Author Archives: Len

Odds and Ends Toward the End of a Year

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Len

1. Cory Doctorow and Stephen King have hijacked my Kindle with great fiction reads. My pre-ordered copy of King’s Under the Dome arrived, as promised, on Christmas Eve. It’s scary how well he tells a story.  I suspect that I … Continue reading →

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Stuff

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Len

The stuff on my desk is beyond organizing. I have not cleared my email inbox for weeks. I have not done a Weekly Review for months – sorry David Allen. I am a lapsed Getting Things Done-er, and it kind … Continue reading →

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‘Twas the Day Before Thanksgiving, and All Through the Mall…

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Len

There are lots of kids running in the Natick Collection Mall today.  A girl runs ahead of her strolling father on the lower level.  A boy runs up to a woman in a chair, taps her back, then runs away.  … Continue reading →

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To My Kindle Subscribers: Apologies for RSS Glitch

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Len

My sister tonight asked me about my weirdly brief blog post yesterday on Edward Tufte, and I explained that I had inadvertently clicked on “Publish” very early in the drafting process. This is what showed up on the Kindle subscriptions, … Continue reading →

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Whatever It Takes to Explain Edward Tufte

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Len

Edward Tufte, Yale professor emeritus and information design guru, sets a high but liberating standard.  One must do “whatever it takes” to explain something.  Including him. Why I Went: I noticed somewhere on the Internet a couple of years ago … Continue reading →

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Were You There When They Passed Health Care, Great-Grampa?

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Len

The moment came like a mouse poking its nose into a room.  CSPAN’s “Yea” total morphed from 217 to 218, the number required for passage of HR 3962, the “Affordable Health Care for America Act.” I was in the guestroom … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Reasons Not to Read David Meerman Scott’s World Wide Rave

Posted on October 31, 2009 by Len

I’ve been wanting to write that headline ever since I read David Meerman Scott’s bit about the power of negative headlines. In World Wide Rave (click here for Kindle version) he writes, “I think what people are really saying when … Continue reading →

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Aboard the Henry Longfellow

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Len

The Head of the Charles Regatta seemed like ages ago this afternoon as we took a leisurely boat ride upstream from the Galleria Mall aboard the Henry Longfellow.  It’s the type of tourist thing a local would seldom enjoy, so … Continue reading →

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My Head of the Charles Regatta List

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Len

When I haven’t posted to the blog for a while, I feel a nearly physical pressure to check in here, even when I should be doing something else.  Today is an excellent example, because I have lots to do in … Continue reading →

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What Would Mr. Harding Do?

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Len

Having recently finished Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, I spent today gathering and jotting down impressions of one character in this novel, published in 1857. The Rev. Septimus Harding is an Anglican clergyman, musician, loyal father, and minor ecclesiastical official … Continue reading →

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