News
Getting into your genes
DNA privacy is the subject of debate in both Washingtons. Will they protect your personal code?
News
Patently absurd
This is not an open letter to Jeff Bezos. If an honest-to-god Net-publishing pioneer like Tim O’Reilly has…
News
The past, the future
Sunday night a friend called me screaming. She lives in New York, and at 12:01am EDT (that is,…
News
Old-school style
For those who remember that technology was more fun before it got dumbed down by dot-com mania, last…
News
Off the Web, on to the Netly news
When I was very young I loved to read newspapers from other places. Growing up in rural Nebraska,…
News
Born to compu-shop
From the Cox News Service wire, August 4, 1999: “WASHINGTON— Put a computer in the home, and women…
News
The Amazon column
We are gathered here today to pour out a 40 in honor of our fallen Amazon dogs, and…
News
Return to sender
A while back I wrote a column extolling the joys of forwarded e-mail—the jokes, the weird news items,…
News
Geek love
With so much strangeness afoot in the world—Microsoft closing arguments, the continuing privacy wars, and so on—I meant…
News
Getting the message from AOL
America Online can be confusing. How to make sense of a company that’s simultaneously suing cable companies for…
News
A spaced oddity
I’m going to have an awful time getting into the swing of 2001, seeing as I’ve dropped out…
News
Warm, fuzzy, and stupid
The lady on the phone at Bank of America (n饠Seafirst) was most understanding, and she left me with…
News
Holiday road show
Rural Nebraska, my ancestral home, has 14.4Kbps modem connections. Everything else goes a little bit slower. I am…
