My son, Adin and I just had a discussion about social media and a lesson on using twitter and in particular Tweet Deck. Adin has spent the last 15 years (his entire career) working for and with non profit institutions. Lately he has focused his attention on the use of Social Media for non profits … Continue reading
Category Archives: About life in the last third
Music and the PC
I just got a link (and an email) from Stanly Jungleib who founded Seer Systems and was responsible for the development of the first professional software synthesizer. Stanley had been a member of the group that founded MIDI which is a industry protocol that is still used (I use it almost every day) represent music. … Continue reading
Blog Guilt
It has been a long time since I posted here and for a while I have had a vague sense of guilt about it. Frankly, I do not really know why. I don’t have that many people that read my blog. I think I must feel guilty because I do think that I have something … Continue reading
One year to medicare (if it is still available)
On Jan. 27th I turned 64. It amazes me to find myself at this age. When I was a child of ten, I can remember thinking that I would be fifty years old in 1995 and even stretched myself to think of being fifty five in the year 2000 but that is where it stopped. … Continue reading
Dear Blog
I feel like I have neglected you to hang out on Facebook and even sneak off with Twitter. Continue reading
Supper Senior
My dad turned 85 in April. We were having lunch before he was going out on a date with a woman 14 years younger than him. My dad works out about three hours a day and can bench press abut 160 pounds. I was was telling him that I am planing t have a major … Continue reading
Goodbye Roy Moffa
I was just looking for some old and important contacts and discovered that the man that gave me my first major chance in the computer industry had died recently (see). I wanted to remember him here and tell the story about how Roy opened the door to my future. In 1979, my wife and I … Continue reading
Life is a limited time offer. Use yours while it is still available
I have started to write music again. The last time, I composed was about twenty years ago. Then like now, I used a computer to help me although the technology has advanced so much during that time, it is hard to compare. I stop writing because it took more of a kind of concentration that … Continue reading
Bill Gates and me
As you probably know, Bill Gates is leaving the employment of Microsoft the company he founded in 1975. Bill and I have had overlapping lives. I actually started working on computers a few years before Bill (being 10 years older then Bill helped). And while I am not Bill Gates I can imagine what it … Continue reading
12 step program to go from Microsoft to Apple
I am on step 11. Step 1: Buy vista an become convinced that not only will things not get better but they will only get worse. Step 2: Stop thinking that your Mac friends are delusional and imagine that they might be on to something Step 3: Stop thinking about all the problems you might … Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 