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December 2005

  1. On the road again
  2. Intel Inside?
  3. The perils of introspection
  4. Rails deployment picture looking rosier
  5. Tech tip du jour
  6. The value of predictions
  7. Rails Milestone
  8. I have gone soft on Microsoft
  9. Schneier followup
  10. Bruce Schneier wiretapping backgrounder
  11. Language wars
  12. Mobile phone update
  13. What kind of wiretaps are we talking about
  14. The mind of Rogers Cadenhead
  15. Finding a memory leak
  16. Black eye for Cisco
  17. How Amazon.com is getting worse
  18. Senator Feingold vs the PATRIOT Act
  19. Do it yourself copy protection
  20. The latest on Wikipedia's accuracy
  21. The ultimate mashup
  22. Unintended consequences as usual
  23. Still a bit rough around the edges
  24. The advantages of low turnover
  25. Ruby on Rails 1.0
  26. Capital punishment
  27. Seeking UI designer/Web developer
  28. Suing Wikipedia
  29. The cult of the iPod
  30. A history of violence
  31. Siegenthaler mystery solved
  32. Yahoo acquires del.icio.us
  33. Humane Interfaces
  34. Mobile phones and service
  35. The antidote to Tom Friedman
  36. Sorrow and disappointment
  37. Sam Alito and civil liberties
  38. I paid for TextMate
  39. The Ruby way versus the Java way
  40. More of the torture glossary
  41. The uncanny valley
  42. Wikipedia 1 for 2
  43. The $100 laptop
  44. Trash Dreamhost here
  45. Leveraging the last mile
  46. How domain squatters make money

November 2005

  1. Careful with those biases
  2. TextDrive acquired
  3. More on the mercenary video
  4. Public choice theory
  5. Real life PVP videos
  6. Bloglines security hole
  7. How Sony could help itself
  8. Computers, the love affair
  9. Drugs, then and now
  10. Something useful from Gartner
  11. Will Ruby on Rails succeed J2EE?
  12. The game within the game
  13. The ideology of information
  14. Schneier on Sony's rootkit
  15. Enter your profile in Google Base
  16. Music CDs as a security risk
  17. The future of relational databases
  18. Changing the rules
  19. Notes on free trade
  20. Veteran's Day redux
  21. Unintended consequences of DRM
  22. Veteran's Day
  23. Quick and dirty identity management
  24. Intelligent design and intelligent voters
  25. An endorsement
  26. Heed this warning
  27. Mac OS X 10.4.3 and NetNewsWire
  28. Sony attempts to make good
  29. More on Sony DRM
  30. Short on attention, shorter on information
  31. Reassure me on Rails
  32. Mac OS X 10.4.3
  33. Spyware forensics
  34. It is on

October 2005

  1. New comment policy
  2. Wal-Mart and health insurance
  3. Performance problems continued
  4. Warren Buffett on tax rates
  5. My performance problems
  6. Never before seen
  7. Practical environmentalism
  8. Rosa Parks
  9. Anatomy of a scam
  10. More on drug research
  11. Good advice for Democrats
  12. The idea trap
  13. Ning enabled
  14. Economics smackdown
  15. Computers for hackers
  16. Sanitize your input
  17. iPod video and TivoToGo
  18. Avoiding RSI
  19. Instant messaging interop
  20. A way to help
  21. Why did Netflix kill Blockbuster?
  22. Blowing it
  23. The earthquake
  24. Sergey Brin on luck
  25. An acquisition that matters
  26. Behind the numbers
  27. Litmus tests and tea leaves
  28. Bubblicious
  29. Decloaking
  30. Chalk one up for the little guy
  31. What should the database do?

September 2005

  1. Rails, MySQL, OS X, pain
  2. The value of experience
  3. An officer addresses torture
  4. Rita aerial photos
  5. Better Memeoranum
  6. First draft, indeed
  7. Help KOGT start broadcasting
  8. Rita update
  9. Another media outlet
  10. Local coverage of Rita
  11. Unintentional TrackBack spam
  12. Rita update
  13. Bad Rita tidings
  14. Rivka on cognitive dissonance
  15. Tiger for developers
  16. So long, Fink
  17. Setting up OS X for a developer
  18. Opera, the latest free browser
  19. The only metric in software development
  20. It's civil war
  21. Rails for everyone
  22. Your friend the footer
  23. The line noise excuse
  24. Keep an eye on Tivo
  25. Batch file usability
  26. Google blog search
  27. Katrina donation matching offer
  28. iTunes 5.0 problems
  29. CCD sizes in digital SLRs
  30. Now that's what I call fast
  31. Why is eBay buying Skype?
  32. No god but God by Reza Aslan
  33. Pfizer helps
  34. Outrages du jour
  35. iPod nano
  36. Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas
  37. Praise for corporations
  38. More rumor squashing
  39. Cognitive dissonance strikes again
  40. I come to bury Ray Nagin, not to praise him
  41. Thinking ahead
  42. Satellite/aerial photos of Katrina damage
  43. I would have sworn it was a rumor
  44. Steve Ballmer is Ari Gold
  45. The saddest picture from New Orleans
  46. Tales of relief
  47. Beyond politics
  48. Satellite photo of New Orleans
  49. Squashing rumors

