Note: Here are some representative writing samples. Small excerpts from my technical documentation at Dell Computers are also available. I am in the process of converting a number of documents into online form and deploying a content management system. In addition, I am 60% finished with my personal website www.idiotprogrammer.com .

After hemming and hawing, I decided to include links to some of my informal writing here. My weblogs, for example, reveal what ideas (both technical and nontechnical) have been flowing through my head recently. On the other hand, they often are not very polished and sometimes bear a closer resemblance to rough drafts.

For redundancy's sake, a mirror of this page resides at my ISP. The most recent version of this page is at http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/job/samples.html. If you've had to resort to the mirror version of this page, it might mean that the imaginaryplanet domain is down, causing several of the links below to be unreachable. My home webserver occasionally goes offline as well. In summary, the resume mirror on houston.rr.com is online 99.99% of the time. Imaginaryplanet.net tends to be online 95% of the time, but when it is offline, it is offline for no more than 15 minutes. Idiotprogrammer.com tends to be online for 98-99% of the time, but when it goes down, it stays down for quite some time. If it happens during a weekday I may not be available to bring it up again.

• The Seeing See Little: Thoughts on Human Interface Design (2002)
• Web Communities and the Art of Making Money (5 pages) (2002)
• Passwords and Internet Security (2002)
• Windows Security and Full Disclosure (2001)
• Books, Ontologies and Shared Databases(2002)
• Does Open Source Documentation Suck? (2001)
• How Long Should One Wait on Hold for Tech Support? (2001)
• "This Resume is Terrible!"--Job Obituaries and Information Architecture (2002)
• Maintaining your MP3 Collection: The Challenge (2001)
• Are Meetings Really Productive? (2001) (Mirror)

• Students, the Slow Moving Target (2002)
• Instructional Technology: The Skeptics Weigh In (2001)
• Linux and Distributed Learning: A New Paradigm (2001)
• In Defense of Group Based Learning (2001)
• Computer Training and Low Cost Alternatives (1999) (original version)
• Essay or Multiple Choice?(2001)

• Idiotprogrammer Weblog details my weekly thoughts on technological idiocy and idiotic technology.
• Asiafirst is a community weblog that collects links about Asian society and culture.

• Travel Essay: East European Experiments was my first website!
• Would Kafka have kept a weblog? is a meditation on writing and companionship in the 21st century.

• Technical Writer HTML | PDF | DOC
• Technical Trainer PDF | DOC
• Network/Technical Support PDF | DOC
• Academic/Teaching PDF | DOC
• All Purpose Cover Letter HTML
• Technical Skills Summary (specifically computer skills) PDF | DOC