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Maybe the economic crises will save the world
As I have often said, “Cancer saved my life”. When I was 51 years old, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Several months later I was treated with radiation therapy. It has now been almost 12 years and I seem to be fine. Many would say I was cured. But back in 1996 when I … Continue reading
Not about politics but about good versus evil
Chris Nolan who is the editor and founder of Spot On (www.spot-on.com). Interviewed me the recent presidential election and why I was such a strong supporter of Obama when I had been suggesting ten years earlier that the Internet was going to make Goverment and Politics less relivant. You can read her post here. But … 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
Apple the Singapore of technology
was once quoted by USA Today calling Apple the Singapore of Technology. I like Singapore actually. It is very clean, very planed and very safe and very controlled. But I would never want to live there. 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
Priluki to San Francisco
My great grandmother’s family lived in a small town in the Ukraine called Priluki for a very long time. I was able to trace my family back to about 1760 but they could have been there for hundreds of year before. My great great grandfather was a butcher. He was born in 1830. He died … 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 