Norway in a Nutshell
Trondheim was a short flight from Oslo which we had reached by flying overnight from Newark, New Jersey. Unfortunately, our bags did not arrive until six hours later. In spite of rainy cool weather, we found Trondheim to be a delightful place to visit. I would highly recommend the The Palmehaven restaurant at the Britannia […]
The Application Web – Part 2
It was good to run into a lot of old friends in Orlando this week at the IBM Impact 2007 technology conference. I would have to say that it was a defining event. With 4,200 customers, IBM business partners, and IBMers attending there was obviously something really big happening. The Marriott Orlando World Center was […]
China 2007 – Epilogue
Visiting China is an eye opener culturally and economically. It is a rapidly developing country and it appears that special interest groups do not get in the way of progress. Perhaps it was the same way when America was building the Hoover Dam or the Interstate Highway system. I was quite impressed with aviation in […]
New Home for patrickWeb
It was time for patrickWeb to get a new home. The original site — ibm.com/patrick — was setup in 1995 and IBM has been kind enough to continue to maintain the link. Then, after e-tirement at the end of 2001, I setup patrickWeb. For the first year I rented some server space in New York […]
IP Everything
IP/SBC notes 50 million lines connections into homes. 20+m wireless. 7m high speed Internet. SBC believes the world is moving to all IP. Moving to all IP backbone which will allow anytime, anywhere access to communications and entertainment services on any device. IP based offerings in Voice, Video and Data. Project Lightspeed Network. IP video […]