2003
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2003 865
December 2003
- Heartaches by the Number
- I was blown away
- Firebird bug
- Linux software like Windows software
- For the record
- Help fix Wikipedia
- The Plame thing
- Looking ahead
- 99 versus 88
- The best reason yet for flossing
- Bjorn Lomborg
- The Wright brothers
- A little history
- Spolsky reviews The Art of UNIX Programming
- How Debian got rooted
- I just thought this was cool
- Still on the road
- Michael Kinsley on Iraq
- Yet another trip
- The new Levi's
- Fixing our voting system
- FeedDemon 1.0
- Machinations
- Gprs
- The Dean problem
- Updating your web page after you die
- Worse is better, revisited
- The Gore endorsement
- The inevitable evolution of the Hinternet
- Fighting spam the smart way
- What happened to Boeing?
- Captivated by Samarra
- Tivo's conundrum
- mp3.com, dead
- Martha Stewart
- Jorn Barger update
- The Samarra attacks
- Jorn Barger
- Dating Design Patterns
- Real Live Preacher
- World Aids Day
- Not to pick on Matt
- The real world
- The Geneva Accord (draft)
November 2003
- Debuggers are a drug ...
- The ultimate cheap laptop bag?
- Bush visits Baghdad
- Slacktivist get out the vote tips
- Practical standards compliance
- Back again
- Afk 3
- Take with a grain of salt
- They killed The West Wing
- Tunisian weblogger paroled
- The bottom line on outsourcing
- Buggy voting machines
- Ed Cone on the Internet Presidential campaign
- Job hunting season
- Wikipedia
- News to me
- Vice President?
- Wesley Clark, shame on you
- The audit trail
- Sun joining Eclipse?
- Abusing the parable
- Depressing news from Iraq
- I resemble that remark
- Borderline madness
- Struts vs. WebWork
- Ghosts of the Great War, 2003
- Hey SCO, learn from JBoss
- Even though I love Google
- Longhorn versus the light of day
- More on the SuSE/Novell transaction
- The problem with helicopters
- The politics of history
- Brilliant but evil
- Firebird and Google are eating my bookmarks
- Clearing up the fog?
- War is hell
- Broadcast flag
- Taking care of my light work
- Novell buys SUSE
- Source code control for the lone programmer
- The death of Red Hat Linux
- Fox News roundup
- Going back to an old issue
- A different sort of poll
- Use the polls, Luke
- The Balkans problem in a nutshell
- More Sy Hersh
October 2003
- SCO goes off the deep end
- The future of my dreams
- The number portability scam
- Three Gorges
- Shed a tear for the marsh Arabs
- Well, that's depressing
- Faux News
- Nothing beats a good blog fight
- Worst Wired feature ever
- The classics
- Where bad intel comes from
- RIAA Radar
- What's wrong with the Democratic party?
- Forcing the hand of politicians
- Slashdot review of Bitter EJB
- My fellow authors
- Left Behind Archives
- The straight dope
- The bizarre collision of technology and politics
- Optimizing your RSS feed for FeedDemon
- Kaplan summary of the Rumsfeld memo
- The story of Amazon's full text search feature
- Taking Bush Personally
- Nice catch
- Watch your analogies, Mr President
- The hazard of iTunes
- Just wondering
- How the Poll Results on Iraq Were Manipulated
- Searching the full text of books
- Reader comment on iTunes
- Rumsfeld's candid memo
- iTunes for Windows
- More of the same bad news
- Anti-semitism watch
- Travelling
- Surely someone can figure this out
- Six Days of War followup
- That guy Ed
- More on exception handling
- Release day at Mozilla
- Hinternet followup
- Heresy!
- That explains a lot
- Escaping the Hinternet
- Yet another George W Bush halo picture
- Second hand story from a Texas prison
- Vim love
- The Soul of a Nation
- Sun analysis
- Another way to fix spam
- Google Tag Library
- They're finished with email
- Plame redux
- Astroturf?
