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It was inevitable as it was obvious. An evening walk with my grandfather. He had spent the past fifty years working with technologies and, given as it was 2074, the technology changes he had witnessed could only be described as dramatic. Walking from his office I caught a glimpse of framed emails he had kept as artifacts from his earliest days in IT; a rare sighting by any measure. As a new hire fresh from college, he had joined HPE, as it was called in those years. Following a series of mergers followed by a number of spin-offs, it was hard for me to visualize what it must have been like back then. “What you think of today as technology didn’t exist back then but circumstances changed and ambitions exploded,” he said. “I recall clearly when individuals wrestled total control of tech away from state-supported institutions as the idea governments could foster any level of cooperation needed to break through barriers.” Quickly revisiting the past and stories that I’ve heard before,

If you have followed Margo and myself on LinkedIn or even on Facebook you would know all about our recent travels. And yes, also of travels yet to take place. The NonStop community is keeping us busy of late and it’s proving to be a welcome distraction to what we are in the middle of, as you might say. Moving; none of the glamor and all about the pain. It is not a unique situation we face, but one that many others have apparently succumbed to; a lingering COVID ailment that we are managing, but with consequences. Living in mountainous Colorado for all of its beauty is no longer part of any long-term plans. Indeed, our vision for the future is to live somewhere closer to sea level where increased atmospheric pressure will work its magic. With this in mind, what has been the center of our frequent travels between our former home in Windsor and a newly acquired condo accommodation is that it’s not just about the pain of boxing and unboxing your possessions – it is that while we have a vis

So much has been written about how difficult it is to predict the future. The topic is simply self-explanatory – the future is unpredictable and for many, attempting such a feat is tantamount to a total waste of time and effort. And yet, for as many years as I have been posting to this blog, going all the way back to 2008 and the post My Wish for NS Blades, simply contemplating what might be has me turning to my magical lamp to check in with the genie. Perhaps not, but every three years which in IT years I view as being close to an eternity, I “have at it” and put pen to paper. Well, my fingers to a keyboard at least. If you look back through the labels created for this blog and check the regularity of the posts about my three wishes for NonStop, separation of three years seems reasonable. Having said that, when contemplating the future for NonStop today you will see that four years have elapsed between this post and the previous post. I put this down to the COVID year as opportunities

Everything shines on a modern cruising yacht With 2023 firmly in the books, it proved to be a statement year for Margo and me. That’s right, we didn’t buy a new car all year. This may come as a surprise for many of our regular readers but our ongoing support of our clients was such that we simply didn’t have the time to take in any of the car shows or to walk showrooms floors.   Perhaps even more shocking, we were given the opportunity to take delivery of an upgraded C8 Corvette – the new Z06 model – but we turned it down delaying such purchase for at least one more year. You might say, we resisted all temptations to jump on opportunities to drive away in shiny new cars. A blogger I follow on LinkedIn provided insights into what distracts start-ups during their first months of operation. To save you scrolling back through constantly changing LinkedIn feeds, her observations were right on the money. What she wanted to convey was that after working with a company to the point of a produc