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TECHNO-CRAZED
The business person's guide to controlling technology before it controls you
by Michael Finley
Copyright © 1998 by Michael Finley
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Flowers in the Dirt
(July 18, 1999)
The Book I Meant to Write (July 13, 1999)
An Electric Car in Your Garage?(July 11, 1999)
Suffering Succotash (July 10, 1999)
Born on the 4th of July(July 4, 1999)
Slammed!(June 27, 1999)
The Old Scout and the Three Strikes of Life(June 20, 1999)
The Ultimate Technology
(June 20, 1999)
You May Already Be a Luddite
(June 11, 1999)
The Lure of the Merchant Credit Card(June 7, 1999)
The Conversation(June 2, 1999)
Internet Bottom Feeders (June 2, 1999)
2029: A Space Anniversary (May 30, 1999)
Me and My Jornada
(May 23, 1999)
Go Telnet on the Mountain: Folk Song vs Biztech
(May 16, 1999)
The Etiquette of Messing with Someone Else's Computer
(January 16, 1994)
The READ.ME File You Wish You Never Read
(December 25, 1995)
The Greatest Arcade Hero of Them All
(May 9, 1999)
Yugoslavia: You've Got Mail
(May 2, 1999)
Fixing Hamlet
(April 1999)
A Question for the Animal Liberation Front
(April 1999)
"I Just Want to Do My Jig Saw Puzzle"
(April 18, 1999)
Your Live Eye at Spring COMDEX
(April 11, 1999)
Easter Eggs and Brain Tumors
(April 4, 1999)
The Emperor's New Computer
(March 27, 1999)
"The Itinerary of the Internet Cat"
(March 21, 1999)
"What Can a White Man Do?""
(March 14, 1999)
"The Big Cry"
(March 11, 1999)
"I Have Seen the Future and It Is Old"
(March 7, 1999)
"The Age of Sensors"
(February 28, 1999)
"The Devil's Computer"
(February 21, 1999)
"All Valentines Eve"
(February 13, 1999)
"I Met the Planet Finder"
(February 14, 1999)
"The Machines"
(February 14, 1999)
"The Dog Internet"
(December 21, 1998)
"Rendering Unto Microsoft"
(February 7, 1999)
"Between Economies: A Tale Most Micawber"
(January 31, 1999)
"In Praise of Shamelessness"
(January 27, 1999)
"Ask Techno Answer Man!"
(January 24, 1999)
"Impeachment Blues"
(January 14, 1999)
"The Clever and the Good"
(January 15, 1999)
"What the heck Are Future Shoes?"
(January 17, 1999)
"Neil Young Bites the Dust"
(January 10, 1999)
"The Sound and the Flurry"
(January 3, 1999)
"New Years Resolutions, 1999"
(January 1, 1999)
1998
"1999 'Moron' Award Winners Announced"
(December 27, 1998)
"Death, Hell, & Santa Claus,"
(December 25, 1998)
"Greensleeve," A Christmas Poem
(December 20, 1998)
Torn to Bits: A Fable for the Information Age
(December 12 1998)
"The Dog Internet"
(December 21, 1998)
"A Rose in December"
(December 6, 1998)
"How Many Workstations Has the Pope?"
(November 30, 1998)
"The Pregnant Policeman"
(November 22, 1998)
"The Man in the Plastic Garbage Can"
(November 15, 1998)
"Hurrah for Minnesota! Hurrah for Democracy!"
(November 4, 1998)
"My Brush with Fame"
(November 8, 1998)
"The Future Is Falling"
(November 1, 1998)
Are We Getting Studiper? Devolution in Action
(November 1998)
"The Dog of the Future"
(October 25, 1998)
Computers and Prunes: A Cautionary Tale
(September Computer User 1998)
"Is Your Car TV-Ready?"
(October 18, 1998)
Farewell to the Pioneer Press
(October 19, 1998)
"Columbus in the reading room: a Moebius trip"
(October 12, 1998)
My 15 Minutes of Fame
(September Computer User 1998)
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