- A billion here and a billion there
- Outlook 2003, less sucky?
- Rebuttal to Arnold Kling
- Ugly numbers
- An outsider's thoughts on the recall
- Six Days of War, by Michael Oren
- Closing in on the truth
- An Open Letter to Paul Krugman
- The other spies
- First hand account from Baghdad
- Josh Marshall redesigns
- Saudi Arabia
- Washington Post profiles Valerie Plame
- A telemarketing theory
- The Administration take on the interim Kay report
- It's not funny
- The VICE Emulator
- Alton Brown
- The Google beat
- The horror of North Korea
- EFF DMCA update
- Our President
- Things that aren't true
- More on Moneyball
- Is Google evil?
- My two cents
- Dell's Dud
- The free state
- Trouble brewing in AdSense land
- Economics
September 2003
- Iraq's foreign debt
- Going ad hominem on John Ashcroft
- Ten Technologies That Deserve to Die
- Both topical and funny
- Jack Shafer on l'affair de Valerie Plame
- Other depressing news
- The Level of Discourse Continues to Slide
- Our reparations to Kuwait
- Is it time for the frog march?
- That monoculture
- Republicans in Texas revolt against Bush
- Christopher Hitchens remembers Edward Said
- Kneeling before Microsoft
- Valerie Plame
- Lashing out
- Nokia 7600
- Yahoo kills Trillian
- That's what weblogs are for
- Getting the horns
- Searchability
- Aiding the enemy
- The make or buy decision, part II
- Feeling left out
- Death by frameworks
- Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver
- Understanding ASP.NET
- Bush at the UN
- Bev Harris
- Basic wisdom in the Java vs. PHP debate
- SpamAssassin 2.60
- Juan Cole on Iraq's new economy
- The make or buy decision
- Suicide terrorism: the numbers
- The duality of Sun
- That Hitler article
- Using procmail to filter viruses
- Boycotting RIAA
- Barrier islands
- Digital signatures
- Unfairness
- Germany Will Share the Burden in Iraq
- Pop culture note
- The hunt for a WMD
- Apache Maven Simplifies the Java Build Process
- The jargon of journalism
- Hibernate now part of JBoss
- The average Palestinian
- Who ate who?
- Code is law
- A Guide to the Patriot Act, Part 2
- Valerie Plame update
- Kevin Drum interview with Paul Krugman
- Software patents, a first hand account
- John Hargrave makes me laugh
- The ingenuity of fools
- New Java books
- The other side of offshoring
- Identity theft
- Unchained
- The Frontier House and 1900 House
- No quick fix
- Remembering
- SCO v Linux continued
- Developing Eclipse plug-ins
- Making Wikis better
- Torturing an analogy
- Lest we forget
- Auctioning concert tickets
- The new definition of mercy
- The Patriot Act
- Amnesty?
- Hibernate Performance Challenge
- Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be coders
- Why getter and setter methods are evil
- Apache Geronimo releases state of the project address
- Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2
- Not Edwards' turn
- Breaking the Word Processor Curve
- 18 months of .NET
- The Devil's Dictionary 2.0
- The Wiki CMS
- All I can say is wow
- New York's water supply
August 2003
- Afk 2
- Darl McBride
- Next Generation of XDoclet 2 Announced
- First World War.com
- Thought for the day
- Intellectual property, not necessarily bad
- That had to hurt
- A confession
- FeedDemon Beta
- Tim Bray thinks up linkedin.com on steroids
- The French paradox explained
- More than enough blame to go around
- We've arrived
- TiVo's Apple problem
- Scrape it yourself
- More on the crack smokers
- An independent voice on java.net
- Eric Sink on building your career
- Microsoft, open source, and the Business Software Alliance
- Coping with email
- A curse
- Letter From a Birmingham Jail
- We have a lot in common
- Best weblog item ever?
