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- Greenspan: Great banker, partymeister.
- Waiting for the man.
- Scoring The Walker? Oh, man.
- Cardiac Arrythmia: The downsides!
- Web 2.0 Punchline
- A thanks for the care package.
- The Me Roll Contains No Jelly
- Zawodny made us lose a day.
- The Underseen Barry Lyndon
- Film School's stuff was stolen.
- A positive review
- Tonight's Citizens show: My full brain.
- A nice thing about working at Google (#71 in a #436 part series)
- Mic control
February
- If WoW is the new golf then Darkon is the new PTA.
- Browse carefully: a critical Safari vulnerability
- Unintentional mashups
- Mob mash
- Winner of the "shit, oKAY, we'll keep the city apartment" award.
- Happy birthday, Flickr!
- After-Aftershock, Law and Order
- Getting the stuff later.
- Chat! I have!
- On playing songs many, many times.
- I think you're probably less funny than Aziz Ansari.
- Pizza and You: The Hidden Dangers
- Bloc Party to JV
January
- Another peek through Colbert's 4th wall.
- Stun 'em with a Mamet line.
- Heading home...to play at Bottom of the Hill with Citizens.
- The guessers.
- Gerald Ford is a billionaire?
- Wikipedia is not the hand of Satan. Unlike some, I presume.
- links for 2006-01-24
- Imaginary conversation with ABC
- Some trailers are mashups, too.
- Keeping tools of convenience convenient.
- The ultimate Expatriate New Yorker origin reveal winner
- Surely excluding the source?
- Email belatedly.
- Good fiction on episodic TV
2005
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October
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July
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2004
December
November
October
September
August
July
- The Scribes and The Wheelbarrow
- Testing Flickr with Mr. Product.
- What's In A Name? An Object Property.
- Funny and critical.
- On Blogger Comments
- Squexing and Lists of Links
- An note on the usefulness of WYSIWYG editing in the browser.
- A more technical note on Blogger's implementation of WYSIWYG editing in the browser.
- Curbing Bad Behavior
- Calendar ante upped.
- Dreamcycle, the Ultramarine
May
April
2003
December
November
October
September
August
May
April
March
February
January
2002
December
- Fecundity's lament
- Christmas fire.
- Gossip is, perhaps, a sign of salvation.
- Taken to school.
- Why is this man smiling?
- Getting A Seat At The Algonquin Round Table Just Means You'll Fall In Love With Dorothy Parker.
- A drink today goes out to Mary Hansen, formerly of life and Stereolab.
- Toil and Reward (very short)
- Perforce is fine - so long as you know what "Head" means.
- Driven: a short story.
November
- Spoilers from the Commons: A preview of an interview about music and the internet.
- Site content returns, I help Ernie with his new book, and Secadora and Dealership make some new noise as Citizens Here and Abroad
- Visual Basic DLL Has Memory Leaks and Crashes in COM+ If 'Retain In Memory' Is Not Set - So Just Check 'Em
- Elvish Name Generator
- In really, really local election news...
October
- Boo! Did I scare you? Larry Seltzer finds the horror in XML...
- Paul Erdos was The Man Who Loved Only Numbers.
- Joanna "Isis" Cameron's Likeness reads from Notes On Love and Courage.
- Supper thoughts on insanity and war.
- Who will win? Scott? Observer: This war against The Vespidae.
- document.getElementById(TEXTAREA).value suggests a possibility...
- The beauty of Golublog.
- Excellent! Ee, Vervein, and The Skyflakes at the Metro! Spread the word! Sprrr-ee-ad I-i-it.
- Technopop and Russian Prison Tattoos
- Two reminders.
- My Journey Aboard The Whiskey Sour, Day 1
- Leonard looks at how some sites are rendered when viewed with the T-Mobile Sidekick.
September
August
- Yet another online Musee Mechanique photo gallery.
- What's more important in Mozilla as far as usability? Integrated Flash plug-in installation or a non-valdiating HTML error indicator?
