Lenovo – 2

From the feedback I have gotten to "ThinkPad Futures", it sounds like a lot of people are happy that the ThinkPad lives on after the Lenovo acquisition. While there is a large community of individual ThinkPad customers out there, most ThinkPad users are employees of the major enterprises of the world. That has been the […]

iTrike Riding

It was not exactly a sunny and warm day but, as long as the roads are dry, I like to go out for a motorcycle ride on Sunday afternoons. Winter riding is actually very nice and refreshing — as long as you have the electric vest and gloves plugged in. They really did the job […]

IT Leadership Academy – 2004

An IBM colleague from years past, Craig Fellenstein, has been helping out with a significant initiative called the IT Leadership Academy. The program is sponsored by the Governor of Connecticut and is designed to bring 180 public High School students together to work on IT related projects during the school year. The participating high schools […]

ThinkPad Futures

In 1992 I was fortunate to have an assignment in IBM’s personal systems group. I had been CFO in the computer integrated manufacturing unit of IBM just prior to that and was quite happy with what I was doing. However, a friend of mine, who was #2 guy in the personal systems group at the […]

WiFi Update No. 10 (The WanderPort)

WiFi is making the Internet “always on” and extending it to more people and more devices at more locations. But what about in the middle of the desert? Or in a disaster recovery situation, or large-scale events and on-location film productions where there may be no electrical and network infrastructure? Enter the WanderPod. From the […]