From the Boidem - 
an occasional column on computers and information technologies in everyday life

What's all this about, anyway?

Hey! As of October, 1999, a NEW LOOK for an old page,

and from March, 2000, here's the Boidem's very own SEARCH page!

that page hasn't worked in ages, so instead, here's a Boidem custom search tool that will:

                  

Table of Developing Contents

No. 171: The tailless wooly internet behemoth (November 24, 2016)
No. 170: Ain't no need to hide, ain't no need to run (October 29, 2016)
No. 169: How to write a Boidem column (September 27, 2016)
No. 168: How to read a Boidem column (August 30, 2016)
No. 167: The Belated Bar Mitzvah Boidem (July 23, 2016)
No. 166: I didn't even buy postcards (June 30, 2016)
No. 165: The unbearable tedium of life-logging (May 28, 2016)
No. 164: All (sort of) together now (April 24, 2016)
No. 163: What will we do with all that "spare" time? (March 26, 2016)
No. 162: The Never-ending click (February 29, 2016)
No. 161: Me too! (January 25, 2016)
No. 160: Sticking to the Basics (December 26, 2015)
No. 159: Underexposure (November 27, 2015)
No. 158: Rowing not required (October 30, 2015)
No. 157: What's the matter with plain old text? (September 28, 2015)
No. 156: What isn't an experiment? (August 24, 2015)
No. 155: It was nineteen years ago today (July 22, 2015)
No. 154: On finding a turtle's voice (April 27, 2010)
No. 153: Too simple to teach (March 27, 2010)
No. 152: Fade Away (February 28, 2010)
The Long Dark Year of the Boidem (January, 2010)
No. 151: Every cloud must have its golden backing (January 31, 2009)
No. 150: Virtual Worlds, and real health (December 28, 2008)
No. 149: Bad Netizenship (November 29, 2008)
No. 148: It's too quiet here - I can't think (October 31, 2008)
No. 147: Now what are the odds on that happening? (September 30, 2008)
No. 146: Actually, I could have waited (August 31, 2008)
No. 145: Why don't you write a book? (July 31, 2008)
No. 144: Search Rules! (June 30, 2008)
No. 143: It's nothing personal (May 31, 2008)
No. 142: Taking it Personally (April 30, 2008)
No. 141: Holding on / Letting go (March 31, 2008)
No. 140: Inventing wheels in cyberspace (February 28, 2008)
No. 139: One tool to rule them all? (January 31, 2008)
No. 138: The internet and some of its discontents (December 31, 2007)
No. 137: To hold in our hands (November 30, 2007)
No. 136: Please organize me (October 31, 2007)
No. 135: The shoebox advantage (September 29, 2007)
No. 134: The plain brown paper envelope column (August 30, 2007)
No. 133: Get into my cloud (July 31, 2007)
No. 132: and that, and that, oh, and that ... (June 27, 2007)
No. 131: Just who do you think you are? (May 35, 2007)
No. 130: In one tenth the time (April 30, 2007)
No. 129: The tedium of real time (March 31, 2007)
No. 128: But you can, you can! (February 28, 2007)
No. 127: Carrying cognitive baggage from the old country (January 30, 2007)
No. 126: Now. Right now! (December 27, 2006)
No. 125: Don't Bogart that Info (November 28, 2006)
No. 124: The friend of a friend of a friend of ... (October 31, 2006)
No. 123: Still running it up the flagpole (September 30, 2006)
No. 122: The (digital) cleaning lady (August 29, 2006)
No. 121: Having fun (July 29, 2006)
No. 120: A Magic Strand? (June 28, 2006)
No. 119: Doing things the hard way. (May 26, 2006)
No. 118: Are crowds really that smart? (April 28, 2006)
No. 117: Spamming me softly with his song (March 29, 2006)
No. 116: It's just too Oh! (February 26, 2006)
No. 115: Dr. Hierarchy and Mr. Associative (January 28, 2006)
No. 114: Me and HTML (December 29, 2005)
No. 113: On completing a web site (November 30, 2005)
No. 112: In health and in sickness (October 26, 2005)
No. 111: Taking to the streets (September 27, 2005)
No. 110: How many prosumers can fit on the head of cyberspace? (August 30, 2005)
No. 109: Who cares? (July 29, 2005)
No. 108: Content? Did somebody mention content? (June 29, 2005)
No. 107: The tyranny of search (May 29, 2005)
No. 106: Digital vs. Physical (April 25, 2005)
No. 105: Equal in the eyes of cyberspace. (March 28, 2005)
No. 104: How to lose an online argument. (February 25, 2005)
No. 103: In the margins of cyberspace. (January 31, 2005)
No. 102: Fort PC. (December 30, 2004)
No. 101: Templates from hell. (November 27, 2004)
No. 100: The (ir)relevance of hypertext. (October 31, 2004)
No. 99: Guilt by hyperlink? (September 30, 2004)
No. 98: Tools I've known and loved ... and often abandoned. (August 31, 2004)
No. 97: Repeating myself. (July 26, 2004)
No. 96: Confessions of a conservative technology freak. (June 26, 2004)
No. 95: Mother Night on the web. (May 28, 2004)
No. 94: Me and Moore's Law. (April 27, 2004)
No. 93: All that technology for ... that? (March 29, 2004)
No. 92: Too Common Knowledge. (February 29, 2004)
No. 91: It's all in the game. (January 26, 2004)
