The Curious Engineer

Kryogenix Consulting

2002–2003

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2003 234

December 2003

  1. Ho Ho Ho
  2. DocIndexer: feel the greatness
  3. Turbovision and Python
  4. Short 'n' curlies RSS feed
  5. Definitions of infinity
  6. A Linux System Restore
  7. Bloglines Monitor for ROX
  8. A Firebird idea
  9. Comments fixed
  10. Holidays
  11. Broken comments
  12. Point at a site
  13. Everyone needs a linklog
  14. Things I love about fixing computers
  15. Blogger API
  16. Bloglines
  17. Filesystems in Python
  18. Eric and Kat Meyer version 2
  19. Help, we're doomed
  20. Design, design, design, la la la
  21. Link log
  22. Extreme Programming: worth the candle?
  23. Got me a Coupe
  24. KJSEmbed

November 2003

  1. Browser.py
  2. A sad move
  3. DivMod: a source of open-source software
  4. Radio 4 snippets
  5. Inductive design
  6. Lots of little things
  7. Creatures in my Head
  8. The Matrix Revolutions
  9. Fcrss
  10. Fiat Coupe
  11. JavaScript Event Sheets
  12. Sortable tables

October 2003

  1. Styling RSS feeds
  2. The pull of the Mac
  3. Keeping up with the Joneses
  4. Python libxml2
  5. Why the iPod
  6. Deskjet 610, how we hate thee
  7. Python Web SIG
  8. Embedding images in HTML
  9. Discworld characters
  10. The tyranny of tabbed browsing
  11. Plus ca change

September 2003

  1. How to combat personal Internet use at work
  2. VBScript and JScript weblog
  3. Floppies under Linux
  4. Arr
  5. aqtree3 gets a little better
  6. Minutiae
  7. Ideal Scientific Equipment
  8. Ned's writing
  9. Autism test
  10. Bot life
  11. Let his spirit be unchained
  12. Family fortunes
  13. Practice your kicking
  14. Little things
  15. Descent into Java
  16. Film premieres online

August 2003

  1. Software patents discussion withdrawn from European Parliament
  2. Software patents
  3. It's not a wicked screensaver
  4. Discovering new people
  5. BBC Creative Archive
  6. Searching in Mozilla
  7. European Microsoft, er, Computer Driving Licence
  8. Bayesian blocking software
  9. Alright, dammit, no-one likes it
  10. New design
  11. Inaccessibility demonstrated
  12. Allergic to work
  13. They thought he was a goner
  14. Packing for a holiday
  15. The Zen Garden, again

July 2003

  1. Wasps
  2. New CSS image replacement technique
  3. Dive Into Fatherhood
  4. Variables in CSS
  5. Uncertain Principles
  6. Interactive Cat Death
  7. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
  8. Python CSS parser?
  9. Back in the habit
  10. AmphetaDesk
  11. Gone for a week
  12. Pirate keyboard
  13. Mr Cranky Rates the Movies
  14. More amusing stuff
  15. Put a bullet in the editor, here comes the predator
  16. Not necho enabled
  17. Bridge to engine room, warp factor 9

June 2003

  1. Help, I'm under attack by spammers
  2. UK Blogmeet
  3. Boycott MSN search
  4. I'm just undertall
  5. Organising your news reading
  6. Seeing the decline
  7. Th3 M4tr1x h4s j00h4h4!!1!
  8. Testing web applications
  9. Houriae
  10. A different filesystem hierarchy for Linux
  11. Catching up again
  12. The war over templating
  13. An indefinite article
  14. Python Bayesian classifier
  15. Twenty Questions
  16. The auteur in you

May 2003

  1. Listen to the public? Why, no, not at all
  2. A mainstream press Buffy retrospective
  3. The Guy I Almost Was
  4. Marriage, kids, how to lie, and all that other boring stuff
  5. BBC's top 100 books
  6. Update to scg.py
  7. Pymeld
  8. May 08 2003
  9. Go away and lots happens

April 2003

  1. Non-objectivity in football
  2. Latent Semantic Indexing
  3. Sleep and newspapers
  4. Bits and pieces
  5. Show applicable styles
  6. Justified true belief
  7. Show computed styles bookmarklet
  8. Obituaries
  9. Django Beckham
  10. A couple more things
  11. I hate computers
  12. Ask Al-Sahaf!
  13. New names for Vellum
  14. Designs change, and stay the same
  15. Repeat until false
  16. Be a made man
  17. Antipixel buttons without images
  18. The Q tag and JavaScript
  19. Rush and fly
  20. Machinima
  21. The Power of JavaScript

