THE COLUMNS

Web Site Promotion (Dec. 29, 1997)

Spam That Kills (Dec. 22, 1997)

The Eyes Are The First Things to Go (Dec. 16, 1997)

A Boy and His Video Card (Dec. 9, 1997)

Season's Greetings from the Space Station Mir (Dec. 2, 1997)

"The Ice Father" -- An essay about winter and love (Nov. 27, 1997)

Postcard from the Man Who Loved Islands (Nov. 24, 1997)

Choose Your College the Modern Way, Online (For release Nov. 17, 1997)

Thurston Throckmorton, Telecommuting Needs You! (For release Nov. 10, 1997)

Microsoft versus the Justice Department (For release Nov. 13, 1997)

Business is blooming in the online flower field (10/27/97)

Lost in translation; My Adventure with Portuguese (9/22/97)

"Frontline Coverage of the Bookstore Wars" (10/20/97)

"I Placed a Jar in Tennessee" (10/13/97)

Free At Last: Open Season on Tax Talk (10/6/97)

Four days in Sao Paulo -- Some Observations. (9/29/97)

Sao Paulo, I Hear You Calling. (9/22/97)

How fast can you read this column? (9/9/97)

New Labor Day Archetypes (9/1/97)

To the stocks with you! (8/25/97)

Web Side Story (8/18/97)

Techno head scratchers (8/11/97)

Questions for the Queen (8/4/97)

New techno trend: big guys beating on little guys (7/28/97)

The look on Larry's face said it all ... (7/21/97)

Blessed be the wires that connect ... (7/14/97)

Let "Bless This Mess" be Your Code of Honor (7/7/97)

The thing that lives under the bridge (6/30/97)

Return with Us Now to the Re-Wired City (6/23/97)

Gonna Lay My Weary Burden Down (6/23/97)

Tom Peters Wants You to Be, like, Wow (6/6/97)

Picnicking with Frank Lloyd Wright (5/26/97)

Thoughts on Memorial Day, freedom, and the nets (5/26/97)

Pentium II is coming atcha (5/19/97)

Beware a program called Restore (5/12/97)

A web page for the RiverDogs (5/5/97)

Wrist in peace: the case for ditching your mouse (4/7/97)

OSP does not stand for Orangoutang Silly Putty (4/7/97)

The end of journalism as we know it (4/1/97)

Something New: the Thrill of the New Computer Smell (3/24/97)

Put a subliminal Tiger in your tank (3/17/97)

Youthful Optimism Is Dented by a Bruised Laptop (3/10/97)

Fashion and technology meet in the land of pen and ink (2/23/97)

Ten Things I Know for Sure (I Think) (3/3/97)

Where home office dogs come from (2/17/97)

An unbalanced suite for unbalanced loners (2/10/97)

Pictures from a bygone era

Late night visit to WCCO

Problems with planting familiar faces in the crowd

Thoughts from a hospital waiting room

My annual Techno New Year's resolutions

The terrible error of our time

Scrambles in the family tree

What to get for the boy

My experience on the red-eye to Las Vegas

On the pyschopathology of chess

Holiday thoughts involving birds

Bringing my brothers to the Net

Techie pie, a Thanksgiving tradition

Overcoming presentation heebie-jeebies

Enlightment in the superstore tech support queue

Sherry Turkle: Finding our selves on the Web

Cybersmut and alien election tampering

Confessions of a third-story man

The world's first fully Internet-worthy RV

What is that strange chirping sound?

Computer chess and the soul

Writer's Digest CD-ROM

Guess who the last people to understand office technology are.

Confessions of a spam artist

Traveling with a PC over rocky terrain, I discover what is fragile and what is not.

Time to update your tech jargon handbook

Using a computer to nurse a loved one back to health

Who knows where the time goes? I do.

Mark Twain in the 21st century

Searching for an outlet in the wilderness

The Unabomber is really no worse than Mork from Ork.

What will become of our dear mother tongue?

What would your role in a medieval kingdom have been?

The new war between the states

Frolicking with a laptop on Mt. Rainier

There's really no reason to ever leave home again.

Reflections on the conclusion of highway construction season

Look yourself up on a Web search engine, see who you find.

Stuff that didn't really happen on April 1

The world's stupidest techno terrorist

Hope for the ion-poor

Newt Gingrich and the war on p7ublic television

The millennium problem, in spades

Before you head up to the lake: new vacation necessities

The return of the Neanderthals

What is your Technology Quotient?

Technology and the ailing body

Disposable encyclopedia? Flip 'em like frisbees!

1995's New Year's resolutions

A Quark for Sister Pat

Do you know where your money has been?

The READ.ME file to end all READ.ME files

Cheers for the passing of three Citadels

Should software come with health warnings?

The abominable Doctor Goldfine

Injuries sustained in the service of technology

Cybercliches

The joy of moving

Negroponte for President

Am I crazy, or is it getting awful hot in here?

My debate with Coach Shula

It takes all kinds to run a computer.

The techie who cried

Get rich quick!

Why computers have no sense of humor

Who knows where the time goes?

Old Mother Hubbard went to the keyboard ...

1994 New Years Resolutions

I Hate Unix

The town so nice they named it Thrace

Wilderness computer user

I go the lavatory to the sound of Muzal

Freeze, Carmen Sandiego!

An unabridged too far

In search of palatable clip art

Speed kills, and here's how.

Don't forget to take your PC with you to the cabin up north