Happy Holidays to All

As part of my vacation "fun" I've setup feedburner.com and the associated new "standard" feed icon on my blog template. Enjoy!

Using flickr for my blogger profile photo

To use flickr for my profile photo I simply "blogged" the photo from flickr and then grabbed the static html link flickr generated in my blog posting. This is easily done using the blogger "Edit Html" tab. I found it to be:

http://static.flickr.com/40/75125395_8e594a0012_m.jpg

Which I then copy/pasted into my profile photo url entry field.

Blogger seems to shink the images quite a bit, which is reasonable.
I really need to go with a headshot, so I'll try my hand at some cropping
with Picasa shortly.

Patents Awarded

Patents issued to me are listed below. At IBM I achieved the 5th level inventors achievement award. Each sequential level includes a significant monetary award and a framed certificate.

Graphical method for creating an object
5,392,389 - 22 citations currently

Method and system for performing direct manipulation operations in a computer system
5,422,993 - 38 citations!

Graphical method of indicating the position of and performing an operation on a plurality of selected objects in a computer system
5,550,969 - with co-inventor Bob Torres, 20 citations

Method and system of providing multiple selections in text on a computer display
5,550,210 - with co-inventor Bob Torres, 6 citations

Children's credit or debit card system
5,953,710 - 16 citations currently
I independently filed this patent while developing www.trademark-search.com, funding and working directly with a patent attorney at one of the top IPL firms. The other patents are from UI work I did at IBM.