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Writer | Editor | New Zealander
Writer | Editor | New Zealander
I'm a writer and editor based in 40.9006°S, 174.8860°E. My hours at are spent deep in the trenches of technical communication and knowledge management. In my civilian life, I put a lot of thought and effort into writing articles, blogging, penning essays, and occasionally publishing ebooks.
Here are some of the articles and blog posts that I regularly go back to, either to inspire me or to remind me of an idea:
You can also download my full playlist as an OPML file.
Inspired by Leo Babauta
Last rotated: 3 April, 2025
The books I'll be diving into between January and December.
| To Read | Not to Read |
|---|---|
| In Memory of Memory | Uncomputable |
| Silicon Values | Saving Time |
| Breaking Things at Work | Cannibal Capitalism |
| On Giving Up | Wise Animals |
| Slow Down | |
| Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction | |
| Atlas of AI | |
| The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper | |
| Hacking Life |
To Re-Read
Over the years, I've written a few articles for more than a few publications, some of them still alive and kicking:
| Publication | Article Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Videomania | "HDTV Dilemma" | (June, 1990) |
| Videomania | "The Future Of Television?" | (June, 1994) |
| The Globe and Mail | "One Lesson Japan Can't Teach Us" | (December 9, 1992) |
| The Globe and Mail | "The Death Of The Book?" | (November 25, 1993) |
| Saskatchewan Bulletin | "Japan's System Doesn't Work" | (January 20, 1993) |
| OPSTF News | "One Lesson Japan Can't Teach Us" | (February, 1993) |
| The Toronto Star | "Japan's Inefficient Workers" | (February 10, 1993) |
| The Toronto Star | "PCs for All" | (February 25, 1999) |
| The Toronto Star | "The Web-Based Desktop" | (May 11, 2000) |
| The Toronto Star | "The `Net Toaster' rides again" | (Oct. 10, 2000) |
| The Comics Journal | "Mangajin: Learning Through Comics" | (Issue 159 - May, 1993) |
| The Comics Journal | "Comics On CompuServe" | (Issue 171 - September, 1994) |
| Selected Reading | "How To Learn A Language, Without Ever Stepping Into A Classroom" | (September, 1993) |
| The Kitchener-Waterloo Record | "Technophobia Is Here" | (November 15, 1993) |
| Midnight Zoo | "ORION: Getting There On A Bomb And A Prayer" | (Volume 3, Issue 9) |
| Gauntlet | "Toronto's BBS Busts" | (Number 8) |
| Home Computing & Entertainment | "Speaking In Tongues" | (September, 1995) |
| Home Computing & Entertainment | "My Home Is My Castle" | (March, 1996) |
| Home Computing & Entertainment | "Playing With Pictures" | (May, 1996) |
| We Compute | "Simple, Inexpensive Ways To Protect Files" | (May, 1996) |
| We Compute | "WordExpress" | (July, 1996) |
| ComputorEdge | "Are Faster Processors Necessary?" | (May 31, 1996) |
| ComputorEdge | "Protecting Your Files Without Spending A Fortune" | (June 20, 1997) |
| ComputorEdge | "Speaking In Tongues, Digitally" | (November 13, 1997) |
| ComputorEdge | "The Myth Of The Paperless Office" | (November 2, 1997) |
| ComputorEdge | "TeX: The DTP Alternative" | (February 20, 1998) |
| ComputorEdge | "Netscape & Internet Explorer? Who Needs 'Em?" | (March 26, 1998) |
| ComputorEdge | "The Myth of Online Democracy" | (April 3, 1998) |
| ComputorEdge | "Don't Weave a Lousy Web" | (November 28, 1998) |
| ComputorEdge | "Adding Some Style to the Web" | (December 4, 1998) |
| ComputorEdge | "Giving Windows 3.1 a Facelift" | (July 16, 1999) |
| ComputorEdge | "Productivity in the Digital Age" | (July 28, 1999) |
| ComputorEdge | "The Web of Languages" | (November 5, 1999) |
| ComputorEdge | "Zipping and Unzipping for Beginners" | (November 12, 1999) |
| ComputorEdge | "Going Graphical In DOS" | (February 25, 2000) |
| ComputorEdge | "OpenContent: Freeing Information" | (May 26, 2000) |
| ComputorEdge | "Building Web Pages in Your Browser" | (November 17, 2000) |
| ComputorEdge | "Publishing to a Different Beat" | (February 23, 2001) |
| ComputorEdge | "Listening to the Radio, On the Internet" | (March 2, 2001) |
| ComputorEdge | "Enter the Internet Appliance" | (July 20, 2001) |
| ComputorEdge | "Browse Your Way to a Foreign Language" | (August 22, 2003) |
| ComputorEdge | "Breadbox Ensemble: Making Old Computers New Again" | (December 10, 2004) |
| ComputorEdge | "Creating PDFs in Linux" | (March 25, 2005) |
| ComputorEdge | "The New Face of Desktop Publishing for Linux" | (May 6, 2005) |
