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2006–2008

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December 2008

  1. The Air Force’s Rules of Engagement for Blogging [Updated]
  2. The Old Univac Ad, Remixed
  3. An Old Univac Ad: “You’re Trying to Divide by Zero”
  4. Off for the Holidays
  5. Ruby on Rails and Merb Merge!
  6. O’Reilly’s “Head First” Books Now Available in PDF
  7. Hohoto
  8. Taking Windows 7 for a Spin
  9. “Raving Rabbids” Cookies
  10. IronPython 2.0 Released!
  11. Cue the “Damien” Choir
  12. “It Looks Like You’re Trying to Stank Up Your Code. Would You Like Some Help?”
  13. Python 3000 Released!
  14. Cheap as in Crap
  15. I’m in Calgary Next Week
  16. A Fix for the Error in Hour 9 of “Teach Yourself ASP.NET Ajax in 24 Hours” / Client-Side Error Handling in ASP.NET Ajax in .NET 3.5
  17. O’Reilly’s “Learning XNA 3.0”
  18. Symbolics XL1200 Lisp Machine: Free to a Good Home [Updated]
  19. Azure Explained in 145 Seconds
  20. Turning Ho-Hum Colour into WOW! with Photoshop
  21. The Simpsons and “Mapple”

November 2008

  1. Why Does This C# Code Compile?
  2. Is Canada Becoming a Digital Ghetto?
  3. Programmer T-Shirts for Good Causes
  4. Papercraft HAL 9000
  5. VeloCity Project Exhibition
  6. Using the Hell Out of Your Digital Camera
  7. The C# “Yellow Book”: Free as in Beer and Good as in Beginner’s Guide
  8. The Lost Decade
  9. Exposed
  10. C++ Pointers for Kids
  11. Enabling and Disabling the Mouse Wheel “Zoom” Feature on Map APIs
  12. “Deep Space 90210” (or: 90210 / J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Video Mash-Up)
  13. Do You Have to Know English to be a Programmer?
  14. I’m Bringing Hexy Back (or: Programming Articles Will Return to Global Nerdy)
  15. Happy 10th Birthday, Half-Life!
  16. Conversational HTTP Codes
  17. Fallout 3, as Reviewed on Zero Punctuation
  18. Your Tuesday Productivity Killer (or: The Official Monty Python YouTube Channel)
  19. Looking Forward to Trying This Out Later Tonight…
  20. Steve Jobs Giving Big Blue the One-Finger Salute
  21. The Star Trek Movie’s Second Trailer
  22. The Star Wars Storybook
  23. Hugh MacLeod at Startup Empire: We’re So F***ed
  24. David Cohen at Startup Empire: Boulder and TechStars
  25. Rick Segal’s Advice at Startup Empire
  26. Howard Lindzon at Startup Empire: Why Now is a Good Time to Start Your Startup
  27. Austin Hill at Startup Empire: Slow Down and Speed Up
  28. Don Dodge at Startup Empire: Starting a Company in Difficult Times
  29. Actually, I Hold Both Titles at Microsoft
  30. “Startup Empire” Happens Tomorrow
  31. “The Onion” Compares Apple’s OS X “Snow Leopard” Against Windows 7
  32. Jeff Atwood: A Very Brief Interview
  33. Dilbert: “Our Project Plan Will Follow the Usual Arc”
  34. Universal Zoom Levels for Google Maps, Live Search Maps and Yahoo! Maps
  35. Rock Star Mullet Kit: Weirdest “Rock Band”/“Guitar Hero” Accessory
  36. Salmagundi for Friday, November 7th, 2008
  37. What’s Behind Those “Single?” Lawn Signs?
  38. Digital Camera Deals at Shoppers Drug Mart
  39. Strangely Enough…
  40. David Janes’ Code Weblog
  41. Herman Miller’s “Embody” Chair: Aeron++?
  42. GeoSocial Meetup: Thursday November 6th at the Charlotte Room, Toronto
  43. Windows Exploits Come from Third-Party Apps
  44. My PDC Interviews: Don Box, Miguel de Icaza, John Lam, Phil Haack and .NET Micro Framework
  45. Slice of Life from PDC, Part 4: My Crappy Hotel

October 2008

  1. Slice of Life from PDC, Part 3: The Simpsons Ride
  2. Interview with IronRuby’s John Lam at PDC2008
  3. Web Versions of Office: About Effing Time!
  4. Slice of Life from PDC, Part 2: Channel 9 Guy Meets Accordion Guy
  5. Slice of Life from PDC, Part 1: Choose Wisely (or: The Snack Tables)
  6. I Missed this Morning’s PDC Keynote…
  7. Off to PDC!
  8. Byte Club Episode 1, Featuring b5media and a Prominent Ex-Employee
  9. Your PDC2008 Bingo Card (Plus a Chance to Make Your Own)
  10. PDC2008 Gang Signs
  11. Staying Healthy at PDC2008 (or Any Other Large Conference)
  12. Questions and Answers: Evangelism and Building Production Code
  13. Nerd Costumes
  14. Salmagundi for Tuesday, October 21, 2008
  15. The Journey Begins
  16. California Bound (or: I’m Going to PDC2008)
  17. Sign of the Day
  18. Microsoft Web Application Installer is Full of Open Source Surprises
  19. Company Man (or: The New Job)
  20. Terminated, Part 10: It’s Contagious!
  21. Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” Experiment was a Success
  22. Changes are Coming
  23. “Windows 7”, Eh?
  24. Terminated, Part 9: The Great Computer Give-Away, Part 3 (HP 3.0 GHz Pentium IV Desktop and 19″ CRT)
  25. Terminated, Part 8: The Layoff Weight Loss Plan
  26. Apple’s Notebook Event: Tuesday, October 14th
  27. My “Technical Evangelist” Resume
  28. Terminated, Part 7: Laid-Off Gallows Humour
  29. The Manga Guide to Databases
  30. AdSense for Games: Only for the Big Players, For Now
  31. Terminated, Part 6: Laid Off Still Life
  32. Scoble’s Resume Tips
  33. An Anime Guide to Over-the-Ear Headphones
  34. Who Got the PowerBook?
  35. Terminated, Part 5: The Great Computer Give-Away, Part 2 (Apple PowerBook 12″ G4 867 Mhz) [Updated]
  36. b5media’s Changes to Blogger Pay: Right, Fair and Still a Sweet Deal
  37. Techmeme, Google Blog Search and How to Put Both to Work for Your Blog
  38. Apple Drops iPhone NDA
  39. Terminated, Part 4: The Great Computer Give-Away (Umax C600/240 PowerMac Clone, circa 1996) [Updated]
  40. Terminated, Part 3: Need Suggestions for Where to Have the Last Supper
  41. Terminated, Part 2: How I’ll Ride Out the Layoff and the Credit Crunch: Friends

September 2008

  1. Old Man Yells at Cloud
  2. Terminated, Part 1: The Very First Things You Should Do When Laid Off
  3. This Gun’s for Hire
  4. Kara Swisher Sounds the Layoff Alert
  5. Notes from Ruby on Rails Project Night
  6. Ruby on Rails Project Night Tonight!
  7. The New Microsoft Ads: Why Didn’t They Just Start With These?
  8. “Enumerating Enumerable” Will Return Soon!
  9. Zero Punctuation on “Spore”: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
  10. The Return of Ruby on Rails Project Night
  11. Going Down Memory Lane with C
  12. Reg “Raganwald” Braithwaite: Alive and Well
  13. “Penny Arcade” on the Seinfeld/Gates Ads for Windows
  14. Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld’s Second Microsoft Commercial: Longer and Weirder
  15. Multi-Processor Computing in 1924
  16. Zero Punctuation’s Bang-On Review of “Too Human”
  17. Better, Funnier Videos Featuring Bill Gates and Celebrities
  18. Seinfeld/Gates Microsoft Ad: Who are the Ad Wizards Who Came Up With This One?
  19. Enumerating Enumerable: A Cute Trick for Explaining inject / reduce / fold
  20. Google Chrome is Now Available for Download!
  21. Enumerating Enumerable: Enumerable#include?

