Clips: Technology
Stories and columns about computing and tech:
Basement bands see the digital light: USA TODAY, 2002. By the early oo’s, it was becoming affordable to set up a recording studio in your basement and, if you had some talent, make a quality recording. Jars of Clay, Trent Reznor and composer Shawn Clement were among the musicians I rounded up to tell the story.
Can IBM dominate desktops?: Poughkeepsie Journal, 1995. As its mainframe business faced an uncertain future, pundits declared that IBM needed to succeed on the PC desktop to survive. To IBM, that meant pushing its OS/2 operating system.
Software must clean up after itself: Poughkeepsie Journal, 1995. One of several columns I wrote for the Journal on tech topics. This one focused on the need for software to behave politely and uninstall itself completely — something that software companies still haven’t managed to do well.