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“That’s not going to change”
While driving to Reading, Pennsylvania, earlier this week to visit Maestro Sidney Rothstein for a conducting lesson (more on Beethoven’s Prometheus Overture later), I tuned in to Bloomberg radio. The...
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Vision
I felt compelled to reflect back on a posting I wrote in March 2006 about trading on Wall Street. With the wild swings in the market experienced last week, one of the key questions seems clearly to be...
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Why Not Mailing IRS Forms is a Good Move
Bill Bischoff’s article in the Wall Street Journal, Why Not Mailing Paper Forms is a Dumb IRS Move, misses the mark of common sense. The IRS plans to save $10 million a year in printing and mailing...
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e-shipping
All the retailers are trying to become e-tailers so that Amazon doesn’t take all their business from them. They have a very long way to go to get with the program. Amazon has been honing their web...
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Sirius Mailing (January 2012)
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Last week I received a very official looking envelope in the mail. It came from PO Box 757, Chanhassen, MN 55317. Both sides of the envelope were emblazoned with labels including something for everyone...
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Bank Construction
I was driving along Route 7 in Brookfield, Connecticut and saw a new bank under construction. On the right side of the picture you can see the familiar drive-up windows where customers can make bank...
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Brainyard
Somehow I got on a mailing list from brainyard. The mailings were not malicious or obnoxious, but just not something I find of interest. Therefore, I clicked unsubscribe and was taken to their process...
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Electronic Medical Records: Do They Reduce Healthcare Costs
The New York Times published a story in January 2013 titled “In Second Look, Few Savings From Digital Health Records” (see Electronic Records Systems Have Not Reduced Health Costs). The article...
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Carrier Not Recognized
The new TSA Pre-check process is a potential breakthrough for getting more expeditious processing through the security check for airline travel. To use the new expedited process, you have to be a...
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Live By the Calendar
Last week, I suggested I might start a new blog series called Hall of Lame, each week highlighting a website that falls short. I said the first selection would be Best Western, which for now I will...
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Floppy Disks
The New York Times reported today that the Federal government is using floppy disks for data transfer to the Federal Registry (see Slowly They Modernize – A Federal Agency That Still Uses Floppy Disks...
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Protecting the Status Quo
CD and record companies did not like it when Napster et al started distributing MP3 digital music files because it threatened the status quo and the companies’ business model. Book publishers did not...
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Coupons, Checks, and Envelopes
During the open enrollment period for 2014 healthcare insurance a few months ago, my wife and I chose the AARP Medicare Rx Preferred plan offered by United Healthcare, the largest health insurance...
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Healthcare Insurance Information Technology
During the open enrollment period for 2014 healthcare insurance a few months ago, my wife and I chose the AARP Medicare Rx Preferred plan offered by United Healthcare, the largest health insurance...
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Password Hell
I had put off the task long enough — it was time to clean up my passwords. I began using the Internet in the early 1990s and started to accumulate web logins and passwords. The first site I recall...
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