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Nothing like flying 4000 miles, arriving late and having to go directly to your day-long meeting without so much as a swing by the hotel to take a shower! We were almost two hours late leaving O’Hare last night, arrived close to an hour late in London. Then the fun started – Heathrow Express took…

From Jeff’s Radio Weblog: Congratulations to Rick Klau who recently passed me on the all-time most-read list: 78. The Fat Guy30,374  79. tins ::: Rick Klau’s weblog29,594  80. Jeff’s Radio Weblog29,590  81. Jeroen Bekkers’ Groove Weblog28,669  82. The .NET Guy28,660     6:10:05 PM  Link  Google It!Thanks, Jeff! And according to SiteMeter, I’m about to have my 20,000th visitor to the site (probably within the hour). Including page views from…

Here’s a trivia nugget for you: my alma mater plays tomorrow in the most played rivalry in college football. Do you know who is playing? (Hint: tomorrow will mark the 138th meeting of the two teams, 36 more meetings than Army-Navy and 20 more than Harvard-Yale.)

For sheer excitement, I can’t imagine that anything on TV is better than 24 this season. I love that even though I’ve been traveling most of the last two weeks, I was able to get caught up on the last two episodes of 24 last night by watching Tivo. That it was Nina who helped…

Travel schedule has been nuts. Boston, Phoenix, Philadelphia and New York last week. I’m in London now (and will be back again for a day and a half next week). I keep telling myself that the whole family is going to Florida for a week for free thanks to this insane travel schedule. Posts will…

From Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, an opinion piece by Jeffery Sonnenfeld, the associate dean at Yale School of Management. Titled “Three Cheers for Charisma”, it’s an attempt at resstablishing the need for charisma in the senior executive post. The article is motivated in part on some recent academic studies (he doesn’t name which ones) trying…

I’ve flown close to 100,000 miles this year, and am alarmed at a trend that I’ve witnessed in dozens of airports: men talking on cell phones while in the bathroom. Do women do this too? It’s bad enough that you have to hear their conversation echoing throughout the walls of the bathroom – but I…

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A number of people have e-mailed me asking how our pilot project is going. Quick recap: around the beginning of October, I started testing out a k-log (“k-log” is the unfortunate acronym that refers to a knowledge weblog – a system in which several employees use weblogging tools to share information internally). We chose to…

A K-Log Pilot Recap by Rick KlauOriginally published: November 11, 2002Comments/questions: E-mail me To any who are interested, I thought I’d give an update on our month-old pilot of a Radio-based k-log. (For more on k-logs generally, check out the archive of the K-Logs group at Yahoo. In short: it’s a network of weblogs throughout an…