Category: Personal

Leaving aside technology for a moment, today’s news about hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan, remind me of my stay there a couple of years ago to attend a World Economic Forum meeting. I blogged about it. I’ll always remember the very tight security they had in place with humvees all around the hotels, and the…

We just returned from a great week of vacation south of Cancun in Mexico. Everything worked out just fine, except for the trip back home when we made the mistake of eating Guacamole at the "Taco Guacamole" (I think its name was) at the Cancun airport. My wife and I are still recovering … you…

Adrian Blakey recently started blogging at family.blakey.org/adrian. He is one of the few people who everybody says can see things just beyond the horizon… and has done so consistently over many years. Welcome Adrian! He started out commenting, as an insider, on a recent NY Times article on the future of healthcare. Both article and…

In the week after September 11, 2001, I wrote the following piece for the TEN newsletter. Hearing about today’s bombings in London, I feel compelled to re-publish. Last week’s horrific acts in New York and Washington took the lives of thousands, cost untold billions for reconstruction and reportedly were committed by a network of middle-eastern…

Yesterday’s personal news highlight, for me, was that: …a bunch of computer-generated gibberish masquerading as an academic paper has been accepted at a scientific conference … the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics as reported by CNN. This relates to me, for two reasons: My former boss Jürgen Bortolazzi, a prolific author of (good!)…