Motorcycle Log
The sky is blue and I could not resist a motorcycle ride. It was twenty five degrees but sunny. I am ready for Spring — without electric gloves and vest. The forecast for tomorrow calls for 6-12 inches of snow!
Books, Plays, and Restaurants Update
Harley-Davidson Rolling Sculpture – A Pictorial Celebration Of The First 95 Years by Doug Mitchel. Nobody but a Harley rider would be interested in this book. It is a very nice chronology showing how the bikes have evolved. Great photography. This weekend marked the twentieth year in a row that a group of longtime friends […]
e-tirement update
When I “retired” fifteen months ago after 35 years at IBM, my friends and colleagues held an “e-tirement” party. I’ll never forget it. What is “e-tirement? Not sure there is a formal definition — I guess it is mostly continuing to do what I have been doing for quite a few years — writing about, […]
WiFi – Update No. 7
I have been writing quite a bit about WiFi — as you know. It is clearly on my list of “the next big things”. Recently I spent some time talking with Matthew Miller, Special Projects Editor at EDN and CommVerge which is part of the Reed Electronics Group.The title of Matthew’s story is “Wave propagation” […]
Truck Stop WiFi
Three million truckers in America will now have wireless Internet access at 1,000 Truck Stops. In a press release earlier this week, IBM and Rocksteady Networks announced that the companies will provide the infrastructure for Columbia Advanced Wireless (CAW) to enable broadband wireless Internet access at truck stops throughout the country.The Rocksteady software will run […]