Two Caches Out Of Three

As of today there are 181,216 active geocaches in 215 countries. In the last 7 days, there have been 138,512 new log entries written at geocaching.com by 24,318 participants in the global sport of geocaching. Two of those entries were from me — but it should have been three. The Split Rock Mini Cache included […]

Supernova 2005

There are a lot of good conferences — Supernova is one of the best. This year was the second time I have made the trip to San Francisco to attend. There were roughly 250 technologists, investors, business leaders and media who came together to network, share ideas, and explore the business impacts of many key […]

Interstates Redux

Three years ago a motorcycling adventure made me appreciate the back roads, although the physical drain of the trip made me appreciate the efficiency of the Interstates (see Do We Need the Interstate Highway System in America?). This year was a re-confirmation. We left the lake house in Pennsylvania at 6:30 in the morning and […]

Joe Kreitz — Retiring

Dear Joe, Congratulations on your retirement from IBM. It doesn’t seem that long ago that we were both in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the branch office. I am sure you are very proud of your nearly thirty-nine years with the company. You contributed a great deal — especially in squeezing many dollars of revenue and profit […]