Adirondacks
The total Trike ride was just short of 500 miles. The first day got us to Cassville (near Utica) where my brother lives. Utica is situated in the Mohawk Valley and is the seat of Oneida County. Like many industrial towns and cities in the northeastern Rust Belt, Utica has seen continuous reduction in manufacturing […]
Big Apple Happenings: April 2009
Most of the content at patrickWeb is related to technology but there are also stories about hiking, motorcycles, music and other topics. One of the subtle but important things about blogs is the ability to archive things — corporate press releases, progress on a project or healthcare related matter, and even personal trips or events. […]
Greenland – Part 4 (The Cable)
Last month’s Konference Sarfarissoq in Nuuk was hosted by Brian Pedersen, the CEO of Tele-Post Greenland, and the focus was the impact of the submarine cable which will soon bring broadband Internet to Greenland. A traditional kayak enabled the symbolic landing. The big news since my August trip is the actual arrival of the Alcatel […]
Route 7
Someday I will ride the entire 308 miles of U.S. Route 7 but this Tuesday it was just 120 miles of it. The day was perfect for a motorcycle ride — not too hot, not too cold. The north-south highway runs from Norwalk, Connecticut to northern Vermont near the Canadian border. As I was riding […]
DEMOfall 2008 in San Diego
DEMO continues to be my favorite conference — the semi-annual event took place this past week in San Diego, California. It was an uneventful trip from Palo Alto, where I had visited Mediazone, and on to San Francisco for a flight with Southwest (possibly the best airline in operation in the states) to San Diego […]
