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I have no facility for languages other than knowing the word for beer in 42 dialects. This is a handicap for someone who travels frequently to countries where English or even American is not widely...
View ArticleOut On The Edge
I’ve been to product announcements in a lot of strange and bizarre venues — a biker bar, a blimp, and even inside the Brooklyn Bridge. But the announcement of Lenovo’s two new ThinkPad Edge models of...
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The title represents things that all Windows users should do periodically but it is about some lingering items that I haven’t written about. The title sounds a like more interesting than “Spring...
View ArticleNature/Human Nature
Bethesda Fountain Central Park NY It’s the 21st Century. We have jumbo jets that practically fly themselves. We have instant global communications. We have satellites orbiting 22,000 miles above Earth...
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I took a technological sabbatical. After way too many years of being mired in the quicksand of tech innovation, I pulled myself out and mentally sat on the beach drinking Mojitos. It’snot that I got...
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I haven’t been traveling as much over the past couple of years. For the past 30 years or so I have been globetrotting. It was a dream come true for a poor kid from Indianapolis. I started to list...
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