List of Light Traffic Columns


I started writing these Light Traffic columns in 1984 and the first one appeared in the , Centennial issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine, commemorating 100 years of IEEE. Almost all of them are declarations of the endless challenge and personal happiness I have discovered in the fascinating world of words, word-play and the humour therin.


  1. Tele --IEEE, May 84 . ( It is interesting that an IEEE TV channel , about which I wrote in this first column, is a reality now!)
  2. The Best of the Bard, August 84.
  3. Mnemonics, November 84.
  4. A Menu of Mnemonic Morsels, April 85.
  5. Many Faces of O , June 85.
  6. A Quiz and a Game, August 85.
  7. Pi, Primes, and Probability, March 86.
  8. Introducing Dr.O.Lord: In Praise of Palindromes, May 86.
  9. Dr.O.Lord and the Ten Radar Net, August 86 .
  10. The Delightful Dictionary of Mr.Devil, October 86.
  11. Metric Musings, March 87.
  12. Metric Footnotes, May 87.
  13. A Menu of Codes, October 87.
  14. Name that Course!, February 88.
  15. Write it Right!, September 88.
  16. Mr.Jock, TV Quiz Ph.D, Bags Few Lynx, December 88.
  17. A Salute to Saints, May 89.
  18. Glories of Gaussianity, August 89.
  19. Write Good!, December 89.
  20. The Limerick, March 90.
  21. Saints to the Rescue, June 90.
  22. A-1 to Alphabet, December 90.
  23. Electrical Engineers Discharged, March 92.
  24. Academy to Amicable, September 92.
  25. Engineering and Ingenuity, September 93.
  26. The Children of Martha, December 93.
  27. Administratium to Average, March 94.
  28. Codec to Modem in Three Steps, July 95.
  29. Babel to Bias, November 96.
  30. Ten Artnik Intranet, February 97.
  31. The Morse Code: Here Come Dots, October 98.

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