The Outlier

So one very interesting thing happened relating to my Macworld Expo follow-up piece: Namely, a few industry folks picked it up and regarded it with scorn. Some reasonably had a problem with my attendance numbers, one of which was based on my apparently faulty memory...

Why we lost

File under Super Bowl records set: Fewest combined rushing attempts: 36, Green Bay (13); Pittsburgh (23) As I noted in my pre-game analysis, Green Bay needed to forgo the run, which they did, and we needed a steady dose of Mendenhall, which we did not. It did not help...

Super Bowl Angst

Long-time readers know that I’m a dyed-in-the-wool Pittsburgh Steelers fan. If you like winners—and what little kid doesn’t?—there really was nobody like the late ’70s Steelers, who won four Super Bowls in the span of just a few years. I’ve...

Macworld Expo follow-up

You can’t very well expect IDG, the hosts of the Macworld Expo, to come out and admit that Macworld 2011 was an embarrassing bomb, but you can’t just plug your ears and shout “la-la-la I can’t HEAR you!” to the reality of the world...