In the article Second Guessing Mastering Engineers I use Jeff Wayne's epic production of "The War Of The Worlds" as an example of assessing and even revising the EQ decisions made by mixing and mastering engineers.

Years ago I wrote a column for Audio Solutions, a quarterly magazine that was published by the GC Pro Division of Guitar Center. Besides my regular column, several issues also include additional feature articles by me. These articles are no longer online, so as time permits I'll add some of them here. Many ended up in my Audio Expert book, so I won't bother adding those.

GC Pro: Physics of Musical Instruments

If you use analog synthesizers and want to understand what all the knobs and buttons really do, my 20 minute video How to program analog synthesizers is for you. It explains in great detail how to program analog style hardware and software synthesizers. Topics include oscillators, ADSR envelope generators, filters, LFOs, and much more. Waveforms are shown on an oscilloscope to better understand what's happening under the hood. There's a lot of fine detail on the screen, so be sure to watch it in 720p High Definition.

The compressor is one of the most useful audio tools we have, yet it's operation is not obvious to many people who are just getting started in recording. This brief tutorial explains the basic principles.

I wrote Using a Mixer with a DAW for EQ magazine because I was answering the same questions over and over in the audio newsgroups: Why do earlier tracks end up on my overdubs? How do I monitor with reverb without recording the reverb too? And many other related questions. If you have a DAW and a small mixer, this article is for you.

Everyone knows about the infamous "Loudness Wars," where every CD tries to compete with every other CD based on sheer volume alone. My Peak Slammer review explains how to achieve maximum volume with no audible artifacts using this clever and inexpensive DirectX plug-in.

The terms slew rate and slew rate limiting are often used to describe the performance of audio devices, but many people don't fully understand what these terms mean. This expanded description of slew rate and slew rate limiting from my book The Audio Expert also explains more about how capacitors charge over time.

The article Coding an Equalizer is another recent addition to my book The Audio Expert, and it also provides a gentle introduction to the basics of computer programming.

For years the back pages of audio and recording magazines have featured ads for devices that claim to remove vocal tracks from a stereo recording. Is there really a magical way to remove a lead vocal from a commercial recording to create your own instant Karaoke backing tracks? Read The Truth About Vocal Eliminators, first published in the August, 1999 edition of ProRec, to find out.

This handy chart shows the frequencies of musical notes. Click the image below to see it full-size, or right-click to download it to your computer. If you prefer a chart where A is at 432 Hz, download THIS version instead.

The first article in my three-part series for Keyboard magazine explains how to partition, backup, and organize your hard drives. The second article describes menu and folder organization, and other related tips. The third and final part in the series explains how to optimize a Windows computer for audio recording, and offers many related tips and suggestions. These older articles are still mostly relevant, though some of the links may no longer be valid.

The debate between analog tape and digital recording has been going on for years, even though the winner is clear to me. While we wait for the rest of the world to see the light, HERE is my take on the benefits of subtle analog-like distortion from Sound On Sound magazine.

My more recent article for Sound On Sound addresses some people's obsession with Vintage Gear.

Is it live or is it Memorex? One goal of music recording is to capture a true sound, so when played back it sounds like the musicians are right there in the room with you. The experiment shown in the video Recorded Realism proves it's not an easy task! We weren't entirely successful, but did manage to get fairly close with some of the instruments. Enjoy!

Did you ever wonder why filling a drinking glass makes its resonant frequency go down instead of up? My very short YouTube video Vodka Glass shows the phenomenon clearly. You're welcome to email from the home page of this site for the explanation, or ask on YouTube in a comment to the video.

Vienna SoundFont Studio, published in Recording, May 1999. The newer models of SoundBlaster sound cards include the Vienna program that lets you create, loop, and organize your own recorded samples and play them from a MIDI keyboard. But Vienna's online documentation is poorly organized and incomplete. This article explains what Vienna does and how it works, and takes you step by step through the process of creating a multi-voice SoundFont.

If you use Sonar and SoundFonts with a Creative Labs sound card, this article is a must-read. It explains the many failings of Sonar's built-in SoundFont "support" and shows - step by step - how to overcome them all. With the tips in this article you'll be able to load any number of SoundFonts into multiple banks, prevent Sonar from clearing them each time you load a song, and be able to see all of the instrument names in all banks so you can easily choose the ones you want.

Speaking of SoundFonts, I posted a number of original SoundFonts to my site HERE.

