I hesitated posting this entry since it seems more personal than business related. The “softer” side, if you will.
Tim Russert, who grew up 3 blocks from my father, moderator of NBC’s “Meet The Press” has passed on much too early. This is truly a tragic loss — to Buffalo, to politics, to family [...]

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Consumer electronics: the next market for Identity and Access Management software?  We just took a giant leap towards that reality with the availability of an “Internet connectivity kit” for the Jura F90 coffee maker.
We take an even larger step towards needing IdM at home when said “Internet connectivity kit” doesn’t require a username or password [...]

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Airlines are still putting themselves out of business.
Last week, I flew to Chicago for a meeting. My wife also had a meeting in Chicago at the same time, so we flew together. My meeting went fine. Hers did not. Why? Because the speaker for the breakfast she was hosting (250 [...]

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Security is making people NOT fly.
I’m getting old and crotchety. Apparently I’m not alone. CNN reports that 100,000 people a day are choosing NOT to fly, because of the “inconvenience” involved. That’s 41 million flights a year. ( http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/05/30/airtravel.decline.ap/index.html )
We all started flying, commercially, 70 years ago because it was “convenient”; [...]

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