The That Syndrome
I learned a lot about editing from Kathleen Imhoff, a friend and former librarian, who has edited hundreds of books. One thing she taught me is to eliminate unneeded use of the word “that”. I have become sensitive to the word in my own writing, and also in the writing of others. Journalists and authors […]
HamletHub Is All About Local
The word “local” is at least as powerful and important as the word “attitude”. We all care about what is going on in the world, but we care at least as much about what is going on where we live, in our local communities. HamletHub recognized the importance of local some years ago and built a […]
My First Job: IBM 50 Years Ago
Hard for me to believe, but I finished engineering school and joined IBM 50 years ago today, June 1. I was very fortunate to have many jobs during 35 years there. Introducing the IBM ThinkPad in 1992 was special, but my job as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for IBM’s Internet activities was definitely the […]
50th Reunion at Lehigh University
Thanks to fellow Lehigh University alumus, Tom Healy, for telling me about a It is hard for me to believe, but, this weekend was my 50th reunion after graduating from the College of Engineering at Lehigh University in 1967. I was really proud of the Class. We had 100 attendees, including four from Kappa Sigma, […]
Correction
The 3D printing story about printing a pelvis contained an error. It should have said “Pelvis: A rare bone cancer caused a patient to lose half of his pelvis.”However, there had been a similar situation in the U.K. where a man had lost half of his face due to cancer and it was replaced by […]
