Among my top five most despised activities is putting together those cheap rickety metal shelves that you can buy at pretty much any hardware store. Y…

How often have we heard that the U.S. was running out of land fill space, packaging adds to waste issues, and recycling helps protect the environment?…

We've often discussed how outsourcing lemmings generally look at just one factor, labor cost, when deciding to offshore manufacturing.  In reality…

Steve Conover over at one my favorite blogs, The Skeptical Optimist, had a fascinating post the other day discussing "useful" and "not-…

If you are not smarter than a 5th grader it may not be entirely your fault. It turns out that most of us just can’t remember the things that were told…

Quick!  What organization has, in about six months, gone from being virtually non-existent to being a larger employer than 96% of all U.S. businesses?…

InfoWorld Nederland has a fascinating and surprisingly deep article on the implementation of a fairly customized ERP system at Maruti Udyog, one of In…

Blog posts may be a bit sporadic over the next week as I'll often be separated from the electronic world.  My wife and I are currently hiking arou…