Useful or interesting articles

• Bicycling
  • About BikeNet - About an original bicycling forum that I founded on America Online but that is no more. By Tim Oey, January 2000.
  • Basic Bicycle Maintenance (PDF) - A checklist/outline of the basic things everyone should know about their bicycle, including how to fix a flat. Fixing your own flat is easy and cheap and only takes 10 minutes (or 2-3 minutes with practice). By Tim Oey, 1988.
  • A Bicycle Tour of Sunnyvale Parks (PDF) - Two short and easy bicycle routes in Sunnyvale, California for parents with kids. By Tim Oey, 1994.
  • Voice Signaling - How to use your voice when bicycling to help yourself and other cyclists. By Tim Oey, 1988.
• Computers
  • Energy - To off or not to off, that is the question - An article that is still relevant about whether it is better to turn computers off or not. By Tim Oey, 1990.
  • Email - Get a "Permanent" Email Address to Conserve Time and Energy - Why you should get a permanent email address and how to do it.
• Electronic Documents
  • Looking for Electronic Publishing Formats... - An article written in April 1993 about the current state of electronic documents. At that time I was the forum leader for BikeNet on America Online. The web and HTML had recently been invented but I did not learn about them until the fall of 1993. The web and HTML really didn't become well known until 1994 and 1995. I rediscovered this article on the web in December 2000 while at Adobe on the Acrobat team. I made some interesting comments in 1993 about Acrobat (which I had just seen in 1993). Strange I should stumble across this article again after starting to work on Acrobat. I continue to be very aware of the permanence (and fragility) of electronic documents. I currently (as of December 2000) believe that ASCII text, JPEG, HTML, and PDF will be enduring formats. By Tim Oey, April 1993.
  • Ubiquitous PDF: The Evolution and Revolution of Digital Document Distribution - This paper gives a good historical perspective of the PDF file format. By Chris Cade, August 2000 (posted with his permission).
• Ethics
  • Poetry in Motion: "Is Democracy..." (1.2 MB PDF) - This is a poem that is meant to be performed. Complete directions are in the linked PDF that contains the poem. You can take this and modify it to feature your own original poem for peace. By Tim Oey, 2007
  • Views on the 2003 U.S. Iraq War - Why the 2003 war on Iraq was a bad idea. By Tim Oey, 2003.
  • Why "Under God" should be removed from the US Pledge of Allegiance - By Tim Oey, October 2002.
• Harvard
  • History of the North House Shield - How the shield of North House (now called Pforzheimer House) was created. By Tim Oey, 2001.
• Life
  • The Life of a Dream - A poem about my time at Apple. Sent to my friends when I left Apple in 1997. By Tim Oey, 1997.
  • Carl Murtagh Epitaph - About a good high school friend of mine. By Gerald Murtagh, August 1993, with a few additional words from Tim Oey, November 2000.
• Still to be written and/or published...
  • Survival - Biodiversity vs Uniformity - Why monopolies in the computer age are extremely dangerous.
  • Communities - Why Yahoo Groups is the Best - There are a number of group communication tools on the Internet but Yahoo Groups is by far the best
  • Communities - Setting up a Yahoo Group for Your Club - How to set up a public informational web page with no ads and a private interactive area for your club or group.
  • Children - Kids, Computers and the Internet - What I think is the best approach to keep your kids safe on the internet.
  • Privacy - What Privacy? - What you should try to keep private and what you should not.
  • Passwords - Tracking Your Passwords Safely - I've got 300-400 different user ID/password combinations.Here is what I think is the best method for keeping passwords safe.