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August 14, 2007 - During the weekend, I began a search to find a suitable agent for my memoir, "Polos to Ties." It's fairly ridiculous how many agents are out there, especially ones that still don't have websites. Howe ...

August 13, 2007 - If you're AT&T, and you want to convince the American public that you can be responsible for handling the bulk of broadbrand traffic, cutting out parts of live music might not be your best idea. Bu ...

August 12, 2007 - We are inching closer to the pennant chases, and we have already seen Barry Bonds break Hank Aaron's home run record. Still, there's a lot more to solve in the world of baseball right now. How can ...

August 05, 2007 - Instead of saying, "Look at this cool thing I found on the Internet!" what if you could say, "Look at this cool thing I made on the Internet!" On top of that, you don't have to hav ...

July 23, 2007 - When I read a bad book, I finish it, even if it takes me forever. If I read a good book, I want to keep reading it, as much as possible, until I'm at the ending.

July 18, 2007 - The deadline has past, but Internet radio is still on. Maybe it will stay that way for a little while longer. Negotiations are still rolling since SoundExchange, which is the overseer of recording ...

July 12, 2007 - It's late in the week. You are probably fretting even starting work today. Sounds to me like you need a little break. What I'm about to show you may mystify or confuse you. But remember, it's for your ...

July 07, 2007 - Since the comments page is getting pretty full, I decided that I should pull out some of the newer items on occasion. Here are the two most recent reader reviews for "The Developers." Anyway, gr ...

July 03, 2007 - Silence never sounded worse than now. As of today, we have just a few days remaining until Internet radio will pretty much end, as we know it, on July 15. There's a possibility it can be saved, but ...

June 26, 2007 - I have been an ardent subscriber to the Google theory since nearly the beginning. Here it was, just a little search engine that was way better than anything else out there. So now, the behemoth compan ...

June 25, 2007 - Although my summer signing schedule is pretty light, I will be in Gaithersburg, Md., in July for "The Developers." The event will take place at 2 p.m. July 8 at the Barnes and Noble (21 Grand Corner A ...

June 12, 2007 - Building a yearbook can be an arduous task. In high school, clubs and/or classes compiled the yearly piece during months of development. Sometimes, however, it would be nice to create a simpler yearbo ...

June 09, 2007 - As a web developer, I have always heard stories pertaining to the lack of knowledge people have about computers in general. Maybe you have heard the one about the person who called tech support becaus ...

June 07, 2007 - My trip to New York during the first weekend in June was short, but overall, it was extremely productive. I attended Book Expo America for a number of reasons, the top one being to find an agent fo ...

June 05, 2007 - If you just read the headline of this story, maybe you thought "Man, that sucks that I won't be able to open documents in five states. Then again, if I get a job in one of those states, I guess I won' ...

June 01, 2007 - I still have a few more chapters to write, but I would like to share with my readers an early excerpt from my new project. It's a workplace humor memoir (the working title is Polos to Ties ...

May 29, 2007 - This weekend (June 2-3), I will be attending Book Expo America, dubbed the "premier event serving the U.S. book publishing industry." My primary reason for attending is that I'm currently working on a ...

May 28, 2007 - IM tellin' takes a look at a bad joke gone .. er .. bad. It's important to note, however, that one great thing about chatting online is that you do have the capability to make up your own sound effect ...

May 24, 2007 - Spam has arrived, so much so that it is now more widely ignored than ever before. People in general, according to a recent study by the Pew Internet and American Life project, receive more spam but do ...

May 17, 2007 - Chatting with bots can be fun ... sort of strange, but fun. But what about bots chatting with each other? Can they determine that each other is not human?

May 08, 2007 - As many of you are aware, I'm in the process of writing my second novel. This novel is closely based on my experience in the business world, so I'm currently rifling through various books on that topi ...

May 06, 2007 - No score and four years ago (sorry, but I visited Gettysburg this weekend), I wrote a column about the presence of computer programming in movies.

May 01, 2007 - Sometimes we take for granted our ability to type in domain names in our native language. It's true that the most of civilization accepts English as the way of the Internet, but researchers agree that ...

April 25, 2007 - Every day, scientists are discovering more of space, which, I suppose, is still the Final Frontier. That is, unless you count the salad bar at truck stops, since that is another weird phenomenon as we ...

April 15, 2007 - Fed up with the Internet? Tired of spam email messages? Sick of your slow connection? Ready to implode the World Wide Web just like it is the Kingdome? If you are in favor of any of the above asses ...

April 13, 2007 - If you are at the very least familiar with pop culture humor, you are probably know about Chuck Klosterman. I'm not insinuating that you've read all of is works or anything like that, but perhaps you' ...

April 11, 2007 - My workplace humor fiction book, "The Developers," has been out for nearly two years now. As a self-published book that's now available through national distribution chains, it's definitely difficult ...

April 09, 2007 - Are you one of those people who can't hold a conversation for more than three sentences without saying "Uh, huh-huh, yesterday on YouTube I saw (noun) and it was (adjective)." If you are, then you pro ...

April 06, 2007 - I'll admit that although I consider myself a technophile, I'm not really into cell phone text messaging. There are a few reasons for this. First, I'm at my computer roughly 46 hours each day (at le ...

April 01, 2007 - It looks like the only group who isn't willing to save the Internet these days is the one on Capitol Hill. Musicians, including well-known bands and smaller independent artists, have ...