Battle of Midway. If you have never read it, I recommend this book by two Japanese naval officers who were in the battle Midway: the Battle that Doomed Japan. It is published by the Naval Institute and is part of the core reading at the Naval Acadmey. It is also a lesson for management, in that the Japanese assumed so much (wrongly) and had too much faith in their own superiority such that they were caught it the open when luck and skill went against them. ]]>
Yea, that was me in the Post. They did a story about the Podcast site and took some pretty laid back pictures. Of course, I’m not always that laid back. In fact, most of last week I was working on a new site design that incorporated CSS instead of tables (which is how it is supposed to be, so I gather). Did the Post story increase traffic? A bit, but you never really know since the Post doesn’t use hyperlinks in most of their stories (which would be much easier to track). What’s next? Not sure, but I got an email from USAToday today. We’ll see what comes of that. ]]>
The Tour de France is wide open after a thrilling individual effort by Floyd Landis. Yesterday, Landis lost the yellow jersey and 10 minutes on his fellow riders when he just ‘hit the wall’ basically. But today, he took charge from the 4th KM and took off on a solo attack up the mountains. He finished 5 minutes ahead of his nearest rider, and is now only 30 seconds off the yellow jersey going into the time trial on Saturday. It was thrilling to watch. I was trying to take a nap after a long night but didn’t get around to it as I was really engrossed in the machinations of who was going to be where in the overall standings after the day’s racing.]]>
I’ve also been watching this clip as well. ]]>
Berlin’s top World Cup official shot himself in the head just hours after the tournament ended and is now fighting for his life, police say. Kind of odd]]>
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