| ComputorEdge | "Choosing a Linux E-Mail Client" | (June 3, 2005) |
| ComputorEdge | "Linux Tools for Technical Writers" | (July 1, 2005) |
| ComputorEdge | "Linux PDF Viewers" | (March 10, 2006) |
| ComputorEdge | "Text Editors for the Non-Geek" | (April 21, 2006) |
| ComputorEdge | "Blogging from the Command Line" | (June 2, 2006) |
| ComputorEdge | "Browsers of the Past" | (July 21, 2006) |
| ComputorEdge | "Nvu: WYSIWYG Web Editing in Linux" | (July 28, 2006) |
| ComputorEdge | "Viewing Word Files at the Command Line" | (August 11, 2006) |
| ComputorEdge | "Useful (Mostly) Little Linux Utilities" | (October 6, 2006) |
| ComputorEdge | "Managing Tasks at the Command Line" | (March 9, 2007) |
| ComputorEdge | "Essential Linux Books" | (March 23, 2007) |
| ComputorEdge | "Blogging with Thingamablog" | (March 30, 2007) |
| ComputorEdge | "Ripping CDs with ripit" | (April 6, 2007) |
| ComputorEdge | "A Look at Specialized Linux Distributions" | (April 27, 2007) |
| ComputorEdge | "Going Portable With AlphaSmart" | (May 25, 2007) |
| ComputorEdge | "Seven Tips for Choosing an MP3 Player" | (October 12, 2007) |
| ComputorEdge | "A Look at Free and Open Source Utilities for Windows" | (December 14, 2007) |
| Toronto Computes | "Internet Graphics: Covering The Basics" | (October, 1996) |
| Toronto Computes | "Low-Cost Word Factories" | (May, 1997) |
| Toronto Computes | "Super File Converter" | (November, 1997) |
| Toronto Computes | "Printing More With Less" | (March, 1998) |
| FreeLance | "Processing Words On A Budget" | (November/December, 1996) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "Accent Duo With Translation" | (Vol. 8, Issue 1) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "Web Translation Made Easy" | (Vol. 8, Issue 3) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "Surfing The Web, Asian Style" | (Vol. 8, Issue 4) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "KanjiScan: Powerful And Flexible Japanese OCR" | (Vol. 8, Issue 5) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "Tsunami MT 6.0" | (Vol. 9, Issue 1) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "Accent WordPoint" | (Vol. 9, Issue 3) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "Translation Aide" | (Vol. 9, Issue 4) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "The Web of Languages: A Look at Online Dictionaries and Translation Services" | (Vol. 9, Issue 5) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "TransLinGO! 1.0" | (Vol. 9, Issue 5) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "Typhoon MT 6.0" | (Vol. 9, Issue 6) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "WinMASS Pro 3.0" | (Vol. 9, Issue 6) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "J-Text Pro" | (Vol. 10, Issue 1) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "Japanese Word Book CD-ROM" | (Vol. 10, Issue 2) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "DynaLab Unicode Font" | (Vol. 10, Issue 2) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "LanguageLink 97 Professional" | (Vol. 10, Issue 2) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "LEC Translation Trio" | (Vol. 10, Issue 5) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "L&H Power Translator Pro" | (Vol. 10, Issue 6) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "Easy Translator/Simply Translating" | (Vol. 11, Issue 2) |
| Multilingual Computing & Technology | "KanjiKit 2000" | (Vol. 11, Issue 3) |
| Terra Incognita | "Getting There Without The Pollution" | (Spring, 1997) |
| Writers' Journal | "Processing Words On A Budget" | (May/June, 1997) |
| Link Up | "Surf The Web in Almost Any Language" | (September/Oct., 1997) |
| Link Up | "Web Publishing For The Rest of Us" | (March/April, 1998) |
| Link Up | "The Other Browsers" | (September/Oct., 1998) |
| Link Up | "Web Translation Software" | (January/Feb, 1999) |
| Link Up | "Web-Based E-mail" | (May/June, 1999) |
| Link Up | "Posting Web Pages Free of Charge" | (January/February, 2000) |
| Link Up | "The World at Your Fingertips" | (May/June, 2000) |
| Link Up | "OpenContent" | (March/April, 2001) |
| Link Up | "E-Mail Appliances" | (September/October, 2001) |
| Midwest PC Review | "The Power of the Command Line" | (October, 1999) |
| Small Business Canada Magazine | "An Alternative to High Priced Office Suites" | (Winter 1999/2000) |
| Sympatico NetLife (online edition) | "Start Your Engines" | (May/June, 2000) |
