Posted by John Patrick on Nov 18, 2001 in
People Not sure of the original source of this. It came to me via an email from a friend of a friend and I thought it was worth sharing.
If:
A = 1
B = 2
C = 3
D = 4
E = 5
F = 6
G = 7
H = 8
I = 9
J = 10
K = 11
L = 12
M = 13
N = 14
O = 15
P = 16
Q =17
R = 18
S =19
T = 20
U = 21
V = 22
W = 23
X = 24
Y = 25
Z = 26
Then: H A R D W O R K = 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = Only 98%
Similarly, K N O W L E D G E = 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = Only
96%
But interestingly (and as you might expect),
A T T I T U D E = 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%
This is how you achieve 100% in LIFE.
Posted by John Patrick on Nov 18, 2001 in
Reflection 
Not sure of the original source of this. I am confident the sender intended it to be shared. It came to me via an email from a friend of a friend and I thought it was worth sharing.
If:
A = 1
B = 2
C = 3
D = 4
E = 5
F = 6
G = 7
H = 8
I = 9
J = 10
K = 11
L = 12
M = 13
N = 14
O = 15
P = 16
Q =17
R = 18
S =19
T = 20
U = 21
V = 22
W = 23
X = 24
Y = 25
Z = 26
Then: H A R D W O R K = 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = Only 98%
Similarly, K N O W L E D G E = 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = Only
96%
But interestingly (and as you might expect),
A T T I T U D E = 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%
This is how you achieve 100% in LIFE
Posted by John Patrick on Nov 4, 2001 in
Internet Technology In a story entitled Fujitsu Tests Optical WDM Communication Spanning 7,400km at 2.4Tbps, published by Nikkei Business Publications, Inc., we see some impressive but not unexpected news. In Net Attitude, I talked quite a bit in the chapter called Fast about how we would have “Bandwidth Galore”. I also wrote a paper by that name that is on my web site at IBM.
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. has already commercialized a 1 Tbps optical underwater cable system that multiplexes a 10-Gbps signal into 105 channels. In other words they are enabling more than one hundred separate “windows” of light to simultaneusly and independently operate in a single strand of optical fiber. The newer technology, which Fujitsu hopes to commercialize in 2005, utilizes 240 “windows”. With each “window” handling ten billion bits per second, the aggregate through the single fiber comes out to 2.4 trillion bits per second — 2.4 terabits per second.
Lets put 2.4 terabits per second in perspective. The book Net Attitude has 472,000 characters in it (including spaces). Using eight bits to represent each character that would be 3.8 million bits in the book. At a speed of 2.4 TB/S it would be possible to transmit 633,000 copies of the book in one second. Lets take a CD. A CD can hold approximately 600 million bytes. With eight bits per byte that would be 4.8 billion bytes. At 2.4 TB/S it would be possible to transmit 500 CD’s full of data in one second!
That is the gee whiz part. The important part is that we will really need all this bandwidth. Imagine a bank with trillions (terabytes) of bytes of customer and financial data in digital storage. This is today’s reality. It is growing rapidly. How does one keep backup copies of vast amounts of data so that all of us can be assured that it is protected under any circumstances? One way is by having multiple redundant storage sites in various physical places around the world and then using optical networks to continuously make backup copies of the data in these multiple places. No single point of vulnerability. If one location is destroyed, the others are intact. Perhaps never more than a few seconds of lost data. Perhaps no lost data exposure at some point as every transaction that occurs is instantly recorded at a backup site. The transaction is not validated until the backup copy is made.
IBM and others have been doing this kind of redundant recording inside of storage devices for years. With vast bandwidth available, such as what Fujitsu has announced in November 2001, it will possible to do the same thing with the storage devices in effect being split geographically onto different continents. The Fujitsu demonstration was made over a distance of almost five thousand miles. This is the kind of protection of data that will be required as we become more and more dependent on digital data. Some people believe there is a glut of bandwidth. Yes, we will have bandwidth galore, but I think we are going to need it.
