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Rounding The Cape

We just turned north after rounding Cape Horn, near the bottom of the Earth. Less than four hundred years ago, people still thought the world was flat and that ships would "fall off" the globe if they went too far. Once that belief was shattered, mariners headed out onto the oceans, many seeking passage around […]

Be Back In Two Weeks

There is a long queue of things to write about but it is time for a break. I will be out of the country for two weeks. I’ll be posting the next story on March 21.

Blogging and Spam Update

One of the ways that you can tell if a new Internet technology is going to be successful is to look for skepticism. When people begin to say the hype exceeds the reality, it means we are on the way toward the reality exceeding the hype. I am not referring to new business models that […]

My Office Is Open

In a recent post I mentioned that I had built a spreadsheet with OpenOffice. OpenOffice.org is an open-source application and it is free. I do not use it because it is free. As I said in the ZDNet interview, the issue is not "free" — the issue is "freedom". OpenOffice is a multi-platform office productivity […]

Learning Something New Every Day

Every day I learn something new. Today I was at an organizing meeting for the First Annual Housatonic Habitat for Humanity Golf Outing. I can attest that I know almost nothing about golf. I played just once — in August 1976. I will never forget it — 98 degrees, 98% humidity, and no skill. That […]