- UPDATED: Mozilla 1.1 users can ALMOST use the Bold, Italic, and Link options for text editing areas that have popping up everywhere. There's still an outstanding bug.
- Bug fixes means more Massless.
- Wherein I Prove My Executive Mettle
- Sports: They bring people together.
- The Rich Miss Opportunities, Too. And everyone's calling me "Reverend."
- A dream of dollars.
July
June
- The police visit my apartment as my web activities mark me as a illicit drug maker (sort of)
- Kottke vs. Mozilla: Some minor pushback.
- It was a dork and stormy night - Pictures of the Mozilla 1.0 Party.
- Is Dealership Unbreakable?
- Sir Real.
- A Short Note Regarding Video Games
- Just a link to Paul Graham's excellent post on the power of succinctness in programming languages.
- Join the dark side. Go see The Vanishing.
May
April
March
- A new photo series. 80s supermodels are in danger!
- Couldn't resist...took bait...musing about music downloads, Disney, and analogies of file-swapping.
- PBS, J'accuse!
- The life of a modern musician: a week of noisepop. "Underdogs and Quarterbacks."
- The life of a modern musician: a week of noisepop. "The Invisible Man."
- The life of a modern musician: a week of noisepop. "Captains of the Build."
February
- The life of a modern musician: a week of noisepop. "Vinyl and neon."
- The life of a modern musician: a week of noisepop. "Siren song."
- The life of a modern musician: a week of noisepop. "Pleading the fifth."
- The life of a modern musician: a week of noisepop. "Ding."
- Improvements in tabular data experiment.
- Sad one-liner.
- The pop menagerie: The view from my cage.
- A winter's truth.
January
- Moving Multiple Items From One List Box To Another List Box (Without Using a List Box) for HTML and Javascript
- Joel and I might be the same person, Kenneth Lay and (gulp) masturbation, and some serious ass-kissing to Ernie.
- View Source in Mozilla, Existential athletic team names, and I whine about my good fortune. Someone, please slap me.
- Mom and The Smoking Man.
- The tiny broken waltz is ascendant. And for no reason, two XSLT links.
- Calendar bugfix, or, Why Massless Can't Add.
- Calendar scripts in ASP, PHP. View server-side source script in ASP. Croupier. Wit. Pretty Girls Make Graves, and boy do they ever.
- We had to liberate the whiteboards.
2001
December
- Art and faith, Dame Judi Dench, Interview magazine, everybody in the world grabs their Hobbit name, and the sport in grabbing the headless carcass.
- Pondering...do coders make ethical decisions?
- A very short post. Just one link since I can't stop listening to this song from Adult.
- Death, Oscar Levant channeling Apu, and layoffs.
- Did you wake up one day to find that you had become a computer programmer almost entirely by accident?
- Israel v. Palestine v. My Sanity
- I visited an instance of Netscape 3.0. Still. In. Use...
- I hear the Pixies' "Alec Eiffel" and think of Kamen.
November
- IE for Unix. Who'da thunk?
- Depression studies complement a new ASP referrers script for you.
- Stuffed.
- Happy Thanksgiving. I'll be offline for two days... Nooo! Withdrawal will kill me. Revise that. Twenty minutes, instead or however long it takes me to down my "Thanksgiving wine."
- William Safire provides more proof that our world has been firmly turned on its ass.
- Millions have never flushed a toilet.
- Jane gets to be featured on Mindjack and writes about the marketing of the XBox and Windows XP.
- I either need to be sleek, svelte, and perfect...or get out of this music business.
- The Secret Life of Drummers
- I'm not the funny. Perry's wife is.
- Cute moogle pic. For those who don't know, a "moogle" is already very, very cute.
- DeCSS is legal. And I muse on villainy.
October
- Try this HTML color picker. It's nifty.
- Recording new songs and playing in San Francisco. Oh, and here's a snippet from a Sharon Olds poem.
- Strong and silent? Or strong and thoughtful, open, and emotionally in touch? Men, as Peggy Noonan seems 'em...