- The blame game
- SCO Scuttles Sense, Claiming GPL Invalidity
- Troubling news today
- Judge for yourself
- From Internet Explorer to Firebird
- Sneak preview
- Everybody knows
- Dangerousmeta returns
- Natively compiled Eclipse
- Trade Wars
- Outlook Express On Life Support?
- Cognitive dissonance alert
- CRM and successful campaigning
- National Geographic
- The Baseball Prospectus and Pete Rose
- Sensible advice
- More Powell speech retrospective
- The Schwarzenegger beat
- Better late than never?
- The bodybuilder exception
- Reading the tea leaves
- IBM returns fire
- Notepad popups
- Geek Gauntlets
- Returning to missile defense
- Not sure what to say
- More on game PCs for development
- Google News Alerts
- Trillian Pro
- Periodic air travel update
- Afk
- How alien are the Taliban, really?
- Out of place
- Two sides to the progress with North Korea
- The bottom line
July 2003
- Were Sanctions Right?
- Eric Meyer goes it alone
- Prowling the ruins of ancient software
- Talking Points Memo seeks intern
- Obligatory Bush criticism du jour
- Quote of the day
- Howard Dean may have my vote
- Python 2.3
- Bookmarklets are back!
- The terrorism futures market
- Firebird and Thunderbird
- Idle thought
- The good doctor
- A general recommendation: Phil Carter
- Amen to that
- You knew it all along
- Developing on my game box
- Unit testing web apps
- Free advertising
- The Tour de France
- Integrating Java with Mozilla
- A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
- Flash suppressor
- Technology and law enforcement
- Can someone answer these questions?
- MyEclipse
- The ethics of bicycle racing
- Firebird bug fix release soon
- What George Bush and I have in common
- The face of evil: remove.org
- Help Russell get a job
- Sons of Saddam
- That Little Voice
- New Eclipse features
- Oh, and by the way
- Taking care of our own
- The Bush White House and science
- Rallying the troops
- My Oracle problem
- Microsoft Monitor on Office XML
- The next scandal?
- A major glitch
- I hate Oracle
- Security and how it is provided
- A useful tip
- Political blather
- Congratulations, Mozilla
- Another uranium link
- Sharecropping revisited
- Yes, there is a downside
- The Economist on Microsoft's killing of stock options
- The other side on sharecropping
- Sharecropping
- A clever way of putting it
- Jef Raskin on IDEs
- CFML redeemed
- For sale
- The African uranium scandal
- Patting myself on the back
- Adam Curry follow up
- The roadmap must go on
- More on Python
- Real Microsoft innovation
- Edsger Dijkstra's writings
- Running ads
- John Edwards
- E-commerce vs t-commerce
- Sanity Check
- Python hegemony
- Wrong in so many ways
- Globalization and outsourcing
- Prelude to the Great War
- An interesting quandry
- Wired: A Romance
- Old dogs and new tricks
- The Great War
- Rights management
- Too complex to understand
- Fixing marriage
- With friends like these
- The bullet is already out of the gun
- Your credit score
- Knowing when to shut up
- Sorry, Bill
- Howard Dean
- Eyetoy
June 2003
- The David Beckham phenomenon
- Struts 1.1
- Ruining email
- Version control 101
- What a downer
- FeedDemon Beta 1
- Explaining Saudi Arabia
- Kidnapped schoolgirls in Uganda
- The "mobile bio weapons labs"
- Zynot Linux
- The kooky RIAA
- JNDI sucks
- Something to think about
- Further embarrassment for the New York Times
- Affirmative action, etc
- StrutsTestCase
- Amazon is a software company
- Farewell Syndirella
- Tomcat is frustrating
- John Edwards' insightful argument
- Self knowledge
- Professionalism
- MetaPkg
- Rick Boucher vs Orrin Hatch
- Thunderbird
- Volvo v Volo
- A request
- Do your homework
- The return of Kenneth M Pollack
- What the heck?
