I don¡¯t remember any period in the last 20+ years in my life when I did not board a plane for about 5 months.  Today I boarded a plane after February 9th when I went to San Diego from Atlanta…

You start remembering some dates and start making them significant.  Today is June 30 and that reminded me that I was diagnosed with cancer on January 30, exactly 5 months ago.  That one diagnosis changed so many things in my…

There is something that connects us with people who have gone through similar experiences.  People like to hear experiences of others in similar situation, before, during, and after they go through it.  I remember reading Lance Armstrong¡¯s book and loving…

Current search techniques make almost no use of context.  That is surprising from a user¡¯s perspective but is not very surprising from search engine designer¡¯s perspective.  Most of us suffer from trying to use and refine what we already know. …