Honesty In Action
A young systems administrator at IBM in Cambridge, Massachusetts took a taxi cab ride home to his apartment on a recent Friday night. Seconds after getting out of the cab, he realized that he had forgotten his backpack. He turned to see the cab disappear into the night. The backpack contained an IBM ThinkPad storing […]
Earth At Night
In case you haven’t seen this image, I wanted to share it — courtesy of NASA. This strking image was taken at night from the space station. Click here for the NASA Astronomy Picture Of The Day. Or if you want something closer in, here is London at night.
Knovel
When I entered engineering school almost forty years ago (is that possible?), I used a slide rule and engineering reference manuals. I think of that as the first of three generations of using engineering and scientific data. The second generation was web-based data with PC’s for standalone and separate analysis. Knovel Corporation (pronouced nah-vil) has […]
Yonkers
Today was a day in New York, and with 6-12 inches in the forecast, I thought travel would be difficult. The train to Grand Central Station was right on time. A short walk to Madison Avenue and I was at Space Holdings – parent of space.com. Lou Dobbs launched space.com in 1999 and I was […]
Motorcycle Log
The sky is blue and I could not resist a motorcycle ride. It was twenty five degrees but sunny. I am ready for Spring — without electric gloves and vest. The forecast for tomorrow calls for 6-12 inches of snow!