- Making more programmers
- Capitalizing on RSS
- More ArsDigita history
- Another worthy cause
- Rob Enderle on Linux
- Finding work as a public person
- Right of reply
- The hinternet
- Making a simple application more complex
- Reading between the lies
- Two from the WaPo
- Rick Neuheisel
- The Iraq museum controversy
- Jadp
- Air travel
- Eclipse 3.0
- Scott Shuger
- JExcelApi
- Friedman on tax cuts
- More Sun
- Baffling
- New Bush unemployment program
- Apropos of nothing
- java.net
- Mobile weapons lab, yada yada yada
- Eric Sink on marketing
- Strange world
- Corked bats
- The wedge
- Aspect Oriented Programming explained
- Arrival
- Fairness, or lack thereof
- Defenselink.mil
- More on VCs
- Google bashing
- Reclaim the Public Domain Petition
- Fixing Venture Capital
- Refactoring
- We should have tried
- Actual details on SCO v IBM
- The public domain
- A bit more on media consolidation
- Media consolidation
- Salam Pax oneupsmanship
- Salam turns pro
- The caste system
May 2003
- Capsule view of the AOL/Microsoft deal
- Fair is fair
- Eric Rudolph captured
- The Congo
- Eclipse Project Draft 3.0 Plan
- Microsoft and AOL settle
- Christopher Hitchens and George Orwell
- Deficits as far as the eye can see
- Clearing up murky Iraq questions
- Try a little bitterness
- SCO to Hell
- The Orphans of Invention
- Precision weblogging
- Preferences are evil
- Home pages?
- Strange days indeed
- Remember Afghanistan
- Microsoft's anti-spam proposal
- If you're curious about Annika
- Nobody should have to care about this
- Al Jazeera had a scoop
- Hijacking .NET
- Ez d
- Resume scoring software
- A blow to the ego
- Our threat level
- Wikis
- Faux Pas Americana
- Fixing malpractice insurance
- Warren Buffett on the Bush tax cut
- Microsoft and SCO
- Gentoo conquest
- Eliminating spam via challenge-response
- Bird is the word
- The economy
- How grim are things in Iraq?
- The French
- The efficacy of drug testing
- Jessica Lynch
- The importance of trivial things
- Ouch
- Strange Weather Lately
- The killer app
- LinkedIn update
- Appropriate use of J2EE/EJB
- When Is a Good Liar Better than a Good Reporter?
- Molly Ivins on the big picture
- My fellow Americans, pay attention
- Challenge-response spam prevention
- On Flaming
- FeedDemon (Coming Soon)
- Google and weblogs
- Wearing many hats
- Dynamic typing
- Mozilla 1.4 Beta
- Thinking about spam
- Salam Pax is back
- Talk about misallocation of resources
- Looking back on the Colin Powell speech
- Response time for web apps
- The Hundred-Year Language
- Not really about Bill Bennett
- Adam Engst on the iTunes Music Store
- Reconstruction is hard
- It's official ...
- Name changes
- The trouble with GAAP
- You've got to know when to fold 'em
- We lost
- FFR: Classes and class loading
- Reasonable use of copyright
- The ultimate weblogging system
- The Psychology of Imprisonment
- Tomcat 4 Clustering
- A libertarian wish for the Democratic party
- Fisk says Saddam is in Minsk
April 2003
- Why was Daniel Pearl killed?
- Happy birthday, Saddam
- Killer lock-in
- The lessons of blogging
- The Apple music store
- Mike Hawash
- The big WMD lie
- Just desserts
- Restoring Iraq's marshes
- Defining spam
- Grokster/Morpheus ruling
- The Chandler demo
- Josh Marshall on Paul Berman
- Scott Rosenberg on Henry Norr
- The Dixie Chicks
- OpenBSD news
- Helicopters
- In the reading queue ...
