Blog Index

  • Steve Kirsch on Fox Business

    Here is an older video piece of Steve Kirsch talking about Abaca Technology on Fox Business from this past December. The technique in which Abaca’s technology blocks spam tends to be difficult for folks to grasp and it seems that the anchor wasn’t quite getting it. Read more

  • Where am I working now?

    Did you know that 95% of email sent out in 2007 was SPAM? For some reason, a number of folks think that I left HP for Google which is not the case. Google would be a great place to work but I needed something smaller. Something that would allow me to get the experience and… Read more

  • HP stock tanks after I leave …

    I can’t help but continue to track the HP stock even though I sold off all my vested options at its peak at the end of 2007. Note, my last day at HP was January 2nd and notice the instantaneous market reaction! Since then, the stock has tried but has not been able to recover.… Read more

  • NY Giants Win Superbowl!

    Can you believe it? As a long time New York Giants fan, I cannot believe it myself. 0-2 start, Shocky breaks his leg, Coughlin couldn’t connect with his players, Eli couldn’t stop turning the ball over and the list of mid-season issues goes on and on. A regular list of issues if you’re a frustrated… Read more

  • Funny Web 2.0 Bubble Video

    … and very much inline with my thoughts on the craziness going on right now. Read more

  • Moving on from HP Software

    This month I put in my two weeks notice from Hewlett-Packard. Below is the original blog post when I decided to join Mercury Interactive (at the time). It’s amazing how the time goes by. 3/1/2004 Announcement: Sarah and I are excited to announce that we are moving to Bellevue, Washington just outside of Seattle. I… Read more

  • Google’s OpenSocial (or “Maka-Maka”) Coming Soon

    TechCrunch had an interesting post today about Google’s new project called OpenSocial (or what TechCrunch previously called “Maka-Maka”). Michael writes, The new project, called OpenSocial (URL will go live on Thursday), goes well beyond what we’ve previously reported. It is a set of common APIs that application developers can use to create applications that work… Read more

  • Earthquake!

    Earthquake! Tonight a 5.6 magnitude eartquake hit the bay area 9 miles outside of San Jose. My wife and I were discussing finances on the couch when all of the sudden, the couch started to shake. I never heard the “loud thunder” that everyone talks about but I definitely felt the shaking. It lasted about… Read more

  • Bloomberg Article on HP Software

    Below is an interesting article on the HP’s Software strategy. I bolded a few interesting comments. Hewlett-Packard Banks on Software, Faces Hurdles (Update2) By Connie Guglielmo   Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) — Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd, who revived the company by outselling Dell Inc. in personal computers, is close to a payoff in… Read more

  • Welcome to the Semantic Web!

    Below is a very nice primer video of Tim Berners Lee on the concept of the Semantic Web. It seems that folks are “a buzz” since the recent announcement of Twine at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. I was supposed to attend the conference but was unable to due to last minute strategy… Read more

  • Censoring My Blog

    It seems that my personal blog has gained a bit more traction than I wanted it to and has started to run around my office. I guess I can’t really call it a “personal blog” since its just out there on the internet. Plus, you would be surprised how much traffic a little blog can… Read more

  • Is the iPhone for real?

    On Friday, I was finally able to get my personal phone number back from Hewlett-Packard. I got the number way back in the day when I lived in San Francisco and I’m proud of my 415 area code, not to mention the hell I would go through if I decided to change the number. When… Read more

  • Should Engineering Managers Stop Coding?

    For those of you that have worked with me know, I have a sign above my monitors that says, “I’d Rather Be Coding”. At the core of it, I entered into the world of software because I enjoying coding. There is nothing like digging into a problem and finding an elegant software solution at the… Read more

  • Resume on Scribd

    Here is a link to my resume on Scribd.com. Scribd.com is the “YouTube of Documents”. In general, I like the paradigm of the “YouTube of X”.  YouTube’s value was how easy it made to watch and share videos. Now, Scribd has created its own Flash player but this time for documents. The funny part is… Read more

  • Manager Software Projects is about Balance

    This afternoon, we had our weekly staff meeting. The first half of the meeting was a debrief of our team leads experience in a week long Agile training class. The basic message that I got was the “Agile was cool but too hard for us to implement”. They broke down all of the elements of… Read more