August 2008

  1. Enumerating Enumerable: Enumerable#group_by
  2. Blast from the Past: My Old Notes on the GNUtella Protocol
  3. Pair Programming Chairs
  4. Taking IE8 Beta 2 for a Test Drive, Part 1: “Porn Mode” (a.k.a. InPrivate Browsing)
  5. The Funniest “Unboxing” Video I’ve Seen
  6. b5media is a Red Herring Canada Top 50 Finalist
  7. I’m on “Future Tense” Tonight
  8. Security Through Python
  9. Even the Shah of Iran has Done a Celebrity Tech Endorsement
  10. Seinfeld and Celebrity Computer Endorsements [Updated]
  11. Enumerating Enumerable: Enumerable#grep
  12. What are Your Favorite Software Synths, Samplers and Sound Modules?
  13. The Way Computers Were in the Seventies
  14. Great Showdowns (of the 8-bit Era)
  15. My Stack of Old Computer Books
  16. Pics from the Office
  17. Enumerating Enumerable: Enumerable#first
  18. Now THIS is a Cool Office!
  19. Enumerating Enumerable: Enumerable#find_index
  20. XBox on a REALLY Big Screen
  21. Nine Startup Diseases and How to Cure Them
  22. “why the lucky stiff” on Why You Should Create
  23. An Illustrated Guide to the Kaminsky DNS Vulnerability
  24. Copy and Paste
  25. Linux Bloat
  26. b5media is Looking for Contract PHP/MySQL Developers
  27. Internet Memes Timeline
  28. Code Swarm: A Visual History of Python Commits
  29. Enumerating Enumerable: Enumerable#find_all / Enumerable#select
  30. Sayonara, Cassettes
  31. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at Comic Con 2008
  32. Enumerating Enumerable: Enumerable#entries / Enumerable#to_a
  33. Build Status Interfaces
  34. Enumerating Enumerable: Enumerable#each_with_index

July 2008

  1. RubyFringe was Profitable, People are Happy, and the Sky Didn’t Fall. What Now?”
  2. “Rails to Victory”
  3. Take Hampton’s Ruby Survey!
  4. They Know Their Market
  5. Enumerating Enumerable: Enumerable#each_slice
  6. Tucows (Re)Introduces OpenSRS
  7. Enumerating Enumerable: Enumerable#each_cons
  8. Notes from Damian Conway’s Presentation
  9. Enumerating Enumerable: Enumerable#drop_while
  10. Pardon Our Appearance
  11. I Have an Advance Copy of Neal Stephenson’s “Anathem”!
  12. RubyFringe: Day 2 Notes, Part 3
  13. RubyFringe: Day 2 Notes, Part 2
  14. An Amusing RubyFringe Moment
  15. RubyFringe: Day 2 Notes, Part 1
  16. RubyFringe: Day 1 Notes, Part 2
  17. RubyFringe: Day 1 Notes, Part 1
  18. Scenes from RubyFringe, Part 1
  19. RubyFringe Guide: The Unofficial IRC Back Channel
  20. RubyFringe Guide: The Lay of the Land, Part 2
  21. RubyFringe Guide: Active Surplus, a.k.a. Hardware Nerdvana
  22. RubyFringe Guide: Best Damn Cookie in Town
  23. RubyFringe Guide: FAILCamp (Friday, July 18 – 4 to 7 p.m. at The Rhino)
  24. Even the X-Men Use Twitter
  25. Damian Conway Tonight!
  26. This Week in Toronto Tech
  27. Enumerating Enumerable: Enumerable#drop
  28. Windows Vista is Like Paris Hilton Playing Audrey Hepburn
  29. Enumerating Enumerable: Enumerable#detect/Enumerable#find
  30. Enumerating Enumerable: Enumerable#cycle
  31. Laptop Losses Total 12,000 Per Week at U.S. Airports
  32. Rainn “Dwight K. Schrute” Wilson as Xena, Warrior Princess
  33. RubyFringe Guide: The Lay of the Land, Part 1
  34. Enumerating Enumerable: Enumerable#count
  35. b5media: #5 on TechVibes’ Start-Up Canada Index
  36. Boozin’ in Accordion City (Joey’s Unofficial RubyFringe Guide to Toronto)

June 2008

  1. Fear and Loathing at RailsConf
  2. This is Me and Regular Expressions
  3. Why Don’t Browsers Have File Upload Progress Bars?
  4. Getting from the Airport to the Hotel (Joey’s Unofficial RubyFringe Guide to Toronto)
  5. Enumerating Enumerable: Enumerable#collect/Enumerable#map
  6. Enumerating Enumerable: Enumerable#any?
  7. The Twitter “Fail Whale’s” Appearance on “Laugh Out Loud Cats”
  8. Ten Most Densely Populated Technology Startup Regions
  9. Where Did All the Cigarettes Go? (Joey’s Unofficial RubyFringe Guide to Toronto)
  10. Enumerating Enumerable: Enumerable#all?
  11. How Not to Approach an Investor
  12. Notes on “The Golden Triangle” from Search Engine Strategies 2008 Toronto
  13. Notes on “Searcher Moms” at Search Engine Strategies 2008 Toronto
  14. Notes from “Introduction to Search Engine Marketing” at Search Engine Strategies 2008 Toronto
  15. “SEO Don’ts, Myths and Scams” at Search Engine Strategies 2008 Toronto
  16. Darths and Droids
  17. Yours Truly at the Firefox 3 Launch Party
  18. Fredrick Marckini’s Keynote at Search Engine Strategies 2008 Toronto
  19. Teens Using Google Earth to Crash Swimming Pools
  20. Overheard at Search Engine Strategies
  21. Tweet of the Day: Tim Bray on Microsoft’s SOA Strategy and UML
  22. Covering Search Engine Strategies 2008 Toronto is Very Serious Work
  23. Sentiment Analysis and Sarcasm
  24. Sentiment Analysis
  25. Quote of the Day
  26. Hello from Search Engine Strategies 2008 Toronto!
  27. “O Brave New World That Has Such Hardware In It!”
  28. How Map/Reduce/Filter Can Rock Your World
  29. 50 Python Modules for all Needs
  30. Most Google Users Ignore Everything After the First Three Results
  31. Evans Data Survey: Less Than 1 in 10 Developers Writing Apps for Vista
  32. 10 WordPress Plugins Everyone Should Have
  33. 3 CSS Image Tricks
  34. Great Free Fonts via Smashing Magazine: Anivers, Fresco and Gentium
  35. Have You Played Atari’s Founder Today?
  36. Good Nerdy Listening
  37. I Finished Grand Theft Auto IV!
  38. Gamasutra’s on Lessons from Atari Games
  39. Steve Jobs Keynote This Afternoon!
  40. Rules for Consultants
  41. Two Days Left to Sign Up for RubyFringe
  42. b5media: One of the Canadian New Media Awards Finalists!
  43. Coming Soon to a Landfill Near You
  44. How Many Digits of pi Do You Know? [Updated]
  45. Merlin Mann on WordPress’ “Kubrick” Theme
  46. Zoli Erdos on Microsoft’s Web-Based Apps Debate
  47. Why Microsoft Will Never Win (Again)
  48. What Hath OLPC Wrought
  49. How to Never Finish Your Project
  50. The Economist on Jimmy Wales
  51. Boomers Like Online Recommendations, Not Into Blogs or Social Networking
  52. The “Cubicle Rage” Video
  53. The Moral Life of Cubicles
  54. Men Write Code from Mars, Women Write More Helpful Code from Venus
  55. Why you shouldn’t listen to “hasn’t someone done that already?”
  56. All HTML Form Control Elements Require Labels
  57. Cellphone Tracking Study Says We’re Creatures of Habit
  58. LinkedIn’s Architecture
  59. Eli Bendersky Takes Python for a Spin
  60. Skipping the Photoshop Step: Pro and Con
  61. Toronto’s Challenges, if it Tries to Become More Seattle- or Silicon Valley-esque
  62. Is EF the New IQ?
  63. IT Posters to Cover Your Empty Walls

May 2008

  1. Interview: Jane Motz Hayes on SEO and Usability
  2. Promo for “Guitar Hero” Nintendo DS: Really Bad or Ironically Bad? I Can’t Tell.
  3. Geek Gang Signs
  4. Warren Ellis on Twitter Overload
  5. “Guys Like Us Avoid Monopolies”
  6. My First Brush with the Music Industry
  7. 20 Top Add-Ons that are Ready for Firefox 3
  8. 21 Ruby Tricks You Should be Using in Your Code
  9. b5media’s Darren Rowse Featured in Chicago Tribune Article, “Blogging Paying Off for a Few”
  10. “The Adventures of Johnny Bunko” — A Manga Career Guide
  11. The Very First Thing You Should Do When Laid Off
  12. Grand Theft Auto IV…for the NES?
  13. Conan O’Brien on a Kinder, Gentler “Grand Theft Auto”
  14. Sleep Deprivation is not a Badge of Honor
  15. Lenovo’s Clever Counter-Ad to the MacBook Air
  16. My Tech Reading List for May
  17. Wubi: Peaceful Coexistence between Vista and Ubuntu “Hardy Heron”
  18. Portal Meets Walken
  19. The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet

