Rhinebeck Aerodrome

Aviation has been a hobby for me since I first learned to fly in a Cessna 150 in 1970. Later earning a commercial ticket and an instrument rating made flying not only fun but practical. After moving away from the Philadelphia area to Connecticut in 1981, flying became less practical for a number of reasons […]

Big Blue Going Green

When you click on a link, a server in a datacenter somewhere gets the job of finding the web page or process you requested and delivering it to your browser over the Internet. One user on the Internet and one server at the other end serving one web page is quite trivial. With millions of […]

IBM Happenings: September 2007

The month of September set a face pace for the last third of the year. The month was filled with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. One of the most interesting announcements to me was that IBM unveiled innovations for healthcare that will have a dramatic impact on patients, […]

iPhone – Update No. 8

The price cut is understandable. It is not unprecedented by any means and the rebate was handled well by Apple. Nobody was forced to be an early adopter. People were forced to sign up for AT&T but it was no secret. It was announced that way, promoted that way, and is somewhat understandable even though […]

iPhone – Update No. 7

The $100 rebate was a good move by Apple. I was impressed that within a couple of weeks they had a rock solid online application to actually get the rebate coupon. Considering the testing needed to put out a public web application it was very timely. Big companies often take months to do something like […]