Creative Labs asked me to write this review of the Audigy Platinum eX sound card in exchange for keeping the review unit. I accepted the gift and wrote a favorable review (which was sincere at the time). Unfortunately, the bugs I discovered have never been fixed, and it looks like they never will be for users of Windows 98, anyway.  I am leaving this review in place because the second half has a tutorial on the new Modulator Routings feature introduced with the SoundFont 2.1 specification, and some people may find that information useful.

In Striving For New Lows I explain why I chose the SoundBlaster Live card as the core for my then-current setup, and along the way describe many useful tips for creating and editing samples in the popular SoundFont format. Though I no longer rely on any products from Creative Labs, many home recording enthusiasts will still find this article useful. This older article is still relevant because SoundFonts are still a current sample format, though some links in the article may no longer be valid.

A SoundBlaster Live Value sound card costs about $60, and most "professional" sound cards cost 5-10 times that much. Is there a difference? Are the expensive cards worth the extra cost? The Sound Card Quality Report details my tests of the SoundBlaster Live's audio quality, and also compares it to a few other audio sound cards.

If you use a SoundBlaster Live card be sure to download my block diagram that illustrates the internal signal routing.

Using Visio Professional 5.0 for CD Labels and Artwork is a brief overview of using this excellent program for the stated purpose. Besides the article text, there's a ZIP file you can download that contains blank templates and samples for CD labels, CD covers, and CD back panels with spine text.

I wrote Copy Protection: The Audio Industry's Dirty Little Secret for ProRec out of frustration over the increasing number of software vendors that use this nasty and inexcusable practice. If you agree with what I've written, please join me in refusing to buy any program that is copy protected.

Over the years I've written many times about the relation of audio "gear" sound quality, audiophile beliefs, the frailty of human hearing, and the importance of room acoustics. My article Audio Minutiae from Recording Magazine brings these all together in one place to give a good summary of my findings and opinions. The articles and videos below provide more depth and detail.

I was honored to present a workshop at the AES show in October 2009 that dispelled many common audio myths. Here's a video version of that workshop on YouTube: AES Audio Myths Workshop

In 2013 I hosted another AES workshop, this time explaining how audio devices are spec'd and tested. A video version is available on YouTube: AES Lies, Damn Lies, and Audio Gear Specs

I found the explanation for seemingly unreasonable audiophile beliefs, and I describe it here in detail.

In the article Why Doesn’t My Stereo Sound Like a Live Concert? for audioXpress magazine I address this question that's so common in hi-fi audio forums.

There are two ways to assess the quality of audio devices: measuring and listening. Measuring is usually the better choice because the results are absolute, and repeatable because they avoid the vagaries of human hearing perception. But when measuring isn’t practical or possible, a listening test using a music source is perfectly fine. This article for ProSoundWeb explains what's needed to do a Proper Listening Test.

My article Stop Worrying About Wire! in Sound On Sound magazine explains the basics of wire with the simple aim to save consumers money.

As a follow-up to the Wire article above for Sound on Sound, I made The Null Tester video that proves beyond all doubt that the tested signal wires pass audio identically. Then a few months later I wrote THIS article for audioXpress magazine.

Many people believe the absolute polarity of audio signals is audible, but the short article Ear IM Distortion shows that this effect is caused by distortion in our ears. Perhaps even more significant, the audio examples provided also disprove the common myth that our "brain" lets us hear the correct pitch of a musical note even if it's missing the fundamental frequency.

My article Perception - the Final Frontier from Tape Op magazine is a must-read, and it received praise from such noted engineers as Thomas Barefoot and Bob Clearmountain.

Digital audio converters and sound cards have improved enormously over the years, and even budget models these days are clean enough to capture and reproduce music accurately. Yet some people still believe you must spend thousands of dollars per channel to get acceptable quality. Play the files in my Converter Loop-Back Tests and find out what you can hear - if you dare!

Debate rages in both audiophile and professional audio circles about the importance of low-level artifacts such as distortion, jitter, quantization noise, and summing errors in DAW software. My Artifact Audibility article addresses the audibility of very soft distortion and other artifacts, and includes Wave files you can download to discover for yourself at what volume level these can be heard.

This related Artifact Audibility article for Mix magazine explains more about how and why we hear artifacts at various volume levels.

