Last Leg
We spent yesterday on the island of Koh Samui. Saw some very intelligent monkeys and elephants. Now cruising along the east coast of Malaysia on the way to Singapore, the last leg of the sea bound trip. We will then be just 9,581 miles from home.
On to Thailand from Vietnam
Our days in Hong Kong were great. The visits to Chan May, Nha Trang, and Saigon in Vietnam were even better. The trip up the Saigon river was especially interesting because of the huge variety of ships we saw. Economic development was abundantly clear. Ho Chi Minh City was extremely interesting. We saw the Pagoda, […]
Travel in Southeast Asia
I am somewhat out of touch for awhile due to travel. On Friday 10/14, I traveled to Malibu to participate in a panel at Election 2.016 at Pepperdine University. From there back to Denver to visit with family and then back to San Francisco and on to Hong Kong. Weather in Hong Kong was really […]
Watson, tell me about my doctor and turn down the heat
Jefferson hospital has launched a program with IBM to create cognitive hospital rooms powered by IBM Watson Internet of Things. Dr. Stephen Klasko is President and CEO at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Steve and I both went to Lehigh University and also University of South Florida. We served together on […]
The internet or the Internet?
The Associated Press Stylebook has declared internet and web should be lowercased. Other style guides are also insisting on the downcasing of internet, and you can see the change appearing daily in major media. Vint Cerf, recognized as one of “the fathers of the Internet”, and I don’t agree with the transformation. The word internet first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1974. […]