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A Well Founded Fear - Enterprise Solutions, 1999
This ran as a side-bar in an Enterprise Solutions issue focused on document management.

Screwtape on Document Management - Unpublished, 1999
This is how the above article would have been written if a demon were an IT consultant.

How to blow a web budget - IVI Publishing, 1997
I wrote this letter as part of a training package for our web clients at IVI. It explains how to overspend a budget - without even trying.

Managing process, and training managers, CMA Newsletter, 1990
This was one of my bimonthly columns on publishing technology for the College Media Advisors newsletter. The technology is dated but the principles are timeless.

Are Computers Smart? Minnesota Daily, 1991
For several years I wrote a quarterly computer column for the Minnesota Daily's computer advertising supplement. This column and the one that follows actually ran as one piece.

Are Computer's Gods? Minnesota Daily, 1991
This should scare you.

The Screwtape Memo - The Minnesota Daily, 1991
Have you ever wondered if IT was managed by demons? Read on!

Choosing A Computer - The Minnesota Daily, 1990
This article is dated but fun.

God On-Line, A Sermon - Lynnhurst Congregational Church, UCC, July 1999
What might the phone conversation sound like if God called a consulting company to order a web site?

Revised 2/22/01