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2018 1
2017 4
2016 1
2015 1
2014 3
2013 4
2012 3
2011 13
- Cliff Palace panorama, Mesa Verde NP
- Tombstone Rock (west side) panorama, Oct 2011
- Tombstone Rock (east side) panorama, April 2007
- Sun Point View panorama, Mesa Verde NP
- Fall color in the San Juan mountains of Colorado
- "Square Tower House", Mesa Verde NP
- "Balcony House", Mesa Verde NP
- "Cliff Palace", Mesa Verde NP
- Tombstone Rock, Moab
- "Delicate Arch", Utah
- netjeff.com
- Server issues
- Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"
2010 4
2009 21
- My review of Avatar
- LED traffic lights don't melt snow
- Pop-up Legos
- Flat Irons sunrise panorama
- Panorama at Silver Lake, NH
- First snow
- Which checkout line is faster?
- netjeff.com hosting upgraded
- New driveway
- Blog upgraded
- Rocky Mountain NP panorama
- Wolfram|Alpha search
- YouTube used for research on animal behavior
- ThinkGeek's "Portal" Shirts (April Fool's)
- Real-time ray tracing
- Jeff needs…
- Russian and US satellites collide
- How to Stack Tires
- Stained glass, or rice fields?
- 1977 JC Penney catalog
- Christmas pics
2008 58
- Kind of a close call
- Animated banner ads cause global warming?
- First snow in Longmont
- Speeding Ticket Fail
- Ancient Rome in Google Earth
- Pics from Charleston, SC
- Using SSID of free wi-fi for marketing
- Yellow Dots of Mystery: Is Your Printer Spying on You?
- Interior house painting
- A Simple Mission
- Getting help for the economy from retirees
- Clever warning message
- The Pop – Episode 1
- LCD or plasma for TVs?
- Fixing WordPress "smart quotes"
- Gas leak!
- Interior house pics
- Upgrade to WordPress 2.6
- Closed captions on Comcast DVR via HDMI
- Promising e-book device
- Harrassment does not improve Security
- Science makes your voice deeper
- Win XP crashes solved by disabling Nvidia Driver service
- Wise man vs. expert
- "In the Shadow of the Moon"
- FactCheck.org clears muddy election waters
- Spot the speeder
- Electronic voting is much harder then electronic banking
- Comedian Demetri Martin
- Longmont bike map
- An extraordinary what?
- Nasty Chinese Restaurant
- Olympic loop pictures
- C++ joining Java to get closures
- Killed by his own golf club
- VW license plate: Y2KBUG
- Escalator spinning
- Pizza vending machine
- Subliminal movie posters
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.5
- Return of the sneakernet?
- Hacking a punch card
- Crayola 3D sidewalk chalk using ChromaDepth
- The World's Scariest Runways
- Rainbows, and other atmospheric optics
- Martian headsets, and why standards are hard
- BMW and Audi racing on highway
- Shotgun flashlight
- 50+ Tricks to Get to a Real Person
- When you care enough to hit send
- 13 seconds in August: The 35W bridge collapse
- Wind turbine self destructs
- Baggage scanner toy
- Lunar eclipse
- Flash game, "Shift"
- 12 GB on *micro* SD
- New drug may eliminate need for sleep
- I've migrated to WordPress
2007 25
- Using anonymous cellular data to indentify traffic
- Minivan hit by falling cow
- Pics of seattle ferry battered by storm
- Worried about someone stealing your iPod?
- Which is "better", buying or renting?
- Add "missing" links to Netflix
- TomTom & TeleAtlas "get it" for community-provided map information
- Comcast internet support: know the lingo
- Using an image database to add realism to edited photos
- MapJack and EarthMine
- Bus fouls
- Visual demo that people can't see blue very well
- Moab trip pictures
- Current status of CableCard and "open cable" in general
- Universcale
- Funniest. Pregnancy Test Commercial. Ever.
- Practical eye-tracking for GUIs
- Cruise-missle on Google Maps
- Capture The Wind
- Cork Soakers (SNL sketch)
- Navigating a set of photos in 3D
- DRM is the same as perpetual motion
- Don't mess with the rabbit
- Robber planned to flee underwater
- Pics added to my gallery
2006 48
- Tony vs Paul: A stop-motion short
- Tough landing at Sea-Tac airport
- Should you spend more for higher HDTV resolution?
- Tiny flash drives too easy to lose?
- Generating electricity from waste heat
- Ever heard of "kite tubing"?
- All we need to do is …
- Misunderstanding the security "problem"
- Ultimate Lego chaingun?
