Book Update: 2Q2007

So many great books, so little time! I read a number of blogs to gain information like most of us, but there is no substitute yet for enjoying a hard-cover book. Every once in a while I post a list of books I have been reading. They all have reviews at Amazon that are much […]

Mystic Creatures

Nothing could be better than going to the American Museum of Natural History with your granddaughter. There are always special exhibits — today we saw Mythic Creatures, Frogs, and Dinosaurs Alive!. Frogs was really interesting. I was not aware that there are more than 5,000 different kinds of them. The museum had a large collection […]

Supernova – 2007

There are a lot of good conferences — Supernova is one of the best. This week was the third time I have made the trip to San Francisco to attend. There were roughly 350 technologists, investors, business leaders and media who came together to network, share ideas, and explore the business impacts of many key […]

Spam Arrest — part 3

I started using spamarrest eleven months ago and all of my email goes through and mail that is not spam goes from there to my inbox. As of today spamarrest processed 50,129 inbound emails for me and 10,711 of them made it to my inbox. Spam represented 78.63% of the mail addressed to me. In […]

Stem Viruses

One of the scary things out there is the potential spread of infectious diseases such as avian influenza (bird flu), dengue fever, and other dangerous viruses. The challenge has always been to try to gain an understanding of how they spread — what they will do next. Will the virus mutate? Will it jump across […]