March 2003

  1. SpamAssassin
  2. Weblog XSLT templates in MT
  3. Wrist phones
  4. Two minds as one
  5. Max Payne Kung-Fu edition
  6. Bush is a robot, as if you didn't think that already
  7. Meeting Jakob Nielsen
  8. getElementsBySelector
  9. Python UK Conference 2003
  10. Javascript clickable spelling corrections
  11. PyGTK 2.0 tutorial
  12. Special and general purpose small computing devices
  13. Marking up blocks of code
  14. CSS hash hack and testing
  15. Possible new CSS hack
  16. Jif Lemon Day
  17. Accelerated X on an ATI Rage Pro

February 2003

  1. Game ideas
  2. Emergent behaviour in the blogsphere
  3. Barlow on the war
  4. Chaffing and Winnowing
  5. Funky caching without 404s
  6. Accessibility with web forms
  7. Bad and Wrong
  8. The Ministry of silly skeleton walks
  9. On being improper
  10. Improved comment visibility
  11. Wing IDE
  12. Yak shaving
  13. More lame Flash
  14. The Eric Eldred Act
  15. PyQT tutorial
  16. Transparent PNGs in IE5.5
  17. Busted!
  18. Recent comments
  19. Mobile phone number changing
  20. How to be rich and famous
  21. Nice titles
  22. Nearby people
  23. This Page Intentionally Left Blank
  24. The perversity of computers
  25. She hates music
  26. Blair talks to the public on Iraq
  27. Pastel design
  28. MOzilla rich editing control lands
  29. Real board games
  30. Happy and Dubya knows it
  31. DHCP and DNS on Smoothwall
  32. CUPS and SAMBA
  33. Zoe and mail intertwingularity
  34. Birthday presents
  35. Vellum commentary
  36. XFree86 mouse pointer offset: fix

January 2003

  1. That's the way the money goes
  2. HTML Tidy from Python
  3. Python persistence
  4. Bookmarklet for Vellum
  5. Vellum 1.0a5
  6. Lots of stuff to do
  7. Revolution around the sun
  8. Fickle finger of fate
  9. Python TrackBack implementation
  10. Mark loses plot, film at 11
  11. Other Python people
  12. Steve Ogrizovic not kidnapped
  13. Network card fix
  14. The Daleks order a hot dog
  15. Ne te confundant Bob Dylan
  16. No more missing include files
  17. Failing to convince
  18. Private comments
  19. Vellum 1.0a4
  20. Vellum 1.0a3
  21. Serving different CSS by mod_rewrite
  22. The big move to Vellum
  23. Permalinks fixed
  24. How unauthorised copies can help
  25. Ins and del elements
  26. Star Trek: Nemesis, a review
  27. Albums I shouldn't have
  28. All your rubbish are belong to us
  29. Disney copyright two-edged sword
  30. ...and routes around it
  31. Oak: a Python DNS server
  32. Pingbacks and trackbacks and implementation
  33. Cory Doctorow book released for free
  34. Alan Alda on science
  35. Gibson really on the net
  36. Jon Johansen acquitted
  37. Buffy starts on Sky One in the UK
  38. I'm not using Netscape 4
  39. Ghosts
  40. Catchups

2002 359

December 2002

  1. Annoying Eric considered harmful
  2. SVCDs at Christmas
  3. Non-specific postal addresses
  4. Local link highlighting, redux
  5. XSL Considered Harmful
  6. Lame Flash games and high scores
  7. Local hyperlink styling
  8. Google vs. Evil
  9. No more work
  10. History for the reading
  11. Once More With Feeling BBC cuts
  12. Mail client!
  13. Buffy sex chart
  14. On plays
  15. W3C site redesign competition
  16. Tomato catchup
  17. Secret Diaries
  18. Up, up, and away
  19. Online everywhere
  20. MTRefSearch uses searchhi uncredited
  21. All your ALSA are belong to me
  22. Christmas cards
  23. Major legal technology supplier backs Linux
  24. Ten Taxonomy Myths
  25. Return of the Aq(2)
  26. Registry of XSLT
  27. Phoenix 0.5
  28. The perversity of inanimate objects
  29. UK National Identity Card
  30. Who is the mail for?
  31. 500 mile email
  32. Doyle dies
  33. The problem with conferences
  34. Coding as a fine art
  35. Google Hacks
  36. Freevo
  37. Javascript item heights
  38. BBC radio in Ogg format
  39. More Moz contenteditable
  40. More catchups
  41. Return of the Zaurus

