Visiting Mom
Mom was 84 on Monday and hopefully our visit made it special for her. It was a special day for my brother and me too because we took a 300 mile motorcycle trip to get there. It could have been a 185 mile trip but riding down the New Jersey turnpike is no fun. After […]
Books About IBM
There have been many books written about IBM. I own and have read eight of them. The first one on the list is A Business and its Beliefs, by Thomas J. Watson, Jr. It was published forty years ago, in 1963. I read it in 1967, the year I joined IBM. The annual report for […]
List of Books About IBM
There are many books about IBM. The ones below are those that I own and have read. Click here for a story I wrote about IBM and the books. Each listing has a link to Amazon for purchase if you are interested. (All commissions earned from books bought through patrickWeb are donated to charity). The […]
Do Not Call It Windows — Do Not Call Me
I continue to believe that the only way to beat the spam problem is through the use of technology, as I have written before. I don’t think the proposed “Do Not Spam” registry has any chance of working. This is partly because of the complexity of the management and security issues that would have to […]
We all wanted the sun
We all wanted the sun to come out and the potential for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) to go away. We got what we asked for. Instead of what we thought was unbearable chill and drizzle, we now have something that truly is unbearable — a heat index of 100 degrees. All things considered, we are […]
