Motorcycling in the Winter
A 1908 Harley-Davidson (one of the first) There is a separate Reflection on how it all got started. Probably the best day of motorcycling I have ever experienced was in December 1998 when the The Riding Club of Greenwich held its second annual ride to Blythedale Hospital to visit the children. The New York Cruisers […]
LEGO MindStorms
I knew it had to be something good when I read the caption on the user registration card which said “Top 5 Things NOT to do with your RCX”. They were…. 5. Don’t give your RCX your credit card number, it will just order more friends. 4. Don’t take your RCX to scary movies. Especially […]
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 […]