ESPN made a great decision this week. No…it wasn’t that they’re going to move away from their East Coast bias and stop burying the Big Ten in the middle of SportsCenters. They’ve decided that they’re going to take their wildly popular pre-game show, College Gameday to Blacksburg Virginia, home of the VTech Hokies on […]
I have a confession. I’ve been going to McDonald’s. Yup. Guilty. I’m apparently not alone. The Sun-Times Ted Pinkus writes that McDonald’s profits are soaring and has widened its lead as the world’s largest restaurant network with an all-time high market cap of $60 billion, vs. $17 billion for Yum! […]
With my new role at the new company, I’ve taken on some additional responsibilities when it comes to travel. At FeedBurner, I’d make the occasional trip for a conference or to call on a customer, but it wasn’t a constant. From the looks of it, we’ll be here in NYC quite often and […]
11 Jun
Posted by Jake as IL Politics
Last week, just like my colleagues, I spent some time in the New York Office. There were plenty of things that were mentionable, but one item struck me particularly: in the cafe, they listed on a grease board all of the local farmers where their food supplies arrived from. They were boasting […]

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