All This Useless Beauty
BUSINESS WISDOMJeffrey L. Bromberger, Senior Pontificator29 July 2021NB: A version of this article appeared several years ago on a previous employer's web site. It has been updated and re-posted, saved for posterity.A weekend trip to the High Plains region made me...
On Making A Man – Perseverance (Pt. 1)
OPINIONJeffrey L. Bromberger, Bearer of Bad News16 August 2021The second installment in the series of articles of how I became the man I am.I never really got to know my maternal grandfather as an adult. Call it a mixture of bad luck, external forces, juvenile...
You’re Rebuilding a What?
AUTOMOTIVE PUTTERINGJeffrey L. Bromberger, Lead Grease Monkey19 August 2021Sometimes, the only cure for doubting your own self-worth is to take on a basket case and bring it back from the edge of oblivion.Ever since my IT career began in the late 1980's, it's been...
Misusing Words (Pt. 1) – Holy Smokes!
OPINIONJeffrey L. Bromberger, Horn Tooter, 1st Class06 August 2021If everything is sacred and every location holy, then absolutely nothing is.As a New Yorker, I have had to put up with more than my fair share of this one. And while this has in effect for quite a...
Remembering Dag
BUSINESS WISDOMJeffrey L. Bromberger, Senior Pontificator01 August 2021NB: A version of this article appeared several years ago on a previous employer's web site. It has been updated and re-posted, saved for posterity.Almost everybody I meet these days, born after...
Coming Of Age (or: Why Did My Childhood Fly So Fast?)
OPINIONJeffrey L. Bromberger, Executive Nobody10 September 2021Coming of age is supposed to be a magical time in a young person's life. But sometimes it comes too soon.The Wikipedia entry defines coming of age as '...a young person's transition from being a child to...
No Code Nightmare
BUSINESS WISDOMJeffrey L. Bromberger, Senior Pontificator12 August 2021You have to love these targeted Smart Ads, right? You go searching for one thing and "The Algorithm" decides that there's something else you need to see...As a fairly new blogger, you can imagine...
On Making A Man – Introduction (Pt. 0)
OPINIONJeffrey L. Bromberger, Suddenly Feeling Very Old12 August 2021Everybody stops when they hear of somebody they know passing on. Not only is it human nature, it is every man's destiny.I lost an ex-co-worker almost a year ago. I am reluctant to say "a friend"...
The First Last Piece of the Upgrade Puzzle
BUSINESS WISDOMJeffrey L. Bromberger, Senior Pontificator01 August 2021NB: A version of this article appeared several years ago on a previous employer's web site. It has been updated and re-posted, saved for posterity.It seems that, lately, I have been reliving (or...