WD-40 Origin
Thanks to Chris Forbes at Knovel Corporation for explaining what the 40 in WD-40 means. He says, “It took them 40 attempts to get the water displacing formula worked out”. Chris also says that the name came from “Water Displacement perfected on the 40th try”. They obviously did a really good job because the original […]
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 […]