The Lightwave Blog

Posted by Stephen Hardy

Yes, at long last, the Lightwave editors step into the 21st Century with the launch of The Lightwave Blog. Senior Editor Meghan Fuller and I plan to share this space, which we'll use as a forum to offer opinions, report on events, comment on trends, pass judgment on rumors, and maybe show a few sides of ourselves that don't come through in print.

This being the Lightwave site, you can expect a lot of what we'll write about will pertain to optical communications. We'll likely report on the visits of company executives to the office, our experiences at trade shows, and maybe even our reaction to relevant television commercials, like the Verizon one referenced in this post's title. (Do they run the "20-dB hot" commercial with the Verizon technician and that scary-looking kid everywhere in the U.S., or just the Northeast?)

But we also want to give you insight into what goes on behind the scenes here at the Lightwave offices. That means bringing you into some of the conversations that normally would never leave the cubicles here in our Nashua, NH, offices. So you can expect a few posts on truly important topics such as baseball (Red Sox fans to George Steinbrenner: Fire Joe Torre? Go ahead, make our day), pop culture, and the mystical properties of chocolate.

Naturally, we're hoping to make this blog as interactive as possible, so we welcome your comments, including a heads up on any topics you'd like to see treated or any questions you'd like answered.

Meghan and I think this blog is going to be a lot of fun. We hope you'll bookmark this page and check us out whenever you have a few minutes.

-- Stephen