Mike's Politically Incorrect Newsletter Archive

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• 16 March 2011 - Butterflies, Automation and the New Engineer
• 23 February 2011 - New Year's Confessions - and a Peek Under the B&B Sheets
• 26 January 2011 - Device Envy and Diverging Technology
• 22 December 2010 - Mike's Christmas Engineering
• 24 November 2010 - Thankful Thoughts from a Geek
• 27 October 2010 - Epic Halloween Quandary and Conflict
• 16 September 2010 - Common Sense Crumble?
• 18 August 2010 - Mike's Social Networking Quandary
• 28 July 2010 - Dog Days of Summer at B&B
• 16 June 2010 - Product Testing Glamour and The Big Flush
• 19 May 2010 - Mental Engineering Wizardry - and Mike's Brain
• 22 April 2010 - Chicken Little's Revenge
• 23 March 2010 - Spring Sizzle and Placebos
• 24 February 2010 - Communications Babylon and Billy Mays
• 20 January 2010 - Farewell to the Aughts
• 23 December 2009 - Products, Politics and Christmas at B&B Electronics
• 1 December 2009 - Mike's eLetter Takeover
• 22 October 2009 - Pumpkins, Combines and Connectivity at B&B
• 17 September 2009 - Chicken Little - Banned at B&B Electronics
• 27 August 2009 - Mike's Summer Holiday
• 16 July 2009 - Great minds making music at B&B Electronics!
• 17 June 2009 - The Wireless Range Conundrum – Solved at B&B!
• 20 May 2009 - Time warps and warm fuzzies at B&B Electronics!
• 16 April 2009 - B&B Electronics and the Net Generation
• 19 March 2009 - Springtime Breezes at B&B
• 19 February 2009 - Mike's 10 Commandments of Wireless
• 22 January 2009 - What's Old in 2009?
• 16 December 2008 - Merry Modbus from Mike at B&B Electronics
• 20 November 2008 - Ethernet, Fibre, and my Skunkworks Bailout Proposal
• 15 October 2008 - Acorns, Economic Malaise and CNN
• 24 September 2008 - Hurricane Ike, MacGyver, and an Engineer's Heroic Aspirations
• 21 August 2008 - Mike's Political Correctness
• 24 July 2008 - The Napkin that Rocked the World
• 25 June 2008 - 9 Lives of RS-232 and RS-485
• 29 May 2008 - Redneck Cry for Help in the Arizona Desert
• 2 May 2008 - B&B, the epiphany and life without rants
• 1 April 2008 - Loneliness, Isolation, and Isolators as a Cure for Loneliness
• 5 March 2008 - Long, cold winter at B&B Electronics
• 7 February 2008 -My Rant About This So-Called "Recession"
• 10 January 2008 - Mike's Resolutions
• 20 December 2007 - My 2007 Industrial Data Christmas Poem
• 29 November 2007 - My Post-Thanksgiving Shopping Induced Haze at B&B
• 31 October 2007 - Yearnings for the Great Pumpkin at B&B Electronics
• 27 September, 2007 - OJ, Isolation and Bad Decisions
• 5 September, 2007 - SCADA & RS-485 at 107 Degrees and Counting
• 19 July 2007 - Goodbye RS-232 Part III, Finale
• 13 June 2007 - Wired Connections in a Wireless World
• 8 May 2007 - From Extreme Skepticism to Wireless I/O
• 3 April 2007 -Saga of the Network & Protocol Wars
• 6 March 2007 - RS-232, USB, and Pink Flamingo Kitsch
• 20 December 2006 - B&B Christmas Bash
• 23 November 2006 - B&B Electronics Thanksgiving Feast
• 19 September 2006 - My Upcoming Escape from the B&B Basement
• 22 August 2006 - Modbus, Serial Ports and Mailroom Theft
• 11 July 2006 - Wireless for Soccer Moms, Cows & Nuke Plants
• 2 May 2006 - You Can Always Find a Shortcut Somewhere
• 21 March 2006 - My St. Patty's Day Severe Hangover
• 14 February 2006 - Women, Engineers, and Valentine's Day
• 1 February 2006 - B&B's New Catalogue & Me on American Idol
• 20 December 2005 - Christmas Rhyme and Oversized Stocking Stuffers from B&B
• 10 November 2005 - Circus Clowns, Heart Surgeons, and 'B' vs. 'G'
• 1 September 2005 - Power Over Ethernet, Poltergeist & the Fighting Illini
• 13 July 2005 - Harry Potter & Things That Go Bump in the Night
• 8 June 2005 - Deep Throat, Flower Pots and Mighty Deeds of Valor
• 12 May 2005 - Hitchhiker's Guide to Wireless Mesh Networks
• 1 April 2005 - Dr. Phil, Ozzy Osbourne, and the FAA
• 4 March 2005 - Me, Martha Stewart, and the Manufacturing Mosh Pit
• 1 February 2005 - ZigBee and the Geek's Revenge
• 17 December 2004 - How the Ground Loop Stole Christmas
• 24 November 2004 - Paranoia at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
• 28 October 2004 - Goodbye RS232, Part II
• 23 September 2004 - Project Overload
• 19 August 2004 - Isolation, Global Warming & the New Sun Belt
• 23 July 2004 - The Joy of 60Hz AC Power
• 22 June 2004 - Subversive Summer Greetings from B&B
• 4 May 2004 - B&B's Data Communication Newsletter - May '04
• 17 March 2004 - 7 Fast Mini-Updates from B&B
• 27 January 2004 - Dilbert, Hillary & Tech Seminars for '04
• 18 December 2003 - Our Dysfunctional Christmas at B&B
• 25 November 2003 - An Elvis Presley Thanksgiving at B&B
• 31 October 2003 - Murphy's Law Attacks on Halloween
• 16 October 2003 - Ethernet LAN Salvation for Legacy RS-232/422/485 Equipment at ISA
• 9 September 2003 - Is USB Really a Conspiracy?
• 29 July 2003 - The Trusty DIN Rail & My Crusade Against Velcro
• 3 July 2003 - RS485: Ain't glamorous, but definitely here to stay
• 5 June 2003 - Lightning Protection Failure & the Poltergeist in Chicago
• 8 May 2003 - Aging RS-232 Gets Reincarnated as Ethernet
• 22 April 2003 - Goodbye RS-232?
• 11 March 2003 - Getting the Most from Industrial Ethernet
• 11 February 2003 - Data Acquisition with Your PDA