Joe Poniatowski

A recent visit to Tombstone, Arizona prompted a couple of articles about the infamous “Gunfight at the OK Corral.” Surprising facts include the 16 days in jail Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday served during a murder investigation as a consequence of the gunfight.

How to find out what’s running on your PC, and why this is important.

Imagine planting a pine tree, a small seedling, using a spade shovel. Not too difficult, right? Now imagine doing that 1000 times. Repeat every spring for 14 years. That’s exactly what Bob Zirnhelt did on 11 acres where he and his wife live in Davison, Michigan.

I recently started writing articles for a publisher who puts out several newspapers local to our surrounding communities. The Davison Messenger, The Tri-County News, The Burton Banner, etc. Some of them were existing publications which he purchased, some are new startups. All are collectively published under the name of his company, ‘Flint […]

A while back I wrote a story entitled ‘The Great Rodeo Trainers’, which was sold to a Helium Marketplace publisher with exclusive (I thought) rights. Now I see the story has reappeared on Helium’s website, so I’m thinking it was only sold with first publication rights rather than exclusive. I could never find […]

This article was originally published by Triond on their web site ComputerSight. I thought it was time to reprint it here, so it appears below in its entirety.

Configuration Management (’CM’ hereafter) means a lot of different things to different people. Weighty tomes have been written describing the goals, policies, procedures, benefits, pitfalls, and a […]

Someone posted a challenge to the writers on Associated Content to come up with humor articles to be posted on the April 1st, April Fool’s Day. Being somewhat of a fool myself, I accepted the challenge, along with a dozen or so of my fellow AC writers. The results are compiled in a […]

Help out a great cause just by reading an article about Charity Music, plus information on joining the worlds largest pub crawl.

A Helium Marketplace publisher recently asked for an article entitled ‘Quick Tips for Inner Peace’, with a 700 word maximum. I condense religion, psychology, and meditation and attempt to answer the call. Let me know how you think I did.

Some pros and cons of driving a beater car, using the “Field Car” as an example. Includes tips on turning a car into a beater, plus things to avoid with beaters, like trying to outrun the police.

I first wrote this article as a submission to Helium’s Marketplace. It was not chosen, so my loss is your gain, as I’m posting it here in it’s entirety. Note that I received no compensation for this article, but since I was hoping WinRAR would choose to publish it, I can’t say it […]

As a Configuration Manager, I’m always looking for ways to improve the automation of the builds and deployments of my company’s applications. We use scripts to compile the apps, replace certain token strings with environment-specific values, and copy the new executable code out to the production servers. Ideally, we should not have to […]

Helium has a great feature for writers wanting to compete for some extra money. It’s called their Marketplace. Outside publishers ask for specific articles, and offer specific amounts of money for each one. Anyone can write and submit their best article for each requested title. Once the deadline has passed, the […]

I have a new story published on Triond (AuthSpot), with a copy also on Helium. It’s entitled “Poor Old Charlie’s Wake,” and gives a good example of the extents to which my mom, the horse trader, would go to make a living. Here’s an excerpt:
My mother was a horse trader. Not one […]

Use Secure Shell (SSH) to establish safe, encrypted internet connections through a firewall. With this method, you don’t have to open additional ports through your firewall in order to access external email accounts, access usenet newsgroup servers, and multimedia streams, which leaves your internal network more secure. This means you don’t have to worry about […]

One of my best stories, “The Great Rodeo Trainers” was published on Helium, and sold on the Marketplace there. The publisher (who wishes to remain anonymous) purchased the story with exclusive rights, which means it can’t appear on any other web-sites for a while. Once they expire, it will return to Helium, and […]

I recently wrote an article on Helium, trying for a Marketplace sale. The topic was on the benefit of static landing pages for marketing web sites. I have my doubts about getting the sale, as my article is only rated 5th out of 7 right now, but you never know. In any […]

Actually, this article was published a few weeks ago, I just decided to mention it here while I’m working on my OpenSSH issues. It’s meant to be a light-hearted look at the scientific inaccuracies presented in the movie. Remember folks - it’s “Tongue-in-Cheek” - some people have really complained that I’m being too […]

A list of some of the old shows being revamped for new series or movies, ala “The Bionic Woman.” For example, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is appearing as a cool superspy in the new “Get Smart!” movie. Read the article here.

The Charity Music article has been published by Associated Content here.  I’ll probably follow up by putting it on Helium, but I’ve heard that Google doesn’t like seeing identical content in multiple places, so I’ll probably re-work it a bit.  I’m told that rewording about 30% of the article is enough.  In the mean time, […]

While waiting for Associated Content to publish the Charity Music article (something they’ve now agreed to do), I wrote a quick little overview of SSH and published it on Helium, where it’s now rated #1 of 2. What is SSH? The nice thing about Helium is that your submissions are published more or less […]

Well, I finished the article about Charity Music, and while it is a bit promotional in nature, it is mostly informative. Alas, Constant Content turned it down, claiming that it was a promotional article. I have submitted it to Associated Content, and will probably also try Helium. Other suggestions appreciated. The […]

From ‘Memoirs of a Horse Trader’s Son’
The Great Rodeo Trainers
Update 10/12/2007 - this story has been selected by ‘Western Lifestyle Magazine’ for publication in an upcoming issue. I’m an actual published author - in print!
Update 12/12/2007 - OK, ‘Western Lifestyle’ was a pseudonym for someone wishing to remain anonymous, and it’s going to be […]

Upcoming articles include a human interest story about Charity Music, one dealing with laminitis and founder in horses, and probably one discussing non-physical self-defense. Reader preferences will be considered if you leave me a comment.

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