- Living the dream
- Spammers sue anti-spam groups
- Review of The Future of Freedom
- Chandler 0.1
- Bruce Eckel
- The AMR "retention bonuses"
- Mobile development
- Tim Bray on rolling your own
- Iranian journalist/blogger arrested
- A World of Doughnuts and Spheres
- The spoils of war
- Poi
- If you were mad before ...
- Hey, check out Syria
- iraqwar.ru
- The hinternet
- Trademarks suck
- Credulity among small town reporters
- In defense of Robert Fisk
- SharpReader tip
- Hatred of customers
- More Paul Berman
- The end of buffer overflows
- re-code.com
- Senseless destruction
- Mike Hawash
- Hacker envy
- SARS and the economy
- Yet another Google article
- Tom Friedman
- The unsinkable Molly Ivins
- Here's what scares me
- Cognitive dissonance
- Meta tags
- Continuing the Paul Berman watch
- Yahoo Spam
- Unfisking
- Really, really first hand
- Yet another smoking gun
- Grady Booch interview
- Dan Gillmor's book on blogging
- Sanctions
- When Garret speaks, people listen
- Tiles 101/201
- More on the rockage of .NET
- Comments on SharpReader
- Life is nothing without humor
- What do you know?
- Does .NET rock?
- Espanding one's skills
- I must link to this
- Lame
- Not Al Jazeera
- Royal Marines vs Umm Khayyal
- Cheap laughs
- Al Jazeera and perspective
- Scum
- New Mozilla roadmap
- Photoshop
- Jumping in with both feet
- Speaking With the Enemy
March 2003
- The horror of war
- Behind our backs
- Things ...
- Wider war watch
- Tacoma the dolphin
- Big game hunter
- Wargaming
- Dolphin AWOL
- Moammar al-Qaddafi
- How wars expand
- Blowing it
- Bush vs Blair
- Mine spotting dolphins
- The rumor mill
- Surmising the situation
- Keeping my two cents
- Josh Marshall on the big picture
- Get real
- Sayyid Qutb and Paul Berman
- Brain drain
- Professional grade war analysis
- Sayyid Qutb
- On a war footing
- Paul Boutin on the case
- Send Back the Statue of Liberty - Satire
- The coalition of the whipped
- I hear Bahrain is nice this time of year
- A small victory in the war on spam
- War in the Ruins of Diplomacy
- I don't know Python
- M.U.L.E.
- Anti-war poster contest
- The Arrogant Empire
- Reaction
- The computer book industry
- Lessig on John Edwards
- Perl and Java
- Puzzlement
- The France Hypothetical
- Michael Lind on the Bush administration
- Other weblogs
- How bad is it?
- Mozilla 1.3
- The IT ghetto
- The state of game design
- George Soros on the Bush administration
- Confessing to confusion
- SpamAssassin update
- You're daily cup of optimism
- Logging popular items
- The old uranium/plutonium trick
- Josh Marshall changes his mind
- Guts
- The fight continues
- Just War
- Trade secrets
- Will we catch Osama Bin Laden?
- More Fred Kaplan on the UN
- Sometimes I amaze myself
- SCO suing IBM
- The problems with running an MMOG
- Food for thought
- The mind reader puzzle
- The consequences of North Korea
- Tabbed browsing
- Righteous
- I'm stumped (solved)
- Enigma cypher machine
- How To Write Unmaintainable Code
- Microsoft's cheap Web server
- Kodak creates camera with OLED display
- The Laurie Garrett affair, continued
- Yet another Sendmail overflow
- North Korean antics
- Project Blogger
- Spam filter effectiveness
- Jim Henley vs Kenneth M Pollack
- Ramsey Clark lets it fly
February 2003
- Oprah's book club
- It usually pays to wait
- Product management
- Afghanistan's recovery
- Yet another war in Iraq post
- My Big Fat Greek Life
- A bipartisan issue
- Projecting civilian casualties
- Readers come first
- How to Interview a Programmer
- IDE Mini-rant
- Media responsibility
- The future of instant messaging
- Too much thinking about Iraq
- Loving and hating log4j
- Appeasement, a first hand account
- The dangerous Bush Doctrine
- The Political Compass
- SWT vs Swing
- The ever-growing Laurie Garrett saga
- Josh Marshall's Ken Pollack interview
- The voting machine story
- RSS feed updated
- Messing with my RSS feed
- SpamAssassin 2.50 released
- The Real Michael Powell
- Johnny Paycheck, RIP
- What if?
