Digital Music

Digital music consists of a large number of ones and zeroes. You can create digital music on a PC or with various digital musical instruments, but most digital music starts out as analog music. When you go to Alice Tully Hall in New York to hear a string quartet you are listening to analog music. […]

Heads Up — Demo Coming

I am fortunate to attend many conferences each year as one can see from the engagements calendar. I find them all productive but my all time favorite conference is Demo. Demo is recognized as the major event that "demos" the products and services poised to have the greatest impact on the technology landscape in the […]

First Quarter Conferences

The first quarter is going to be very busy. I plan to attend seven conferences and speak at five of them. Engagement calendar is now updated for 2005.

Word Craft

On the way to Brazil in October 2004, I read a book called Word Craft by Alex Frankel . The subject of the book is "naming", topic I have always been interested in. Frankel did a good job of getting behind the scenes at some of the top consulting companies that focus exclusively on coining […]

Two Cent Toyota

Doug Kaye at IT Conversations told me that Halley Suitt’s interview with me on her "Memory Lane" program has had 2,500 listeners. One of them was Ken Corneliusen, a fellow alumus of electrical engineering school at Lehigh University. Ken liked the mention of Lego’s but corrected my comment in the interview that Legos were not […]