April 2008

  1. Speeder Dogs!
  2. Websites You Shouldn’t Have Missed in April 2008
  3. GTA IV Grab Bag #1
  4. Rogers to Offer iPhone in Canada
  5. Grand Theft Auto IV: Midnight Lineup and First Impressions
  6. Darth Emo
  7. Grand Theft Auto IV Goes Out at Midnight!
  8. The Real Threat to Google
  9. Making Long-Distance (Business) Partnerships Work
  10. Eric Sink on Windows XP and Listening to Customers
  11. The Single Most Important Thing You Must Do to Improve Your Programming Career
  12. How to be a New Media Douchebag
  13. Filter Google Results by Date with a URL Trick
  14. What They Don’t Tell You About Starting a Startup
  15. The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment
  16. Assassin’s Creed, I Wish I Could Quit You
  17. How to Get Skype Running on 64-Bit “Hardy Heron”
  18. Learning Curves for Text Editors
  19. Cut Down on Internet Distractions with “Freedom”
  20. Cartoon Silhouettes
  21. Installing Hardy Heron by Way of Wubi
  22. Disney World Employees Sift Through Trash to Find Couple’s Wedding Rings
  23. Are You Sure You Want to Be in San Francisco?
  24. “Grand Theft Childhood” Authors: Kids Who DON’T Play Videogames are at Risk
  25. What Makes a Great Developer?
  26. Why I Took the Job Title “Nerd Wrangler”
  27. Python Coding Style Guides
  28. Joel Spolsky on StackOverflow.com
  29. 10 Signs That Telecommuting Isn’t for You
  30. StackOverflow.com
  31. code.flickr Now Open!
  32. Microsoft’s Cheesy Internal Vista Video
  33. Palestinian Girls, Dating and the Mobile Phone
  34. The Problem with Open, Anonymous Comments, Illustrated
  35. After a Month in Vista, This Pretty Much Sums Up My Feelings About Operating Systems

March 2008

  1. Update on Creative Labs’ PR Nightmare
  2. Creative Labs’ Forums Filling With “Dear John” Messages
  3. Roadside Signage Fonts
  4. Creative Labs: Where No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
  5. Zed Shaw Can’t Get a Break
  6. Some Quick Ruby News
  7. Tucows Job Fair This Saturday!
  8. Rick Astley on Rickrolling
  9. b5media is Looking for a New Director of Technology
  10. MySQL’s –i-am-a-dummy Option
  11. The b5media Office
  12. Toronto’s “Portal” Storefronts
  13. Rickrolling Gets Written Up in the New York Times
  14. “I Find Your Lack of Tests Disturbing”
  15. ASCII Curtains
  16. A Great Geek Meme Diagram and a Gary Gygax Elegy Too!
  17. The Star Trek:TNG Episode Song
  18. 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5
  19. Mike Rohde’s SxSW Notes
  20. With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility!
  21. Regular Posting Shall Resume!
  22. The “Random Harlot Table” from the Original Dungeon Master’s Guide
  23. The Final Countdown, Again
  24. Gary Gygax: 0 HP
  25. With Advocates Like Zed…
  26. Don’t Believe Your Web Stats
  27. You Can Has Job
  28. The New Job: Nerd Wrangler at b5media

February 2008

  1. On My Agenda Next Week…
  2. Zero Punctuation’s Review of “Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune”
  3. Microsoft’s and Google’s Product Pipelines, According to Scoble
  4. DemoCamp 17 Covered in the National Post
  5. Casual Cryptography for Web Developers
  6. Slight MacBook Improvements Mean Savings For You!
  7. Internet House Party
  8. The Best Reinterpretation of Pac-Man I’ve Ever Seen…
  9. Do Not Learn Ruby, Python or Perl
  10. Taliban Wants Mobile Phones Shut Off at Night
  11. DemoCamp 17 Tonight!
  12. “Sorry, Boys, This is Our Domain”
  13. Demos and Ignite Presentations at Monday’s DemoCamp
  14. Responses to “Ideas to Steal from Silicon Valley and Seattle”
  15. The Outcome of the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Fight as Illustrated by “RoboCop”
  16. How Devotees of Older, More Traditional Programming Language X See Newer, Different Programming Language Y
  17. Silicon Island: Montreal’s High-Tech Community
  18. Ideas to Steal from Silicon Valley and Seattle
  19. Google Getting 50x More Search Requests from iPhones than Any Other Phone
  20. 8 Simple Rules for Designing Threaded Applications
  21. Scenes from Last Night’s Ruby/Rails Project Night
  22. New Rock Band Tracks Available for Download
  23. Big Box Linux
  24. Linuxcaffe
  25. RubyFringe: July 18-20
  26. Now THAT’S a Computer Book Cover!
  27. Floppy Fail
  28. TSOT Ruby/Rails Project Night Next Tuesday!
  29. Enumerating Ruby’s “Enumerable” Module, Part 3: “detect”, a.k.a. “find”
  30. SEO Tips for Rails Apps
  31. 10 Reasons to Learn and Use Regular Expressions
  32. Adding Type Checking in Ruby
  33. How to Read C Declarations
  34. Your First Warning: DemoCamp 17 Takes Place on Monday, February 25th
  35. A New ActiveMerchant Ebook
  36. Enumerating Ruby’s “Enumerable” Module, Part 2: “collect”, a.k.a. “map”
  37. Mockup vs. Reality
  38. Really, It IS the Only Valid Measurement of Code Quality
  39. Animator vs. Animation
  40. Conspiracy Theories Emerge After Internet Cables Cut
  41. Résumé Advice for the Over-50 Crowd
  42. Putting Your Database Under Version Control
  43. And the “Static vs. Dynamic” Battle Rages On…
  44. TSOT Ruby/Rails Project Night: Tuesday, February 12th
  45. Facebook Developer Garage 3 Tonight!
  46. Microsoft’s Bid for Yahoo!

January 2008

  1. When “We Remove Vista” Becomes a Selling Point
  2. “The Dog Ate My Homework”…The Microsoft Way!
  3. Ten Worst PC Keyboards of All Time
  4. RailsConf 2008 Registration is Open
  5. “Star Wars” Stills in 1080p
  6. At Last, a Computer Peripheral for Those Romantic Encounters
  7. Enumerating Ruby’s “Enumerable” Module, Part 1: “all?” and “any?”
  8. Zed Shaw’s Writeup of CUSEC 2008
  9. 10 Secrets to Success
  10. Your Website Shouldn’t Be Just An Electronic Version Of Your Print Publication
  11. Ruby Translations of Code from “Programming Collective Intelligence”
  12. So Where’s Rails on the Hype Cycle Now?
  13. Grand Theft Auto IV Release Date: April 29, 2008!
  14. Ruby is Soooooo 2002
  15. How to Make the Rounds
  16. What to Do if You’re Laid Off in the 2008 Recession
  17. Advice for Startup CEOs
  18. Rock Star Coders [Updated]
  19. T-Shirt of the Day
  20. Mac Support Ad Based on Desktop Icon Art
  21. Toronto Gatherings for Rails Developers
  22. Is Chandler’s Demise Evidence that Dynamic Languages Can’t Scale?
  23. Programming Book Profits (or Lack Thereof)
  24. The Weighted Companion PC
  25. PyCon 2008 – Registration Now Open!
  26. Contender for Most Insane Tech Article of the Year: “Why the OLPC Promotes Terrorism”
  27. 75 Words Every Sci-Fan Should Know
  28. Guerrilla Marketing Tactics for Online Publishers
  29. The Invisible Computer Revolution
  30. Lessons from a Paper Bridge
  31. Facebook Asked to Remove the “Scrabulous” Game by Scrabble’s Rights-Holders
  32. Steve Jobs Keynote Coverage
  33. Python and Java: A Side-by-Side Comparison
  34. Books I’m Buying / Recommended Ruby and Rails Books
  35. Gizmodo’s Self-Righteous Claptrap Debunked — By Gizmodo!
  36. “MP3-Ready” George Foreman Grill
  37. Judging Programming Languages by the Results
  38. Toronto Ajax Pub Night – Monday January 14th
  39. Happy (Belated) Birthday, Donald Knuth!
  40. Cobra Commander USB Drive
  41. We Don’t Need No Steenking GUI!
  42. An Intro to Ruby’s “Enumerable” Module
  43. The Evolution of the TSOT Office
  44. “Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?”
  45. TSOT’s First Ruby/Rails Project Night a Success
  46. TSOT’s Ruby/Rails Project Night
  47. Coding Horror on The Magpie Developer
  48. 17 Thousand Reasons I AM a Ruby on Rails Developer
  49. Facebookers Playing Fast and Loose with Canada’s Youth Criminal Justice Act
  50. Boing Boing Bingo
  51. Rant Said Zed: I’m Too Sexy for My Rails
  52. Whirlpool’s Fridge has Docks for Tablet Computers, iPods and Digital Photo Frames
  53. Amit Agarwal’s Techmeme Time-Lapse Video
  54. Losing an Edge, Japanese Envy India’s Schools
  55. Warren Ellis’ Three Laws of Robotics
  56. “Putney Swope” on How Not to Negotiate Price
  57. Gag Orders in a Facebook Age
  58. What the Perl 6 and Parrot Hackers Did on their Christmas Vacation
  59. The Coming 2008 Dot-Com Crash
  60. 2008 is the “Year of RSS”…for the 5th Year in a Row
  61. Top 10 Secure Coding Practices
  62. What I Learned From Java That Makes Me a Better Programmer When I Use Ruby
  63. Hello, 2008! Will Java Strike Back?
  64. TSOT’s Ruby/Rails Project Night — Next Tuesday!
  65. 2008 Batman, Meet 1966 Batman
  66. U.S. Album Sales Down, Digital Sales Up
  67. 5 Marketing Tools Every Startup Can Use
  68. Netscape 0.9 on the Present-Day Web
  69. Useful Non-Sleazy AdSense Tips
  70. Merb: Zed Shaw’s Favourite Ruby MVC Web App Framework
  71. The Mythical 5%
  72. Larry Wall: “Programming is Hard, Let’s Go Scripting…”
  73. Unwitting Facebook Spokesmodels
  74. “Now, While Rails is Weak, We Must Strike!”

