Singapore: First stop
This is going to be a very long flight but, if you have to spend a lot of time on an airplane, Singapore Airlines is the one to be with. The Boeing 747 departed late from JFK but strong tailwinds got us into Frankfurt, Germany ahead of schedule. For security reasons, everyone had to depart […]
Getting Ready To Go To Singapore
In a few hours I will be on the way to Singapore. It has been a busy day getting packed and organized for the trip. As of 11:10 a.m. this morning, I had already received 83 spam emails. Fortunately, every single one of them was automatically placed in my "junk mail" folder and I did […]
Technical Update
The conversion to Movable Type is complete now and I would like to thank those who have sent me feedback. In particular I would like to thank those who have caught some things that broke in the process. I am finding Movable Type very powerful and it offers me new featues for the blogging. Some of the naming conventions […]
Conferences
On Saturday I will be heading to Singapore to participate in the IBM Forum 2003. IBM has invited strategic business decision makers and operational decision makers such as the CIO and IT managers. Being on-line is critical but being in-person at conferences is important too. In 1992 I went to the Agenda conference for the […]
IBM Earnings – 2Q/2003
I don’t normally post IBM news reports, but the current earnings report got me thinking about the information technology industry more broadly so I decided to share my simple observation. In my travels to conferences around the world I have heard people say that spending for information technology is not growing, or is flat, or […]