An update on the BrightSpot front: After a series of grueling interviews (look, it’s hard to be brilliant all the time), I was hired as a freelance consultant and designer with XPlane – the leading visual thinking company in the U.S – and flown out to St. Louis for a 2-day training. XPlane was one of the companies that pioneered the visualization of information and I’ve been a long-time fan of their work. So the only way to “xpress” my response to this development is to say: !!!!!!!! And, for now, that’s all I can say about that. But click on the image to see the Flickr stream of the training and check out XPlane’s website for details on how they work and the type of excellence they produce: www.xplane.com.