- American Baseball.
- A nightmare deferred.
- Go read "The Effects of September 11 on the Leading Search Engine."
- Massless is one year old today.
- Doesn't the argument that Delivering Important International Information Means We Can't Pay Our Bills ring a little hollow?
- Blair's "Whatever": The Word and its Meaning(s) in his recent address.
- Developers be careful: Web services clients might be vulnerable to desirable changes in firewall rules. Especially after NIMDA.
September
- A reminder to myself: Quick links to the Windows, MacOS, and Java UI Guidelines.
- A vegetarian and the cow fatwa.
- I need fun in my life. And then on cue: YaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAy. A new show.
- Browsers versus network applications.
- A quick jot.
- When a CSS border is applied to a table cell, should Netscape/Mozilla add the value of that border to its width?
- I laughed in my sleep. So, the story goes. Must've just been dreaming of the latest Onion.
- As American as ABBA and potstickers.
- Reason Online presents "Six options beyond war and peace." Modeled after the philosophies of Kojak, Charles Bronson, Bugs Bunny, Caesar, Gandhi, and Dr. Strangelove.
- Here's the names of our dev team. Would you change your flight if they're assigned a seat next to you?
- More internet attacks. NIMDA? NIMBY. And why do I have to think like a terrorist?
- I have to sacrifice you?
- Mozilla 0.9.4 released.
- Touching base with the world. Still feel uneasy writing about this. But my future tense is nagging me.
- The unthinkable.
- Nationally, the American Red Cross is preparing to ship over 50,000 units of blood to affected areas.
- My dumb memory. What is is that we access when we remember things?
- Building mini news-portals are fun. Releasing libraries to help other people build them is even more fun. What? Does that make me a dork?
- The Moose envisions a future where content management systems replace HTML and CSS knowledge workers.
- Grape jelly.
August
- Radio: The cutest call-in.
- Radio killed the internet star.
- Listening to Bjork's new album online.
- A new wrinkle: using offshore development.
- Whoops. Sorry Mom, Dad.
- Abuse.
- Questions and answers.
- How to kill a client's interest in 10 seconds or less.
- I'm using Netscape 6.1. I'm as surprised as you are.
- The proficiency of OS sharks...
- Also in the spirit of broken things...Linux, Windows, and very nearly the back of the proverbial Camel.
- So just for fun, I've released BoardLess, the Freeware ASP Messageboard.
- Netscape 6.1 released.
- Placing any part of oneself in a harmful environment, willingly or knowingly is weird and ...kind of... fascinating.
- Charmed is just way sub-Buffy shagwankery and a Java char just isn't a Unicode character, now is it?
- Two quick links and, hey, did you know that Mozilla 0.93 was released?
July
- Before I fly back, Phil Agre tells me how to help a computer newbie. I try my best.
- massless is taking a little trip...
- I read somewhere once that as you get older, you wake up every day a little sadder.
- Entertainment Weekly calls and others ponder what "100%" really means.
- Copyright is not an air-borne disease. It is unknownigly passed from host to host as copy-protected CDs slip quietly into stores.
- Some explore Design, while others peruse the cutest lil weblog, and still others chain refrigerators to fences to make a point.
- I've added forums to Massless using BoardLess, the codebase I created as a solution to reverse-engineering the UBB.
- I've been thinking again about my current dependency on Microsoft technologies and the roadblocks I would encounter in avoiding the next MS upgrade cycle for development technology
- Been playing around while doing interface development. Thought I'd slap one of my application skins onto Massless.
- I spent all day creating software: A UBB-like bulletin board using Active Server Pages, an RSS aggregator in Java, and an Excel-like interface for tabular data using DHTML.
- The Secret to Software Success...I'll just need your credit card...hmm..
June
- Microsoft drops Smart Tags from Windows XP
- Giveh, GUIs, and an illegal prime number.
- The audience was frozen and I retreat to the DOM...again. I spy your frame by the pool of objects. An inline thought.
- Boy meets World of Warring DOMs and Head meets Brick Wall.
