Monthly Archives: July 2011

I am saddened to report that our wonderful Willie Lee Darter has passed away.  I think her to be the only truly good person I have ever known. [..]

In a previous blog we began a series on how to terminate an employee.  The series is not intended to address union-controlled jobs or contract labor.  It applies [..]

One of my readers asked me to discuss how to “fire an employee.”  Not because this particular reader needed to fire someone, but because he, himself, had been [..]

The American Physical Society recently posted an article that resonated with my theme on technology persuasion.  It turns out that the seductive actress Hedy Lamarr once applied for [..]

Facial-recognition software has taken years to mature: I investigated the technology almost 10-years ago and it was not new then.  Now, it appears that about 40 law enforcement [..]

I depart from my usual theme of technology persuasion to wish a happy 98th birthday to a great woman, Willie Lee (Scales) Darter.  I assure you that when [..]

Over half of the almost seven billion people living today were not even born in 1977.  In that year, NASA launched Voyager I and sent her out to [..]