After a marathon day of travel from Newark, New Jersey (involving getting up at midnight to taxi to the airport, 6 hours in Newark airport, ...

Some links for you on this day that we honor our veterans: My blog-girl Rachel Lucas on her visit to Normandy .  Her experience echoes my ...

Sit down in a nice, comfortable chair with a box of Kleenex at hand.  If your smile wrinkles are underused, grease 'em up with a little ...

Here's an excellent TED talk about the influence of religions on population growth.  It's an excellent counterpoint to the theories ...

Steve McIntyre, despite his earlier claims that he'd be slowing down his blogging, is back in force.  This post of his is a classic take...

Rachel Lucas cracks me up : ...and she already knew I was an overachiever in social awkwardness.

And an excellent essay to go along with them (in the New York Times, of all places).  Also, see this piece by Tom Manion : Why They Serve...

Your blogger is back in the USA, and even had a day of rest (at my parents' home in Virginia).  I'm not sure what time zone my body ...

Well, we had a fantastic event at Knowledge12 earlier this week.  As always, I had a chance to meet and talk with many customers, partners, ...

Well, actually, just about everyone.  A few months ago, when our very own Governor Moonbeam (aka Jerry Brown) introduced his budget, every...

The GAO reports that recoverable oil reserves in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming are “ about equal to the entire world's proven reserves ”...

Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk This Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk was lost during 1942, and the pilot was never seen again.  The crashed craft is in su...

The graph at right shows Rasmussen's daily presidential tracking poll of Obama vs. Romney.  It's encouraging, but it's still ...

My company ( ServiceNow ) has an annual U.S. users conference, called “Knowledge”.  This year's conference is “ Knowledge12 ”, and will ...

We're talking about the Opportunity on Mars, the pluckly little rover that just keeps on going and going.  It's been “asleep” for th...

We're talking about Naomi Schaefer Riley, a journalist who dared to make uncomfortable (and most definitely not politically correct!) o...

Imagine the planet Earth.  Now imagine all the water on the planet – the oceans, rivers, lakes, snow, ice, groundwater, water in plants and...

Remembering World War II ; very nicely done...