I am back in the pages of Infoworld, one of the longest-running IT publications, although now only available online. Back in the middle 1990s, I wrote hundreds of articles for them in what turned out to be one of my longest stints as a bylined columnist for any single publication. (Note: the link to the portal on my site above has more broken than working links, but it is an interesting historical document.)

I was first hired  as a columnist by Stewart Alsop and Bob Metcalfe in 1993. We called  my column “The Network Curmudgeon” and I had a lot to say about the various networking products back in the day. Then the column morphed into was probably one of my most fun gigs for any magazine. Called “On Site”, I would travel to different cities and test a new product on site with the cooperation of the IT shop and the vendor who’s product we were trying to install. If reality TV was around back then, I could have had my own series, maybe. More than 150 people contributed to this effort alone over the years that I wrote these series, and thanks to the editing talents of Rachel Parker the columns were a great chronicle of how hard it (still) is to get new products installed, even when you have the vendor’s developers and other resources at your beck and call.

I also helped get their initial Web site started, so it is nice to see my work back there. Here are hopefully working links to my current stories:

• Making sense of Microsoft’s Azure (10/6/08)
• The three business tech risks you don’t know about (9/16/08)