Duel Revisited: Dusting Off Home Depot
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A year has gone by and much has changed at the company. But is it different enough yet?
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Tycho:   The foe revealed, Armadeaddon is now almost complete.  Monday will see the promised epilogue, so at this point you have very nearly survived the ordeal.  We have endeavored these past weeks to reward the true "enthusiast," that man or woman who, brow heavy, has faced such cruel abuse at our hand for the last seven years.  It is apparently our policy to honor such dedication one every decade.    Since it was announced a couple days ago, the revelation that MS would be actively courting the hardcore boardgame player is something I've thought about almost constantly.  It may be that you weren't aware there was such a thing as a hardcore player of boardgames if your last experience with the context was playing Sorry! with your sister when you were eight.  Things have progressed.   There's a million experiences in this space I could use to lure you in, but one company in particular - Days of Wonder has already decided to make electronic variants of their tabletop crack, so they occupy a twilight space between the worlds.  I hope they see an opportunity to take their (already completed!) games over to the 360, or that Microsoft offers them a locked case containing an unspecified amount of untraceable U.S. Currency, because I'd love to see this prescient move by MS turn into a new era.   Days of Wonder makes a game called Shadows Over Camelot that could quickly become a dangerous obsession, obscuring biological realities with a single-minded focus on grails.  Well, grail I guess.  There's just the one.    But it's a completely cooperative boardgame, so every player is working toward the same goals - fighting back invasions, questing, all of it.  Except there might be a traitor in the group, determined by a hidden draw, who tries to derail the effort.  He's not always there, but the potentiality of that nefarious force can create unbelievable social tension.    The gaming table's fixed coordinate in space is its asset and its obstacle - managing space and time is actually the primary challenge of any gaming group, as opposed to banishing necromancers, though that also ranks up there.  Boardgames are so rich in design that, when one of these gets dropped in front of them on Live, I think many gamers will be shocked at their sophistication.    My thumbs hurt.  (CW)TB out.
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Home Depot Inc.  is considering a sale, spin-off or initial public offering of its wholesale distribution unit, HD Supply, as it focuses on its retail business, the company said on Monday.
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Home Depot gets the headlines, but Builders FirstSource has the value.
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Mar. 8--In an ideal world, every time a new TV set or computer monitor was purchased, an old, junky one would be recycled -- rather than being dumped from Skyline Parkway or tossed into a rural ditch or even forgotten in a basement.
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Home Depot announced Tuesday that it has started selling appliances online, joining rivals Lowe&#39;s and Sears Roebuck and Co. in a washer-and-dryer Web war.
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MLS CUP: Today&#39;s league title game will provide clash of styles at Home Depot Center. By Nick Green. You could picture the cogs turning in the minds of MLS&#39; marketing mavens as they anticipated today&#39;s league
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Home Depotâs new chief is working to return the chain to its humble retail roots and erase the perception that it has lost its focus.
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Going green with certain home improvements can save you big.
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WASHINGTON -- Robert Stec would like to help clean up the nation's dirty air, but at $1 million a plant to install air-pollution control technology, it would be cheaper for him to move his furniture manufacturing business overseas.
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OSLO, Norway - Arild Tofte and Kaare Heggdal know that recycling pays, but they weren't quite prepared for the jackpot that a scrapped cash machine contained.  It was still full of cash. Enough to buy a house and take a luxury vacation.
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The retailer has a winning formula.
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When office supplies find their way home, is it stealing? Or strategic investment of your time?
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By Leigh Dethman Deseret Morning News  The Home Depot needs to do a little home maintenance of its own.  Dead trees and shrubs, an unsecured retention pond, and some large clumps of concrete in a landscaped area outside the Home Depot on 3300 S.
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Home Depot Inc.'s annual meeting this week was a pretty staid affair after a public relations disaster last year.
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One recent Saturday morning, I woke with one seemingly simple thing in mind: cleaning out and organizing the closets in my bedroom. If my closets were a database system, the contents would be stored as BLOBs (binary large objects) of varying sizes with no defining structure â just a dumping ground for stuff. As I began dragging things out of the closet, I found items as varied as a backpack, a pair of old ski gloves, about 10 square feet of foam padding, and pocket change in three different international currencies (anyone need Thai bahts?). Faced with a mound of the messy detritus of my own life, I did what most people would probably do: I went to the store to buy even more stuff to organize the stuff I already had.
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By Jeff Bertolucci Kiplinger's Personal Finance  Until recently, bargain-basement portable PCs were fire-sale closeouts saddled with obsolete software. Not anymore.