I'm back home after another "interesting" adventure in healthcare, the removal of my gallbladder. We arrived at the hospital to discover that the surgery had been canceled. What? Long story short, there was another Terry Heaton who got his gallbladder removed a week earlier. After some fancy footwork by my doctor ("We can fix this"), [...]...

The Princeton Press announced this week that it would be offering hundreds of its textbooks via Amazon's Kindle electronic book reader for students who'd rather buy electronic books than carry around the big printed versions. Yale University Press and Oxford University Press already have a similar presence for students. The University of California Press recently [...]...

The kidney stone blasting went well, and despite a couple of painful bouts of passing remnants yesterday, I'm doing well. This is a good thing, because I get to do the whole surgical prep thing again tomorrow. It really is amazing to me that one minute you're being wheeled into an operating room, and the next [...]...

The coming week is going to be, well, interesting for yours truly. Tuesday: Kidney stones blasted with sound waves. General anesthetic. Wednesday: Painful cyst removed from my wrist. Local anesthetic. Thursday: Gallbladder removal surgery. General anesthetic. These procedures will all take place at different locations. It's an insurance thing. Hence, I've gone through pre-op at two different hospit...

The inescapable reality of doing business online as a local media company is that Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and a host of other pureplay internet companies are our competition. With six of every ten local online ad dollars going to these pureplays, we're slowly being squeezed into a shrinking corner reserved for local content companies. [...]...