Even more debate rages about the value of high-end gear versus more affordable choices. In June 2010 I got together with several friends to test three A/D/A converters - the description, result files, and a link to a YouTube video are in this Converters Comparison report.

Here's another "challenge" article with files that lets you compare 24/96 "high definition" audio against the same content at standard 16/44 CD quality. So please read the short article High Definition Audio, download the test files, and email me your choices!

Conventional wisdom says that setting digital record levels to peak around -20 dB below full scale sounds better than recording at levels closer to the 0 dB maximum. But is this really true, or just another Internet myth? Read The Truth About Record Levels and download the example files to find out for yourself.

In What Happened to Hi-Fi? I lament how audiophiles seem to lack interest in the technical aspects of their hobby.

If you've ever wondered about phase shift and how it's used in audio circuits, here is a mini-article I wrote that explains the role of phase shift in equalizers. Also see the fabulous article by David Clark here that details his tests on the audibility of phase shift.

Many people claim that early digital audio sounded terrible. But is that really true? The article Early Digital Audio lets you judge this for yourself.

Because I'm outspoken about audio fakery, I've been banned and censored at a number of audiophile type forums. The article The Trouble With Audio Forums may seem self-serving, but it explains what goes on at too many online forums.

Every successful audio engineer knows how to get a good sound, but the lack of a solid technical foundation prevents many from fully understanding why what they do works. The result is endless arguments over the value of gold-plated connectors and audiophile speaker cable. I wrote Dispelling Popular Audio Myths for Audio Media magazine in 1999 to help put things into perspective, and separate fact from fiction.

After seeing my Myths article above, Skeptic magazine asked me to write an updated version but with a slant toward audiophiles, and Audiophoolery was the result. More than just a rehash of the same ideas, this one also identifies the only four parameters that define everything that matters with audio.

As long as we're busting myths, THIS more recent article I wrote for PS Audio covers additional territory, and provides a nice summary of how audio fldelity is defined.

Here's another myth: the common advice to always keep audio and AC power wires separate is often oversold. My report with audio example appears in this article from Live Sound International magazine.

Everyone knows that 24-bit recording is better than 16, right? But is recording at 24 bits really worth the added overhead of half again more disk space and CPU power? Can anyone really hear a difference? More important, can you hear any difference? Here is your chance to find out.

My Dither Test is similar in concept to the 24-bit test above, but instead invites you to try to tell which portions of a file have been reduced from 24 bits to 16 bits via truncation, and which parts were reduced using dither.

I admit that my Soda Blind Test is not about audio magic, but it's not totally unrelated. The lesson learned here applies equally to hearing, and possibly other human senses.

Sean Olive is a well-known audio scientist, and his blog entry The Dishonesty of Sighted Listening Tests explains the importance of listening blind when assessing audio quality.

Douglas Self is another expert audio engineer and myth debunker. His page Science and Subjectivism in Audio is excellent and highly recommended.

Just for fun I made the R-Rated video Acoustic Treatment Exposed to explain the basics of acoustic treatment.

If you are offended by total female nudity, PLEASE DO NOT VIEW this video. Everyone else, I hope you have as much fun watching as I had making it.

Speaking of R-Rated education, this short article explains the physics principles of Harmonic Motion.

Some time ago I came up with a seemingly fabulous idea for a clever product I was sure could make a million dollars. The only problem was it didn't work! Read all about it in Ethan's Failed Reverb Live Room.

I'm not big on hardware hacking, but out of necessity I reverse-engineered the audio output restriction on my Motorola Adventure V750 cell phone so I could play MP3 files through my car stereo.

I wrote Build a Microphone Polarity Tester in 1980 for R-e/p magazine, and then recycled it again in 1997 for Recording. This clever build-it project shows how to test the output polarity of your microphones, to determine which output pin is positive.

The Hardware Tutor is a complete beginner's guide to understanding how electronic circuits operate. It was written from the perspective of a BASIC computer programmer, but can be readily appreciated by anyone interested in learning more about this fascinating topic. I wrote this mini-book in 1987 to accompany one of my software products, and recently revised and edited it slightly. Warning: This is a major work. The text alone is more than 7500 words, and there are 36 drawings and figures. But it's surely a good read!

If you ever wanted to understand how a stereo phaser effect unit really works, this build-it article from the June 1979 R-e/p magazine has the answer. I wrote Build a Stereo Synthesizer to show how such a circuit is designed, but the article is useful even if you don't plan to actually assemble one yourself.