November 2002

  1. Other people
  2. Technorati cosmos
  3. What's the point in XHTML?
  4. More on XHTML vs. RSS
  5. Visions of the future
  6. Minor layout change
  7. Entities and whatnot in RSS
  8. EUCD victory
  9. XHTML instead of RSS
  10. All CSS hacks, all the time
  11. Mozilla largeness
  12. Little things for big minds
  13. Code and HTML and code, oh my!
  14. Catch-ups
  15. Links between other places
  16. Universal search engine
  17. No RAND in W3C standards
  18. hr.rec.tv.buffy
  19. RISC OS revolution
  20. Project Genesis
  21. When good interfaces go crufty
  22. Hiding CSS from NN4
  23. Pay for all your email
  24. Funky caching
  25. The Day Alertbox Died
  26. Remember, remember November
  27. Instantaneous web services
  28. A census of blogspace
  29. Drop shadows with CSS
  30. Fire! Fire! Everybody out!
  31. Sibling blogs
  32. 100 best sci-fi stories
  33. XUL future
  34. Python persistence
  35. New Halloween memo
  36. Debian and ALSA
  37. Zaurus theft
  38. Unobtrusive DHTML
  39. Overselling and fireworks
  40. Computing business cards

October 2002

  1. The watchful eyes
  2. Rosen of the RIAA loses debate
  3. Catching up
  4. Attention to detail
  5. Terminal Services vs. VNC
  6. The Matrix Reloaded posters
  7. Cross-platform PIM
  8. There is no escape from Buffy spoilers
  9. Dictionaraoke
  10. Dev bookmarklets
  11. Anti-anti-javascript
  12. A Journey into RSS
  13. List o'links
  14. Upfront bias declarations
  15. Telecoms buy music studios
  16. Zauri
  17. One year ago today
  18. More Pingback vs Trackback
  19. Wired XHTML/CSS
  20. Referrer links
  21. Pingback DoS/spam
  22. 30 days to a more lawyerly outlook
  23. Dudley Earthquake Appeal
  24. Why double-slashes in URIs?
  25. Triglav
  26. Illuminatus
  27. Blogger code
  28. CSS rework of poor MS design
  29. Old, old me
  30. EUCD more and more
  31. Beckham is a jaffa
  32. NT seamless auth in Mozilla
  33. Sam Ruby comments on Pingback
  34. Free Quake
  35. Phoenix Santa Cruz
  36. Buffy Summers: Theologian of the Year
  37. CSS signature
  38. Drive removal
  39. Ouija
  40. Four lights
  41. Joined the choir invisible
  42. More no javascript: exhorations

September 2002

  1. Websites on the Zaurus
  2. Illusory
  3. Never ending decisions
  4. CSS art
  5. Collection of metadata
  6. Whitepaper: Pingback vs Trackback
  7. Pingback proxies
  8. Christian koans
  9. Melancholy Elephants
  10. Images of me
  11. IE6
  12. Show anchors
  13. More Zaurus fan
  14. Zaurus document reader
  15. ESF: the anti-RSS
  16. Phoenix
  17. Pingback spec finalised
  18. Browser emulator
  19. Earthquake
  20. Net connection in a field
  21. Free money
  22. 36 years to go
  23. Rsvp
  24. Moulin Rouge
  25. HEAD hats
  26. Contentless
  27. Blogsnob
  28. What have you done?
  29. Personal information
  30. Completely random IE bug
  31. Sweetcode
  32. Malevolence
  33. Neat trick indeed
  34. Cliff Pickover's 'ESP experiment'
  35. Cthuugle
  36. Haiku contest winner
  37. Dingbats
  38. Anti-war posters
  39. Third moon
  40. To hell with Perl
  41. Mozilla mouse gestures
  42. New Pingback spec
  43. Python UK conference 2003
  44. Don't use XHTML
  45. Testing the MT pingback client
  46. MT 2.2 Pingback
  47. Pingback spec Spanish translation
  48. searchhi
  49. More pingback implementations
  50. No privacy, it's official
  51. Drinking games
  52. The Pingback Specification
  53. Cthulhu the red-nosed reindeer
  54. Cereal killing
  55. BBC RSS
  56. Platforms
  57. Pingback server!
  58. Pingback
  59. MT Entry ID from permalink
  60. Emp�ggel�ter

