Rose Cantine

Who should get the “Fawlty Towers of Retail” award this year? My vote goes to CompUSA where every customer is harassed at the door as he or she leaves. I was just in the downtown San Francisco store yesterday. I had not been in a CompUSA store in a year and I had forgotten about [...]

What’s going on at Renault’s Technocentre de Guyancourt in Yvelines where three employees have committed suicide in the past four months? This particular facility is Renault’s R&D center where 19 of the 26 new models to be launched between now and 2009 are supposed to redefine Renault and set it on the path to profitability. [...]

For long boring transatlantic flights, there’s no better companion than podcasts of the Ricky Gervais show which you can buy at www.audible.com or from the iTunes store. I got the first season podcasts free from the Guardian.co.uk site but that’s no longer available so you’ll have to buy it from Audible or iTunes. Or if [...]

Sky News reports: “The elusive giant squid is proving an illuminating subject of study for Japanese scientists. Footage, which for the first time captures the creature in its natural deep-sea realm, shows Taningia danaes emitting a dazzling display of light.” Click here to read the rest of the article.
Update: A New Zealand fishing crew caught [...]

Several of you have asked for the link to the segment on CNBC Power Lunch last Friday where I was a guest. Here it is:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17071295
The segment was too short and what I really wanted to say was that most cities hire a private provider for their municipal wireless networks. Even those that spend public funds [...]

I will be interviewed on this radio show out of Los Angeles in connection with the city’s planned municipal wireless broadband network.
Tune in here: http://www.scpr.org/programs/pattmorrison/index.shtml#

I am appearing for five minutes at CNBC’s Power Lunch program on February 9 (Friday). CNBC is the financial channel of NBC. The segment is about municipal wireless and there will be a debate between me and an anti-muni person (Steve Titch). Tune in if you can.

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