My Writing
Here are some of my publications:
Books
- A Word A Day: A Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English (John Wiley & Sons)
- Another Word A Day: An All-New Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English (John Wiley & Sons)
- The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words (Penguin Group)
- I have even written a book on computer science, but it's out of print now.
Newspapers & Magazines
- I wrote a piece for The New York Times.
- I write a column for Kahani, a children's monthly magazine. In the past, I have written columns for Encarta, mental_floss, and Writing.
- I've written for Reader's Digest, Writer Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Globe & Mail, PC World, among others.
Old Stuff
Twice Upon a Time A science fiction story.
First Snow An article... Do you remember the first time you saw snow?
Adventures With a Wordserver The story of how I created the wordserver.
Programmer's Hall of Fame An ascii art feature.
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