Bob Rhubart's Portfolio

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38788732012-01-01T13:48:11.573-05:00 Bob Rhubart's PortfolioLinks to various samples of my (online) published work.Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-60783286431042643162007-06-25T10:49:00.000-04:002007-06-25T10:49:30.475-04:00"Gettin' Small"

"Gettin' Small": "There was a time when dinosaurs ruled the earth, when the environment could accommodate and support gigantic reptiles. That environment changed. The dinosaurs died. Ants didn’t.A similarly cataclysmic change continues to reshape the global business environment. The extraordinary evolution of the Web has changed how businesses relate to that environment, and to customers,

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1123506553624665942005-08-08T09:09:00.000-04:002005-08-08T09:09:13.676-04:00Book reveiw: TWO TRAINS RUNNING by Andrew Vachss

After a lengthy hiatus from writing reviews for Book Reporter, I was happy to jump back in when offered the opportunity to read Andrew Vachss's latest, TWO TRAINS RUNNING.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1107439371523425092005-02-03T09:02:00.000-05:002005-02-03T09:02:51.523-05:00Sometimes a gamble pays off

Bookreporter.com - TORPEDO JUICE by Tim Dorsey When BookReporter sends out its list of books available for review, I often like to gamble and pick books based solely on their titles. Sometimes this strategy really pays off, as was the case with Torpedo Juice. Good stuff.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1106798892489551652005-01-26T23:08:00.000-05:002005-01-26T23:08:12.490-05:00Bookreporter.com - FALSE START by Terry Pluto

Bookreporter.com - FALSE START by Terry Pluto

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1106798851090784932005-01-26T23:07:00.000-05:002005-01-26T23:07:31.090-05:00Bookreporter.com - THE GOOD GUYS by Bill Bonanno and Joe Pistone, with David Fisher

Bookreporter.com - THE GOOD GUYS by Bill Bonanno and Joe Pistone, with David Fisher

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1103695180561985452004-12-22T01:59:00.000-05:002004-12-22T01:03:52.340-05:00It's New, It's Improved, It's Christmas.

This one is a reprint of a piece that was included in the 1997 anthology There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays. The publishing company went out of business a few years ago, but apparently the books are still available.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1098277116666339412004-10-20T08:58:00.000-04:002004-10-20T08:58:36.666-04:00Strike a Pose

Strike A Pose Latest column for Cool Cleveland.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1096311509423978982004-09-27T14:57:00.000-04:002004-09-27T14:58:29.423-04:00Book Review: The Man Called Cash

Bookreporter.com - THE MAN CALLED CASH by Steve Turner Yet another review for BookReporter.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1091625385138132282004-08-04T09:16:00.000-04:002004-08-04T09:16:25.136-04:00Cool Cleveland - The Source for News

Life at the Drive-in That Refuses to Die Another Cool Cleveland column. I had so much fun talking to Judy Kissel and Dave Shaw, the subjects of this column. Their interaction during the interview was as entertaining as any Jack Lemmon-Walter Mathau scene from a Neil Simon picture. The sarcastic quips and good-natured barbs fly like bullets in an exchange of automatic weapons fire. And it

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1089204859161213342004-07-07T08:54:00.000-04:002004-07-20T17:02:43.696-04:00Fabulous Revitalization Plan for Cleveland

Cool Cleveland - Fabulous Revitalization Plan for Cleveland Yet another column for Cool Cleveland.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1088595921037403052004-06-30T07:45:00.000-04:002004-07-20T17:04:05.566-04:00Rush Hour, Minus the Rush

Cool Cleveland - Rush Hour, Minus the Rush Cool Cleveland column.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1087076962226488992004-06-12T17:49:00.000-04:002004-07-20T17:05:16.580-04:00Review: BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN by Marion Meade

Bookreporter.com - BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN by Marion Meade This review of Marion Meade's wonderful book includes an unfortunate typo that transforms the word "public" into the word "pubic." In this particular context, refering as it does to Zelda Fitzgerald, one could argue that the sentence works either way. She was, after all, the archetype for the 20s Flapper, an unfortunate distinction

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1083388491265021502004-05-01T01:14:00.000-04:002004-05-01T01:19:03.780-04:00

Bookreporter.com - RADIO ACTIVITY by Bill Fitzhugh Yet another review for bookreporter.com.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1082565672395365342004-04-21T12:41:00.000-04:002004-04-21T12:45:12.060-04:00

Bookreporter.com - IDEAL MARRIAGE by Peter Friedman Another review for BookReporter.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1081433225000700082004-04-08T10:07:00.000-04:002004-04-08T10:10:47.640-04:00

Cool Cleveland - The Source for News & Events in Cleveland, Ohio: Combovers, Corvettes, and Cleveland First of my columns for Cool Cleveland.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1080908621449304062004-04-02T07:23:00.000-05:002004-04-02T07:27:15.793-05:00

Cool Cleveland - The Source for News & Events in Cleveland, Ohio: Review: The Eclipse Review of Antonella Gambotto's The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1072813476905462412003-12-30T14:44:00.000-05:002003-12-30T14:46:07.186-05:00

Welcome the New Century This editorial was written for and first appeared on Flashline. It was subsequently picked up for reprint by InformIT.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1071868806103224382003-12-19T16:20:00.000-05:002003-12-19T16:21:22.340-05:00

Weblog: The Key Differentiator From my Flashline Weblog.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1071868629130273462003-12-19T16:17:00.000-05:002003-12-19T16:18:25.403-05:00