- A bit about some tiny indie music shows in San Francisco.
- Rollerball remake, .NET worries, and SmartJ tries to make your life easier.
- An image hacker I know well and some links about java.nio, the new I/O package in v.1.4 of the J2SE
- I quote Bjarne and watch Eric Raymond and Ballmer two-step. Plus, a picture of where I work.
- Linux on the desktop, The Effect of Nuclear Explosions on Commercially Packed Beverages, and our new record label: Keiki Records.
- The music industry, Matrix 2, which leads to our new feature: Bug Kyle.
May
- Links include "when to use SOAP" and a challenge to the hallowed Placebo Effect.
- My birthday was pay-per-view.
- A Day in The Life: Conversations of Memorial Day
- For the holiday: a Dubya poem. (yep, the frequently-linked-to one)
- The Failure of the New Economy as Success.
- An aristocratic Italian family suffers from a rare and hideous genetic legacy: Half of its members die from insomnia.
- A person calling themselves "Debbie" said they made up "Kaycee" from an amalgam of dying friends.
- My sister shares her birthday day and month with an auspicious Northwest event. The massive explosion of Mt. St. Helens in Washington, USA.
- The Money House.
- In Tsarist Russia, Sergei the Photographer achieved it by discovering that R+G+B>B/W.
- It's torture; watching this incremental creation of an enemy.
- Missy is quite the poo, bro-bro.
- Sites with RSS news feeds discover that the W3C and major browser manufacturers are seeing eye-to-eye. *snicker*
April
- The movie (A.I.) may wind up a too-sentimental neo-Bicentennial-Man but play anyway...
- Hey, are you an Organization Kid? Do you carry the "whir" home with you? Like a headache?
- Created a step-by-step tutorial aimed at Windows web developers who want to begin building sites with Java.
- Lazing about watching Julia & Jacques making something with meat.
- Check out "A Series of Unfortunate Events." They're a series of children's tales filled with dark, dark humor.
- Cambodia has beautiful money. From
- Today's silly summary title: The
- I was recently engrossed by
- I need a DHTML guru,
- Everybody wants a Beautiful Dreamer,
- Interpersonal relationships don't scale.
- Our summer burst. It's cold
- From HotWired: Does your site
- Dealership has a new member.
March
- Jane's friend was trying to
- Fighting bigotry is like eating
- A Day in the Life:
- I had to put this
- A comic link? Ok. Blank
- The laugh of a programmer...which
- Summer breeze. My memory
- For...Next! Net surfing as
- I mention The Lone Gunmen
- My one good idea and
- A Day in the Life:
- I love the 5k contest.
- A Day in the Life:
- Orders of geek magnitude. Geek1
- Do the math. [Real
- Fixing the XML XSL Editor,
February
- Try the beta of an
- The Anatomy of a Large-Scale
- The song you were
- Straining XML. A triple entendre
- Browsers and hyphens. IE5
- I'm only two pages into
- Zeldman advocates tough love for
- Today: my mini-portal and what
- Today's monologue - in
- Post-Valentine's Day - from mushy
- I had no idea that
- First day at new
- My co-workers and I (recently
- This is one hatt, steaming
- "Sometimes our differences run so
- This link leads to the
- New New Internet Questions: Will
January
- Loving the internet: Today, I
- Using Microsoft Word to
- Hey, developers. Listen to this
- It's the Year of the
- Look at the first result
- Today's post is dedicated to
- Listing ephemera: A list of
- bitter pill wrote this
- Bright and creative...and if you
- www.stor.co.ukThere was, within the
- I read it the first
2000
December
- Axiom: If you whistle while
- XML could be very useful
- 12 steps to better
- Apropos of nothing are the
- On a train and just
- Do you listen to National
- ame across an article today
- One of my co-workers asked
- Except for the weird colored
- Progamming in Java? Ever had
- If you're a user of
- Who would've guessed? [thick, thick
- At work; today I am
- I'm lucky. My head hit
- Worried about images of violence