Archive for January, 2006

Sprawl Around Downtown…

Wednesday, 25 January 2006

// START SHAMELESS PROMOTION Come one and all to UMES’ upcoming social, The Big One: Urban Sprawl, on Saturday night (Jan. 28). We’re turning the WAG into an urban wonderland, complete with a good and bad side of the tracks. Feeling upscale? Stay on the good side of the tracks with the Posh Café and [...]

Persuadatron says…

Monday, 16 January 2006

Lenovo, the new makers of the “IBM” Thinkpad, are toying with the idea of changing the Thinkpad’s classic black to a titanium finish. And they want your opinion, so let them know which side you’re on (hint — choose black). Perhaps best about the whole marketing gimmick is the Persuadatron. The best choice is the CEO [...]

Reflections from a hotel hallway

Friday, 6 January 2006

As I sit here writing this in the hallway of Windsor’s Radisson Riverfront hotel at 3am EST, with Britney Spears’ Oops!…I Did It Again playing very very quietly as muzak on the hotel’s PA system, Bernard Dione wandered out of his room to see what I was up to and remark on what a nice [...]