- Trip photos online
- Photos from a Ballard Locks cruise
- Don't shoot the puppy
- Scam alert: "Travel Agents Direct"
- Better faces in computer animation
- Simple but fun Flash game: Sneek
- Monopoly goes cashless
- "Dock dogs" photos
- Second longest heatwave
- Final day
- Funny english in Japan
- Fri and Sat
- What I did this summer: Visited N. Korea
- Mon, Tues, and Wed
- Day one: travel
- Getting ready
- If the Earth were a sandwich
- Cory Doctorow on why new media will succeed
- Wikipedia on the go
- Prosper: regular folks making loans to regular folks
- eyezmaze.com: addictive Flash puzzle games
- Educating a CEO on "The Mythical Man-Month"
- Using cellular towers to measure rainfall
- Hypothetical Iraq scenario
- Edwards AFB Air Show, 2005
- Social TV
- Anti-lock brakes worse on gravel for straight-line stops
- Could Earth have seeded life on Titan?
- RFID tags a new virus risk?
- Bookmarklet for Wikipedia's "Today's featured article"
- Disposable email address
- Rugged RV
- Images of large metallic items sucked in by an MRI
- Optimistic cynic
- Flying car captured on Google Earth imagery?
- maps.google.com's view of Seahawks stadium
- Animation of woman begin drawn
- The Billy Connelly Business Plan
- PriUPS: Toyota Prius as a power plant
2005 64
- It's A Big Ad
- Santarchy 2005, Dec 10th
- Because you can never have enough pixels
- People will never forget how you made them feel (quote)
- Vortex pattern in clouds
- Scott Adams on airline risks
- Upgrade your iPod Nano to 200GB
- Fall color pictures
- Striking a balance on "protecting the children"
- Upgrade to Firefox 1.0.7
- How to "reset" a GPS receiver
- Honesty about buggy software
- Evolution controversy, but no physics controversies?
- The Seattle main library: One year later
- Fold n' Drop
- My Netflix activity
- Blooming artichoke
- SWATH for stable cruising
- Hidden boot code of the Xbox
- SeafoodFest in Ballard
- Which releases more radioactivity? Coal electricity plants or nuclear?
- Spaceship & starship sizes
- Election Day should be a holiday
- A Project Seagull
- Planarity: geometry goodness
- BC ferry loses power, crashes through marina
- FactCheck.org analyzes Bush's June 27 speech
- The Apple Product Lifecycle
- The fallacy of the "Bible Code"
- Naughty wedding announcements
- "Arms race" between Iraqi insurgents and US military
- US helps Saddam build chem weapons of mass destruction
- Pulling out the Hitler comparisons
- Brain-twisting English
- Google Maps images plane in flight
- Mr. Cranky movie reviews
- World Wind — Interactive Earth viewer
- Mars orbiters take pictures of each other
- Time travelers' convention
- FactCheck.org takes on Social Security debate
- Hitchhiker's Guide text game available on-line
- Online cipher tools
- Hidden messages in junk DNA?
- Turn off fluorescent lights when not in use
- O'Reilly CodeZoo
- Amazon tracks "Statistically Improbable Phrases"
- Scientific American magazine catches the April Fool's spirit
- Catching ID thieves yourself
- A PPU (Physics Processing Unit) Card
- GPS wristwatch
- Credit card signatures don't matter
- Fun with remote-controlled web-cams
- How to destroy the Earth
- Donald Knuth audio interview on NPR
- Sesame Steet names for terror alert levels
- Build your own LCD projector
- Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
- NBC mistakenly reveals face of Saddam's judge
- Twenty-five restaurants for $25
- Lake Geneva icestorm pictures
- SD card with built in USB connector
- Nuttin But Stringz
- Zip code "viewer"
- Clouds
2004 7
2003 25
- Speed variance kills (not simply speed)
- Combine two movie poster into one
- 1001 fun things to do with liquid nitrogen
- Electronic voting MUST have paper receipts
- FTC says the patent system needs to be changed
- Capitalist goals and free-software (GPL) goals
- Read this quickly…
- KnowledgeContext.org and ICE-9
- Unfortunate Italian domain name
- Do you have any lonely socks?
- Excellent summary of RFID
- Riding a Segway
- The history of copyright
- Don't worry, be happy
- Which OS are you?
- Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors/creators than piracy
- Stereo hi-res satellite image of Mt St Helens
- Software industry vs. the construction industry
- How to get off some telemarketing lists
- Unintended consequences of competition
- old car, new car
- A page of Unicode terms, FAQs, and mistakes
- DMCA: Unintended consequences
- Everything is made of nothing
- Earth and Asteroid Play Orbital Cat and Mouse Game
2002 65
- Photo of George W holding book upside down? It's fake
- Incompetent spammer
- Be happy
- Software as magic
- Big friggin' spider web
- Using device location for wireless security
- Interactive Seattle waterfront: 1907 and 2002
- Why didn't we see the market meltdown coming.
- Dasher: a "zooming" text entry tool
- Iridigm displays: pixels based on butterfly wings
- Leg-Way (Segway using Legos)
- 13.8 and 20 megapixel cameras from Kodak
- Redneck neighbor
- Info on burning CDs
- A new crime: interference with a business model?
- Security: how well does it fail?
