I’m not at Lotusphere2007 this year but a bunch of people (over 7000) are. Among those at the conference are a bunch of bloggers. A small group pulled off an amazing feat - they created a live blog solution. I’m watching them blog from the opening general session which started 30 minutes ago. For [...]

I’ve used “voice over Internet protocol” or VoIP for many years. It’s not my primary phone service but it is an important one. I don’t have a traditional telephone “land line” or POTS but that’s only because I’m in the process of moving. I rely on a cellphone most of the time. Once I get [...]

It could be a whole lot worse …
I just got a humorous but very real picture from my brother up in Maine. Guess I’ll shouldn’t be complaining about spotty Internet performance when he’d just like running water !

A few weeks ago I “gave up TV”. Now I will confess that I have not been totally “TV-free”.  I tried reading news on-line and getting weather the same way. To some extent it worked but not well enough. My solution has been to seek out streaming media.
So I have settled into a pretty comfortable routine. I catch [...]

In Stephen O’Grady’s post titled “It’s the Network, Not the Application: Online Desktops” he describes an environment where the computer is always connected to internet.
Some day this may be true but it’s not true today - unless you use the internet in a sufficiently limited way that satellite connectivity is productive. For many in the [...]

Mr Antonio at the Washington Post recently wrote of the political debates “televised” on YouTube. The format for the debate was people posting video questions on YouTube and Anderson Cooper selecting a set of those questions, airing them and then getting candidates’ responses. He outlined five myths about the experiment. He makes good points with good [...]

I went to a small public school in Maine and then went to a competitive engineering school in Massachusetts. I went from a big fish in a small pond to a small fish in a big pond. I quickly established a philosophy that served me well back then and still does today …
There will always [...]

I’ve been trying to find ways to extend my wireless network to the backyard and possible to the adjacent building. There have been three great challenges: (1) I don’t want to buy any more networking gear while I am renting; (2) the rental has limited - aka old - infrastructure; and (3) I want to [...]

75 years ago today, the United States government enacted the minimum wage.
In 1933, that was $0.40/hour. What’s interesting is that if you take 75 years of inflation (a bit more than 1500%) as well as the cost of living index (which has risen from 13.1 to nearly 220) you end up [...]

Hey again. This started as a letter to a friend of mine who will be headed this way in a few weeks …
I was about to call it a night and a mash of things took place. I was brushing my teeth and thinking; “when he arrives, should I tell him that the evening news [...]