Travels and GPS
I have been very fortunate to be able to travel around the country and the world, especially during the last fifteen years while sharing and learning a lot about the future of the Internet. One of my hobbies for many years has been experimenting with the Global Positioning System. When traveling by car or motorcycle […]
RHIO’s Are Coming
One of the focus areas of PC Forum was healthcare. Scott Cook, Co-founder of Intuit, which makes Quicken, talked about the importance of quality control in hospitals in order to reduce medical errors which lead to unnecessary deaths. He also talked about Intuit’s hope for Quicken Medical Expense Manager, a new tool to allow individuals […]
PC Forum 2006
PC Forum has normally been held in Phoenix but this year (15th for me) moved to Carlsbad, California (near San Diego). The travel to conferences is not always a joy but they do tend to be in nice places — too bad I am not a golfer. PC Forum is always interesting because it focuses […]
FeedBlitz
I greatly appreciate the readership and feedback from those who visit patrickWeb. Readers "visit" in one of three ways. Most use one of the many blog readers that are available. The Opera browser is a good choice — it has a very nice built-in RSS (blog) reading feature. When you click on the orange XML […]
“That’s not going to change”
While driving to Reading, Pennsylvania, earlier this week to visit Maestro Sidney Rothstein for a conducting lesson (more on Beethoven’s Prometheus Overture later), I tuned in to Bloomberg radio. The reporter was interviewing John Thain, CEO of the New York Stock Exchange (NYX), which had just started its first day as a public company. The […]
