WD-40 and eBill
WD-40 is celebrating their 50th year. I am not sure how many people know about WD-40. Probably millions have seen the brand but not actually used it. If you like to tinker around in your garage or basement, you likely know WD-40 well, as I do. In 1953, three technicians had the vision that a […]
Skyline Wilderness Park
The Magellan SporTrak Color GPS receiver said that the geocache at Skyline Wilderness Park in Napa Valley, California was 2,562 miles from home. The park is a private sector operation and the land is leased from the State. The Park is open to hikers, bicyclists and horseback riders. There are a large number of trails […]
Favorite Places
In 1995, when I first launched patrickWeb (then it was ibm.com/patrick), one of my goals was to share links to web sites I had found interesting. There was no Google back then and most people did not know about Yahoo!. Whenever I ran into an a site I thought would be of interest to my […]
Frequent Penalty Program
It seems as though I am having difficulty with every airline website. They have such a complicated business and are under such enormous financial pressures that it is hard to be too critical. They are actually making great progress — albeit a long way to go to become on demand e-businesses. What is an on-demand […]
Ludvig Van Beethoven
Ingrid Schwaegermann has developed a great web site about Ludwig Van Beethoven. It is quite comprehensive with a biography section, a picture gallery, musician’s comments and stories about Beethoven’s works. The site is available in English and German. Speaking of Beethoven, my friend and maestro Sidney Rothstein told me about an interesting technology deployment involving […]
