The Archives

This One Goes to Eleven Millions Line Up for Latest Piece of iCrap
Sunday, July 13, 2008

Public Utilities Are Slightly More Expensive Here But You Know -- Only Slightly
Friday, July 11, 2008

How to Fix the Kitchen Sink Or, One Man's Journey Toward Hydromechanical Enlightenment
Sunday, July 06, 2008

YouTube, Viacom, Google and You Privacy? Huh? Wake up, Dude -- You're on the Internet
Friday, July 04, 2008

The Profiles Have Returned Netflix Surrenders to the Angry Horde
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Here Is How to Piss Me Off It's a Snap! Just Follow These Twelve Easy Steps
Thursday, June 19, 2008

Netflix's Next, Brilliant Move Wait...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Learning By Doing An Anecdote Applicable to Just About Anything
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Overheard Post #2 in an Ongoing Series
Friday, May 30, 2008

Weak References and Browser Managers A Few Interesting Flex Gotchas I Thought I Might Share
Sunday, May 25, 2008

OpenID: So, Why Is This a Good Idea, Again? (Spoiler Alert: It's Not, and Here's Why)
Friday, May 23, 2008

Invasion of the Movers! Two Days Later, Our Typhoon of Crap Arrives
Thursday, May 15, 2008

Dateline, Eugene Day Three: Almost There...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

L'Aventure Commence Nine Bags, One Dog and One Fish in Tow, We Go
Thursday, May 08, 2008

What I'm Going to Miss And What I'm Not -- Two Three Lists, Variegated
Sunday, May 04, 2008

Overheard The Inaugural Post of an Ongoing Series Presenting Funny Things I Happen to Hear People Say
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

10 HOME Fragments of BASIC
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

My Ubuntu Experience, Continued And Probably Concluded
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Ways In Which Gmail Presently Lags Wherein I Whine for a While, and Invite You to Sing Along
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

News In Brief Summaries of Things, In Case You Were Wondering
Monday, April 14, 2008

Your Last Session Ended Unexpectedly What I Didn't Want to Write About Ubuntu This Morning
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

On the Inevitability of Lionhood Atwood, Graham, Independence, Indentured Servitude, &c.
Monday, March 24, 2008

Renting vs. Buying: A Response I Shouldn't Even Dignify It, But I Will, Because I'm Mad
Thursday, March 20, 2008

Twiddling with Bitmaps in Flex Creating That Nifty Reflection Effect from Boring Ol' JPEGs
Thursday, February 28, 2008

Don't Blame the Paprika Chandler, Python, Java, and So On
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Project Euler: Be Fruitful and Multiply Or, If You Like, Find the Largest Prime Factor of 317,584,931,803
Thursday, February 07, 2008

Six Hundred Lines or Less Doing a Lot with a Little (Code, That Is)
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

How Seattle Rules Preliminary Observations from Our First Visit to the City
Saturday, January 19, 2008

Kickin' It With PowerShell Test Driving a Nifty New Command Line Option for Windows
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Deletion Woes Frustration With Both the iPod and the Zune
Monday, January 14, 2008

Predicting the Future How Keeping it Simple Can Make Everything Way More Complicated
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Reinventing the Wheel Chandler, Blogger, Typepad, DasBlog and Me
Thursday, January 10, 2008

Magpies and Magic Bullets The Incurable Pain of Keeping Up with the World of Software
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

On the Highs and Lows of Consulting Musings on My First Eight Months as an Independent Developer
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Teach Yourself Programming In 10 Years Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Flex, Silverlight and the RIA Smackdown of 2008 And Why, If You're a Web Developer, You'd Better Be Paying Attention
Saturday, January 05, 2008

Crappy Real-World UI Episode 1: Here's Your Change
Thursday, January 03, 2008

The Importance of Clarity How Lazy Communicating Just Ends Up Making Everyone Mad at Each Other
Monday, November 26, 2007

Tech Bubble? Housing Bubble? Try Google Bubble When Stock Prices Stop Making Any Sense At All
Thursday, November 01, 2007

A Fine Way to Spend a Saturday Sometimes You Just Need to Get Sick
Saturday, October 27, 2007

Checking In Notes on Our First Few Days in London
Friday, October 12, 2007

Look, Big Ben, Kids! Parliament. The Minis and We Are Leaving the Building
Monday, October 08, 2007

Is Web Advertising Really Worth It? Friday, August 31, 2007

Office Space Friday, July 06, 2007

Orange: The New Apple-Killer? Why Google Isn't the Next Microsoft
Saturday, June 02, 2007

The Benefits of Staying Close to Home Wednesday, May 30, 2007

The Real Source of Frustration Friday, May 11, 2007

Bottlenecking Thursday, April 19, 2007

Russian Roulette with a Billion Barrels Friday, April 13, 2007

[Not -- Well, Sort of] Scaling with Rails Thursday, April 12, 2007

The Age-Old Debate Over Renting or Buying Wednesday, April 11, 2007

danah boyd on Twitter Friday, April 06, 2007

Mobile Mania Friday, March 30, 2007

Why I [Also] Don’t Post More Often Thursday, March 29, 2007

Stanford Bound Friday, March 23, 2007

I Wonder How Much Amazon Sells It For Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Bill Me Later Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Why Talent Don't Scale Friday, February 09, 2007

The Wily Speckle-Throated Burrowing Five-Toed Cross-Platform App Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Music Industry May Finally Be Getting It Monday, January 22, 2007

On Sundance Sunday, January 07, 2007

Procs Still Humming on the Netflix Prize Sunday, December 31, 2006

Google Turning Evil? Gasp! Friday, December 29, 2006

Note to ISVs: Use Tech Writers! Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Microserfs: a Review Saturday, December 02, 2006

