Andy (Avraham) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

So we rolled the dice this Thanksgiving vacation and came up sort of empty. We were supposed to go to Las Vegas, but then there is ISIS ...

This guy is obviously pretty serious about not messing with his car.  "Touch this car again. You are laser sighted. You will be ...

No this is not an alert, but some strategic thinking about alerts.  As a kid, we get our first alerts usually from the fire alarm going ...

This is awesome--the iKnife ("Intelligent" knife) for cutting away cancer, can also detect the cancerous cells.  I had previous...

In the medieval times, to help ensure fidelity of partners and protect against rape, they invented something called a chastity belt--I a...

This is an out-of-this-world topic that I don't think I have written about before...ALIENS--no seriously!  MSNBC ran an intervi...

A biological attack on the United States is a most frightening prospect and one that could present an existential threat to us.  ...

There is a famous saying that "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana  An edito...

I had an opportunity to view a demo of a dashboarding product from Edge called AppBoard, and while this is not a vendor or product e...

Whether you call it feedback or performance measurement, we all need information on how we are doing in order to keep doing better ove...

By now we are all familiar with the news story regarding a prominent lawmaker, recently married, who admitted to a longstanding pattern of i...

Great new iPhone App by the San Ramon Fire Department called FireDepartment . This life-saving iPhone app notifies citizens trained in ...

Everyone remember the I Love Lucy show ? Well, that show really epidemized what it meant to surprise and be surprised by all the antics tha...

Check out this great video on Mobile Business Intelligence (BI) put out by MicroStrategy (Note: this is not an endorsement of any particula...

You’re all probably familiar with the capability of signing up for alerts to your computer or mobile device (phone, blackberry, pager, PDA...

Talking about apps for your phone …this one is amazing from MIT Media Labs . Attach a $1-2 eyepiece (the "NETRA") to your p...

Emergency Management Magazine (July/August 2010) has an article called “Life Savers” that describes how a convergence of new technologies ...

When we log on at work, most if not of us get some sort of message that logging on connotes acknowledgment to monitoring and that there is n...

When you log on at work, many of you probably—know it or not--click on an acknowledgement that you consent to monitoring of your activities....