I've been invited to speak at the Atlanta Science Tavern on 13 June, 2012. I'll be speaking on "Hydrogen Cars, Ethanol, Wind Farms, and other Silly Ideas." You can sign up to attend here. … [Read more...]
Traffic: What the Heck Do I Want?
February 27, 2012 Leave a Comment
Derek Edwards found my ancient post Packets beat Circuits and wrote this response. I replied in his comment stream, but decided to duplicate my comment here on my own blog. … [Read more...]
Public Pension Investment
November 17, 2011 3 Comments
It's been almost four years since I've written here about investing a portion of Georgia's pension funds into "alternative assets" (which includes venture capital). In those four years, nothing has changed, but everything may be about to change. We have a new governor who has signaled his willingness to consider making a small allocation from one … [Read more...]
Pitching the Cavalia Tent
November 13, 2011 2 Comments
On their website, Cavalia describes itself as "a fresh mix of equestrian and performing arts, multimedia and special effects." I describe it as "Cirque du Soleil with horses." Either way, it's a massive production, and it's coming back to Atlanta with its new show, Odysseo. They're pitching their tent right behind the Centergy building at … [Read more...]
How Not to Design a Home Page
November 4, 2011 12 Comments
I don't envy the print publications. First Web browsers, now iPads... new technology is destabilizing the very underpinnings of their business models. But some are adapting better than others. Here's a good way not to design a home page, from my friends at the Atlanta Business Chronicle. (Who, by the way, do a bang-up job of reporting the … [Read more...]
Georgia Forward
September 1, 2011 Leave a Comment
For my column this month, I wanted to talk about the Georgia Forward conference that was held at Callaway Gardens in mid-August. From their website, "Georgia Forward is an independent, non-partisan organization working to improve the state of Georgia by engaging business, political, academic and civil leaders to collaboratively shape a statewide … [Read more...]
More from “the Clough”
August 31, 2011 Leave a Comment
A few panoramas taken with my iPhone. Click any of the images to embiggen. And, for those of you who don't know Wayne Clough, he pronounces his name "Cluff"... There is actually green space at the center of Georgia Tech's campus! This is taken from the rooftop garden of the Clough building. More green space. The roads don't go here, … [Read more...]
Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons
August 30, 2011 Leave a Comment
Walking through the new undergraduate classroom building at Georgia Tech. The Grand Staircase Skiles Walkway Connected to the Library … [Read more...]
My Talks at Dragon*Con 2011
August 28, 2011 Leave a Comment
Once again, I'm honored to have been asked to speak in the Space and Science tracks at Dragon*Con. Dragon takes over downtown Atlanta during Labor Day weekend. It's enormous. All the public reports of attendance are wrong... they admit to "40,000+" but that's low-balled to avoid fire code problems. But for those of you who don't know, there … [Read more...]
Midtown Atlanta Apple Store
August 4, 2011 4 Comments
Putting the final touches on Midtown Atlanta's new Apple store (Spring Street and Armstead Place). … [Read more...]