2007 451

December 2007

  1. My Favourite Quote About XML
  2. Lesson from a Criminal Genius
  3. Reminder: TSOT’s Ruby/Rails Project Night – January 8th
  4. Can Social Networking Co-Exist with the Workplace?
  5. eWeek’s “Most Important Products of 2007”
  6. “Duke Nukem Forever” Teaser Trailer
  7. Our “Space” Shoot
  8. Could it Really Be…Duke Nukem?
  9. Etiquette Reminder
  10. Windows Vista Annoyances
  11. Many RailsConf Proposals Submitted, Included Mine
  12. Facebook for Old People
  13. Happy 20th Birthday, Perl!
  14. New York Times Article on The Parallel Processing Problem
  15. The Star Wars Holiday Special
  16. Gift Idea: “RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Site with Ruby on Rails”
  17. On Extended Warranties
  18. “Bioshock” Meets a Shopping Cart
  19. 1000 Copies of “Rock Band” Taken in Truck Heist
  20. Pythagorean Pick-Up [Updated]
  21. Area Man Gives Glowing Review for His Windows Vista to XP Upgrade Experience
  22. In PHP, There’s Equality, and Then There’s EQUALITY
  23. Developer Hardware Nerdvana at TSOT
  24. TSOT’s Ruby/Rails Project Nights – Starting January 8th
  25. It’s Complicated
  26. Here Comes Another Bubble
  27. The Office Desk
  28. Bug vs. Feature
  29. Marc Orchant Suffers Massive Coronary
  30. DemoCamp 16 Tonight!
  31. “Halo 3” Cheat Codes, as Explained by a Neglected Girlfriend

November 2007

  1. DemoCamp 16 — Monday, December 3rd
  2. Vintage Ad Against Using Recorded Music for Movies
  3. “Grand Theft Auto IV” Package Art / New Trailer Coming December 6th
  4. Take the New Ruby for a Spin
  5. “Dilbert” on Extreme and Agile Programming
  6. The World’s Best Gamers, Circa 1982
  7. Scenes from Day 1 at the New Job
  8. The New Job, Day 1: A Very Quick Update
  9. Assrockets and Opportunities (or: Why I Changed Jobs)
  10. Harmonix’ Pros and Cons for Making “Guitar Hero”
  11. Jeff Atwood on Pair Programming vs. Code Reviews
  12. Not Yet!
  13. An MVC Framework for ASP.NET
  14. Leaving Tucows
  15. Trust
  16. The REAL “Accordion Hero”
  17. “Dell Dude” Now Serves Tacos, Slings Drinks
  18. Vietnam Duck Hunt
  19. Free Icon-a-Rama
  20. FNN: Facebook News Network
  21. “Guitar Hero” Meets “South Park”

October 2007

  1. SecTor Conference
  2. Quick Book Review: Ruby by Example
  3. Cylon-O-Lantern
  4. Automan!
  5. If You’re Happy and You Know It…
  6. Google Translate’s Strange Results
  7. The REAL Reason GOTO is Considered Harmful
  8. The Language Adoption Debate and “Three Stooges Syndrome”
  9. The Official Segway of the Midlife Crisis
  10. Windows Startup Screens and Sounds, from 1.0 to Vista
  11. Google Tidbits
  12. Geekery Meets Pop Culture
  13. Shipping Container Geekery
  14. “God Mode’s” Comic on the Wiimote Sleeve
  15. Nerd Culture Tidbits
  16. The Album Art for Radiohead’s “In Rainbows”
  17. Programming: You’re Doing it Completely Wrong
  18. Notes from FacebookCamp Toronto 2, Part 3
  19. Notes from FacebookCamp Toronto 2, Part 2
  20. Paul Graham’s Reasons to Move to Silicon Valley
  21. Notes from FacebookCamp Toronto 2, Part 1
  22. The Winning Bid on the “Ms. Master Chief” Statuette
  23. FacebookCamp Toronto 2: Tuesday, October 9th
  24. Notes from a Client Call
  25. “Facehooked” T-Shirt Design
  26. ThinkGeek’s 8-Bit Tie
  27. “This is How You Treat Your Customers”
  28. One Day Left to Bid on “Ms. Master Chief”
  29. “Super Mario Galaxy’s” Intro Sequence
  30. Software Branching and Parallel Universes
  31. The Boy of the 20th Century, Through 19th-Century Eyes
  32. Download the PDF of “Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Applications” for Free!
  33. Pair Programming and Sign Language
  34. The “Duke Nukem Forever” / “Halo” Connection, Revealed at Last!
  35. How Do You Like Them Apples?
  36. John Harvard is Master Chief!
  37. Photos from “Furries vs. Klingons”

September 2007

  1. Indiana Jones and the Bulk Book Service
  2. “Rock Band” Hits the Shelves on Black Friday
  3. Tired: Bruce Schneier Facts. Wired: Paul Graham Facts!
  4. Brokeback Batman
  5. Don’t Forget: Furries vs. Klingons Tomorrow!
  6. Ease of Use Doesn’t Always Mean “Fewer Buttons”
  7. Verizon’s Ironic Pop-Up Ad
  8. Monkey Knife Fight! (or: Not Much Has Changed)
  9. BikeBerrying
  10. Steve Yegge’s Resume Tips (The Not-So-Long-Winded Version)
  11. Canada’s Copyright Czar Dismissed for Being a Little Too Cosy with Movie Industry Lobbyist
  12. Did a Blabby Google Employee Spill the Beans About the gPhone?
  13. He’s in Biz Dev, That’s For Sure…
  14. Furries vs. Klingons: The Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of Alternative Nerd Lifestyles
  15. Chinese MMORPG’s Attempt to Solve the “Crying Game” Problem
  16. Have You Seen This Guy? He Might Have Taken Bill’s Laptop. [Updated]
  17. The Perfect Accessory for “Sorting Out Sorting”
  18. Sorting Out Sorting
  19. Acer Taking a Break from Acquiring Crappy Computer Vendors
  20. Sign Up for PHP Training, Get an iPod touch (or Two!)
  21. Tucows’ Bill Sweetman Talks to Amber Mac About Domain Names
  22. Job-Related Reading for Geeks
  23. Maybe It’s Too Zune (or: Second-Generation Zunes Coming in October)
  24. Vista: Stunning. Entertaining. Having a Little Problem with “Dependable”.
  25. “Null Pointer Exceptions off the Starboard Bow, Cap’n!”
  26. Reimagining Programming Book Covers
  27. Mail Chauvinism, Part 1: The Magicians, the Snark and the Camel
  28. The “Rails Envy” Guys on Django
  29. Is it Illegal to Make My Own Ringtones from Music I Bought? (No. Mostly.)
  30. Multicore Musings
  31. “Hi, I’m a Mac…”
  32. iPod Touch: This Thing is Going to Be Huge!
  33. Before Phones Had Built-In Contact Lists…
  34. Helvetica, the Shirt
  35. In Case You Were Checking Here to See What Happened to the “Accordion Guy” Blog
  36. Python 3000 Alpha 1 Available Now!