Speaking of R-e/p magazine, back issues are available HERE courtesy of American Radio History.Com.

We all know what the meters on our recording console and tape deck really do, right? There's actually a lot more going on behind the scenes than you might think! My Peak-Reading Meters article from the April 1981 R-e/p magazine looks at how audio level meters really work, and includes schematics and an in-depth discussion of how these devices are designed.

Audio Filters - Theory and Practice, from the August 1981 issue of R-e/p magazine, begins by explaining what audio filters are and how they work, and concludes with a pair of clever and useful build-it projects. The first project shows how to build a filter that removes popping Ps from a track after it's been recorded; the other shows how hum can be removed from a live audio signal, without having to pass the signal through a filter!

If you have more ambition than cash, you might consider building your own gear instead of buying. Spectrum Analyzer and Equalizer Design, from the February 1982 issue of R-e/p, has complete instructions for building a spectrum analyzer to aid room tuning, parametric and graphic equalizers, and an electronic crossover for bi-amping your monitors.

In 1976 I invented a really cool self-adjusting third-octave graphic equalizer. This was back when recording studios tried to use EQ to "flatten" the response in their control room. That never really worked as well as expected, though third-octave correction was always useful for larger venues. That's what my clever EQ design was meant to address.

My Oscilloscope article from the August 1982 issue of R-e/p magazine explains what this useful test instrument is all about, how it works, and shows how it can be used for audio testing and tape recorder alignment.

Mike Pads and Other Small Gadgets shows how to build, well, mike pads and other small gadgets. Included are circuit diagrams for passive high, mid, and low-cut filters, a battery powered phantom microphone supply, an active direct box, and a simple audio test oscillator. There's also a computer program you can download that calculates component values for the pad and roll-off circuits.

This Basic Music Theory video course is meant to complement my Audio Expert book, though it includes much more than just music theory. The entire course is longer than 2-1/2 hours, so it's divided into five video segments. This project took me six months - I hope you like it! Full details are in the YouTube description for Segment 1 in the link above. After you watch the videos you can download this narration script as a Word doc file. You can also buy this video on DVD for $9.99 including shipping to anywhere in the world.

Analyze This is an exercise in analyzing classical music - in this case Bach's fabulous Chorale #8.

Fifth in the Bass presents a short video showing pop music examples that feature the fifth on the bass.

is an exercise in analyzing classical music - in this case Bach's fabulous Chorale #8.

Accompaniment Products for Musicians, printed originally in Strings magazine, July 1997. This article was written mainly for classical musicians, but anyone who is interested in learning how backing software programs and other accompaniment products work will find it helpful. More Accompaniment Products for Musicians, again from Strings magazine, is mainly a review of Yamaha's excellent Visual Arranger composing software. Buying Classical Music on the Internet is from the November/December 1999 issue of Strings magazine. It relates my experiences finding and buying classical music CDs and sheet music on the web, and rates many of the popular web sites that offer these products for sale. These older articles are still relevant, though some of the links may no longer be valid.

Ethan's Cello Concerto is featured in the May 1999 issue of Strings magazine, and this article describes the concerto and how it came to be written and recorded. You can view and print the cello solo music, and even listen to the concerto online or download it as an mp3 audio file.

Beta Blockers and Performance Anxiety in Musicians provides a rational look at using beta blockers to combat "rubber fingers," panic, and other physical problems faced by musicians in high-stress performance situations. (This article was written by the Beta Blocker Study Committee of FLUTE, headed by Karla Harby.) For another look at the effects and treatment of severe performance anxiety I suggest the book Stage Fright by Michael J. Goode, available at his web site.

In the Express Lane: Learning the Cello as an Adult is intended for ambitious adult cello students, but may also be of interest to cello teachers. It presents practice tips and suggestions to help achieve good bow control as quickly as possible.

I created the two charts Instruments of the Orchestra and Their Ranges to help me when composing, and I'm sure others will find them useful too. The GIF files for Page 1 (70 KB) and Page 2 (80 KB) list the playable ranges for all of the instruments in the orchestra, and also show what ranges are appropriate for amateur players. Besides note ranges, the woodwind "break points" are also shown, so you know what note pairs are difficult to finger and should not be trilled. For trombones, the slide ranges are shown so you don't write a slide that's impossible to play. Offsets for all transposing instruments are also given. Click the links above to display the pages, or right-click and select Save Target As to save them on your computer. Special thanks to Arnie Gross and Bruce Levine for their valuable input.

