March 2, 1966 – WKNR News reports that there are 215,000 US soldiers serving in Viet Nam. March 2, 2008 – The GlobalSecurity.org website reports that there are 180,000 US soldiers serving in the Iraq theater.
During my three years at Mediacom, I had this poster behind my desk on the wall. It was big and green and everyone who came into my office couldn’t miss it. When I left the company, it somehow didn’t make the trip. I got an email months later from an…
I was talking with a co-worker this week about a challenge she’s facing at the office. It’s a big one, an issue that would definitely keep me up at night. She said something that put it in immediate perspective, “If you’ve lost a child, everything else is much less important.”…
John Hockenberry hits the nail right on the head in this viscerally enlightening piece for Technology Review. This guy should be working for Rob Curley. Some of the best video journalism these days is coming out of the few newspapers that understand that journalistic content creation is their core competency.…
During World War II, he spent his final months in the service in the Philippines… and went back years later to build Habitat for Humanity homes there. Earlier this year he was inspired by Tracy Kidder’s book Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would…
by Scott Westerman – W9WSW Thanks very much for your warm welcome and I have to say, it’s great to be at a hamfest again. When I was a newly minted Technician in the Detroit area, Summer seemed like one swap after another, beginning with the annual pilgrimage to Dayton…
By Scott Westerman I admit it. I don’t buy many CDs anymore. With something like 2,000 of em in my collection, I have just about every oldie that ever tickled my eardrums. Rhapsody supplies the rest. My musical era is 1964 to 1975, roughly starting with the British Invasion and…
By Scott Westerman “Hey, there’s Smith’s,” she said. “They have Boar’s Head, let’s stop and get some.” Boar’s Head cold cuts were her faves when we lived in Florida. Only a couple of the Smith’s grocery stores here have the product. It was Sunday. We were on our way back…
By Steve Schram & Scott Westerman There has been a lot of discussion on the blogs lately about what made 60s Top 40 radio rock. The buzz around the on-air reunions at WLS, WQXI, et al, attests to the continuing connection listeners have with the radio stations they grew up…
By Scott Westerman In three decades as a telecom guy, I’ve enjoyed both technological and price advantages… and disadvantages. I’ve learned the most about customer loyalty in the situations where we’ve had intense competitors, some of whom appeared at the time to have the better value proposition. I always found…