Posted by John Patrick on Nov 3, 2001 in
Travels We arrived in Calgary on Sunday and rented a car to drive
to Banff which is about 80 miles west. It is a beautiful ride through the Canadian
Rocky Mountains. We stayed overnight at the Banff Springs Hotel and on Monday
took a ride further west to Lake Louise. It is absolutely beautiful country.
A shame to be such a short stay but it was time to head back to Calgary to participate
in an IBM e-business
conference. There were more than four hundred customers there to learn about
e-business technology solutions. I was really pleased to find that at least
one Calgary bookstore had Net Attitude
on hand!
Here are a few pictures from Banff
Springs and Lake Louise – Alberta, Canada.
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Posted by John Patrick on Nov 3, 2001 in
Net Attitude We arrived in Calgary on Sunday and rented a car to drive to Banff which is about 80 miles west. It is a beautiful ride through the Canadian Rocky Mountains. We stayed overnight at the Banff Springs Hotel and on Monday took a ride further west to Lake Louise. It is absolutely beautiful country. A shame to be such a short stay but it was time to head back to Calgary to participate in an IBM e-business conference. There were more than four hundred customers there to learn about e-business technology solutions. I was really pleased to find that at least one Calgary bookstore had Net Attitude on hand!
Here are a few pictures from Banff Springs and Lake Louise – Alberta, Canada.
It is now October 31 and back home. On Wednesday morning I met with a dozen or so of my colleagues from IBM Global Services to give them an update on my latest thinking about the Future of the Internet. The heart of Net Attitude focuses on that topic but of course the Future is changing every day and that is why I will be using this web log to post current thoughts. Later in the day I spoke on two diffeent e-meeting audio conferences with more than two hundred IBM customers from all over America. This is a very productive way to share — and without the wear and tear of travel.
On November 1 I had the pleasure of giving a presentation at the Ridgefield Library in Connecticut. It was a full house and there were many questions after my talk. I stayed for two hours and then signed some books being offered by the local bookstore — Books on the Common.
On Friday it was a special pleasure to be give a lecture to the MBA class of the University of Utah via e-meeting. We had some technical difficulties and it ended up being an audio conference but the Q&A dialogue with the students was vivid as could be. They were really prepared! I learned as much from their questions as they did from my attempts to answer them. I’ll have much more to say about e-meetings in a subsequent web log posting.
Posted by John Patrick on Nov 3, 2001 in
Education,
Reflection
Reflection – written November 3 , 2001
We arrived in Calgary on Sunday and rented a car to drive to Banff which is about 80 miles west. It is a beautiful ride through the Canadian Rocky Mountains. We stayed overnight at the Banff Springs Hotel and on Monday took a ride further west to Lake Louise. It is absolutely beautiful country. A shame to be such a short stay but it was time to head back to Calgary to participate in an IBM e-business conference. There were more than four hundred customers there to learn about e-business technology solutions. I was really pleased to find that at least one Calgary bookstore had Net Attitude on hand!
Here are a few pictures from Banff Springs and Lake Louise – Alberta, Canada.
(read more)
It is now October 31 and back home. On Wednesday morning I met with a dozen or so of my colleagues from IBM Global Services to give them an update on my latest thinking about the Future of the Internet. The heart of Net Attitude focuses on that topic but of course the Future is changing every day and that is why I will be using this web log to post current thoughts. Later in the day I spoke on two different e-meeting audio conferences with more than two hundred IBM customers from all over America. This is a very productive way to share — and without the wear and tear of travel.
On November 1 I had the pleasure of giving a presentation at the Ridgefield Library in Connecticut. It was a full house and there were many questions after my talk. I stayed for two hours and then signed some books being offered by the local bookstore — Books on the Common.
On Friday it was a special pleasure to be give a lecture to the MBA class of the University of Utah via e-meeting. We had some technical difficulties and it ended up being an audio conference but the Q&A dialogue with the students was vivid as could be. They were really prepared! I learned as much from their questions as they did from my attempts to answer them. I’ll have much more to say about e-meetings in a subsequent web log posting.
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