I just finished &quot;In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters&quot; by Merrill R. (Rick) Chapman. An interesting look at the marketing mistakes of the early hardware and software companies.<p>I just started &quot;Slipping The Cable&quot; by Bill Schweigart, a novel about a Coast Guard junior office running afoul of his CO. The author&#x27;s up coming book is set in the neighborhood where I grew up, so I thought I&#x27;d read his first novel.