Technical Or Business Questions?

Ask Dave A Question!

Have a question about something to do with one of my books, another technical topic, something so embarrassingly geeky that only another tech-head would appreciate, or even just a business or general interest question? I'm always happy to hear from people who visit my site and will do my best to address your question in a timely fashion.

However, since I get tons of questions, I can't promise that I'll answer your question or that I'll even acknowledge it. Sometimes I just delete questions when my queue overfloweth. I also often take a month or longer to get to submitted questions because of both the backlog and the fact that I have lots of other active projects and, well, a life too. :-)

In fact, now that I think about it, I'll quote the disclaimer that Walt Mossberg at the Wall Street Journal uses: "Because of the volume of e-mail I receive, I can't routinely answer individual questions by e-mail, or consult on individual problems or purchasing decisions. I read all questions I receive, however, then select the best, most interesting, or most common to address on the site."

Your best bet is to run a search first to see if one of the over 1500 articles here addresses your topic:

No joy with those search results?

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Oh, and one more point: you must enter a valid email address: I will send you a verification email message that includes a link you must click before your question is actually added to the question queue! Once you've verified your email, your address is not saved for any other purpose either: I'm not going to spam you, trust me. Really.