The "And from Bill..." Archive

What better way to begin a new year than with the first archive entry of the new year AND the first entry from calendar year 1998?

Not that this column’s topic will excite you – new...

First there was Geraldo Rivera and the empty Al Capone vault, then came Y2K, with its many predicted catastrophes, few if any of which came to pass. Why the world and its computers, which were not...

It’s been a couple of months since we welcomed the debut of a new year to the Archive, so today is a good day.

Representing 2010 comes a column published before Christmas, but useful for life...

Excused by illness and busy-ness, I’m two days late with this post – a first for the five-plus months of the Archive’s existence. My apologies. But perhaps it’s fitting that...

It’s six days before Christmas and you don’t know WHAT to get me. You’re not alone, nor are you without help.

As this column/gift list from 20 years ago will show, neither my...