August 2005

  1. Elsewhere in Louisiana
  2. The big easy
  3. Merger pains for Flickr
  4. More on tipping
  5. Tim Bray on Ruby
  6. Graphic design can save lives
  7. Hurricane Katrina
  8. Dear PHP, you suck and I hate you
  9. Equal time
  10. Google Talk
  11. Good news for democracy in Iraq
  12. The ownership society
  13. Ain't that a shame
  14. My current thinking on Iraq
  15. Earn $250,000
  16. Ruby the gateway drug
  17. RSS version 3
  18. Serendipitous communities
  19. Flickr and your wine collection
  20. Next steps
  21. Comments feed
  22. Making a comment feed
  23. Bad customer service
  24. Inside joke
  25. Should Google be scanning books?
  26. Comments RSS
  27. Factcheck.org's problems
  28. Up and coming from Flickr
  29. Unicode vs. Western
  30. Will phishing kill online banking?
  31. Tipping
  32. The MVC penalty?
  33. Tonic
  34. Public data versus publicizing data
  35. The Fog of War
  36. What's wrong with the space shuttle
  37. The saga of Mike Lynn
  38. Have a nice trip
  39. Congratulations Washington Post
  40. Rails for real
  41. Programmer pecking order
  42. Untrusted users
  43. Missing the point
  44. Current.tv

July 2005

  1. Signalling your status
  2. Changing hosting providers
  3. Full disclosure
  4. Dynamic Main Indexes with Movable Type
  5. Kids and video games
  6. Password problem fixed
  7. Moving Movable Type
  8. IP addresses
  9. Stylesheet updated
  10. Movable Type so far
  11. JavaScript for dummies
  12. Eclipse 3.1
  13. Joel on programmer quality
  14. Assuming risk
  15. Secure Flight
  16. Laying off a legend
  17. The economics of activism
  18. mt-comments.cgi
  19. Unit testing PHP
  20. About what I expected
  21. The Plot
  22. The trouble with frameworks
  23. World of Warcraft dupe bug
  24. Married to Markdown
  25. Patterns and practices
  26. Slice of life du jour
  27. Migration to Movable Type initiated
  28. Following up on Movable Type
  29. Unfair comparisons
  30. So many blogging tools, so little time
  31. Back to the drawing board
  32. Good neighbor
  33. Question answered
  34. FogCreek Copilot
  35. Don Box on Objective C
  36. Scariest post of the week
  37. The Plame scandal
  38. Suggesting links
  39. The important things in life
  40. Where are the women?
  41. Revisiting my data fetching puzzle
  42. Blog tools revisited
  43. Is Perl on the way out?
  44. Evangelism I can deal with
  45. Dancing With the Stars
  46. One false move
  47. Morgan Spurlock
  48. London
  49. The bubble is back
  50. Two book reviews
  51. Public service
  52. The dumbest thing ever
  53. Technorati on a roll?
  54. Sysadmins get no respect
  55. Jorn Barger, homeless?
  56. More on MySQL performance
  57. Fix your blog software
  58. The triumph of marketing
  59. Brian Kernighan on Linux and UNIX
  60. The case of Chip Salzenberg