PC Magazine's PC-Setup from 1993 is an installation program for in-house programmers, shareware authors, data services, and others who distribute software to non-technical users. It supports multiple distribution disks, and automatic or manual file installation. It also creates directories and subdirectories as necessary. PKUNZIP.EXE is required on all distribution files, as is DOS 3.0 or later. A number of useful programming techniques are shown including reading file names from disk, copying files, launching programs and retrieving their DOS ERRORLEVEL, and much more.

PCToday and PCCopy from PC Magazine in 1991 make backing up your day's work quick and convenient. PCToday scans all the files on your hard disk and makes a list of all the files on or since the date specified. PCCopy then uses the list to copy those files to your designated destination. Besides the utilities themselves, the included source code shows how to query all of the drives on a system and determine which are fixed or floppy or on a network, read and compare file dates and times, plus many other programming useful tasks.

Ethan Winer's best-selling book PC Magazine BASIC Techniques and Utilities is now out of print, but it's available here for downloading. The WINER.ZIP file contains the complete text of this popular book, along with source files for all of the subroutines and example programs that were included in the original printed edition. New: Thomas Antoni has converted my entire book into PDF format, and made it available on his web site. This is the version I now recommend.

ColorPrint is a User To User submission I edited for PC Magazine, showing how to print text in graphics mode and also specify a background color.

Database is a skeleton for a complete data-entry system, featuring on-screen field entry and editing. The entered data can be saved to disk, and retrieved for viewing or editing later. This program may be easily customized to suit your own needs, and complete instructions for doing that are included in the program's header comments.

Encrypt is a BASIC-only version of the QuickPak encrypt/decrypt utility. It's not a rocket science algorithm, but it's pretty secure anyway!

Execute is a combination demo and BASIC Function that lets you run another program. But unlike SHELL it retrieves that program's DOS exit code. You specify the program name, and optional parameters, and it returns 0 for success or the ERRORLEVEL if one was set by the program.

ExeName shows how to tell the path from which your program has been run. This is useful when you need to open a data file, but your program may have been run by adding the path explicitly and thus you can't count on that being the current directory. So even your program was run using C:\PATH\PROGRAM you can still determine what "PATH" is and also if your program was renamed.

FreeText is a complete, though minimal, freeform text database program that you can use as is, or integrate with an existing program. It lets you write, read, and update text entries of varying length, and access those entries by record number. The text is stored in a binary file, and it can be edited and resaved even if the new text is longer than the old. A parallel index file tracks where each block of text is located, letting you access the text by record number. Requires QuickPak Professional.

Map is a BASIC utility much like the DOS MEM.EXE program. It was written by Robert Hummel, and shows how DOS memory is allocated and searched. This one is not for the faint of heart!

PDQZip was written by Crescent customer Dan Moore, and it reads and reports all information about any standard ZIP file such as the files contained and their dates and sizes.

Serial contains CALL Interrupt source code showing how to read the serial number of any disk.

SwapCom shows how to swap Com ports 1/3 and 2/4, so you can get at those higher ports using the standard BASIC OPEN COM command.

If you hate traffic lights as much as I do, you'll enjoy my video Connecticut Traffic Lights. In this scathing critique of traffic signals I show the problems, and explain what should be done to manage traffic more efficiently and more fairly.

If you're ever in need of a moving company, do not do business with North Van Lines.

Nobody hates telemarketers more than me, and I finally found a way to get back at them. If you're on the US national Do Not Call List but these jerks call you anyway, my article How to Defeat Telemarketers and Collect Cash shows you exactly what to do.

For many years I fantasized about having my own liberal call-in radio show. Every talk radio show I'm aware of spews conservative opinions and outright lies. So in 2022 I created a show on the second largest talk radio station in New York City! My friend Rob Carlson is a real expert with both history and current events, and together we did six half-hour episodes. People even called in with comments. Although Left Turn with Rob & Ethan is no longer airing, it's still available at the iHeart web site. Click the Listen link under the first paragraph, then select an episode. Rob and I each worked from our own homes, so the first few episodes are a little rough as we learned to interact without visual contact.

