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Over 3000 visits in 1998!

This is a collection of opinions, discoveries, and solutions.
1998/01/28: Crash, Bang - Part 2   The rest of the story: a new drive goes in.
1998/01/14: Crash, Bang - Part 1   Wherein my computer suffers a hard drive failure.
1997/12/17: The PDF Format   An open letter to Netscape.
1997/12/03: Flat Panel Displays   At long last, starting to become available.
1997/11/05: Why Software Sucks   The never-ending beta program
1997/10/22: Copyright of Retouched Photos   Stolen by the photofinisher!
1997/10/08: Why Can't I Upgrade Books?   Short shelves & shallow pockets
1997/09/24: Big Sports   Fans - do you know who you're supporting?
1997/09/10: The Millennium Bomb   Boom and bust for programmers
1997/08/27: International Commerce and Taxes   The global Internet challenge
1997/08/13: Brightness and Contrast   Are the knobs wrong, or the pictures?
1997/07/30: The Joy of Stats   An example of statistics without context.
1997/07/16: No News Is Good News   TV and Radio newscasts waste time.
1997/07/02: Text File Line Endings   Ok, so this is a rant about Unix files.
1997/06/18: Movie Web Sites   Too much fluff, not enough stuff.
1997/06/04: NT STOP Screen   Known fondly as "the blue screen of death".
1997/05/21: Upgrade Frenzy   Don't be in such a hurry to get a new PC.
1997/05/07: The HTML Battle   Reflections on the pace of progress.
1997/04/23: The Hard Disk Shuffle   The old motherboard BIOS.
1997/04/09: The Apple Falls   Oracle's Ellison considers buying Apple.
1997/03/26: Big Drives, Big Clusters   The impact of partition sizes.
1997/03/12: Long-Distance, or Not?   Area code problems.
1997/02/26: The Cost of "Free"   Old computers cost more than you think.
1997/02/12: There Are Many Grammatical Errors   A pluralization pet peeve.
1997/01/29: Modem Trouble Under Win95   Problems with DOS boxes.
1997/01/15: Win95 Says "Åš¨B¼{Ç‘s"   Crazy characters when a GPF hits.