One Click Setup

There have been numerous press articles lately about the security problems with Internet Explorer. Some companies and government agencies have been recommending to their employees that they switch to a different browser. An obvious choice is the Opera browser. I have written about the virtues of the Opera browser quite a few times and I […]

Riding Through New England

I am overdue to write an update about WiFi and I promise to do so soon. In the meantime, I can’t resist sharing about a motorcycle trip through New England that I was fortunate to make this week. The weather forecast was marginal but my brother and I had planned for quite some time to […]

Doo Wop – Why Don’t They Stop

Most of the entries in the Favorite Concerts page are classical music concerts, but last night at The Ridgefield Playhouse was another kind of "classical" music. The "Doo-Wop and Oldies Spectacular" featured classics of the 50s & 60s. It was a real trip down memory lane with Emil Stucchio and the Classics (& Till Then& ), The […]

Extreme Blue and Global Village

This was a very special week for me as I was privileged to spend a lot of time with students. On Tuesday I met with Extreme Blue interns — top computer science and business students from some of the top universities in America. The Extreme Blue program, which began in 1999 at an IBM facility […]

Five Percent: Epilogue

After 48 hours, the points have still not show up at Marriott Rewards, so they were correct when they said it would take 3-5 days (to move data from server to server). I do not mean to condemn Marriott — it may be that American Express sent the data in a proprietary format that requires […]