Date Published |
Title |
Contents |
YEAR 2002 |
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July 29th |
A Tale of Travel - 2 |
More Travel Stories |
July 14th |
A Tale of Travel - 1 |
Travel to Europe |
July 1st |
Killer Applications |
Successful Applications |
June 24th |
Cocooning on the Canyon |
Lessons from a camping trip |
June 10th |
Towers of Babel |
Computer Language Chaos |
June 3rd |
Play Ball |
Does the baseball curve? |
May 27th |
Technology Bites Life |
Is Technology Overrated |
May 20th |
Cyber Terrorism |
Myth or Reality? |
May 6th |
Coherent, Monochromatic and Collimated |
Lasers |
April 29th |
Connecting the World |
Boom and bust of Telecoms |
April 22nd |
One Good, Two Better |
Distributed and Parallel Computing |
April 15th |
Spaced Out |
NASA and the Space Shuttle |
April 8th |
The not so Nobel Prize |
The honor of the Ig Nobel Award |
April 1st |
Where Angels Dread |
April Fools issue |
March 25th |
We are All Safer |
The NTSB and Conspiracies |
March 18th |
Stocks Ahoy |
Fun with corporate stocks |
March 11th |
The Money Machine |
What is Money? |
March 4th |
Mind over Matter - II |
The Placebo Effect |
February 25th |
Mind over Matter - I |
Perceptions and reality |
February 18th |
Look Out, Darwin |
Is human evolution over? |
February 11th |
The Reality of a Fantasy |
The economics of Norrath/Everquest |
February 4th |
A New Perfect Union |
The coming of the Euro |
January 21st |
Bananas by the Drop |
The Metric System |
January 14th |
Geeky Gadgets Galore |
Shape of things to come |
January 7th |
The Year in Preview |
Attempt at predictions |
YEAR 2001 |
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Dec 31st |
Curtain Call, 2001 |
In Retrospect |
Dec. 24th |
Digitalization |
The convergence of things digital |
Dec. 17th |
P.O.T.S. |
Plain Old Telephone Service |
Dec. 10th |
Hype is IT |
Over zealous claims |
Dec. 3rd |
The North Wind Doth Blow |
The recession of 2001 |
November 26th |
All the is New is Old Again |
The New Economy |
November 19th |
Is it Safe up There |
Airline Safety |
November 12th |
Operating Systems |
Basics of Operating Systems |
November 5th |
Dihydrogen Monoxide |
The elixir of life |
October 29th |
Action, Camera, Light |
The science of light |
October 22nd |
The Apple, the Cat and the Barometer |
Evolution of Physics |
October 15th |
The Freeway to Progress |
Highways and economics |
October 8th |
No Plane, No Gain |
General Aviation |
October 1st |
From Thence to Hence |
Evolution and Controversy |
Sept 24th |
War and Progress |
Technology and Military needs |
Sept. 17th |
Towers of Terror |
Details of the World Trade Attack |
Sept. 10th |
Hot Potatoes |
New World Food |
Sept. 3rd |
Pedal to the Metal |
Moore's Law and CPU speed |
August 27th |
Whispering in Public |
Key exchange and public key encryption |
August 20th |
Much Ado about Stem Cells |
Politics of Stem Cell Research |
August 13th |
Stop. Do not Copy |
Copyrights and Copy Protection |
August 6th |
Bad Hacker, Good Hacker |
The arts and crafts of hackers |
July 30th |
Junk Science |
Misuse of Scientific Methods |
July 21st |
Is it Micro? Is it Soft? |
The politics of Microsoft |
July 14th |
Technically Exposed |
Privacy risks |
July 7th |
The Darker Side of Technology |
Risks and crime using computers. |
July 2nd |
Weathering the Monsoon |
Weather, effects and predictions |
June 25th |
Where on Earth am I? (part 2) |
Instrumental Navigation |
June 17th |
Where on Earth am I? |
Basics of Navigation |
June 11th |
The Belly of the Beast - II |
Internet Routing and Naming |
June 4th |
The Belly of the Beast |
The inside story of the Internet |
May 28th |
Open Source Closed Source |
The free software phenomenon |
May 21st |
The Fizzle of Energy |
The California Electricity Crisis |
May 14th |
Once upon an Internet Time-II |
History by Internet Time (Part 2) |
May 7th, |
Once upon an Internet Time |
History by Internet Time (Part 1) |
April 30th, |
Crisis in Wonderland |
The tumble in the E-Economy |
April 23rd |
Stupid Math Tricks |
Math and everyday life |
April 16th |
Innovation through
Accident |
Inventions that work and that do not |
April 9th |
Dangerous Grounds for Technology |
Natural perils of the habitats of High Tech |
April 1st |
Raw News |
Strange news |
March 26th |
Taming the Automobile |
The advent of hybrid cars |
March 17th |
Making and Breaking Codes |
Encryption and ciphers |
March 12th |
Lies at the speed of light |
Urban legends and chain mail |
March 5th |
The Science of Secrets |
Secrets and Cryptography |
February 26th |
Really High Technology |
Air transport and technology |
February 19th |
The Paperless Groundhog |
The paperless office and Phil the groundhog |
February 5th |
Words that Fail to Pass |
The failure of passwords |
January 22nd |
Cellular Cacophony |
Cell phone Standards |