WiFi Update – No. 9

Where is WiFi headed? I don’t claim to have a crystal ball but one thing is for sure and that is that WiFi is making the Internet “always on” and extending it to more people and more devices at more locations. A number of us have predicted that WiFi would become like air and water […]

From Argentina

From ArgentinaAugust 26, 2004 Around the time of ibm.com’s tenth anniversary, I spoke with a number of reporters from Latin America. Leo González Pérez was very interested in some of the musical things I have done, hence the picture of me with a baton. I am an amateur to put it mildly. The concert was […]

Virtualization A La Shyam

Recently I wrote a short story about "virtualization". Feedback was that it made a really complicated subject a bit simpler to understand. One reader, Shyam Verma, a software specialist from South Carolina, offered a reflection about the subject that I thought it was relevant and well expressed. He put virtualization in a very broad context […]

Blogging Radio Program

Mena Trott and I will be guests on Sanjog Aul’s AVVAL Radio Talk Show on Technology. The current series of programs is entitled "Managing Technology The Right Way!", and the particular focus tomorrow will be blogging. Mena is co-founder of Six Apart which produces Movable Type (the blogging software which I use) and TypePad which […]

One Click Setup

There have been numerous press articles lately about the security problems with Internet Explorer. Some companies and government agencies have been recommending to their employees that they switch to a different browser. An obvious choice is the Opera browser. I have written about the virtues of the Opera browser quite a few times and I […]