Is our media wearing out?
Reflection – written October 23 , 1998 Ever think about media wearing out? I was cleaning out the basement the other day and I came across a box of 5.25″ diskettes. Lots of them. They date back to 1979 when I had a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III. The diskettes stored 80,000 bytes! Seemed like […]
Motorcycle Riding: How It All Started
Reflection – written October 11 , 1998 It all started in 1970 when I was drafted into the U.S. Armyand was stationed at MacDill Air Force base in Tampa, Flordia. MacDill was the home of the U.S. Strike Command. STRIKE stood for “swift retaliation in any known environment” and it focused on preparedness for activity in the […]
History of this site
Reflection – written September 24 , 1998 In late 1993, I wrote a paper called “Get connected”. It was about how companies could open themselves up, become more accessible, and generally increase their communications capabilities dramatically by using the Internet. The ideas would seem trivial today but back then they were somewhat controversial. I first […]
The Art of the Motorcycle
It was quite a trip! Started out at Carl Conti’s house in South Salem, NY at 7:30 AM and went down to Banksville, NY to meet up with The Riding Club of Greenwich (Connecticut). From there we went to Bear Mountain Inn to meet up with the Ducati Club of Morristown, NJ. The combined groups […]
Electronic Commerce
Electronic commerce means different things to different people. To many it means electronic shopping. I think over time it will mean much more than that and will include things like certified mail, transfer of medical records, applying for mortgages, loans, and life insurance, and perhaps filing a will. All these things and others will be […]