Longer Articles on Technology, Music, and Miscellaneous Other Stuff

['Totem Pole' by Marina Miller (age 5), Apr 2003]

I write lots in my journal, but sometimes I post longer pieces on this site. Here are some:

An Introduction to the Internet – June 1993
Top ten tips for better business letters – March 1997
Spelling for the World Wide Web – July 1997
How you slice it: two Mac-friendly word processors for Palm handhelds – TidBITS, November 2001
Eight ways to tame the e-mail monster: tips from the masters – LINK magazine, November 2001
Which way wireless? The future of wide-area wireless Internet – LINK magazine, November 2001
Late for the train: editing digital video on the cheap – TidBITS, March 2002
The ultrawide, roll-up, mind control future: new revolutions 20 years after the PC – LINK magazine, Summer 2002
Doing three people's work with one Mac: solo desktop publishing – TidBITS, November 2002
Tips for making websites and giving presentations – Editors' Association of Canada, January 2003
Seventeen top drummers – February 2003
AirPort | Wi-Fi | 802.11b wireless networking for old PowerBooks – April 2003
The walled garden: firewalls, VPNs, and other network security – LINK magazine, Summer 2003
How to keep out of trouble with your e-mail: email rules and netiquette – July 2003
Anatomy of an attempted PayPal scam – August 2003
Printing from a Mac to a Windows 98 printer – August 2003
Office on the beach: using wireless Ethernet and an IP phone to set up an office by the ocean in Kitsilano – August 2003
Johnny Cash and the greatest rock photo ever taken – September 2003
Basic advice about backing up your computer – Editors' Association of Canada, November 2003
Links to my many comments about PowerPoint over the past year – December 2003
Choosing a digital piano – December 2003
My top ten headphone albums – February 2004
Women in the web, by Dr. Katie King (the first stage of an experiment in editing print text for the Web) – April 2004
What is a website for? – May 2004
Building a standards-based website inside a small company – May 2004:
- Part 1: Ideas
- Part 2: Design
- Part 3: Content
Bring back the old Mac OS 9 Apple menu in Mac OS X – June 2004
Derek's song demos – July 2004
Boosting your search engine ranking is no trick – August 2004
A reformatted version of Robert Scoble's Corporate Weblog Manifesto – August 2004
Learn about guitar tone in rock 'n' roll: guitars, amps, and beyond – November 2004
The Indian Ocean tsunami and what it tells us about tsunamis in general – January 2005
Buying a good, cheap electric guitar – July 2005
How to submit your music to CBC Radio so they'll play it – October 2005

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