MoMa and Harlem

The IBM IT Analyst Conference earlier this week was interesting and important as is the IBM/Forbes Executive Forum here in New York City today and tomorrow. There is a lot to be said and shared about virtualiization and On Demand. However, the highlight of the week was a reception and dinner at the The Museum […]

Constant Conferences

There are so many conferences. Seems like every major hotel is packed with attendees who are there to learn, share, make deals, make new friends and see old friends. Even though the Internet has made it possible to find almost anything and also to communicate in a myriad of ways — including realistic live video […]

Geocaching in Kauai and Pennsylvania

A personal review of the new Opera 8 browser is coming in next few days but I first wanted to finish the second half of the Kauai story. Since we had a very nice geocaching experience on the island and also today in Pennsylvania, this will become a geocaching update. The more I learn about […]

WiFi Update – No. 11

The first piece about WiFi in PatrickWeb was in November 2002. I have always felt the evolution would continue rapidly following the path taken by the Internet. I still believe that, and each day that goes by we see more of the evidence. One of the short-comings of WiFi currently is a lack of seamless […]

Rachmaninoff (and other “R”s)

This week was the return from Kauai and there was really no spare time, but we could not resist attending a lecture on Monday night at the Ridgefield Library about Rachmaninoff, presented by Maestro Sidney Rothstein, music director of the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra. Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninoff was born in 1873, one hundred and seventeen years […]