Favorite articles, reviews and essays.

• To our daughter, Emma, on a very important day (1997)
• The tornado, my neighbor Tom and the miracle on Van Ness Road (1994)
• Time to break down the wall (1988)
• The Web's odd lesson: Nobody saw it coming (1999)
• The child porn raid that backfired: Why the government needs to keep its hands off your ISP (1998)
• Adjusting the timer on your VCR in just a few hundred easy steps (1992)
• The day Frank's radio came back to life (1993)
• How to adjust your TV (1987)
• When technology needs a zapper of its own (1994)
• All you have to do is believe (1995)
• Toast of the town: A parable for PC owners (1999)
• How Sony killed the Betamax (1988)
• How one man changed the face of audio (1987)
• The simple trick that makes television possible (1990)
• It's not my voice, and it's not my mail, but guess what they call it? (1990)
• Looking back at 50: Can somebody please program my VCR? (1993)
• Making Windows shortcuts work for you
• Casting a spell 1: Why cant they spel rite anymor? (1988)
• Casting a spell 2: They can't spell, and they can't edit, either (1994)
• Dick Tracy's dreams (1988)
• Citroen: The car that time forgot (1985)
• How Edison saved rock and roll (1992)
• 5 myths about the Internet, and why they're wrong (1997)
• Stop the browser! Five basic rules for better surfing (1998)
• Into the soul of a bad machine: Why Microsoft doesn't get it (thoughts about the judge's ruling) (2000)
• Why the hi-fi lunatic fringe hates me (1997)
• When everything fails, blame the nut behind the keyboard (2000)