Churchill Club

Steve Wozniak, Nolan Bushnell, Maynard Webb, John McAfee light up the stage. On location at Silicon Valley's can't-miss tech conferences.

Woz on Pandora: "It's too good. I can't use it. I'll be listening to new music all night, and buying songs. I won't get any sleep!"

We’ve seen what’s possible with the advent of natural language understanding and voice-driven technologies, and deeply integrated voice “assistant” technologies, but we’re just beginning to scratch the surface of what’s ultimately possible.

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” – Winston Churchill

Sure, WebOS is (was) slick. Yet again, though, we learn that products and features do not win the day.

Listening to engineer Cutts describe how he created Safe Search (a way to make the search engine family friendly by filtering out adult content) I was reminded of a scene from the Michael Mann heist caper, Heat.

Start placing your bets now how long it will take for Google Plus (G+) to come up in the discussion.

Over the weekend doey-eyed Loni and I -- the 80s music-inspired driver -- headed up to Napa for a few pickups. First at Turnbull Cellars in Oakville, followed by Ehlers Estate in St. Helena.

If I were working for the NY Post I might say 3 out of 4 CFOs say the economy will improve in 2012. However, probably best to draw your own conclusions.

"A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too."