Newsletter archive

Clients receive a monthly newsletter by mail. That newsletter is available on-line, too. Topics range from website management to spam prevention, with occasional looks at the future of technology.

Newsletters are all in Adobe portable document file (PDF) format. The free reader is available from Adobe's website.

Prior to December 2002, the newsletter was called Dead Trees, but starting in December 2002, I changed the name to Random Thoughts.

The most recent newsletter is first.

December 2009: The Spam King, Google Voice, and amazing commonplace events.

November 2009: Desktop publishing and inexpensive website development.

October 2009: Windows 7 Brings Many Changes and Most Are Good.

September 2009: Forgetting to Look for New Customers (Ideas from Ray Jutkins).

August 2009: Perception: Marketing Hits and Misses.

July 2009: May I Tweet in Your Facebook? All About Social Media.

June 2009: Reaching the right Audience with Targeted Marketing.

May 2009: Linux Can’t Win. Linux Must Win.

Apr 2009: Why Is the Internet So Slow in the U.S.? Browser vulnerabilities.

Mar 2009: Microsoft Remodels the Mac Office.

Feb 2009: The Importance of Being Up to Date; Sync or Swim.

Jan 2009: Open Office 3: Competition for Microsoft? The end of paper.

Dec 2008: Dealing With The Helpful Disaster.

Nov 2008: The Internet Is Changing; Windows 7 will replace Vista.

Oct 2008: Passwords to Keep Your Data Secure.

Sep 2008: Internet Threatened by Scams and Fraud.

Aug 2008: The FUD factor; lions on the Internet; the Gmail archive.

Jul 2008: Could You Live without Microsoft? Spam from legitimte companies!

Jun 2008: Books are Dead, But Literacy Remains; AT&T DSL: Not So Easy

May 2008: Podcasting for everyone (part 2)

Apr 2008: Podcasting for everyone (part 1)

Mar 2008: Zoho for Your SOHO: Restive in Redmond and voting in Ohio.

Feb 2008: Dirty-foot websites succeed; another IRS "refund"; missing data tapes.

Jan 2008: Finding the Never-Crash Operating System.

Dec 2007: Should your next computer run Linux?

Nov 2007: Update the changes to your modifications.

Oct 2007: The Vista vista: Is this vantage an advantage?

Sep 2007: Performance, profitability, and satisfaction. (by A.J. Stinnett)

Aug 2007: Office 2007 and Vista.

Jul 2007: A Vista calamity; the dropping cost of disk space; spam.

Jun 2007: Making repetitive tasks bearable; radio in a digital age.

May 2007: Insecure security.

Mar 2007: Customer loyalty depends on employee loyalty.

Feb 2007: Christmas day shopping; death of an Ipod; what's running and why?

Jan 2007: IT insecurity; Internet answers; frozen disk drives; dead record labels.

Dec 2006: DMCA annoyances; free phones from Google; faster browsing.

Nov 2006: Open Office; blasted spammers; believable blogs.

Oct 2006: Browser war heats up; Mars Rover; TypeIt4Me.

Sep 2006: Of schlimmbes and highly trained dogs.

Aug 2006: Is Linux an ankle-biter or a real threat? Google Earth improves.

Jul 2006: Customer support done right and too much disk space.

Jun 2006: Why is "customer support" an oxymoron for so many companies?

May 2006: Good and bad on the Internet; joke leads to jail; Google deletes itself.

Apr 2006: Make 50 cents and lose a customer; data security; telephone hard drives.

Mar 2006: Data security and GoToMyPC.

Feb 2006: Internet shopping; shrinking computers; Google News.

Jan 2006: Designing an effective ad campaign; Making HTML code compliant.

Dec 2005: How not to do PR; the FBI did not send you a message about websites.

Nov 2005: Spyware dangers; Open Office 2.0.

Oct 2005: Eyes open and missing the obvious; Your next computer.

Sep 2005: Network attached storage under $250; Saved (again) by backup.

Aug 2005: Advertising and deception; Deception on the Web.

Jul 2005: "You have 52 weeks to double the business."

Jun 2005: Ubiquitous WiFi; taking your identity on the road; Sober bites again.

May 2005: Valuable data; Adobe acquires Macromedia; moving big files.

Apr 2005: Websites are no longer optional; death on the Internet.

Mar 2005: Firefox; GMail; IBMicroApple; the FBI.

Feb 2005: The remarkable life of Ray Jutkins.

Jan 2005: More on identity theft; Securing your data.

Dec 2004: Are Mac & Linux systems safer?; Identity theft.

Nov 2004: Tracking website visitors; Comparing LCD and CRT monitors.

Oct 2004: Computer as friend or foe; "Cheap" Windows; backup!

Sep 2004: Reliability; performance reviews; Windows XP SP2.

Aug 2004: Correcting mistakes; undeleting files; boasting.

Jul 2004: A short, jaundiced history of desktop publishing.

Jun 2004: Is this the end of spam as we know it? (Hopeful, but naive)

May 2004: Do you need an SMTP server? (And why not.)

Apr 2004: Website re-design; medical technology

Mar 2004: Is the Internet's future CB radio's past?

Feb 2004: Spam solution may be worse than the problem.

Jan 2004: Is it time to switch to applications with less risk attached?

Dec 2003: My 3-part program for dealing with spam.

Nov 2003: Why computer "geeks" are looking at Macs these days.

Oct 2003: Tech-X New York report.

Sep 2003:Terrorism by e-mail?

Aug 2003: Are stupid people taking over the business world?

Jul 2003: Bourbon; business plans; talking to your customers.

Jun 2003: An explosion; a fire; the disappearing websites.

May 2003: Billing your time with TimeSlips.

Apr 2003: Things that cause website designers to lose their hair.

Mar 2003: Give me back my mailbox!

Feb 2003: Keeping a computer clean and up to date.

Jan 2003: Power to the pixel – why some websites don't print properly.

Dec 2002: Why Norton AntiVirus may not be the best choice.

Nov 2002: On gaining respect for the Mac.

Oct 2002: It's a website, not a beauty contest!

Sep 2002: Websites; Flash; why sans faces work better.

Aug 2002: Anxiously awaiting Corel Ventura 10.

Jul 2002: Is legislation the solution to the spam problem?

Jun 2002: E-mail – Why a "pretty" e-mail can get ugly.

May 2002: Viruses and worms, and how to avoid them.

Apr 2002: Browsers are better, but there's still craziness afoot.

Mar 2002: Is Red Hat Linux ready for your desktop?

Feb 2002: Why colors can be a problem on the Web.

Jan 2002: Should you be using Windows XP?

Dec 2001: Digital cameras change the face of photography.

Nov 2001: Which is better – Mac or Windows?

Oct 2001: We want it all, we want it now, and we want it delivered.

Sep 2001: Virtual phones for the virtual office.

Aug 2001: The Windows guy takes a look at the Mac.

Jul 2001: Tech-X New York

Jun 2001: New technology including Firewire and desktop video.

Philosophical essays

Occasionally I write a philosophical piece. The topics are eclectic, to say the least. You may even find that one point of view is diametrically opposed to another. The articles are in the vault.

   
 

The newsletter used to be called Dead Trees because that's what paper is made from. Now it's called Random Thoughts because that's what's in it.

 

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