- The impossible dream
- Jhai PC update
- Impossible to ignore
- The Java Developer Connection
- Salon and the fat lady
- Why the French do what they do
- The UN is in a pickle
- I should mention ...
- Jhai update
- Suckers
- Mozilla dissatisfaction
- Japan gets tough
- Colin Powell's flip flop
- My new favorite toy
- Partly cloudy with a chance of terrorism
- The Columbia Tragedy
- Bin Laden audio
- XML::RSS
- Doing it with Ant
- ESPN.com to redesign | Holovaty.com
- How to keep your job
- Noah Grey reality check
- Not a crisis
- Solaris and Java
- More on Guernica
- Test Driven Development
- Jeremy Allaire resigns by blog
- Writing your tests first
- The missing link
- Test Driven Development
- SpamAssassin 2.44
- Dangerous art
- All hail Kurt Vonnegut
- Policy
- The nature of European anti-war sentiment
- The dangers of space travel
- Looking for quotable people
- Space shuttle Columbia breaks up on reentry
January 2003
- Two ships passing in the night
- I did not know that
- Fodder for argument
- More on Title IX
- Title IX
- Not totally unilateral
- Josh Marshall interviews Ken Pollack
- Deep vein thrombosis
- RYP interview
- Analysis of Sapphire SQL Worm
- What is affirmative action?
- Dispatches From Davos by Chris Anderson
- You're busted
- KDE 3.1
- 10 Reasons (Not) to Dump Your Java IDE
- Public opinion and the coming war with Iraq
- Bill Gates
- Reactions to the inspectors' report
- Bank of America ATMs affected by worm
- Carnegie Endowment - Crisis in Iraq
- Paying the price
- Pelton freed
- OLED: holy crap
- Catching up with Joel
- Syndirella progress
- Hilary Rosen, adieu
- Tech companies fight forced copy protection
- Microsoft vs SimDesk in Houston
- Robert Young Pelton kidnapped in Colombia
- The gift that keeps on giving
- Sy Hersh on North Korea
- Syndirella
- Recursion
- More Java vs .NET
- The Crisis Last Time
- Diamonds are a ...
- Senators try to block TIA
- Slightly open source
- The battle for the public domain
- SBC enforcing frames patent
- Odd redesigns
- Shaq v Yao
- Thinking out loud
- Remember when ...
- Delphi
- Busy
- More details on the Eldred case
- Bitter defeat
- Only from The Register
- Suicide bombers
- So long, Graffiti
- Ideas and time
- Sweet justice
- Microsoft v MPEG LA
- Hack, or no?
- Safari, I just can't get enough
- TiVo is God's machine
- Odd diplomacy
- Remote prayer?
- All things to all people
- Misuse of URLs
- Is Yao a Mac fan?
- jwz on Safari
- KHTML v. Gecko
- Joan Didion on the state of things
- Free at last
- MacWorld keynote
- Is John Edwards scary?
- Everything you know is wrong
- Apolo Anton Ohno
- Fixing the economy
- Something funny that I realized ...
- More DRM crap
- Qualified applicants
- Where the money is
- More on the third world
- Slashdot Is Worthless
- TCP/IP Sleuthing
- A legal quandry
- Jhai PC
- More on love vs. money
- Motivation
- What should I do with my life?
- Joe Foss, RIP
- Al Jazeera in English
- Status symbol for the new century