- xplanet (desktop background)
- Buffer-overrun attacks
- TCPA / Palladium Frequently Asked Questions
- Counterexploitaion
- Analysis of TCP sequence number vulnerability
- Nice quote on evolution's "goals"
- New optical pointing device
- Body check
- A pen that has no ink
- History of the meter
- Traffic waves (physics for bored commuters)
- Why forcing users to change passwords doesn't solve the problem
- What to do with all those terabytes?
- Calendar converter
- (Im)morality of the Star Wars universe
- Fixing freeway signs yourself
- Funny intrusion detection commercials
- Digital cash and the "double-spending" problem
- Dude, I'm going to puke!
- Are we just biological "machines"?
- A solution to online auction sniping?
- Ten guaranteed ways to screw up any project
- Unintended consequences: three years under the DMCA
- Above the Impact: A WTC Survivor's Story (Nova)
- Article on augmented reality
- 0 x 2 x 2 x 2 x … = ?
- Pictures of the entire world, one degree at a time
- Cool keyboard
- Defend your rights to digital music
- Software industry == tobacco industry?
- Hack the business model
- Replace your browser's history/cache
- It's not about lines of code
- Googlewhacking
- Believe in running code…
- "mooted"?
- Real programmers write in…
- Scamming cashiers to prey on shoppers
- Brin eerily prophetic regarding 9/11
- New digital sensor technology (Foveon)
- In the Beginning was the Command Line
- On the security of Microsoft's products…
- Increasing graphics performance
- Aspect Oriented Programming
- A bash poem
- Feb 20 an interesting date
- A Grim Choice: The Ravages of Age, or of Cancer?
- The Tick tv series to be cancelled
- The "wayback machine" for the internet
2001 99
- Raining instructions
- Spreading things out for a better defense
- 2001: The Year vs The Movie
- One kibibyte?
- Joel Spolsky on "bloatware"
- Groundhog Day: Breakthrough to the true self
- Pizza business vs. software engineering
- Sneaky calculations (aka Parasitic Computing)
- Scott Adam's holiday message
- Crashing phones with SMS
- War as economic stimulus
- How many pixels in 35mm film?
- A comparison of C# and Java
- Now that's optimistic
- Pointing the way for micro-tubules
- Scott Adams on digital piracy
- Big balance
- The New Great Game: Oil Politics in Central Asia
- Magnetic fluids
- Janus words
- Shortening the bungee cord
- Closing the door behind you
- You can have security without giving up liberty
- Airport biometrics to find terrorists
- Privacy vs. terrorism
- An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists
- How your mind works
- The failure of tech journalism
- Accountability with surveillance
- The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech
- Protecting Copyright in the Digital world
- Copy-right or access-right?
- Simple solution to IP address spoofing
- Jail Time in the Digital Age
- All the disk storage in the world
- Copyright is broken?
- What's wrong with access-control technology?
- A classic algebra "paradox"
- The glue that holds the world together
- "Blade Runner" 19 years old today
- Lost in translation
- Gratuitous use of bandwidth
- State security vs. technology
- Hacking challenge
- "Errors" in English usage
- Bad astronomy
- Risks of overclocked CPUs
- A fascinating transcript of a DDoS attack
- XML: Not a silver bullet
- Taxonomists with a sense of humor
- Weather on toast
- Taiwan drivers outwit speed traps
- Desiderata of interplanetary internetworking
- An electronic virus that needs a human host
- Copyright? Consider the "black hole meme"…
- Differences between "encapsulation" and "information hiding" in OO programming
- Taking the LONG view on the future of the planet Earth
- The Resurrecting Duckling
- netjeff.com
- Safe personal computing
- "Mob Software" paper
- Supercavitation: Go very fast underwater
- Software as "speech"? MPAA can't have it both ways…
- Napolean Dynamite
- What time is it?
- The Semantic Web
- Web-based 3-D protein viewer
- "Wearable Computing" meets "Ubiquitous Computing"
- Changes to copyright/patents because the world has changed?
- Sci-fi ethical dilemma
- Killer app for heads-up displays?
- WebCream: mapping Java GUI to HTML page
- How technology slips into the background
- Constant speed of light
- Restroom locator
- All your dates are belong to us
- The coming age of calm technology
- JavaWorld article on polymorphism
- How much information is there in the world?
- The reason that non-elective group insurance is cheaper
- telespree handset
- Fun with the5k.org contest
- Telecom Glossary
- FuckApple.com
- Visual acuity
- Under 5k contest
- Web authentication with outbound call
- Another Java draw/graph framework
- NSA's Security-Enhanced Linux
- "Castle", the movie
- Microkernel OS vs. monolithic OS
- Study: Few users reject cookies
- Biometrics in hospitals
- JHotDraw – java graphical layout engine
- Layout Swing apps with XML
- Generating Java classes to parse XML
- MIT Online
- Search engines
- Funky country band