Crooked Timber one year old

Congratulations to Crooked Timber. One year old on July 8. There is a certain culture of blogs that started about one year ago. Can’t quite put my finger on it but there is something about them.

The fate of the corporate executioner

Accordng to this weekend’s Australian Financial Review, corporate executioners have a tough time [payment required]. On one level, chriscurnow.com finds it pretty hard to work up a lot of sympathy for people who wield the axe in corporations. They take the...

Scribblingwoman one year old

Congratulations to Scribblingwoman on reaching her first anniversary. Makes you reflect anew how recent the blogoshpere is and how rapidly it has grown. Kottke recently noted that “A Google search for “blog” returns 46 million items”. “0...

Pool Rage

Sometimes the things we do to protect our health don’t work out exactly the way we expect. Today didn’t start out that well for me. As I have attempted to do every weekday morning for the last 22 years, I turned up at the local swimming pool this morning....