Always On — almost: part 2

Nothing like being at Washington National Airport on a Friday afternoon waiting for a flight. I have to admit that having the Sprint PCS CDMA card in my ThinkPad makes it more bearable. WiFi will be everywhere but it isn’t yet. Dial-up is hardly an acceptable alternative. Sprint’s “3G” service *is* a good alternative (see […]

Spam Fighting Technologies

SPAMfighter is a small tool that you can easily install on your computer. Whenever new mail arrives, it will automatically be tested by the SPAMfighter server and if it’s spam, it will be moved to your spam folder. Cloudmark is a company that stops spam before it costs you money. Cloudmark’s groundbreaking, peer-to-peer (P2P) solution […]

Knovel

When I entered engineering school almost forty years ago (is that possible?), I used a slide rule and engineering reference manuals. I think of that as the first of three generations of using engineering and scientific data. The second generation was web-based data with PC’s for standalone and separate analysis. Knovel Corporation (pronouced nah-vil) has […]

Yonkers

Today was a day in New York, and with 6-12 inches in the forecast, I thought travel would be difficult. The train to Grand Central Station was right on time. A short walk to Madison Avenue and I was at Space Holdings – parent of space.com. Lou Dobbs launched space.com in 1999 and I was […]

PC Forum

I am just now back in the country and will get to Scottsdale for PC Forum later this afternoon. PC Forum is an important conference — great way to stay in touch with many friends in the industry and stay abreast of the latest thinking by many industry leaders. I’ll have more to say about […]