Badger Thoughts

If you’re in the US, you’ve probably noticed that all the trappings of the winter solstice celebration season have been in stores for several weeks, even predating the actual festivities related to the evening normally reserved for remembrance of the dead (and give adults an excuse to act like adolescents). However, several events over the [...]

A random eulogy to Steve Jobs I’ve never met Steve Jobs nor am I important enough for anyone in the media to seek a quote from on his passing. But I have as long of a history as anyone with Apple products.  My first computer was an Apple II followed by the IIe, the IIc, [...]

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. — Voltaire (1694 – 1778), Dialogue, XIV, “Le Chapon et la Poularde” (1766) Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. — George Eliot (1819 – 1880) The other day, I wrote [...]

Last week, Google’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, spent a day in Washington subjecting himself to a little Senatorial inquiry into the way it does business, and as Stacy Higginbotham so adeptly noted on GigaOm, Congress doesn’t get Google, and Google doesn’t get Congress. At this point, though, it’s not easy to tell which will have a [...]

The other day we came across a really interesting blog post written by Rob Conery of TekPub about start-ups, and how most of them get pretty feisty when it comes to talking about their competitors. For a long time, Experts Exchange didn’t have any to speak of, if only because some of the errors EE [...]