2024 Posts
Run, run, run, run, away
Let me be clear about one thing. I am not a “clickbait” person. I am rabid in my skepticism of headlines that seem too good to be true, especially from unknown websites. But this one caught my eye: “Five ...
Happy International Women’s Day! (Good luck with that…)
This year marks 51 years since the first International Women’s Year and 41 years since the end of the momentous United Nations “Decade For Women.” Luckily, these events were all it took to bring those of us with two X ...
Send in the Bots
In case you thought that scam artists using AI as their surrogate of choice were relegated to cloned-celebrity endorsements of crypto get-rich-quick schemes or sure-thing investments in nonexistent gold mines, I am pleased to inform you that the bot-jockeys are ...
A Suite Deal
Those of you who know me will know I am a Marriott maven. I regularly amass a bazillion points and have achieved platinum status. Alas, that’s not the top-most tier (you have to stay 75 nights a year to get ...
My Friend Robert Redford
Just kidding. Never met the guy, although did come within 20 feet of him. This is the account of almost meeting him at an IBM event in 2001, which is in my most recent book (July 2025), If It’s Shreveport, ...
Snail mail fail
My interim snail mail address, until I move to my new urban digs, is a rural mailbox. The kind that sits on top of a pole by the side of the road. It’s shaped kind of like a loaf of ...
Sneak preview of my latest memoir
I cram my red hair into my helmet, heft my bike out the door and down the peeling wooden stairs of a sad porch that leans to the left, then wheel it along the cracked concrete of the front walkway. ...
My friend Ozzy Osbourne
Please suspend your disbelief. Ozzy and I had a very intense relationship in the early 1970s. Or at least, Black Sabbath and I were a thing at the time, although I admit it may have been a little one-sided. Let ...
My Friend Dave Sage
I met Dave at my first job at a company called Dataline in 1979, a company I talk about in detail in my second book, How I Invented the Internet. I was in possession of a master’s degree in library ...