Notes on a new Thinkpad x31

Excerpt: I bought a new IBM Thinkpad x31 earlier this month and am really enjoying it. It replaces an IBM Thinkpad x21 from 2001 so I picked up two+ years of updates with the new system. Oddly, it has a slightly smaller footprint than the x21. For the most part this isn't noticeable, except that it means the x31 is not compatible with the ultrabase I bought...

Posted: May 31, 2004

ibm.com history on the web

Excerpt: ibm.com has been online for ten years now. This is a collection of sites which discuss ibm.com over the years (note that some links may decay over time or require registration).

Posted: May 24, 2004

May 1994: www.ibm.com is launched

Excerpt: Wherein the young technical writer blossoms into a Corporate Webmaster.

Posted: May 17, 2004

ibm.com derails

Excerpt: After ten years you'd think IBM's Corporate Web Site, www.ibm.com, would be professionally operated, but no.

Posted: January 27, 2004

Thinkpad: Cancelled

Excerpt: So, last week (12/15) I ordered a bright, shiny (ok, that's meant to be figurative) new IBM Thinkpad X31. Loaded it up with all sorts of goodies (I briefly considered the implications of owning a laptop with more memory and disk space than the entire mainframe complex I worked on when I first joined IBM, but that passed). Key thing to me was getting it before...

Posted: December 30, 2003

Superbowl XXXII

Excerpt: On this day five years ago I was not at Superbowl XXXII. Instead, I was freezing my tail off in Nagano, Japan. 24 hours earlier (maybe somewhat more due to time-zone shifting) I had been in San Diego, CA, with full media access, supporting superbowl.com. Silly me, I'd even packed my passport. See, in the Fall of 1997, someone in IBM got pitched the idea of...

Posted: January 26, 2003