Black Lives Matter – Really?
Does the term Black Lives Matter grate on your nerves. It does for me, because I think that All Lives Matter, and making it black only is it’s own form of racism.
Category: Things I hate
Formula One 2015 Testing Starts With Surprises
Winter is very short in the F1 world, the last race was in November and now, about 90 days after, the teams are already at their first pre-season test session for the 2015 season....
What Happened to the Free Revolution?
Subtitle: What happened to the Free! Revolutionaries? It’s been a few years now that I talked about the supposed Free revolution. The idea was generally that with infinite and free online distribution, you could...
Jeff Gordon Says It’s His Final Championship Year in NASCAR
I have to use some careful wording when I say this, because Jeff Gordon was careful as well He’s not retiring. “I don’t want to use the R-work” he said. Rather, after a long...
The Real Takeaway From Ferguson
What have we learned from Ferguson and other tragedies in America? America has reached a tipping point, but not the one you expect.
An Open Letter To Bernie Ecclestone
An open letter to F1 supreme leader Bernie Ecclestone, hopefully one of his helper monkeys will print this out for him to read.
The Vapid Business Models Of The New Economy
I have been working in the online world in one fashion or another since pretty much before there was an online world. My first business venture with friends was well over 30 years ago,...
F1 House Of Cards Starts to Collapse, Caterham and Marussia Out For Now
Marussia and Caterham are two Formula 1 teams who have spent the last few years circling around at the back of the grid. Like fellow back markers HRT (who died a painful death last...
First Russian GP Race Shows All That Is Wrong with F1
It’s rare that all of the faults of any sporting series or even business are exposed all in one shot. It’s even rarer when it’s done on an international scale to the point where...
Stupidity and Greed Combine for F1 Tragedy
Often in hindsight, one can see all the steps that have lead to a tragic event. Marussia F1 drive Jules Bianchi rests in a Japanese hospital, fighting for his life after a tragic and...
Signs Society Has Reached a Dangerous Tipping Point
A number of years ago, I read Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. It’s an interesting book that talk about how things change from being X...
The Tragedy of Tony Stewart
This past weekend a tragedy occurred Saturday night in the world of racing. No, a driver wasn’t killed in a racing accident or critically injured in a fire, rather a driver was run over...
Can F1 Be Saved From Bernie Ecclestone?
Regular visitors to my blog will know I am a big fan of autoracing. Â NASCAR, F1, LeMans, I enjoy them all. Â I even follow more obscure forms of motorsport like world rally, Aussie V8...
Jerk Tech and Vapid Business Models
IN my daily quest to read all of the internet (I fail badly, as everyone else does) I ran across an interesting opinion piece of Techcrunch. In a story called Stop The JerkTech, Josh...
