Posted in Uncategorized on May 9th, 2009 No Comments »
Tar-baby is a metaphor I find myself using and having to explain quite often. Metaphors are the essence of communication. They enable us to compare and contrast a situation in great detail with very few words. For instance, I can say “sour grapes” and evoke the entire Aesop story of the Fox and the Grapes […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Apparently PBS has made documentary entitled “Pioneers of Television.” There were multiple articles about it in the local paper. I only just found out about it because I only read the headlines of the local paper while I am wadding them up to make a fire. (It is quite cold today.)
The documentary is about the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2007 1 Comment »
It was seven score and four years ago today that Abraham Lincoln spoke these words.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Eclipse on Oct 29th, 2007 No Comments »
I was involved in the creation of an OSGi solution for the US Army for the Super Bowl XL security. It was an early implementation of SODA. It connected all the various nuclear, biological and chemical sensors that the US Army National Guard and US Department of Energy were using to detect hazardous materials. The […]