Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Technology & Growth Conference

Friedman, Billings, Ramsey (FBR) will be hosting their 7th annual Technology & Growth Investor Conference in midtown Manhattan May 28-29. Presenters include more than 120 leading companies in technology (display and semiconductor, enterprise platform and application software, enterprise services, media infrastructure, network software, specialty contracting, telecom equipment & services and wireless services) and healthcare (specialty […]

Travel Woes

All things considered, we are very fortunate to have a transportation system that is highly reliable and gets us to where we want to go in an amazingly short time. The travel industry is a complex one and there is a huge legacy of process, management systems, and technology that makes it difficult to be […]

How To Fill A Pepper Ball

Of the many subjects I have written about on patrickWeb, the one thing that continues to elicit the most feedback is The Pepper Ball. I first wrote about it in the gadgets section of patrickWeb. For some unknown reason, it seems I have become the technical support department to the world’s pepper ball users! I have […]

Newsgator

Thanks to Buzz Bruggerman at Activewords for telling me about Newsgator. More on this later. It is a very nice blog reader that places news feeds right into Outlook. What is interesting is that you can also use Newsgator to make postings to your weblog.

Firetruck

Everything was on schedule as the Boeing 757 taxied toward the runway at the John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana. All of a sudden there was a loud crashing sound and the airplane shuttered. Apparently the fire truck driver had gone for lunch and left the emergency brake off. The giant yellow truck rolled across […]