Category: Personal

In the olde days, parents would teach their kids when and how to take off their hat, and how to address a town notable. In the early days of the internet, we got netiquette, primarily focused on the new social technologies of e-mail and and bulletin boards, although it now seems to be largely forgotten…

… is on Flickr here. Rafe Needleman, our moderator would be here.

Right here as one of the speakers at PC Forum 2005. Thanks Esther and Rafe!

Often people (non-engineers) are puzzled about what makes engineers tick. Asking, for example, why there is open source software? Why are they doing this? This article doesn’t have an answer either. But it sure is a great story. I certainly remember when I discovered GraphingCalculator on my then-girlfriend’s (now wife) new PowerMac: it was an…

Bob Lechner, one of the old CDIF people (my Intro to CDIF, although mostly only of historical interest now, is still on-line), gave me this picture taken at a CDIF meeting which took place — if I recall this correctly — in January 1996. It was taken on the deck of the Del Coronado Hotel,…