On The Air
The world has gone video, but radio is far from dead. I have many fond memories about radio technology. As a teenager I was an active amateur radio operator. I first became a ham at age 15 in 1960 (See Hobbies – Ham radio). In engineering school in the 1960s, I was an announcer on Lehigh […]
Some Assembly Required
Reflection – written July 12, 2002 I have been struggling to rehabilitate my knee for more than a year now. After running for so many years, it is really hard to do without it. Doctors have recommended swimming but I am not a good swimmer and swimming has never appealed to me. A friend has […]
The Glass Engine
Reflection – written June 24, 2002 The Glass Engine represents a very interesting new approach to searching and interacting with information. (Note: unfortunately it requires Microsoft Internet Explorer). I suspect you will be as impressed as I was when you see this remarkable technology prototype. It was developed by Mark Podlaseck at IBM’s Hawthorne, New […]
Subway Surfing
Reflection – written June 22, 2002 I was driving down Main Street in a small New England town in early 2002 when I got a craving for a sandwich. I stopped at a Subway Sandwich shop and enjoyed a sandwich while looking at some offline email on my ThinkPad. Just before leaving I got the impulsive idea […]
My PhotoGallery
Reflection – written June 5, 2002 I started my first PhotoGallery in 1995, shortly after I built ibm.com/patrick. The nice folks at Kodak loaned me one of their new (at the time) DC-210 digital cameras and I began to take pictures all over the world. It is quite commonplace today but back in the mid-nineties […]