| Web Review | "HTML-Kit: Nice 'n Tidy" | (May 5, 2000) |
| Web Review | "HTML Tidy: Keeping it Clean" | (June 16, 2000) |
| Web Review | "The Ant: Doing HTML Right with Word" | (December 1, 2000) |
| Web Review | "HTMLEdit 3.0" | (January 5, 2001) |
| Web Review | "HTML Designer — Authoring for Web and Wireless in the Palm of Your Hand" | (February 9, 2001) |
| California Computer News | "Volks-PC: Bringing the Computer to the Masses" | (June, 2000) |
| Smart Computing | "E-mail By Phone" | (June, 2000) |
| Smart Computing | "Gaming on the Go" | (September, 2000) |
| Smart Computing | "Video Webcasts" | (January, 2001) |
| Smart Computing | "Screening Webcams" | (February, 2001) |
| Smart Computing | "Web Cameras: Tips To Solving Your Web Cam Woes" | (March, 2001) |
| Smart Computing | "Put It In Motion" | (April, 2001) |
| Smart Computing | "How To ... Add Frames" | (April, 2001) |
| Smart Computing | "How To ... Add Video" | (April, 2001) |
| Smart Computing | "Finagle Your Files & Folders" | (May, 2001) |
| Smart Computing | "Unearth Compatibility Issues" | (May, 2001) |
| Smart Computing | "Swallow Your Medicine" | (May, 2001) |
| Smart Computing | "Helpful Hints To Handle Hardware Hiccups" | (July, 2001) |
| Smart Computing | "Unpucker Problematic Software When It Sours On You" | (July, 2001) |
| Smart Computing | "Slice it Up" | (September, 2001) |
| Smart Computing | "Crunch Time" | (September, 2001) |
| Smart Computing | "Condition Critical" | (November, 2001) |
| Smart Computing | "Go Portable" | (November, 2001) |
| Computer Reference Encyclopedia | issue 5 | (May, 2002) |
| SMOArt Today | "HTML Tidy: Keeping it Clean" | (November, 2000) |
| SMOArt Today | "HTMLEdit 3.0: Web Editing in Your Pocket" | (March, 2001) |
| SMOArt Today | "The Ant: Doing HTML Right with Word" | (May, 2001) |
| About.com | "Introducing Internet Appliances" | (July 22, 2000) |
| About.com | "Getting Your Software Off The Web — Part 1" | (July 24, 2000) |
| About.com | "Getting Your Software Off The Web — Part 2" | (July 26, 2000) |
| About.com | "Operating Systems for Internet Appliances" | (August 7, 2000) |
| About.com | "Is An Internet Appliance Right For You?" | (August 15, 2000) |
| About.com | "Buying an Internet Appliance" | (September 15, 2000) |
| About.com | "A Look at Email Appliances" | (September 27, 2000) |
| About.com | "Having Fun with Your Internet Appliance" | (October 4, 2000) |
| About.com | "A History of WebTV in 760 Words" | (October 19, 2000) |
| About.com | "Web Tablets: Portability Guaranteed" | (November 5, 2000) |
| About.com | "What's New" | (November 18, 2000) |
| About.com | "Email In Your Pocket" | (December 1, 2000) |
| About.com | "The PostBox On Your Desk" | (December 8, 2000) |
| About.com | "Learning WebTV On Your Own" | (January 5, 2001) |
| About.com | "What Was New at CES 2001" | (January 21, 2001) |
| About.com | "Should I Buy a Notebook or a Tablet?" | (February 9, 2001) |
| About.com | "An Internet Appliance Wish List" | (February 16, 2001) |
| About.com | "Two Weeks with Audrey — Part One" | (February 23, 2001) |
| About.com | "Two Weeks with Audrey — Part Two" | (March 3, 2001) |
| About.com | "Web Tablets in Business and Industry" | (March 16, 2001) |
| About.com | "Bleak News, Hopeful Future" | (March 23, 2001) |
| About.com | "The New NiC" | (March 30, 2001) |
| About.com | "Four Questions to Ask" | (April 20, 2001) |
| About.com | "DefiningInternet Appliance" | (May 11, 2001) |
| About.com | "WebTV For Dummies" | (June 1, 2001) |
| About.com | "Gazing into the Crystal Ball" | (June 8, 2001) |
| About.com | "The Death of a Good Idea" | (June 15, 2001) |
| About.com | "Sony eVilla (finally) Released" | (June 22, 2001) |
| About.com | "Mivo 200" | (June 29, 2001) |
| About.com | "NiC 2.0 — Part One" | (July 13, 2001) |
| About.com | "NiC 2.0 — Part Two" | (July 20, 2001) |
| About.com | "Email With a Twist" | (August 3, 2001) |
| About.com | "Bridging the Digital Divide" | (August 10, 2001) |
| About.com | "Internet Appliances in Education" | (August 17, 2001) |
| About.com | "Sony Kills the eVilla" | (August 31, 2001) |
| About.com | "Where to Buy an Internet Appliance" | (September 21, 2001) |
| Linux.com/Newsforge.com | "Creating PDFs with ps2pdf" | (April 2, 2004) |
| Linux.com/Newsforge.com | "Quick and Dirty Typesetting with APT" | (April 28, 2004) |
| Linux.com/Newsforge.com | "Putting |
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