Apple at Grand Central Terminal
It was a coincidence that I had a board meeting in New York City yesterday, on the day that Apple was opening it’s fifth retail store there. The store opening was planned for 10 AM with collector teeshirts to be given to the first 4,000 visitors. I arrived at Grand Central Station from Connecticut at […]
Johannes Brahms
The Variations on a Theme of Haydn by Johannes Brahms was good, the Suite from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was excellent , but the Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 2 was fantastic. His second symphony was composed by Brahms, the German compser, during a visit to Austria during the summer of 1877. The composition […]
Boomerang Your E-mail
I wish I had a dollar for every task management application I have used over the last few decades. There are many good ones, but the task manager that consistently works for me–and that I always end up relying on the most–is email. It is not true for everyone, but for me, an email in […]
Nanoplugs
It was a beautiful day. The Trike had been in the shop for 20,000 mile service and it was a pleasure to pick it up and go for a ride. It had been running very rough — now it purrs like a kitten. The mechanic told me the problem was that the spark plugs were […]
Where Were You When…?
November 1995 (edited September 11, 2003 and November 23, 2011) Most of us remember vividly where we were on September 11, 2001. In my case, I was in Danbury, Connecticut in the board room at Bristol Technology meeting with their CEO, Keith Blackwell. Remember where you were when you first heard that President Kennedy was […]