Okay, so I have to admit it: at heart I’m something of a Luddite. I’m still using rabbit ears on the TV, had dial-up Internet at home for six years until going broadband a couple of months ago, and just finally got a cell phone last year only after losing the charger for my wife’s [...]

Blogging will be light the next couple of weeks as I’ll be out of the office until July 16th. (Not that blogging isn’t always relatively light as I seem to be forever battling to average just one post a week. The Joe Wikerts of the world who can be as high up the food chain [...]

By its own admission, the Booksquare blog’s mission is “dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism.” Exactly along those lines is a recent post by Kassia Kroszer called “Why Publishers Should Blog.” In it she talks about the lack of personality in general and even greater lack of enthusiasm in particular when it comes [...]

As I’ve mentioned in passing over the last few weeks, we’re in the process of making a significant shift away from having two full-time production personnel in the office—graphics and editorial—as opposed to having one project manager overseeing freelance writers/editors and graphic artists. Grace Arsiaga had been our our graphics specialist for the last year [...]

Diana Gafford, chair of the developmental math department TSTC Harlingen, passed away last night. Visitation services will be held on Thursday, June 5, 2008, at the McCaleb Funeral Home, 900 W. 4th St., in Weslaco, Texas, from 4-8 p.m. Family will be present from 5:30-7 p.m. Graveside services will be held Friday, June [...]