I write....

Recent Publications

• In 1999 I wrote:
  • "Faster, Faster! Broadband Access to the Internet." Article, ONLINE, Volume 23, Number 4, July-August, 1999. Pp. 18-26.
  • With Allen H. Porter. "Authenticated Off-net Access to Commercial Library Resources." CAUSE/EFFECT, Volume 22, Number 2, Summer 1999. Pp. 51-52, 56.
• In 1998 I wrote:
  • "Considering thin client computing for higher education." Current Issues article, CAUSE/EFFECT, Volume 21, Number 3, Fall 1998. Pp. 7-10.
  • "Thin clients and network centric computing." Article, ONLINE, Volume 21, Number 6, November/December 1998. Pp. 89-98.

• In 1997 I wrote "Intellectual standards in the information resources industry." Viewpoint article, CAUSE/EFFECT, Volume 20, Number 2, Summer 1997. Pp. 58-60.

• In 1996 I wrote a review of Gregory Rawlins' Moths to the Flame for The Montana Professor.

• A project from November 1995 was a white paper I wrote on classroom use of the World Wide Web to accompany O'Reilly & Associates educational edition of their WebSite product.

• In March 1995 I published an article on World Wide Web browsers in Online, "the magazine of online information systems." It won the 1995 UMI Excellence in Writing Award, presented December 6, 1995 at the Online Information '95 conference in London.

Earlier Publications

• Confessions of a PC-DOS addict  from the October 1988 issue of BACSpace.

• The Lure of the Web  from the April-May 1994 issue.

• Choosing the Right High Speed Modem  from the February-March 1994 issue of the Times.

• Avoiding Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: A Guide for Computer Keyboard Users  from the July-August 1990 issue of the Times. (As a result of being being written in the right place at the right time, this article was reprinted at least 18 times in publications all over the world. I still get requests for permission to excerpt it or point to it from other sites. ...I'm as surprised as anyone!)

From 1990 to 1994 I wrote book reviews for Online  and  Database magazines, publications of Online Inc.

Sometimes I go to conferences and talk about things that interest me. Look here for a home page I created for my presentation at the October 1994 ONLINE/CD-ROM '94 conference.

Other times I'll go to a conference and then write about something I learn. For example, I went to the 1995 Internet Society Summit and wrote an editorial about it for internetMCI's Net Editors feature. That editorial was later reprinted in the premiere edition of NetWatch, a forum for discussion of network-based technologies (now called The Pulver Report).

Finally, here are links to some more or less informal hiking/backpacking trip reports I've written.

• Here's an article I did on a couple day hikes in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park near San Diego, CA. This is the raw trip report I did for the rec.backcountry newsgroup. It was later picked up along with my illustrations and published in 21st Century Adventures E-Zine.

• This is my report on a day trip into the Maroon Bells/Snowmass wilderness near Aspen, Colorado.

• Here's a report on a three-day backpacking trip in the Spanish Peaks unit of the Lee Metcalf Wilderness in the Madison Range, SW Montana. [Under Construction]

• Here's a report on my five-day backpacking trip with members of Montana Council Boy Scout Troop 679 down the Gallatin Divide trail in the Gallatin National Forest, SW Montana. [Under Construction]