Kaua’i
The Global Internet Project meeting begins on Monday in Honolulu. A good friend invited my wife and I to visit with her for a few days ahead of time at her house at Moana Kai Beach in Papa’a on the island of Kaua’i in Hawaii. The brisk two mile walk before breakfast the first morning […]
Mozart’s Music Warms Ridgefield Audience
Review of Ridgefield Orchestra Concert—January 10, 2003—Jim Pegolotti The Danbury News-Times Early January is a time when orchestras usually are silent, so it was a particular pleasure to attend an all-Mozart concert at the Ridgefield Playhouse on Saturday evening. The Ridgefield Orchestra, scaled down to an appropriate classical era size of 26 instrumentalists, planned to […]
Linux In The Kitchen
The pace of Linux in personal digital assistants will likely begin to accelerate. The Sharp Zaurus is already available and users are enthusiastic. Corporate buyers may be also. In addition to the obvious virtures of Linux, a more subtle attraction is that a Linux PDA can run Java applications and Java is quite good for […]
Today’s Visions of the Science of Tomorrow
John Brockman is a literary agent (and agent for my book, Net Attitude) and the publisher of Edge.org, a Web site devoted to science. At the end of each year, John poses a question to leading scientists, writers and futurists. In 2002, he asked respondents to imagine that they had been nominated as White House […]
People Really Use The Internet
The Pew Internet & American Life Project, in Washington, D.C., continues to do very interesting studies on the cultural aspects of the Internet. Their most recent report provides some solid survey data showing how engrained the Internet has become in American life. Seem obvious in a way but nice to see that someone is putting […]
