Computer Currents, 1997-2000
| January 11, 2000 | The 1999 HAL 9000 Awards Honoring those whose jokes it is my duty to report |
| January 25, 2000 | Mediocre Millennium Low points from 1000 years of computing |
| February 8, 2000 | Judge, Jury, and Executable, Part II Readers thoughts on what will happen to Microsoft? |
| February 22, 2000 | Stock Answers Investing in a liability |
| December 28, 1999 | The Last Gigglebytes Column Until the next one |
| December 14, 1999 | The Big Cookie Another dark tale of Internet noir |
| November 23, 1999 | Citizen Gates Not based on the life of William Randolph Hearst |
| November 9, 1999 | Free Fall Free Web sites still can’t brush your teeth |
| October 26, 1999 | Judge, Jury, and Executable What should we do about Microsoft? |
| October 12, 1999 | Symphony in D Drive Music and computers mix like oil and vodka |
| September 28, 1999 | Driver Training Installing hardware is as easy as paying off the national debt |
| September 14, 1999 | Ask Dr. Deeram Questionable answers to your unanswerable questions |
| August 24, 1999 | Think Tiny Thoughts Nanotechnology promises less of everything |
| August 10, 1999 | Easy Answers There are no computer-related problems too big to be ignored |
| July 27, 1999 | Shop 'Til You Pop Zen and the art of Internet commerce |
| July 13, 1999 | Office Politics The new upgrade may not be a suite deal |
| June 29, 1999 | Why To Kay 2000 bad solutions to the year 2000 |
| June 15, 1999 | Free At Any Price You never know the price of a free computer |
| May 25, 1999 | Utility Bills Protecting your PC and losing your mind |
| May 11, 1999 | Better Boxes Revolution for the routine of it |
| April 27, 1999 | Playing Monopoly What to do if the feds don’t sue |
| April 13, 1999 | Pings to Come The wonderful world of tomorrow is only a few years away |
| March 23, 1999 | Spam I Am Confessions of an e-mail marketer |
| March 9, 1999 | Home Popping Network Connect your computers in one mind-numbing step |
| February 23, 1999 | Millennium II Thousand Coming soon to a theatre near you |
| February 9, 1999 | Ask Dr. Deeram Questionable Answers to Your Unanswerable Questions |
| January 26, 1999 | Fresh Start, Fresher Problems Reinstalling Windows gives you a whole new reason to hate your life |
| January 12, 1999 | And the Winner Is… The same old awards, with a new, improved name! |
| December 20, 1998 | Holiday in Hex Bitmaps roasting on an open fire |
| December 8, 1998 | Know thine Enemy Another peak into Bill Gates’ E-mail |
| November 17, 1998 | Panic in the Year 2000 Yet another reason to dread New Year’s Eve |
| November 3, 1998 | Personal Information Mangler Sometimes it’s better to be disorganized |
| October 20, 1998 | Like Windows, Only More So If you’re truly desperate, try one of these Windows utilities |
| October 6, 1998 | Getting Nowhere Fast More proof that the Internet isn’t worth a fast connection |
| September 22, 1998 | Behind the Plexiglas Apple’s new low-end system changes…something |
| September 8, 1998 | Ask Dr. Deeram More Questionable Answers to Your Unanswerable Questions |
| August 18, 1998 | Integrated Circus When software isn’t slow enough |
| August 4, 1998 | Faster Than a Speeding Bit The key to fast Internet access is stuck in the lock |
| July 21, 1998 | Hex, Drives, and Archiving Tape A bad backup for your slipped disk |
| July 7, 1998 | Presentation Tense Presentation software can make anyone look like a professional |
| June 16, 1998 | The Maltese Penguin A man’s man amongst the Unix |
| June 2, 1998 | DOS Boot Some things are best left forgotten |
| May 19, 1998 | Future Pretense What’s in store for Windows after 98 |
| May 5, 1998 | Write and Wrong The power of the press belongs to those who steal one |
| April 21, 1998 | Ernie Goes Online What are friends for? Hopefully not this |
| April 7, 1998 | Ask Dr. Deeram More Questionable Answers to Your Unanswerable Questions |
| March 17, 1998 | Paying Through the Modem New Technologies for separating you from your money |
| March 3, 1998 | Mary Popup If only real life were like a Disney fantasy |
| February 17, 1998 | Outlook Unimpressed A Peek At Bill Gates’ Email Inbox |
| February 3, 1998 | The Big Store Where service is a frontal attack |
| January 20, 1998 | Problems 5 Solutions 0 Not all conflicts are as easy to solve as those in the Middle East |
| January 6, 1998 | The (Who’s Counting?) Pentium Awards They make the jokes; I just report them |
| December 23, 1997 | Tyrannosaurus Redmond Back to the future: December 8, 1999 |
| December 9, 1997 | The Maltese Novice Another journey into ‘Net Noir |
| November 25, 1997 | Coming Subtractions Through the future darkly--and with pepperoni |
| November 11, 1997 | Ask Dr. Deeram More Questionable Answers For Your Unanswerable Questions |
| October 28, 1997 | Justifiable Cybercide Everyone has their breaking point |
| October 14, 1997 | Blood on the Sectors Or Blowin’ the Rolling Stone Down Highway 61 Revisited |
| September 30, 1997 | Dialing for Dullards The Web shopping experience |
| September 16, 1997 | Apple Cobbler Cupertino’s secrets revealed--or at least untangled |
| September 2, 1997 | Small Office, Poor Office Tools that every home office should be without |
| August 19, 1997 | Sharewary Bad things sometimes come in small packages |
| August 5, 1997 | Power Outage The right utility collection can protect you from productivity |
| July 22, 1997 | Apple of His Eye The solution to Cupertino’s problems |
| July 1, 1997 | Battle of the Browsers, 1999 Microsoft and Netscape face off in the 7.0 generation |
| June 17, 1997 | Chip Soup The Marxist theory of computer repair |
| June 3, 1997 | Deadlier Than the Mail Remember: Only the U.S. Post Office supports all fonts |
| May 20, 1997 | Ask Dr. Deeram More Questionable Answers For Your Unanswerable Questions |
| May 6, 1997 | My Own Private I Don’t Know Careful--Big Brother Norman is watching you |
| April 22, 1997 | Talk Show What is the future of television shows on the future of computers? |
| April 1, 1997 | Taxing One's Abilities The truly scary side of paying taxes |
| March 18, 1997 | Plugged Up Plug-ins help you surf the Web tidal wave into the rocks of multimedia |
| March 4, 1997 | When the Chips are Down Revolutionary new CPU makes your computer obsolete |
| February 18, 1997 | Sign Off, My Lovely America Has Gone On Noir |
| February 4, 1997 | HTMHell Web design tools for the talent impaired |
| January 21, 1997 | The Book of Jobs The King Steve Translation |
| January 7, 1997 | The Third (Ninth) Pentium Awards In which we honor the industry that makes Gigglebytes possible |
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