Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, based the cornerstone of his marketing campaign in the mid-80s on “Made in America”, offering to pay 5% more for goods manufactured in the United States — a practice and ethic long gone at the world’s largest retail store.
Today, consulting firm Retail Forward estimates that 50% to 60% of [...]
Twenty-four innocent victims lost their lives in the Salem witchcraft hysteria. The events of 1692 took place during a difficult and confusing period for Salem Village. As part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Salem was under British rule. When the hysteria began, the colony was waiting for a new governor and had no charter to [...]
I remember listening to the opening of Orson Wells’ radio adaptation of War of the Worlds, but unfathomably do not remember listening to the remainder. So, when I picked up the book by the unrelated Herbert George (or simply “HG”), most of it was still new to me.
I was surprised by the opening chapter’s “humanitarian” [...]
While surfing around today, I discovered a really cool utility called Sonic Memo. An enterprising guy named Jay Jennings created a series of very basic Flash applications that have one simple purpose: play streaming audio files on a website with very intuitive and easy-to-use controls. I wish I’d thought of it myself. The KISS (Keep [...]
I’ve been getting the usual number of spam comments on my blogs lately, but the latest trend is odd, to say the least. Most comment spammers have been advertising either their own URLs (the oldest trick in the spamming book) or the URLs of other blogs that don’t clean up spam comments (a technique that [...]
Here’s an interesting question from a reader:
My Dad got a new computer last week which he had me help set up and configure. One of the things I noticed was that the 40GB hard drive he ordered didn’t seem to be as large as advertised. I checked the drive by accessing Properties in My Computer; [...]
Many websites that have been designed to continuously monitor specific events use an automatic refresh to ensure the most recent data is visible. This is usually accomplished either through a REFRESH META tag in the HTML header, or by using JavaScript to set an elapsed time after which the page is refreshed. Other more complicated [...]
