San Francisco had a major power outage this evening. I was initially unaware of it, because I was riding BART on my way to tonight’s performance of the Messiah with the chorus. The first I heard of it was when we stopped at the Montgomery BART station and the operator said “We’re not stopping at […]
Category: journal
A talk by Peter Schwartz
After missing the talk by Brian Eno last month, I really wanted to see the next talk in the Long Now series. The December talk was by Peter Schwartz, a well-known futurist and business strategist. Schwartz was a co-founder of Global Business Network, a consulting company that uses scenario planning, a strategy of exploring possible […]
Buying media
As sort of a semi-pre-Christmas present to myself, I went a little bit nuts in buying media for myself this weekend. Here’s the sum total for y’all’s entertainment. I ordered some stuff from Amazon: Crossing the Chasm, by Geoffrey A. Moore (because all of our marketing people at work are talking about the chasm, so […]
My old web page
I was looking at Rob Calhoun’s web page, after he was so kind as to link to this blog, and read his entry about finding his old MIT web page and seeing how similar it was to his current one. So I looked for mine. And I found it. And, yup, it’s pretty much identical […]
Missing Brian Eno
(written 11/14/03) So I missed the Brian Eno talk because I was blogging here. D’oh! Okay, not quite. The talk was at 8pm, and they warned that people should get there early because it was a free talk. But I go to a lot of weird little events where nobody shows up, concerts where there […]
