Library of Congress in Fifteen Minutes
CNet posted a story by Michael Kanellos called "Blazing a New Data Speed Record" (11/30/2004). The net of it (no pun intended) is that a team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology, CERN, Fermilab, England’s University of Manchester, and elsewhere won this year’s Supercomputing Bandwidth Challenge by successfully achieving a sustained data transfer […]
The GIO
Innovation is one of those words that is a bit hard to internalize. Merriam-Webster says innovation is the introduction of something new or a new idea, method, or device. That would be a narrow definition — perhaps even obsolete. Innovation is much more than invention or introducing new technology. Some would say that innovation is […]
Two Percent – Chapter 5
The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce has announced that their estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the third quarter of 2004 was $17.6 billion, an increase of 4.7 percent from the second quarter of 2004 and 21.5 percent from the third quarter of 2003. E-commerce sales in the third quarter accounted for […]
Vasa
The Vasa Museum houses the world’s only surviving 17th-century ship and is one of the foremost tourist sights in the world. It is one of those places that you have to see to believe. I put some pictures in the photo gallery, but as usual my photographic skills are weak. The mighty Swedish warship, the […]
Opera In Oslo
There are so many interesting things to see in Scandinavia that one could spend weeks or months exploring them. The main purpose of the trip was to spend a day with the Opera Software management team and board of directors. That was an extremely long day but hopefully productive for all participants. One thing is […]
