling its Windows RT tablet without a keyboard (which had been priced at $299) and now only sells a Win RT tablet with a keyboard...
The continuing student loan debacle 19 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Matt Tabbi at Rolling Stone has a (deservedly) scathing article on the growing student loan bubble, something that Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit has been writing about for years. Tabbi takes some chea...
US Navy lets Japanese Imperial Navy know how to reach them: 13 August 1945 18 Aug 2013 | 09:02 am
Today is the anniversary of the surrender of Japan to the United States. As it turns out, my father John Webster — as a 21-year-old US Navy radioman on Guam in August 1945 — was involved in sending th...
Two more obituaries for Windows Surface, RT 16 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
First, John Kirk over at TechPinions uses a great joke to explain why, in his opinion, the Surface is doomed: On a Saturday morning, three boys come down to the kitchen and sit around the breakfast t...
Quote of the day 13 Aug 2013 | 10:12 pm
Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit has an editorial in USA Today, talking about the barriers to making the US government work. As someone who lived in and around Washington DC for several years, his penult...
Things that can’t go on forever, won’t. 5 Aug 2013 | 09:20 pm
George Mellon over at the New York Sun writes: How does an investor react to the news that a propped-up and thus over-priced asset may lose its props? His natural urge is to sell, of course, and that...
Why you should never talk to the police 19 Jul 2013 | 07:42 am
When Sandra first had me listen to the DEA scam voicemail message last night, and before I went online to verify that it was in fact a scam, my immediate response was: we are not calling this person b...
