I write about computers, the Internet. consumer electronics and other things that beep and blink--from 1999 to 2011, as a columnist for the Washington Post, now for various freelance clients including PCMag and Fast Company. (I may be the only person to have written for both Reader's Digest and Boing Boing.) I've met most of the founders of the Internet and once received a single-word e-mail reply from Steve Jobs.