Spam: Parting Fools and Their Money Since a Long Time Ago Friday, December 01, 2006

How to Write a Novel Friday, November 03, 2006

Getting Real Now Online Tuesday, October 31, 2006

The Impending Doom of YouTube Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Twttr: Yes, Our Lives Really Are This Boring Monday, October 23, 2006

How We Wish Our SOs Really Talked Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Playin' the Ponies Sunday, October 15, 2006

Jake Goes for the Longer Lens Saturday, October 14, 2006

Stating the Obvious (Yet Terminally Ignored) Friday, October 13, 2006

How to Do What You Love Sunday, October 08, 2006

Why Johnny Can't Code Thursday, September 14, 2006

Dreams I May Never Realize Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Tivo in a Coma Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Thoughtfully Selected Halloween Candy for Children I'm Told Will Avoid My Street as a Result of Inadequate Lighting Thursday, October 27, 2005

I Have an Extra Weezer Ticket Saturday, September 24, 2005

We Have Hops! Saturday, August 13, 2005

Finally, Someone Gets It Sunday, June 19, 2005

The State of CS Thursday, June 13, 2002

Here and There Monday, June 10, 2002

The Germ of an Idea Saturday, June 08, 2002

A Slight Shift in Focus Thursday, June 06, 2002

Beer Tuesday, June 04, 2002

Insomnia Tuesday, May 28, 2002

A New Format Saturday, May 25, 2002

Frank Lloyd Wright Saturday, May 11, 2002

Driving Sunday, May 05, 2002

Drinks of Various Sorts Friday, May 03, 2002

Session Nein Friday, April 26, 2002

Dateline: Scottsdale Tuesday, April 16, 2002

Amerige Heights Sunday, April 07, 2002

CheckOut.com, and I am a louse Saturday, February 23, 2002

KMart Monday, February 11, 2002

Storytelling Wednesday, January 30, 2002

Golf Sunday, January 20, 2002

Iceman Wednesday, January 16, 2002

Undeclared Sunday, December 30, 2001

Materialism Wednesday, December 26, 2001

Jackass Sunday, December 23, 2001

I am 30 Friday, December 21, 2001

The Judys Tuesday, December 11, 2001

No More Walking or Sleeping Monday, December 03, 2001

Look Back Tuesday, November 27, 2001

Third Coast Audio Festival Tuesday, November 20, 2001

Chuck Leavell Saturday, November 17, 2001

The Conundrum of Software Engineering Thursday, November 15, 2001

Stoppard Wednesday, November 14, 2001

Jack Welch Wednesday, November 14, 2001

Al Gore for President Thursday, November 01, 2001

UCI Wednesday, October 24, 2001

Old Mamet Monday, October 22, 2001

Java Man Sunday, October 14, 2001

My Thoughts On All This Wednesday, October 03, 2001

WTC Wednesday, September 19, 2001

Is the Internet Really Just TV? Sunday, September 02, 2001

The New Republic Article Friday, August 24, 2001

Vegas, Baby Friday, August 24, 2001

Asparagus and You Wednesday, August 22, 2001

Mr. Coffee Sunday, July 29, 2001

Memento Sunday, July 01, 2001

Fleas Friday, June 29, 2001

Heartbreaking Work Wednesday, June 20, 2001

Dusty Old Web Site Thursday, June 07, 2001

Apologies Tuesday, May 08, 2001

Ira Glass Saturday, April 28, 2001

LAIFF Thursday, April 26, 2001

It's Pointless Monday, April 23, 2001

The Semantic Web Monday, April 23, 2001

Microbus Friday, April 20, 2001

Chabon Wins Pulitzer Wednesday, April 18, 2001

A Really Neat Time Monday, April 16, 2001

Peeps Sunday, April 15, 2001

Julian Barnes Friday, April 13, 2001

Proud Lenny Thursday, April 12, 2001

Tower Over Brea Thursday, April 12, 2001

I'm really, really s---- Monday, April 09, 2001

Working Out Friday, April 06, 2001

Quitting Tuesday, April 03, 2001

Even Programmers Get the Blues Tuesday, March 13, 2001

Good DV Monday, March 12, 2001

Carney Saturday, March 10, 2001

An Interview Thursday, March 08, 2001

Dellhost Tuesday, March 06, 2001

Emerson Friday, March 02, 2001

All Your Base Tuesday, February 27, 2001

Napster Tuesday, February 13, 2001

Ray Carney Sunday, February 11, 2001

Mike Daisey and Amazon.com Saturday, February 10, 2001

Odigo Friday, February 09, 2001

10 Directors to Watch Monday, February 05, 2001

Letters from Homeroom Saturday, February 03, 2001

Hope, and Geoff Gilmore Saturday, January 27, 2001

Bilingual Education Thursday, January 25, 2001

Starbucks Wednesday, January 24, 2001

Eduardo Kac Sunday, January 21, 2001

Benicio Rocks, Suck Sucks Wednesday, January 17, 2001

Jon Jost Monday, January 08, 2001

David Sedaris Monday, January 01, 2001

Merry Christmas Monday, December 25, 2000

Unbreakable Monday, December 18, 2000

Etc. Sunday, December 17, 2000

Paul Verhoeven, life after Spielberg, and my Motle Friday, December 15, 2000

It's Over Thursday, December 14, 2000

How I Killed My Dot Com Tuesday, December 12, 2000

GGM Monday, December 11, 2000

Hunter Thompson, Stephen King and Steve Martin Tuesday, December 05, 2000

What Happened to Whit? Monday, December 04, 2000

The Move Has Been Conquered Sunday, December 03, 2000

I Just Want it to End Friday, December 01, 2000

The Death of Service Wednesday, November 29, 2000

Upgrade Hell Tuesday, November 21, 2000