Saturday, September 14, 2002

The famous PIG (Party in Group) SIG met at Cooperstown after the panel discussion.  At the same time, thousands of women poured out of the Gund looking for lunch.  They were part of Billy Graham's daughter's event this weekend. I guess Alice Cooper isn't scairy enough anymore if these "Church Ladies" went there en masse. 3:28:54 PM    comment []

Was part of a fun and interesting panel at the 20th anniversary meeting of the Greater Cleveland PC Users Group this morning at CSU. Chris King from GCPCUG put the panel together and did a great job.  Check out Chris' great fitness columns at ClevelandSeniors.Com The panel consisted of: Joe Frolik, PD writer and author of the Quiet Crisis series. Stacy Condon, Associate Director of Nortech Ron Copfer, President of Fathom Interactive and Chairman of NEOSA Dr Lev Gonick, VP for Information Technology Services and CIO at CWRU Bill Callahan, Director of Westside Community Computer Center and interim director of Digital Vision and yours truly. The topic was "Raising Cleveland's Digital Bar - IT is not Optional" and each panelist spoke about 10 minutes followed by a Q&A session. I saw my pal Dash, the tech gossip columnist for Inside Business at the meeting so look for his take on the event in an upcoming e-column. Bottom line is we all know that we are behind.  We know we need to do certain things.  Now it's a matter of getting off our rears and doing it.  'Nuff said. 3:26:40 PM    comment []

Went to the Hillcrest Rotary benefit Thursday night at Flight Option in the Richmond Hts Airport.  They had about 16 restaurants there and you could walk around and sample all the goodies.  Yum. Proceeds went toward their continuing project to buy defibrilators for all the schools in their region.  This stems from the sad deaths of 3 high school athletes a couple years ago from heart problems that nobody knew they had. Defribilators cost over $3000 each but are literally life savers.  Kudos to Hillcrest Rotary and all those great restaurants that supported the cause.   3:18:11 PM    comment []