August 2007

  1. Facebook Development: Photos, Part 3
  2. Even Supervillains Use BitTorrent
  3. Acer, Gateway and Packard Bell: The Perfect Storm…of Crap
  4. Living the Dream
  5. Yahoo! Suddenly Discovers the Prime Directive
  6. Boing Boing: New Look, and Some of That Old Feel
  7. Home Electronics of the Future, as Predicted 28 Years Ago
  8. Software Development Maxim of the Day
  9. Acer and Gateway: When Two Turds Collide
  10. An Unlikely Facebook Developer / The Facebook API’s 3-Month Anniversary
  11. Facebook Development: Photos, Part 2
  12. Facebook Development: Photos, Part 1
  13. R.I.P. Blinky, the Two-Headed Calf (Who Looks Just Like the Tucows Logo)
  14. The Pirate’s Dilemma / 10 Industries That Pirates are Making Better
  15. Tucows on Canadian Business’ 2007 “Tech 100”
  16. Google Maps: Now Embeddable, Just Like YouTube Videos
  17. The Exceptional Squishy Cow
  18. I Love the Cover of the Latest “Onion Weekender”
  19. In Praise of the “Demo Button”
  20. The Ultimate Expression of “It’s Not a Bug, It’s a Feature!”
  21. Facebook Development: Groups, Part 2
  22. Valleywag Picks Up the QSOL Tasteless Ad Story
  23. Would Tucows Have Failed Andy Brice’s “Software Awards” Test?
  24. Welcome to the Herd, Bill!
  25. Facebook Development: Getting a User’s Groups
  26. Videogames of the Future, as Predicted 25 Years Ago
  27. Thoughts on the Facebook Leak, Part 1
  28. First Encounter with an OLPC XO / A 12-Year-Old’s Review
  29. Notes from FacebookCamp, Part 1
  30. Tucows Wholesale Domain Names Just Got Cheaper
  31. Facebook Developer Garage Tonight!
  32. I Want to Know What the Other 1 Out of 10 are Thinking
  33. Unfortunate Ad Placement
  34. Fake Steve Jobs is a Dick
  35. The Zune Ad That Could’ve Been
  36. How a Record Gets Leaked
  37. Do It (Effing) Now
  38. FacebookRestClient’s “Friends” Methods
  39. Homer Simpson X-Ray Used in Medical Article in Chinese News
  40. Google Directions Now Include a Rush Hour Estimate
  41. Using the FacebookRestClient Class’ “Event” Methods, Part 2
  42. Seven Lessons from Intuit

July 2007

  1. Using the FacebookRestClient Class’ “Event” Methods, Part 1
  2. Facebook Down; Cries of Anguish Everywhere
  3. iPhone + Travel = Expensive
  4. A New Look for the Tucows.com Site
  5. I Wouldn’t Want to Try This With an iPhone
  6. Want an Invitation to Join Pownce? I’ve Got 10.
  7. A $240K Postion for an AJAX Programmer…With Just One Catch
  8. Getting Started with Facebook Application Development
  9. Facebook Developer Garage/Camp: Tuesday August 7th
  10. If Radio is Bad for Music, Why Has Payola Existed All These Years?
  11. Actually, It’s Canadian Telcos’ Preferred Means of Payment
  12. Kids Say Email is Only for Talking to “The Man”
  13. Tucows @ HostingCon 2007 Today Through Wednesday
  14. Hey, Facebook: It’s Spelled “availAble”!
  15. Jing’s Approach to Installing on the Mac
  16. The Jing Project: Screen captures, Screencasts and Sharing
  17. Guitar vs. “Guitar Hero”
  18. One Lapdance Per Child
  19. Facebook is the new…
  20. Facebook is the next…
  21. Tucows @ HostingCon 2007, July 23-25
  22. Typography School
  23. Happy 15th Birthday, Thinkpad / A Slightly Saucy ThinkPad Story
  24. Insights Gained from Yesterday’s “Laws of Software Development” Article
  25. Keep Those Tech Laws Coming!
  26. 3D Mailbox: You’re Kidding, Right?
  27. Laws of Software Development
  28. iPhone wishlist item one: To-do lists
  29. The Tucows Developer Blog
  30. Plato Predicted That Mobile Phones Would Make Us Dumb, Too
  31. Follow-up on Qsol’s “Our Servers Won’t Go Down” Ad
  32. Reason #2 Why There Aren’t More Women in Technology [Updated]
  33. Dead Languages: 12 That Never Took Off
  34. Web 2.0 is Built on Open Source
  35. XBox 360’s New Controllers
  36. Anime Video of “Code Monkey”
  37. Your Boss Has “Friended” You. Confirm or Ignore?
  38. India’s Edgy Playstation 2 Ads
  39. Jakob Nielsen Doesn’t Drink at “Coyote Ugly”
  40. PlayStation 3 Price Cuts After All
  41. Microsoft Outplaying Apple? Not the Way I See It, Scoble!
  42. TwitterGram: Sending Short Audio Messages via Twitter
  43. Consumerist Catches Geek Squad Copying Porn and Pics from Their Computer
  44. “I Found the Son of a Bitch Who Invented ‘Comic Sans’!”
  45. Richard M. Stallman: Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks
  46. Hand-Knit iPhone
  47. Sound Like a Player with These iPhone Ringtones
  48. 23 Programming Languages Compared
  49. Big in Japan: Nintendo’s Game Consoles are Outselling Sony’s and Microsoft’s

June 2007

  1. Bjarne Stroustrup: Coming to Town July 20th
  2. Richard M. Stallman: Coming to Town July 5th
  3. That “Lightswitch” Entry Reminds Me of an Old Story…
  4. Podcast: Tucows Goes to the TRAFFIC Conference
  5. The Free Software Foundation Wants to Save Us from that Lying, Cheating iPhone
  6. “The Cult of the Amateur”, by Andrew Keen
  7. 2007: An iPhone Odyssey
  8. Yet Another Excuse to Play “World of Warcraft”
  9. Grand Theft Auto IV: Trailer #2 Out Today
  10. The Lightswitch That Might Explain a Lot About Java
  11. Domain Aftermarket Goodies #2: Coffee-related Domain Names
  12. Domain Aftermarket Goodies #1: Domain Names Based on the Word “Poop”
  13. Notes and Photos from danah boyd’s “MyFriends, MySpace” Presentation
  14. Tucows Introduces Premium Domains
  15. The World Needs More Dialog Boxes Like This
  16. Shift Happens
  17. You Know What Big Hands Mean…Smaller iPhone!
  18. SarcasticGamer.com’s Amusing Parody of Microsoft’s “Surface” Ads
  19. Mr. T. Praises the Stupid Network (or: “What’s this smart network jibba-jabba?”)
  20. Taking Safari on Windows XP for a Spin
  21. The Tech News Story That’ll Never Get on Techmeme
  22. JRuby 1.0 Released!
  23. “Bloggin’ ‘Bout My Generation”
  24. My Programmer Personality Type is “DHSB”. What’s Yours?
  25. Take the Rails Pledge!
  26. Your Folks are on Facebook! (or: “Throw Momma from the Social Networking Site”)
  27. 36 Youth Facts in 159 Seconds
  28. Microsoft’s Disturbing Graphic
  29. Brad Pitt and CompUSA: A Perfect Match
  30. johnnyOnline: “Love Two Point Oh”
  31. What, Isn’t “Gizmodo Editor” Good Enough?
  32. What Nerds Want in Hotels
  33. Where Mark’s “Pilgrimage to Linux” Story Completely Falls Apart
  34. The Next Network Topology?
  35. When “OLPC” Means “One Laptop Per Conference”
  36. IFPI’s So-Called “Ten Inconvenient Truths” About Music Piracy
  37. Do the Stupidest Thing that Could Possibly Work