June 2005

  1. Dueling map APIs
  2. Yahoo My Web 2.0
  3. The implications of Grokster
  4. The state of our union
  5. Live from Iraq
  6. Blogging for dollars
  7. Extending RSS
  8. I am Yoda
  9. Time for payback
  10. Grokster decision announced
  11. Is the Oprah show a blog?
  12. Phil Carter is headed to Iraq
  13. Billy Graham
  14. It's libertarians get to be right day
  15. Losing focus
  16. I'm not a political strategist
  17. RealClimate smacks down the WSJ
  18. Naming names
  19. Hiring an engineer for a start-up
  20. Why software patents are dangerous
  21. RIP, Jack Kilby
  22. Coding standards
  23. Games that teach us about the world
  24. Why I need comments
  25. Serendipity
  26. Movable Type vs WordPress, first impressions
  27. Success through backwards induction
  28. Return of the clones
  29. Giving Movable Type a shot
  30. Mark Fletcher on stealth start ups
  31. Doing something about torture
  32. Public relations
  33. The Bad News Bears
  34. The supposed perils of Open Source
  35. Tightly coupled
  36. The Downing Street memos
  37. blo.gs is now a Yahoo property
  38. OpenSolaris
  39. Rethinking weblog software (again)
  40. Nobody with a good car needs to be justified
  41. Managing controversy
  42. The trouble with PHP
  43. The good old days of NMD
  44. Concurrency ahead
  45. Improving MySQL performance on case-insensitve searches
  46. Taking it slow
  47. The state of the union
  48. Outsourcing's not all it's cracked up to be
  49. Los Alamos
  50. Screw partisanship
  51. The DRM theory
  52. Eclipse takeover continues
  53. Strategery
  54. Apple and Intel, sitting in a tree
  55. Apple and Intel
  56. The end of the honeymoon
  57. Playing by different rules
  58. Time to start shorting domain names
  59. Influences
  60. Preventing identity theft
  61. My life in books
  62. Rationalizing LAMP

May 2005

  1. Hack PHP programmer beats computer science geniuses
  2. Eclipse assimilates JBuilder
  3. Pension crisis
  4. Chilling effect
  5. Jakarta Commons
  6. The learning bottleneck
  7. DVD annoyances
  8. Defining torture
  9. Mail Filtering 101
  10. Apps vs frameworks
  11. More on ads in RSS feeds
  12. Matt Haughey on ads in feeds
  13. The filibuster
  14. Scary things
  15. Object-oriented PHP
  16. Words to live by
  17. Google supports Maps hacks
  18. Stereotype threat
  19. Chicago crime king
  20. Check it out
  21. The Supreme Court did me a favor
  22. Last word on the Newsweek flap
  23. What's that I hear?
  24. The magical formula
  25. TV piracy
  26. Confusinger and confusinger
  27. Another high profile mistake?
  28. The Kerry Fish!
  29. Should terrorism be reported
  30. GreaseProxy
  31. Flames are heading your way
  32. What does United Airlines pension default mean?
  33. Coding conventions that lead to better code
  34. Math is hard
  35. The nutritional value of single malt whisky
  36. Tools rule
  37. Congressional redistricting
  38. Mozilla Security Flaw
  39. PHP MVC
  40. REAL ID
  41. Harmony, Apache's version of J2SE 5.0
  42. Broadcast Flag struck down
  43. The snarkiest
  44. Wiki spam
  45. The dangers of denormalizing
  46. Google Web Accelerator not ready for prime time
  47. News & Observer blogs
  48. The Pozen plan
  49. The advantage of waiting
  50. Half a century of Dave Winer
  51. The trouble with Windows
  52. Liberalism defined in one sentence
  53. Worth remembering

April 2005

  1. iPod Shuffle risks
  2. Hitting the big time
  3. New internet or new bubble?
  4. GROUP_CONCAT
  5. Fun with databases, or solving a problem by talking out loud
  6. Body and soul, indeed
  7. Why Kerry lost
  8. The price of fame
  9. Living by the browser
  10. Savage and true
  11. What the future looks like
  12. Learning to eat everything
  13. Intiative rewarded with attention
  14. NY Times redesign
  15. Stopping blog spam
  16. Flickr gets cheapr
  17. A remembrance
  18. A confession
  19. Adobe + Macromedia
  20. Why liberals should read Thomas Friedman
  21. Accountability revisited
  22. Wake County Democratic Party meeting
  23. People oppose what they do not understand
  24. Fancy ASCII banners in spam
  25. Forget Lewis Black
  26. The Unix banner program rides again
  27. Defending the income tax
  28. The grass on the other side
  29. Peak oil hits the big time
  30. RFID Passports
  31. Papal election security
  32. Getting smarter
  33. The falling dollar
  34. How Greasemonkey helps publishers
  35. Wikipedia's rival suitors
  36. Seymour Hersh
  37. More on torture, then and now
  38. Souping up Firefox revisited
  39. Environmental accountability and Google Maps
  40. The .travel scandal
  41. View Source for Flash
  42. Wikipedia, hosted by somebody
  43. Defining torture
  44. More on the local paper
  45. Sploid
  46. Midyear resolution
  47. Making Firefox scream
  48. Pessimism vindicated
  49. The Grokster case
  50. According to one number
  51. Scripting News begat rc3.org
  52. Gmail turns one
  53. JavaScript for everybody