After years of using an old DOS database program to log my income and expenses for taxes, I created a new Accounting System in Microsoft Excel. This system uses IRS-approved categories, and should be useable by anyone who has a small business or is self-employed. Enter your Expenses on one sheet, Income on another, and the third sheet shows the totals by category for every year through 2027. The spreadsheet has one sample entry each on the Expenses and Income pages just to show how it works. Special thanks to black-belt Excel expert Myrna Larson for her assistance.

Back in 2000, for some silly reason, I saved the Hampster Dance (intentionally misspelled) website before it became an online pet food store, then went on to be other things. For your reminiscing pleasure I recently uploaded the site here. I also tracked down, bought, and edited the original music track because the web site's version was 8-bit lo-fi mono, full of vinyl pops and clicks. Enjoy. Or not.

New pickles - also called half-sours or quarter-sours - are the kind you find in a good Jewish deli, and they taste great. But it's rare to find good ones at the supermarket, and when you do they're usually too expensive. Fortunately, using my new pickles recipe you can easily make them yourself!

Speaking of food, this recipe is for the real deal cheesecake, like what they sell in a high-end New York City deli. It's a "heavy" cheesecake that's rich, thick, and firm, not the light fluffy type. I believe the recipe came from a New York Times cookbook, but I've had it for more than 40 years and don't recall for sure. (Metric conversions by David Seus.)

Ethan addresses 1,000,000 people. On April 29, 2011 Joe Crummey said on his WABC radio talk show that nobody supports pornography being in public libraries except the libraries. So I called in and gave my opposing opinion. Here's the LINK (1.3 MB MP3 file).

Then on March 3, 2023 I called the Joe Pags show to give him a piece of my mind. It's difficult to make points with a right-wing talk show host, so I started with compliments to soften him up. Then I explained a great point from my friend Ed Dzubak: When you resort to name calling, you already lost the argument. Of course Joe got very defensive, and spent several minutes defending himself calling people idiots. Here's the LINK (7.4 MB MP3 file).

Some of my friends told me Please pay for your own kids reads like right-wing propaganda. I don't advocate "punishing" anyone, and certainly not children. I just resent being forced to subsidize someone else's voluntary life choices.

Be Smart With Your Money explains my approach to saving money and spending wisely.

Critical Thinking is an op-ed article that ran in the July 30, 2000 edition of my local newspaper, the Danbury News-Times. When I submitted this piece, Mary Connolly, the News-Times editor, told me, "I think it's wonderful." Perhaps it should be required reading for all consumers, educators, and lawmakers.

More recently I wrote A Skeptic's Call to Action for The New England Journal of Skepticism, encouraging their readers to do more to promote their worthy cause.

My little op-ed piece on the state of television may amuse you, but it's absolutely serious.

If you believe in god and are easily offended, please do not read The Problem with (Criticizing) Prayer.

If you're a religious conservative, don't read my article Why Do Conservatives Hate Sex? either.

Speaking of conservatives, this op-ed from my local newspaper contains a scathing criticism showing how conservatives never learn from their mistakes. Be sure to follow the link at the end for proof of every allegation.

My Brief History of Conservatives is an older article that highlights some of history's progress against conservatives over the years.

Most of the articles listed here were written by me, but Sign Man was written about me for the local newspaper when I'd had enough of roadside advertising and decided to do something about it.

Here are a few other pages on this site that might be missed: People I'd Like to Know, I Before E Exceptions, Ethical Dilemmas, and Forum Assholes.

If you like pinball you'll love the short video "tour" of my vintage Gorger and Firepower pinball machines. See it in hi-res on Vimeo, or for older computers it's also on YouTube. I also made this follow-up video to show my two newer pinball machines, Black Knight and Rescue 911.

Connecticut Traffic Lights is an older article about these annoying contraptions. We can put a man on the moon, but apparently the state Department of Transportation can't make a few light bulbs turn on and off intelligently.

What can you do when a product you bought doesn't work properly and the company won't answer your tech support phone calls or email? Sometimes nothing, except complain loudly and publicly. My Onions and Pearls article for ProRec awards kudos and raspberries - and names names - to a variety of manufacturers.

I gathered up a few select Letters to the Editor I've written to newspapers over the years, on a variety of subjects. My oldest cousin says I'm a curmudgeon. Who, me?!

If you get a computer virus, my article Removing a Computer Virus might save you a bunch of hassle and the cost of hiring a pro. My earlier article Avoiding Email Viruses explains how to avoid getting a virus in the first place.