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.