May 2007

  1. Steve and Bill, Now
  2. Steve and Bill, Then
  3. RAM Ain’t What it Used to Cost
  4. “Spam King” Robert Soloway Arrested
  5. July 17th: Guitar Hero Encore Rocks the 80s
  6. Mesh Conference 2007
  7. Microsoft Surface, Sun Starfire and Apple Knowledge Navigator Videos
  8. This Thing’s Gonna Make Porn AWESOME!
  9. Microsoft’s Midnight Surprise, Revealed: Microsoft Surface
  10. Microsoft’s Midnight Surprise
  11. Cyberwar Ain’t What It Used to Be
  12. Shut Up and Play
  13. LOLCODE, the LOLCat Programming Language
  14. A Million Fools and Their Money Have Been Parted
  15. Zombies Less Annoying Than MySpace Users
  16. Sony’s Very Special Screws
  17. Advertising: Best Left to the Professionals?
  18. Lara Croft, Then and Now
  19. Why PR Doesn’t Work for High Tech (or: Guy Kawasaki is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!)
  20. Dialog Box of the Week
  21. iPod Amnesty Bin at Zune Headquarters
  22. Makin’ the Gas Smell Like Ass
  23. Spam’s “80-200” Rule
  24. Playing Accordion at the RailsConf Keynote (or: “They’d Never Let Me Do This at JavaOne!”)
  25. 1600
  26. And Now There are Two
  27. Ground Kontrol
  28. RailsConf 2007: Dave Thomas’ and Mike Clark’s “Rails Guidebook” Tutorial
  29. RailsConf Pictures on Flickr
  30. RailsEnvy’s Latest “I’m a Mac”-style Ad for Ruby on Rails
  31. Things to Do in Portland When You’re at RailsConf
  32. “Hi, I’m Ruby on Rails…”
  33. The Cult of Rails, The Cult of Mac
  34. Specs for the New MacBooks
  35. Apple Online Stores Currently Offline – New MacBooks May be Released Later Today
  36. Headin’ to RailsConf!
  37. Web 2 Point Legit-to-Quit
  38. HBO CTO BS: “Don’t Call it Digital Rights Management, Call it DIGITAL CONSUMER ENABLEMENT.”
  39. Chris Messina’s “State of Mozilla and the Open Web” Rant
  40. 70 CSS Coding Tips and Tricks
  41. Funny Linksys Dialog Box
  42. The REAL Outsourcing Challenge

April 2007

  1. Alex Krupp’s (and Facebook’s) Secret to Boosting Your Userbase
  2. Social Networking: Not Dead By a Long Shot, and Eating Up Toronto
  3. Millard Brown Optimor (and Linda Evangelista) Say that Google is the Number 1 Brand
  4. Monday the 16th for Google
  5. Apple’s fallen, but it’ll probably get up
  6. The inbox of the Empire’s worst engineer
  7. Yes, We’re Still Here / NYTimes on the Life Cycle of a Blog Post
  8. Big money for tech bigwigs

March 2007

  1. Domain Name Registrants, Registries, Registrars and Resellers Explained
  2. Kathy Sierra, Meet Chris Locke. This is CNN.
  3. Paul Graham: “Why to Not Not Start a Startup”
  4. When MS Said They Were Adding Transparency to Windows, I Don’t Think They Meant This
  5. Microsoft to bulk up ad business with DoubleClick?
  6. Developer Links
  7. Samsung Introduces 64GB Flash Drive
  8. Bloggers Behaving Badly
  9. The Downside of Having a Web Presence (or: Kathy Sierra vs. the Anonymous Web Thugs)
  10. No Web Presence? It Might Hurt Your Job Prospects!
  11. Big Content 1, Cablevision 0, Apple ?
  12. That Reminds Me of a Story…
  13. 10 Things You Need to Ask Before Picking a Domain Name Registrar
  14. A “Clown Co.” Image for Your Blog Entries
  15. Arrington Lists Clown Co.’s Red Flags
  16. Netflix’s Vacation Policy: “Take as Much as You Want”
  17. Quick, send in the clowns*
  18. Send Twitter Messages from the Command Line (Mac OS and Linux)
  19. Wear Them to Your Annual Review
  20. Andrés Taylor: “Top ten things ten years of professional software development has taught me”
  21. Brokeback Excel
  22. PowerPoint Slide of the Day
  23. 16 Ways the Media Can Make Use of Blogs
  24. HotelChatter’s “Best Geek Hotels in the World” List
  25. TIE Fighter Speakers
  26. Bad News Travels Even Faster Now
  27. Memo to Would-Be Murderers: Clear Your Google History!
  28. Tim O’Reilly on Journalism Through Computer Programming
  29. Microsoft: If you’re going to pirate software, it might as well be ours
  30. Malaysia’s DVD-Sniffing Dogs
  31. Let the XBox 360 Coding Begin!
  32. Welcome to the Bizarro World: Mobile Web Use Higher in the U.S. Than in Europe
  33. iPhone Like it’s 1999
  34. Nerds and Newsrooms
  35. 5 Signs That It’s Time to Find Another Job
  36. Inc.com: “U.S. Workers Hate Their Jobs More Than Ever”
  37. “Dude, Where’s My 4 Gigabytes of RAM?”
  38. 11 Confessions of a T-Mobile Sales Rep
  39. Developers Aim to Lure Women to Adult Games, A Little More Hesitant About the Gay Dudes
  40. Tan Lines from Typical Summer Activities
  41. My Dirty Network Neutrality Secret
  42. Newspapers Need Nerds!
  43. Got Anything to Say About Joomla?
  44. How to Get Six New Fonts Included with Vista, Legally AND For Free!
  45. 5 Things CIOs Should Know About Software Requirements
  46. 7 Confessions of a Former Cingular Sales Rep
  47. Another digital ad network, this time from Nokia
  48. Microsoft shyster harshes on Google book search
  49. A Former Verizon Sales Rep’s 8 Tips for Buying a Verizon Phone
  50. Dear Mobile Phone: Please Quit Showing Off and Just Do Your Damn Job.
  51. I see dead presidents
  52. Free Barenaked Ladies on the internet? Won’t somebody please think of the children?
  53. O’Reilly on Programming Language Book Sales: The Big Winners are ActionScript, JavaScript, Ruby and SQL
  54. 12 Tips for Using Google Like an Expert
  55. 5 Principles to Design By
  56. DST is the New Y2K
  57. My Wedding, in a Wall Street Journal Article on “Liveblogging”
  58. 100,000,000 iPods, and counting
  59. People: the same, and different
  60. Annalee Newitz: “I Bought Votes on Digg”
  61. Taking a Page from “McDreamy’s” Book

February 2007

  1. Outlook 2007 sinking Office?
  2. Oh, the Number of Times Technology Has Made Me Feel Just Like Philippe…
  3. RAR Trumps ZIP
  4. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: Fill in the Blanks
  5. Screencasting: Where Windows Clearly Spanks Mac OS X
  6. Kiss Your Open WiFi Goodbye if the RIAA Gets Their Way
  7. Can Microsoft build a "web platform?"
  8. Frances Allen Wins the Turing Award
  9. GAYD gone; Google Apps takes on Microsoft Office
  10. “Hi, I’m Larry, this is my phone ‘iPhone’, and this is my other phone ‘iPhone’.”
  11. James Gosling to be Given the Order of Canada
  12. When Fedora Defections Meet Online Jerks
  13. The GIFT Theory Explains Why People Are Such Jerks Online
  14. Eric S. Raymond Ditches Red Hat for Ubuntu, Might Keep Red Shirt
  15. “The Joy of Tech” on Ballmer Blaming Pirates for Vista’s Slow Sales
  16. Dressing Like a PC or a Mac, Then and Now
  17. Joost, Viacom, Apple, and grid delivery
  18. Forbes Managing Editor Goes Without Cellphone, Blackberry and ‘Net Access, Ends Up in Tears
  19. Gates and Jobs Making a Joint Appearance at the “D: All Things Digital” Conference
  20. Dell’s Customers Tell Dell What They Want
  21. “Windows Vista’s User Account Control is leading you to make a security choice based on a false sense of trust. Cancel or allow?”
  22. Now You’ll Know Which Idiot is Filling Your Comments Section with Pointless, Puerile Drivel
  23. Trulia Announces Their API for Creating Real Estate Mashups
  24. Ballmer Blames BRIC Pirates for Vista’s Slow Sales
  25. Vista’s Dates Keep Talking About Their “Ex” — Mac OS X, That Is
  26. Joel on Software’s 7 Steps (plus a bonus one) to Remarkable Customer Service
  27. Apple’s “Spring Forward” Update
  28. 200 Megabytes of RAM Ought to be Enough for Anybody
  29. AOL screen name owners now have OpenIDs, too
  30. The latest "iPod killer:" mobile subscription music services
  31. Firefox 3 to support offline web apps?
  32. Interactive Urinal Cakes Target a Golden Stream of Customers
  33. Helvetipalooza!
  34. Getting Bluetooth to Work on the Acer Ferrari 1000 Laptop
  35. RU Sirius Interview: “When Cory Doctorow Ruled the World”
  36. CompUSA Covers all the Bases with their Zune Promo
  37. book.title.needs_work? = true
  38. Top 10 Reasons Why Movie Downloads Suck
  39. Pipes Explained
  40. Report from DemoCamp 12
  41. Tired Law: Jaywalking. Wired Law: iWalking!
  42. Living Dangerously with Vista, iTunes and the iPod
  43. Jobs: Apple would ditch DRM "in a heartbeat"
  44. “You are coming to a sad realization. Cancel or allow?”
  45. I’m Going to RailsConf!
  46. The Interoperability That Dare Not Speak its Name
  47. Chris Pirillo’s Offer to Market Vista
  48. “Computer, run exploit!”
  49. The Truth (and Lies) About Online Dating
  50. Tech’s Environmental Footprint
  51. BBSpot’s Vista Upgrade Decision Flowchart