March 2005

  1. Just so you know
  2. The Wordpress PageRank scam
  3. Udell on del.irio.us
  4. Free programming tip
  5. Apple's lawsuits against rumor sites
  6. Apple malfeasance
  7. There's something about Google
  8. Stealing something good
  9. Another number that astounds
  10. Why Web Programming Matters Most
  11. Personal Credit Blog
  12. The danger of hosted services
  13. The value of art
  14. Freedom and life
  15. Wiki set up
  16. Surprising numbers
  17. Continuations
  18. Web development is hard
  19. A professional opinion
  20. Moving forward
  21. Trashing the rule of law
  22. Anil Dash's Blog Cycle
  23. Another Terry Schiavo post
  24. Least surprising announcement ever
  25. Terri Schiavo, the facts
  26. More Volokh
  27. Miguel de Icaza in Lebanon
  28. Object oriented PHP
  29. Hibernate in Action Recommended
  30. Billmon scares me
  31. Secrecy bad
  32. What's cool about Groove
  33. It's a Fox News world
  34. The problem that never goes away
  35. Duking it out
  36. New fonts from Microsoft
  37. AOL's updated terms of service
  38. Something to look forward to
  39. Gmail's killer feature
  40. Why interface design is hard
  41. Innovative fraud
  42. AIM turns evil
  43. How to view your grad school application
  44. More on the HBS controversy
  45. More on where bankruptcies come from
  46. Microsoft acquires Groove
  47. Release day revisited
  48. Fact checking
  49. Defining hacking down
  50. Face the flakts
  51. Blogging good
  52. Exploiting free, anonymous services
  53. Copy protection sucks
  54. Open source as personal trainer
  55. Your worst nightmare
  56. Politics and conscience
  57. Google AutoLink
  58. Some perks
  59. Release day
  60. The brilliance of Billmon
  61. Music player/phones are arriving
  62. Yahoo Web Services

February 2005

  1. Simple truths
  2. Hibernate 3.0 released
  3. Deflation
  4. Jef Raskin, RIP
  5. Librarians on librarians
  6. Plug and pray
  7. The politics of organ donation
  8. The first podcasting startup?
  9. Bill Keller on weblogs
  10. Precinct meeting
  11. Frank Luntz
  12. Personal computers suck
  13. Google and Auto Links
  14. Spam ruins everything
  15. Python sneaks in
  16. In light of recent events ...
  17. Brute force education
  18. Bruce Eckel likes PHP
  19. Going full time
  20. Google, Auto Links, and Microsoft
  21. Occam's Razor
  22. The local paper takes on blogging
  23. The New York Times and About.com
  24. The Google Toolbar
  25. Hunter S. Thompson, RIP
  26. Why I love weblogs
  27. Improving your experience or screwing with my content?
  28. The long tail at work
  29. I read it on a weblog, then it came true
  30. Blasts from the past
  31. GoDaddy.com, I wanted to like you
  32. The ups and downs of outsourcing
  33. More numbers that astound
  34. Template languages
  35. Assassination in Beirut
  36. Design patterns
  37. People get fired for exercising poor judgement
  38. Web services, where do we go?
  39. Blogger meetup in Chapel Hill
  40. The Valentine's Day scam
  41. Triangle Bloggers Conference
  42. He's a uniter
  43. Googlepedia
  44. Triangle Blogger Con
  45. Laws are crazy
  46. How Google Maps works
  47. Balancing the slate
  48. Two surprising items from Salon
  49. More Google Maps fun
  50. The future of Bloglines
  51. Google Maps
  52. More than enough awfulness to go around
  53. Grim tidings
  54. The dangers of pride
  55. Pride and shame
  56. Numbers that astound
  57. Gmail going public
  58. The State of the Union
  59. Things we heard about Iraq
  60. Across the pond
  61. The curious brain

January 2005

  1. The elections in Iraq
  2. The elections in Iraq
  3. Fraud
  4. Struts gets mothballed
  5. Philip Johnson
  6. Ever expanding search
  7. Another daily dose of shame
  8. Truly the universal aspiration
  9. Our bleak future
  10. Fixing video
  11. The Economist on poverty
  12. Andrew Sullivan on torture
  13. Richard Armitage
  14. The Hubble
  15. Too good to be true
  16. Circling the wagons
  17. Don't let it snow
  18. I regret it
  19. Not so big numbers
  20. Blogging for dollars (the bad way)
  21. Not quite getting it
  22. Even more legalized prostitution
  23. More legalized prostitution
  24. Filling cavities
  25. Real world email
  26. Progressive values
  27. Building the perfect retirement system
  28. Nobody knows the truth
  29. Windows vs Mac
  30. Buying a laptop
  31. Legalized prostitution
  32. Linux security
  33. Alberto Gonzales update
  34. Jon Stewart changes CNN
  35. The LiveJournal/Six Apart merger
  36. Campaign finance reform
  37. Like I always say
  38. Six Apart to buy LiveJournal?
  39. Ed Felten's predictions for 2005
  40. Watch what you download
  41. Coming in 2005: the end of life as we know it
  42. The trouble with occupation
  43. Bad MySQL day