No. 90: They've got a little list. (December 20, 2003)
No. 89: I search, therefore I am? (November 29, 2003)
No. 88: The ethos of blog (October 31, 2003)
No. 87: If you knew him like we knew him (September 25, 2003)
No. 86: The Boidem takes a vacation (August 26, 2003)
No. 85: Where's the Beef? (July 26, 2003)
No. 84: Strangers on a Network (June 29, 2003)
No. 83: Down and Out from E-mail (May 30, 2003)
No. 82: Are there refrigerator doors in cyberspace? (April 29, 2003)
No. 81: Bye-bye Bookmarks (March 31, 2003)
No. 80: Digital Democracy (February 27, 2003)
No. 79: Burning Memories (January 27, 2003)
No. 78: You mean you teach this stuff? (December 31, 2002)
No. 77: Really a part of me. (November 30, 2002)
No. 76: Believe me when I tell you ... (October 30, 2002)
No. 75: 72 hours offline (September 30, 2002)
No. 74: on erasing an online forum (August 30, 2002)
No. 73: My greatest fear (July 29, 2002)
No. 72: The Complete Works (June 30, 2002)
No. 71: How Deep is My Linking? (May 31, 2002)
No. 70: On regaining a cyberdentity (April 30, 2002)
No. 69: A life (sort of) lived (March 30, 2002)
No. 68: Get a Life! (February 28, 2002)
No. 67: What's a nice constructivist like you doing in a site like this? (January 30, 2002)
No. 66: Seek and Ye Shall Buy (December 28, 2001)
No. 65: The Return of the PC (November 28, 2001)
No. 64: The Boidem goes shopping (October 29, 2001)
No. 63: My inbox runneth over (September 29, 2001)
No. 62: The Return of the Home Page (August 28, 2001)
No. 61: Something for Nothing (July 22, 2001)
No. 60: The Church of the Eternal Click (June 25, 2001)
No. 59: Only six clicks away (May 25, 2001)
No. 58: Reflections of a Spring Cleaner (April 26, 2001)
No. 57: The Promise of Ubiquitous Access (March 25, 2001)
No. 56: Nothing but ... but not the Whole (February 25, 2001)
No. 55: Constantly Connected (January 29, 2001)
No. 54: Fetch me a child of five (December 26, 2000)
No. 53: Gimme, Gimme, Gimme! (November 26, 2000)
No. 52: at the click of a mouse button (October 28, 2000)
No. 51: My Connected Mom (September 26, 2000)
No. 50: Different strokes (August 27, 2000)
No. 49: On the Road (July 27, 2000)
No. 48: Something Much (June 27, 2000)
No. 47: Virtual Zionism (May 10, 2000)
No. 46: on putting the Boidem to work (April 26, 2000)
No. 45: on becoming an anachronism (March 23, 2000)
No. 44: Homeless in Cyberspace (February 22, 2000)
No. 43: on not uploading a column (January 24, 2000)
No. 42: on looking for an Albert King guitar solo (December 22, 1999)
No. 41: admit we are powerless over the web (November 26, 1999)
No. 40: for the sin of bad page design (October 26, 1999)
No. 39: a petal fallen from your soul (September 26, 1999)
No. 38: Free (August 25, 1999)
No. 37: falling straight to not being in Kansas anymore (July 20, 1999)
No. 36: Post-personal computing (June 23, 1999)
No. 35: Only a pawn in their game (May 24, 1999)
No. 34: I'm all dressed for the occasion (April 20, 1999)
No. 33: Another connected family (March 22, 1999)
No. 32: Just browsing, thank you. (February 21, 1999)
No. 31: A Community of One? (January 14, 1999)
No. 30: Beam me out, Scotty! (December 22, 1998)
No. 29: Eleanor Rigby Surfs the Web (November 21, 1998)
No. 28: Being (semi) Digital (October 21, 1998)
No. 27: ...and to get to school we had to walk through... (September 23, 1998)
No. 26: Over Construction (August 25, 1998)
No. 25: When Dessert becomes the Main Course (July 23, 1998)
No. 24: The Unbearable Linearity of Learning (June 22, 1998)
No. 23: You call this work? (May 20, 1998)
No. 22: Make Learning ... A Copywriter's Paradise? (April 19, 1998)
No. 21: Make Learning ... Fun? (March 26, 1998)
No. 20: You Are There (February 27, 1998)
No. 19: Yeah, but can I trust it? (January 23, 1998)
No. 18: Reading ... and the web lifestyle (December 20, 1997)
No. 17: Coffee, Anyone? (November 22, 1997)
No. 16: Part of the Family? (October 23, 1997)
No. 15: On losing a Cyberdentity (September 22, 1997)
No. 14: Make Money Slow (August 23, 1997)
No. 13: A Moment of Silence - On Virtual Mourning (July 22, 1997)
No. 12: Shall I Compare Thee to a Printed Page? (June 22, 1997)
No. 11: Virtual Show and Tell (May 23, 1997)
No. 10: The (Virtual) Shadow of Your Smile? (April 22, 1997)
No. 9: Changing the World Via the Internet - A Case Study (March 22, 1997)
No. 8: That Lingering (after the class) Web Site (February 22, 1997)
No. 7: The Joys of Spam (January 25, 1997)
No. 6: Plagiarism and the Web (December 22, 1996)
No. 5: Putting E-mail to work (November 22, 1996)
No. 4: The Cult of Home Pages (October 22, 1996)
No. 3: On Personal and Impersonal E-mail messages (September 22, 1996)
No. 2: Search vs. Browse - A Way of Thinking (August 22, 1996)
No. 1: On-line Life Imitates Off-line Comics (July 22, 1996)

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