Column Archive
The Best of Urb's Column:
6/23/07:
Caught it in time!
4/26/04
Barbara Levy Daniels:
Better late than never!
6/07:
Terry Shannon
(1952-2005),
notable industry pundit
2/7/07:
My geography book --
and why it'll never get
written
11/27/98:
JFK, The Real Story --
this is going to take
awhile
2/23/02:
The years are shrinking
fast
4/25/01:
For Microsoft, the
world is not enough
2/13/01:
Telemarketing -- my
conspiracy theory
9/24/00:
It's not (all) the
tires' fault
3/21/00:
The Net won't fix the
schools
10/11/99:
The mayor and the
museum -- or, politics as
(bad) art
5/10/99:
All the news that fits,
we print
2/17/99:
Teach the real stuff!
1/14/99:
Tech stocks -- a
cautionary tale
10/20/98:
Motorcycle sales --
it's all in the
demographics
9/10/98:
The nut that holds the
wheel
5/12/98:
We know what you typed!
5/5/98:
Staffing crisis?
What staffing crisis?
3/17/98:
Faster chips, slower
software -- we're
running in
place!
Urb on technology and work:
7/20/04:
Throw another log on
the... brain?
1/7/04:
"Man vs. Machine"
misses the point
11/24/00:
Anything you can do,
ICANN do worse
5/19/00:
Napster: Who are they
kidding?
4/5/00:
Here's how to throw the
book at Bill Gates
2/29/00:
On-line communities
ain't what they used to be
2/13/00:
Time to downgrade
upgrade pain
1/25/00:
Y2Keynes, or, the
300-billion-dollar economic
stimulus
1/5/00:
Musical immortality --
why not?
12/1/99:
Lost in the carpal
tunnel
11/22/99:
I hate software!
8/8/99:
Tech workers' unions:
Right track, wrong train
7/18/99:
E-commerce: It's not
quite there yet
10/13/98:
Even on the net,
there's no free lunch
10/6/98:
What's wrong with a
little loafing?
6/16/98:
The client-server fiasco
6/2/98:
Tech workers of the
world, unite!
... on sports
(mostly golf)
9/9/99:
My favorite golf books
11/13/98:
Technology: Good for
the game?
9/25/98:
The greatest show in
motor sports
8/4/98:
Golf's dirty little
secret
6/23/98:
Soccer -- can you kick
it?
4/7/98:
Trevino, the tried and
true
2/24/98:
Not Basketball Anymore,
or No Bombs Away
... on the road
7/5/99:
Voltage and the art of
motorcycle maintenance
6/13/99:
Darwin was wrong!
Also, October 1997:
Performance riding at
California Superbike
School
4/22/99:
Road rage -- its time,
inevitably, has come
4/1/99:
What you don't know can
cost you
8/25/98:
Travel as entertainment
7/21/98:
Ode to a rice-burner
4/21/98:
Motorcycle Issues 101
3/31/98:
Hang up and drive!
3/24/98:
Taxation by ticket is
tyranny!
Also, May 1998: Meg 'n
Urb's Excellent Adventure
... on politics
3/28/05:
My Social Security fix
<>9/23/03:
Land closures: What
mission accomplished?
2/21/03:
Land closures, water
supplies, and politics
5/24/02:
Global warming: real
climate change, or just
hot air?
12/28/02:
Climatic complexity
escapes Harvard scientists
9/14/01:
Terrorism -- where we
go from here
8/8/01:
Tourism -- who needs it?
6/12/01:
Learn not to burn -- or
else
10/28/00:
Free air time -- a
simple
campaign reform
12/13/98:
Big Spender and the
case for autocracy
4/14/98:
Uncle Sam's got me
confused
... on (four-legged)
family
1/5/99:
Farewell, faithful
Fátima
... off the subject
6/05:
Arnold Jacobs class
notes
11/19/01:
Why does modern music
sound so bad?
9/5/00:
SLOBbery: The flip side
8/10/00:
It ain't easy being a
SLOB!
6/18/00:
Dave Frishberg: In a
class By Himself
3/12/99:
The wimps of winter
12/26/98:
Where's that again?
10/27/98:
Leaf Blower Power
Squadrons
6/9/98:
Sleep deprivation for
fun and profit
4/28/98:
How'd I get here?
3/10/98:
There are only two
kinds of music
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