January 2007

  1. Flickr’s Dirty Little Secret: You Suck at Taking Photos
  2. It’s Vista Day!
  3. Pardon the Mess!
  4. iPhone Shuffle?
  5. Tainted Vista Review #4: Where Vista Trumps OS X — No "Typing Lag"
  6. Google Changes Algorithm to Curb Googlebombing, but My Deadbeat Ex-Housemate Still #1 Result
  7. Foc
  8. Who'd like to open up FairPlay? Norwegians would.
  9. TiVo-hNo
  10. The "Microsoft Tried to Doctor Wikipedia" Story
  11. Doing the 1080p
  12. Tainted Vista Review #3: Overnotification
  13. Tainted Vista Review #2: Vista Can't See the Bluetooth Mouse
  14. Netflix opens up tiny parasol to protect it from the anvil plummeting towards its head
  15. Apple's lock-in: deal with it
  16. Your Alpha Nerd Moment of Zen
  17. That's One Sweet Phone
  18. Apple's $100 question
  19. Christmas 2.0, or the Apple Stevenote
  20. Daylife went beta
  21. PCs come off better in Apple's ads than in Microsoft's own marketing
  22. Needed: Sysadmin for home server admin, some light dusting
  23. Wired's Top Ten Tech Cities, Toronto and Toronto Tech Week
  24. Guy Kawasaki on Getting the Most out of LinkedIn
  25. "Super Columbine Massacre RPG" Game Pulled from Slamdance Festival's Indie Videogame Competition
  26. Bubbleshare Acquired by Kaboose; Congrats, Albert!
  27. Why JSON is a Better Fit for Web Apps than XML
  28. Kathy Sierra on the Dumbness of Crowds
  29. Dave Taylor on Why Microsoft Gave Away Laptops Pre-Loaded with Vista
  30. Playing Windows XP Alerts on the Piano
  31. Global Nerdy Makes the Evening News
  32. Google wins
  33. Information Architects' 2007 Web Trend Map, Predictions and Analysis of the 50 "Loudest" Websites
  34. 2007: A post of a list of web 2.0 companies I couldn't have written this post without
  35. The Story Behind Apple's "Command Key"
  36. "Downgrading" my Desktop to XP

2006 235

December 2006

  1. Operating Systems, Personified
  2. Tainted Vista Review #1: Game Development Called on Account of Vista
  3. Blogger Don't Preach (I'm Keeping the Laptop)
  4. Satchell and Molyneux on MS Gaming Efforts
  5. Adobe's New "Periodic Table" Icons
  6. New Game Dev Tool: XNA Game Studio Express
  7. MS Exec's Statement Confirms Long-Term Potential for Nintendo Wii
  8. Installation Headaches: Just One of the Factors Behind the Move to Web Apps
  9. Thoughts on the Silicon Valley Asshole’s Society
  10. RSS is “The Next Big Thing” — and Has Been for the Past 3 Years
  11. Tech News Tidbits for December 19
  12. Google Drops the SOAP
  13. How Motion-Sensing Videogame Controllers Work
  14. 10 Web 2.0 APIs You Can Really Use
  15. The Big (Sim) Apple
  16. In Post-Soviet Russia, Other Search Companies Beat Google
  17. Gift Ideas: The Joystiq Holiday Guide for Gamers
  18. YouTube Being Used in Call for Crime Witnesses
  19. News Flash: Hollywood Depictions of User Interfaces Aren't Accurate Either!
  20. Canada has Highest Percentage of Blog-Reading Online Population
  21. Gift Idea: Logitech MX Revolution Mouse
  22. "You" are Time's Person of the Year — But Don't Tell Chrysler!
  23. As iThought, the iPhone iSn't from Apple
  24. Tips for Using Images on Your Site and Optimizing Google Image Search
  25. Google's PageRank Algorithm, in 126 Lines of Python
  26. Nintendo's To Ship Replacement Wiimote Straps
  27. Cryptic Announcement on Gizmodo Says iPhone Will Be Announced on Monday
  28. The Real Reason Linux Lags on the Desktop
  29. Fun With MyHeritage's Face Recognition
  30. No Reddit for You!
  31. Amanda Congdon: Today, ABC News; Tomorrow, "The View"
  32. Java SE 6 Released / Java 6's Script Engines
  33. YouTube "Almost Entirely Written in Python"
  34. Does Jim Allchin think Windows XP sucks?
  35. Times Square Ads and "No Photos" Policies
  36. Question: besides the Times, what other MSM matrons have had a social news makeover?
  37. xkcd's Map of the Internet
  38. The Grey Lady sports some "social news" tattoos
  39. Gift Idea: PlayStation…2?
  40. Gift idea: open source geek gift list, courtesy of Red Hat
  41. If (youCanReadThisAd) You.get(job);
  42. Burn, DVD Forum approved encryption standard, burn!
  43. BlogTV is neither blog, nor TV; discuss
  44. RFID Lowdown's 51 Uses for the Mark of the Beast
  45. And Now, Your Moment of Zen…
  46. Gift idea: from the cheap geek
  47. Expert perspectives on personalization
  48. Photoshop, the data cleansing tool
  49. Google and BSkyB (or ad networks, distribution, and advertisers)
  50. News Flash: Hollywood Depictions of Hacking and Cracking are Not Accurate!
  51. Zune Abandons Hostile Blogosphere…For Hostile Traditional Media
  52. Web 2.0, Pixel Style
  53. James Kim Found Deceased
  54. Great moments in relevance algorithms, part 1,000,000
  55. "You Will", But Not Because of AT&T
  56. Gift Idea: "Grand Theft Auto", as Explained by Ph.D.s
  57. Tabbed Browsing, 16th Century Style
  58. Office 2007's New (and Incompatible) File Formats
  59. Bloomberg: Microsoft Zune Drops to Fifth in Music Player Sales
  60. Start-up CEO documents the occasionally soul-crushing exercise that is pitching VC
  61. BitTorrent.com and Zudeo: on the high ground, or just surrounded on all sides?
  62. That Crazy Japanese Wii Safety Manual
  63. Who's Bogarting the IPs?
  64. We're a Little Busy Right Now…
  65. Punk Your Gullible Pals with Microsoft Firefox 2007
  66. That Slippery Wii Remote
  67. OpenCola Lives On in Swarmcast
  68. And Now, This Message From an Extreme Tab-Surfer
  69. Developers Stop Eating Grass Clippings, Switch to Tree Bark
  70. Searchblog: It's all over for AOL save the price tag
  71. NBC may move Saturday to Friday, and TV to the web
  72. Shortsighted studios stymie Apple video ambitions?
  73. Cult of Mac: iPod Chargers Outselling Zune on Amazon

