by Brant Huddleston | Apr 26, 2013 | By Brant, Interactive Radio, Riding the Dancing Elephant: My Years with IBM
As readers of my blog already know, I resigned from IBM in 2000 to start a business around a concept I called “Wireless Interactive Radio,” or WIR. You can read the full story of my entrepreneurial venture in another post, but the basic idea of WIR was...
by Brant Huddleston | Jan 31, 2013 | By Brant, Riding the Dancing Elephant: My Years with IBM
He was a crusty, retired New York City cop, now driving a cab. I was an IBM manager on my way to the airport. We struck up a conversation. “An ex-cop?” I gushed. “I’ll betcha you’ve been in some real pickles. Surely you are packing heat...
by Brant Huddleston | Jan 30, 2013 | By Brant, Riding the Dancing Elephant: My Years with IBM
It was chaos. We heard a deep rumble, the great ship shuddered, and within hours the deck chairs began to slide as she listed to port. But the band still played, the bar was open, and the ship’s captain assuaged our anxiety with words of reassurance. The Titanic? No ~...
by Brant Huddleston | Dec 14, 2012 | By Brant, Riding the Dancing Elephant: My Years with IBM, Technology, Transportation
If you were around then, you remember seeing them. Lonely kiosks, gathering dust, cast aside in the corner of a hotel lobby or government office, their one dead eye staring out dark and lifeless. The once mighty cyclops of the computing world, what IBM believed would...
by Brant Huddleston | Sep 26, 2012 | By Brant, Interactive Radio, Riding the Dancing Elephant: My Years with IBM, Technology
The year was 1999. The song was “Sunburst” by guitarist Andrew York of the LA Guitar Quartet. I was driving, listening to my local NPR station. Before the song finished playing I was ready to buy it, but I knew neither the title nor the artist. It took...
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