August 2002

  1. Mesh networking
  2. External link icons the CSS way
  3. Web "designers"
  4. RIAA Site Defaced
  5. Six Steps To Computing Obscurity
  6. IE skin for Mozilla
  7. Douglas Adams is king
  8. Beter weekend
  9. How the Wayback Machine Works
  10. The True Meaning of Programming Book Titles
  11. Guide to the Pub
  12. W3C evangelism
  13. Show, don't sell
  14. Downtime
  15. Dot unspread
  16. Office paintball
  17. nomo comments
  18. Fax your MP
  19. The (Rational) Street Performer protocol
  20. Mice and music
  21. Big Brother watches
  22. CSS only rollovers
  23. Wikipedia
  24. Broken searches
  25. Apostrophe Protection Society
  26. Keep viewing rights to England games
  27. The true value of the net
  28. Meetup
  29. Linky goodness
  30. Floss
  31. Creating a brick
  32. Wil Wheaton vs. Barney Celebrity Boxing
  33. Avoiding personal conflict on mailing lists
  34. MT 2.2
  35. GPL licensing quiz
  36. CSS design
  37. CSS Challenge
  38. Linkbacks
  39. Unicode
  40. Rolling over
  41. Movable Type User Survey
  42. The US and Europe
  43. Plush Cthulhu
  44. Choose your politics
  45. Metacrap
  46. ASCII page design
  47. Dork Tower
  48. A guide to standards
  49. Eric Meyer on CSS
  50. No more harmful gotos
  51. Smile
  52. Downtime and popularity
  53. The MP3 (political) Party
  54. First for Pacman
  55. IESpell
  56. Google Art
  57. Eric Meyer haiku contest
  58. Comments and XML
  59. Boring CSS
  60. Absolute boxes inside relative boxes

July 2002

  1. MS already solved all problems
  2. Nintendinitis
  3. Explorer trees in JavaScript
  4. The CAT User's Manual
  5. The semantic web
  6. New Donna Tartt book
  7. Open Brackets
  8. Amazon links
  9. Starting a browser
  10. Web services list
  11. Postmodernism generator
  12. Shameless narcissism
  13. Greenpeace parody logo competition
  14. Eric Meyer on CSS
  15. Knowledge micro-management
  16. Librarians and Tigers
  17. IsapiRewrite: mod_rewrite for IIS
  18. Email randomness
  19. MS to charge for MSN 8.0
  20. Castalian promotion
  21. Double or the essential nothingness of being
  22. Top 10 Things Wrong With Linux, Today
  23. 52 projects
  24. The death of maximalism
  25. New version of Castalian
  26. More site changes
  27. Disconnected earth
  28. Private comments
  29. Feeling appreciated
  30. Accessibility for client-side image maps
  31. Don't use the source, Luke
  32. On the radio
  33. Spacer gifs
  34. "Jakob right all along" shocker
  35. Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing
  36. Bookmarklets
  37. Making TrackBack happen automatically
  38. Idea sharing
  39. Searching Freshmeat
  40. Erudition
  41. Get your Ebola here
  42. Wrapping C for Python
  43. Spread the dot
  44. Fox remake Rocky Horror
  45. W3C icons
  46. Mini icons
  47. Show and hide extended MT text
  48. Blogs
  49. Beehive DHTML API
  50. Four-oh-four
  51. Code commenting I wish I could get away with
  52. EFF abandon 2600 case
  53. Ratio of a circle to its diameter
  54. EuroPython
  55. Untrustworthy computing

June 2002

  1. Zaurus working
  2. Going into business
  3. 5k competition entries
  4. Javascript links are bad
  5. Free tech books
  6. Colour blindness
  7. Ain't no sunshine
  8. Haiku software licences
  9. Computational Frisbees
  10. PriceWaterhouseCoopers name change
  11. Power in your hands
  12. No more missing ISIHAC
  13. No appreciation of football
  14. Python XML-RPC wrapper
  15. Possible US war crimes
  16. Accessibility
  17. Transparent society
  18. More ideas to steal
  19. Style, more style
  20. WaSP season
  21. Something begins
  22. Disney define reality by their own films
  23. Paradigm shift
  24. The Octobus
  25. Run from the ball
  26. Blogdex
  27. Links steal no bandwidth
  28. Stolen designs
  29. We're on our way
  30. Stealing ideas
  31. CSS no good: film at 11
  32. Pinging weblogs.com
  33. People you link to link to
  34. Auto-discovery RSS
  35. Amazing tree generator
  36. Code fixes
  37. Mozilla contenteditable

May 2002

  1. Code changes
  2. Google searches
  3. The more I have
  4. Jumping version numbers
  5. Amusing world
  6. iPaq, iPaq, where art thou
  7. Mini Motty
  8. 5120 bytes
  9. Talk to me
  10. Pretty cities
  11. All your eyeballs are belong to us
  12. Python talk
  13. Congratulations
  14. Consensus at Lawyerpoint

April 2002

  1. Word of the weekend
  2. Stick with a nail in
  3. No more Flash
  4. Digest authentication
  5. Obsessive behaviour
  6. Saved from your own errors
  7. The vodka is good
  8. Please release me
  9. Refresh the tree
  10. Making Python better

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