November 2006

  1. Welcome to the Social Phone Numbers
  2. "Can't Sleep…Vista Will Eat My Network Connection Settings…"
  3. Happy Birthday, George!
  4. Citizens of iPod World
  5. Guy Kawasaki's VC Aptitude Test
  6. Power Breakfast: Presentations by Alizabeth Calder of Brainhunter and Dan Fortin of IBM Canada
  7. "Customers who bought this item also bought…"
  8. Road Warror Reading
  9. The Duke of URL
  10. Me and Tim, We're Tight, I Swear!
  11. "Web 2.0" and the Great Grunge Hoax
  12. All The Beatles Need From Apple is Love and Millions of Co-Marketing Dollars: The Beatles to be Available Exclusively on iTunes Store
  13. Andy Ihnatko's Scathing Zune Review
  14. Global Nerdy Takes a Turkey Break
  15. Does Building a "Smart Google" Mean We Have to Make the Same Dumb Mistakes Over Again?
  16. Comedy is Tragedy + YouTube (With a Dash of Legal Stupidity)
  17. Whither Now Yahoo!?
  18. 21 Years of Windows Ought to be Enough for Anybody
  19. Nintendo's Countermarketing
  20. The "S" Stands for "Simple"
  21. FAQ for Programmers About Living in India
  22. Vista Registration Annoyances
  23. Internet Service: The Fifth Utility
  24. Sony PS3 Drops: $840-Worth of Machine for $600
  25. Every Time a Bell Rings, Apple's iPhone Gains a Feature
  26. Working at Reddit: Wired. Working at Wired: Tired. And Bummed.
  27. Will the iPhone Be Here in 2007?
  28. SiteMaps Explained
  29. The Times Talks About Incompatibe DRM Formats
  30. Internet Ads Cross the $4 Billion Mark
  31. New Word: "Podenfreude"
  32. Zune's Disastrous CNN Appearance
  33. Cuban Was Right: Google Has a $200M Slush Fund for YouTube Copyright Issues
  34. More Advice for Entrepreneurs: Get Big Cheap
  35. Paul Tyma's Tips for Startups
  36. Zune, Meet Vista; Vista, Meet Zune…
  37. Zune Clearance Sale: All Links Must Go
  38. iPod Joins the Mile High Club
  39. Rural Broadband
  40. More Thoughts on OpenJDK
  41. Debbie Does Delaram
  42. Black Moto Q Smartphone Being Premiered by…Bell Canada?
  43. Zune Drops Today
  44. Denton, Battelle in Bloggy Slapfight
  45. RIAA Decries "Digital Freedom," (Suggests "Digital Slavery" Instead?)
  46. Sun Starts Licensing Java Under GPL
  47. Hey, Microsoft, Welcome to teh Social!
  48. WidgetWatch: W3C Widgets 1.0 Working Draft
  49. Did Disney Out the Wireless iPod?
  50. Making ISPs Liable for DDoS Attacks is a Bad Idea
  51. Can Zune Be Cool?
  52. Startups: The Indie Movie of the "Oughts"
  53. Zune "Big, Chunky, Blocky, Rushed, Incomplete, Barren, Derivative"
  54. Microsoft Dances to Universal Music's Shakedown Tune; Will Pay Uni a Buck a Zune
  55. Apple Ditching the Mac, Keeping the PC
  56. Gliffy
  57. MacBooks Now Sport Intel Core 2 Duo
  58. Pity the Poor VC
  59. Web 2.0 Summit: Hacked?
  60. Web 2.0 Summit: Riya Launches Like.com
  61. Web 2.0 Summit: Google, Day One Roundup
  62. CBS Digital Has a Self-Esteem Problem
  63. MSN Music, Customers Zuned by Microsoft
  64. Adobe Donates Tamarin Code to Mozilla Foundation
  65. Will Advertisers, Publishers, Turn to Turn?
  66. Xbox 360 to Bring Movies Home for Microsoft
  67. WidgetWatch: SpringWidgets at Widgets Live!
  68. O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Principles (Wherein O'Reilly Morphs into Gartner, Forrester, Jupiter, et al)
  69. Happy Birthday (I'm Such an Ass)
  70. Your Paperboy Works for Google, Too
  71. Hit and Run
  72. The Economist Blog
  73. Microsoft: Novell Will Live; Red Hat and VMWare? Mebbe Not So Much…
  74. Cookin' With Your XBox 360
  75. My Thoughts on the Microsoft/Novell Deal
  76. GMail and Google Spreadsheets' First Taste of Integration
  77. Massport Loses its Wifi Monopoly at Logan Airport
  78. The Merit of Nothing
  79. WSJ Hit Job on Global Nerdy
  80. Street Cred Isn't What it Used to Be
  81. Daylife to Come to Life?
  82. More Proof that Extended Warranties are for Suckers
  83. Aaron Swartz on the Reddit Afterparty [Updated]
  84. Extended Warranties are for Suckers
  85. Area Man Makes Third Attempt to Install Windows Vista
  86. CRV's Feeds the Seeds
  87. Hockey Night on Google
  88. TechCrunch's Arrington Decries MSM "Hit Job"
  89. A New Web Milestone: 100 Million Sites!
  90. "Island-Hopping": The Latest Spammer Trend
  91. Cingular to Support Napster, Yahoo! Music Services, Too
  92. Hallowe'en Explosion at the PayPal Offices
  93. Area Man Makes Second Attempt to Install Windows Vista
  94. All Your Reddit Are Belong to Conde Nast

October 2006

  1. Area Man Attempts to Install Windows Vista; Results Disappointing
  2. Google Treats Itself to JotSpot
  3. Today's Scary Hallowe'en Activity: Installing Windows Vista RC 1!
  4. No Blogging Please, We're Nielsen
  5. Newspaper Circulation Plunges
  6. The 13 Scariest Things in IT
  7. Big Brands Want Real Numbers
  8. More Money to Montior110; Are They the Smartest Guys in the Room?
  9. Eve isn't the Real Attacker!
  10. CAPTCHAs: More Effective Than You've Been Led to Believe
  11. Program Lets Anyone Print Boarding Passes…To Gitmo!
  12. Apple Shows .Mac Mail Some Love, Web 2.0-Style
  13. Google Ad Sales Reorgs Around the Customer
  14. Six-Word Stories About Programming Languages
  15. TiddlyWiki
  16. A Tale of Two Swagmen
  17. Who Are You, and What Are You Doing Here?
  18. Feeling Ignored by Sony and Microsoft? Nintendo Loves You!
  19. Vox: MySpace for the Literate
  20. Scoble: Zune Isn't the Next Wonder Glove Monkey
  21. Jason Calacanis Swiped Our 5-Step Plan for Becoming an A-Lister!
  22. Tired: Mile-High Club. Wired: WiFi Club.
  23. Swagging Like it's 1999: Ajax Experience Swag Report, Part 2
  24. Swagging Like it's 1999: Ajax Experience Swag Report, Part 1
  25. More Articles Soon!
  26. The Ajax Experience's Opening Keynote
  27. Best. Conference Loot Bag. Ever.
  28. My "Ajax Experience" Itinerary
  29. Schneier: Casual Conversations, R.I.P.
  30. Google's New Adwords Gizmo: Website Optimizer
  31. Gartner to Jobs: License Mac OS X to Dell
  32. Google 3Q Profits Surge 92%
  33. Internet Explorer 7 Released
  34. Night of the Living Dead Languages
  35. VCs Don't Want to Pay For Things, Either
  36. A MySpace Page That Doesn't Induce Seizures…
  37. Your Monoculture or Mine?
  38. Grid-Server
  39. How Advertisers Are Letting Go, and Learning to Love Social Software
  40. Listen…Shh…To What the Blogging People Say…
  41. Barter 2.0
  42. The Guy Behind the Guy at Apple
  43. Is It the Target Demo, the Community, or Just the Lack of Dead Trees?
  44. Jobs: Microsoft Zune is Girl Repellent
  45. Toshiba Sets Their Display to Ludicrous Size
  46. Superspyware Me!
  47. Friendster's Recipe for Mediocrity
  48. Back to the Future: Steve Jobs Demos NeXTSTEP 3
  49. Flash Drive-Equipped Laptops Appear in Japan
  50. Compare Rental Rates in Your 'Hood with Rentometer
  51. Apple's iWork to Lasso Spreasheets
  52. Two Great Tastes That Taste Great (via Bluetooth)
  53. (RED)pod
  54. Well, Someone's Gotta Move Those Bits
  55. Keyword Assistant for iPhoto
  56. Blog Juice Calculator
  57. Gartenberg: Don't Misunderestimate Zune
  58. Microsoft's Secret Shame
  59. Writely is Dead, Long Live Google Docs & Spreadsheets
  60. One Laptop Per (Libyan) Child
  61. WidSets
  62. Google's $1.6BB Ticket to the Future
  63. SiteKreator
  64. WidgetWatch: MySpace Whacks Webcam Widget?
  65. Intel Suggests You Get A Little Bit Pregnant
  66. Official Google Mac Blog debuts
  67. Guitar Hero II's Tracklist

August 2006

  1. Microsoft's Extreme Zune Strategery?

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