Back From The Other Side Of The Globe: Part 5 (The Sapphire Princess)
The Sapphire Princess was quite a remarkable ship and quite able to handle gale force winds and rough seas. The crew of 1,000+ did a superb job of managing an outbreak of Norovirus while at the same time providing great food, entertainment, and services. With a length of 946 feet and width of 123 feet […]
Back From The Other Side Of The Globe: Part 4 (Milford Sound, Tasmania, Melbourne and Sydney)
Dunedin was the home of Robert Burns and his statue sits prominently in the center of this quaint New Zealand city. Some people took a train tour, although we decided to do our own thing again. The train comes directly to the port to pick up passengers. It was a strange site to wake up […]
Blogging Beginnings
Someone asked me this week when I started blogging. The precursor to blogging for me started after a talk at Internet World in Washington, D.C. in December 1994. In my talk I shared a vision about the future of the Internet (which I have been talking about ever since). People would call my assistant at […]
Back From The Other Side Of The Globe: Part 3 (Wellington and South)
Departure from Auckland was the beginning of a 3,500 mile cruise along the eastern coast of New Zealand, almost due west to Tasmania and then on to Melbourne and Sydney. There were seven stops including the final one in Sydney. The cruise to Wellington was 615 miles and took roughly thirty-six hours. It is a […]
Penguin Power
I have to admit that I have been talking a lot about Linux lately. On February 16 the LinuxWorld Conference was held in Boston and I was fortunate to be a speaker there as I previously discussed. An interview entitled "It’s About Freedom" was published in Linux Executive Report and distributed at the conference. It […]
