> “The Overconfident Optimist and His Ill-Advised DIY Project.” OK, MaxRead, if you're reading this I'd suggest a similar investigation into Bill Gates. The

> “The Overconfident Optimist and His Ill-Advised DIY Project.” OK, MaxRead, if you're reading this I'd suggest a similar investigation into Bill Gates. The other Bill Gates. He of Midnight Engineering magazine "fame." Midnight Engineering was a great magazine about engineers starting their own businesses while working 9-5. And it was pretty damn good. Until he decided to buy an entire printing press for pennies on the dollar, truck it from Florida to Colorado and set it up in a warehouse so he could run it, alone, to print the magazine. No, he had never run a printing plant before! The magazine's print quality declined far enough after he did this (CMYK registration was so bad it gave me headaches) that I let my subscription expire, but I always wondered what happened to him after that. My guess is that he was overtaken by the rise of the Web and lost subscribers, but it could be a good story either way.