The Secret to Software Success...I'll just need your credit card...hmm..

The Secret to Software Success. "Think of it as climbing Mount Everest. Do you set a plan and say, 'On day seven we'll be here and the weather will be this and I'll need my ice pick'?" This article has a sidebar feature which includes a "blame pie."

Whose celebrity do you find baffling? Someone wrote: "There are two dimensions here: those whose fame is an odious (but perhaps understandable) phenomenon (Ms. Spears) and those whose celebrity is, precisely, baffling. El Reeg [Regis Philbin] is the best example I've seen so far -- his presence in our lives is more of an antipresence, a mysterious lacuna where something compelling ought to be."

(...yes, that last link is quite a bit like Fametracker.com's Fame Audit)