Weblog: Glad I didn't say that From my Flashline Weblog.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1071868411224102302003-12-19T16:13:00.000-05:002003-12-19T16:14:47.543-05:00

Weblog: Complexity in Life and in Business From my Flashline Weblog

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1071868293769811192003-12-19T16:11:00.000-05:002003-12-19T16:12:50.106-05:00

Weblog: Riding the Snowball A post from my Flashline Weblog.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1071863816148220152003-12-19T14:56:00.000-05:002003-12-19T14:58:11.810-05:00

Bob Rhubart: Welcome the New Century A year-end editorial written for Flashline.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1071138902128728542003-12-11T05:35:00.000-05:002003-12-11T05:36:07.123-05:00

Bookreporter.com - BLACK SHEEP by R. J. Kaiser

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1071138756752213202003-12-11T05:32:00.000-05:002003-12-11T05:33:41.780-05:00

Bookreporter.com - COSMOPOLITAN: A Bartender's Life by Toby Cecchini

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1067292279026179492003-10-27T17:04:00.000-05:002003-10-27T17:04:44.920-05:00

Bookreporter.com - BOOGERS ARE MY BEAT by Dave Barry

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1067292088719358142003-10-27T17:01:00.000-05:002003-10-27T17:01:34.653-05:00

Bookreporter.com - BUSHWHACKED by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1063660526220606282003-09-15T17:15:00.000-04:002003-09-15T17:15:26.233-04:00

Bookreporter.com - IDLEWILD by Nick Sagan

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1062692835244114912003-09-04T12:27:00.000-04:002003-12-19T14:59:42.733-05:00

Bookreporter.com - OUR OWN DEVICES by Edward Tenner

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1059787226084370492003-08-01T21:20:00.000-04:002003-08-01T21:20:26.050-04:00

It's a Junkyard War A post from Flashline's Weblogs

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1059787028887339402003-08-01T21:17:00.000-04:002003-08-01T21:17:08.896-04:00

Bookreporter.com - BANGKOK 8 by John Burdett

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-1057200456844109602003-07-02T22:47:00.000-04:002003-07-02T22:47:36.730-04:00

Open Source, P2P, Weblogs, and Slime Mold Written for the Java.net Weblogs.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-958263242003-06-19T09:37:00.000-04:002003-06-19T09:37:56.886-04:00

Bookreporter.com - FEEDING A YEN by Calvin Trillin

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-951514272003-06-01T09:13:00.000-04:002003-06-01T09:13:35.090-04:00

Bookreporter.com - THE BOBBY GOLD STORIES by Anthony Bourdain

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-922442612003-04-08T16:58:00.000-04:002003-04-08T16:58:54.153-04:00

Bookreporter.com - THE GETAWAY MAN by Andrew Vachss

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-905451272003-03-11T16:44:00.000-05:002003-03-11T16:45:37.000-05:00

Review of Soul Circus

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-889491382003-02-11T21:50:00.000-05:002003-03-11T16:45:50.000-05:00

Review of Pattern Recognition

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-884741012003-02-03T10:03:00.000-05:002003-02-03T10:04:35.000-05:00

Review of Samaritan

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-845217732002-11-14T07:19:00.000-05:002002-11-14T07:19:25.503-05:00

Review of Prince of Deadly Weapons

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-833802482002-10-22T21:23:00.000-04:002002-10-22T21:23:46.886-04:00

What's the Significance? A brief bit regarding the nomination of Flashline founder Charles Stack to the InfoWorld list of "Top Ten Innovators in eBusiness".

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-833799352002-10-22T21:16:00.000-04:002002-10-22T21:16:29.520-04:00

Flashline on Mars A very short bit describing the FMARS project.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-833798212002-10-22T21:14:00.000-04:002002-10-22T21:14:00.376-04:00

Getting to the Goal An article about software reuse, written for Flashline.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-833797262002-10-22T21:11:00.000-04:002002-10-22T21:11:23.030-04:00

Your Two Cents A short article for Flashline promoting the launch of a newsgroup. Funny stuff, I think.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-833793882002-10-22T21:04:00.000-04:002002-10-22T21:04:07.550-04:00

Click Here for Smoke and Mirrors Yet another unauthorized reprint of a bit written in 1996 for for the "Howdy" section on AOL.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-833791472002-10-22T20:59:00.000-04:002002-10-22T21:01:43.000-04:00

Conversational Klingon I wrote this bit in 1996 for an AOL humor section called "Howdy." The link points to an unauthorized reprint of the article hosted, apparently, at the Unversity of Chicago.

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-833789872002-10-22T20:56:00.000-04:002002-10-22T20:56:11.026-04:00

Application Server Shopping Tips

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Review of Big Trouble

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-833788872002-10-22T20:54:00.000-04:002002-10-22T20:54:05.680-04:00

Review of The Night Men

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-833788602002-10-22T20:53:00.000-04:002002-10-22T20:53:27.806-04:00

Review of Leaving Disneyland

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-833786692002-10-22T20:49:00.000-04:002002-10-22T20:49:31.426-04:00

Review of The Hacker Ethic

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-833786422002-10-22T20:48:00.001-04:002002-10-22T20:48:55.330-04:00

Review of The Devil's Larder

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-833786062002-10-22T20:48:00.000-04:002002-10-22T20:48:09.033-04:00

Review of The Deadhouse

Bob Rhubarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04512499189299732353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878873.post-833785752002-10-22T20:47:00.000-04:002002-10-22T20:47:18.580-04:00

A Presidential Comedic Gold Mine

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