IBM Happenings: June 2007
The month of June at IBM was filled with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. One of the biggies is that IBM has allocated $1 billion for green technology. Called “Project Big Green,” IBM’s initiative targets corporate data centers where energy constraints and costs can limit their ability to […]
Book Update: 2Q2007
So many great books, so little time! I read a number of blogs to gain information like most of us, but there is no substitute yet for enjoying a hard-cover book. Every once in a while I post a list of books I have been reading. They all have reviews at Amazon that are much […]
Mystic Creatures
Nothing could be better than going to the American Museum of Natural History with your granddaughter. There are always special exhibits — today we saw Mythic Creatures, Frogs, and Dinosaurs Alive!. Frogs was really interesting. I was not aware that there are more than 5,000 different kinds of them. The museum had a large collection […]
Supernova – 2007
There are a lot of good conferences — Supernova is one of the best. This week was the third time I have made the trip to San Francisco to attend. There were roughly 350 technologists, investors, business leaders and media who came together to network, share ideas, and explore the business impacts of many key […]
Spam Arrest — part 3
I started using spamarrest eleven months ago and all of my email goes through and mail that is not spam goes from there to my inbox. As of today spamarrest processed 50,129 inbound emails for me and 10,711 of them made it to my inbox. Spam represented 78.63% of the mail addressed to me. In […]