On To The Next Sledgehammer In The War On Breast Cancer…

This Monday morning begins, as many have over the past 6 months, at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center-Kingsbury Pavilion (say that 10 times fast!). In her ongoing fight against breast cancer, my wife ended four months of chemotherapy with her last treatment back on December 6, 2011. She’s thoroughly enjoyed having several weeks without any kind of treatments. Her hair is very slowly starting to re-appear and she’s been feeling overall pretty good. Today begins the next course of treatment. She is starting one year of receiving a drug called Herceptin. Her breast cancer tumor was found to be…

Will We See IPv6-Enabled Consumer Devices at CES This Week? (Featured Blog)

What kind of IPv6 support will we see in consumer devices at the massive Consumer Electronics Show (CES) happening in Las Vegas this week? The show is already underway and much of the tech media is already writing in breathless prose about the latest t…

Fun Video: The Joy of Books

I can’t even begin to imagine the amount of time it must have taken to create this video… but I admire the folks you did it! Fun to watch… If you found this post interesting or useful, please consider either:…

TheNextWeb Highlights 9 Free Display Typefaces…

If you are, like me, a fan of all things related to typography, then you are probably, like me, easily sucked into articles with headlines like: 9 Awesome free display typefaces you can download right now And indeed this post…

Out at CES In Las Vegas This Week On The Hunt For IPv6-Enabled Consumer Devices…

As I noted over on the Deploy360 blog today, I’ll be down at the massive International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week. I’m traveling on Wednesday, at the show Thursday through Saturday and then returning home Saturday…

And Thus Was Born… the Internet Society Deploy360 Programme!

How can we accelerate the usage and deployment of IPv6 and DNSSEC? What are the barriers to getting those technologies more widely deployed? How can we "take away the pain" of getting started with IPv6 and DNSSEC? When I joined…

Is Skype Now "Boring"?

Is Skype now "boring" in 2011? That’s the question Phil Wolff raises over at the Skype Journal in his post "Skype is boring". Phil points out, quite correctly, that Skype is no longer the scrappy little startup intent on disrupting…

My Report into For Immediate Release (FIR) Podcast #632

In this week’s For Immediate Release episode #632, my report covered: Congratulations to Shel and Neville on 7 years of FIR! It’s insanely easy to start something like a podcast, but extremely difficult to keep it going… and 7 years…

My 3 Words for 2012

Following on the tradition I’ve started over the past couple of years (2011, 2010) after enjoying Chris Brogan’s take on this, here are my three words for 2012. They aren’t goals, per se, or resolutions, but more just three words to guide my actions through the year. FOCUS In our age of distraction, it’s insanely easy to lose focus and suddenly find yourself hours later not having accomplished anything you set out to do. It’s an inherent challenge for those of us who are by nature bright-shiny-object chasers and whose job involves being on the edge of communication technologies… Over…

Looking for last-minute tax donations? Why not support the open Internet?

As 2011 draws to a close, are you looking at what donations to make to charitable organizations for tax purposes? Here in the USA, this is something that many of us think about in these final days. It’s a last…