Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

In many respects, medicine has come a really long way, and yet in other ways it seems like it still has so far to go.  For e...

A great Independence Day it is. Even the buses celebrate with the flag proudly mounted and displayed.  What does Independence Day me...

This is some awesome technology from Tactus Technology . It is called a dynamic tactile touchscreen .  Here's how it works: When ...

Google, which touts itself as the one that "organize[s] the world's information and make[s] it universally accessible and usable,...

Popular Science had some scary germy statistics about how few people wash their hands well when coming out of the bathroom. Take a gues...

Why marriages (and relationships) fail is a topic of discussion in the book Fighting For Your Marriage by Markman, Stanley, and Blu...

According to Charles Kenny in  Bloomberg BusinessWee k (20 June 2013), the Internet is quite a big disappointment--because it "failed...

This was a funny joke told over in the Wall Street Journal today: When Moses was coming down from Har Sinai, he said to the people of...

So I heard a new saying: "From Happy To Glad." I asked some folks "What is that was all about?" They explained tha...

This is a picture of my beautiful mother.  My daughter Minna found this picture in one of our old albums and made it new again with her ...

Many people worry--they are afraid of all sorts of bad things that can happen.  And they ruminate on what ifs and what they can do ab...

General George S. Patton had a saying that "The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war." And while we shouldn'...

I love this picture of the beach in Florida.  I took this photo of a picture in Fort Lauderdale Airport.  The colors are stunning to...

The Atlantic (21 June 2013) has a startling article about hiring at Google--"It's a complete random mess." With all the Go...

Sometimes, one person can be so instrumental to the success of an organization that they really are, for all intensive purposes, irreplacea...

Who would've thought you can get cyber attacked this way... Forbes is reporting that Georgia Tech researchers have discovered an ex...

So I was swimming in the pool and noticed a dad playing with his kids in the shallow section.  One kid--the littler and younger one--was...

I love this picture that I saw in the art gallery here in Florida.  I named the person in the portrait, Dystopia Man, because he reminds...

InformationWeek  asks "Will IT Departments Disappear By 2020?" This question comes from Forrester Research which sees the comm...

So it's sort of become a tradition that when we go away, I try and take my daughter on a special activity of her choosing.  This time...

The National Security Agency (NSA) frequently referred to by the secretive surname of No Such Agency is at the forefront of our signals in...

Excuse the quality of this video, which my wife took while challenging me to a game of ping pong. So what's the point? It's imp...

So I'm visiting this absolutely delectable Italian bakery in fancy-schmancy Las Olas. The Sicilian pizza by the way is amazing. We...

Apple which is under competitive pressure to come up with something new—since Steve Jobs, their chief and master innovator passe...

I just love this family of geese crossing the street together. Children first.  Father and mother bringing up the rear.  Everyone lo...

Interesting article by Noah Shachtman in Wired about how the Pentagon is gearing up for cyberwar. It's called Plan X and it's ...

I was reminded this week of a kid I grew up with who used to get so angry, he'd say sort of half-seriously at the target of his wrath,...

So a couple of funny things happened at the doctor lately... My daughter had her molars removed and in the office they had an urn labele...

New article here by Andy Blumenthal in Public CIO Magazine called "Using Enterprise and Personal Architecture To Chart Your Cours...

This was a funny picture that my wife took today. It is a guy sitting in the restaurant surrounded by women. He is eating and reading....

Lapham's Quarterly (5 June 2013) put up a matrix of the "Worst Jobs In the World," but the problem is that is completely mi...