Thanksgiving 2025: Best wishes to all of you.
Enjoy the holiday, turkey, family and friends today. Best wishes for the season.
The Outer Garden
Historic Painting: “Napoleon and his General Staff” by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1867.
This view of a scene during Napoleon's Nile campaign of 1798 is classic Gérôme on every level.
Blog hiatus: Gone to sea.
"They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters..."
LinkedIn, the bleakest social network: An anatomy of its failure.
Why is LinkedIn so horrible? It goes even beyond the conceptual failure of most social media sites.
The mysterious “Othrys”: My encounter with an unsuccessful social media startup.
Does the world need another social media platform, even a well-intentioned one? We seem to have more than we can handle now.
Remembering Dr. Jonathan Porter: The flame of historical inspiration.
My thanks and farewell to a great history professor who inspired me, many years ago.
Historic photo: Portland, Oregon, 1890.
In some ways, Portland has changed a lot; in others, not so much.