2004 676

December 2004

  1. Iranian bloggers being tortured
  2. A penny saved is a penny earned
  3. Results
  4. Stingy Americans
  5. Disaster relief
  6. The front lines of the spam wars
  7. Merry Christmas
  8. The iPhone
  9. Indecent
  10. Tom Friedman ticks me off
  11. Bad publicity for my favorite platform
  12. Surveying war reporting
  13. ServerXMLHTTP is killing me
  14. The courage not to choose
  15. The iPod Photo
  16. Depressing news
  17. Missile defense
  18. Perilous Times
  19. Deflation
  20. Google indexing the world's libraries
  21. The problem with Fez
  22. No Host matches server name
  23. Tim Bray on Wikipedia
  24. Poor test coverage
  25. O'Reilly Safari
  26. The man of the our
  27. I'm tired of hearing it
  28. Everything turns into an application
  29. The best show you won't admit to watching
  30. CSS question
  31. Formerly known as an IBM PC
  32. Java Log
  33. The promise of technology
  34. People are dumb and spam is cheap

November 2004

  1. Character sets and spam
  2. Problems for Nikon
  3. Thanksgiving
  4. PHP design patterns
  5. Something to think about
  6. Learning .NET
  7. Cleaning up your feeds
  8. Tivo explains
  9. Who we are
  10. Loving Tivo less
  11. Another kind of spam
  12. Occasionally I'm right
  13. The front lines
  14. Headphones
  15. Strange Victory
  16. That's funny
  17. Gmail offers POP
  18. The perfect weblog
  19. The other benefit of open source software
  20. Firefox 1.0
  21. The Optimism of Uncertainty
  22. Changing perspective
  23. The liberal elite
  24. A serious question
  25. Quote of the day
  26. Volunteering
  27. I Voted
  28. A note from your conscience
  29. National Right to Life is a spammer
  30. Internet Veterans for Truth

October 2004

  1. The Bin Laden statement
  2. A cult of personality indeed
  3. Iraq war casualties
  4. Voting should be easier
  5. Bush endorses Kerry
  6. More on infantilization
  7. For love or money
  8. Believe it or not
  9. Take that
  10. Free advice to laptop makers
  11. Solving a tough problem
  12. Stupid QuickTopic
  13. When paradigms collide
  14. Google Desktop is cool
  15. The late adopter strikes again
  16. No draft, eh?
  17. Jon Stewart on Crossfire
  18. Bush appeal
  19. More on the Google desktop
  20. Google Desktop Search
  21. Live debate blogging, third Presidential debate
  22. Taxing capital
  23. Bumper stickers
  24. SpikeSource
  25. Extortion
  26. Perfect attendance
  27. Extraordinary rendition
  28. Moving
  29. Bruce Schneier's blog
  30. Email disorganization
  31. Campaign donations
  32. The debate

September 2004

  1. Java 5.0 is out
  2. More on sprawl
  3. Missile defense
  4. The suburbs
  5. The cult of personality
  6. Use XP or get hacked
  7. Fake news indeed
  8. The vision thing
  9. Revisiting IDEA
  10. Late adopter
  11. Is Java cool?
  12. America as Iraq
  13. Thinking about global warming
  14. Hosting
  15. The pressing question of the day
  16. I feel safer already
  17. Grim reality
  18. Bad things
  19. Mozilla Firefox 1.0 PR1
  20. The secret formula
  21. The good guys
  22. Nola
  23. Pop psychology
  24. Iraq blogger gets busted
  25. The genocide in the Sudan
  26. Keeping up with the state of the art
  27. Stupid BugMeNot tricks
  28. People don't get it
  29. Keep up if you can
  30. Facing your aggregator
  31. Why keep a weblog?
  32. Off for a few days
  33. Genius or desperation
  34. Fact checking Wikipedia
  35. The syndication wars

August 2004

  1. Garret Vreeland on the Giuliani speech
  2. del.icio.us woes
  3. Wikipedia works
  4. The new iMac
  5. Keep your mouth shut
  6. The futility of political involvement
  7. The greatest threats in the world
  8. Congratulations to Dave Johnson
  9. Wikipedia, threat or menace?
  10. Government secrecy
  11. Najaf
  12. del.icio.us buckets
  13. Bush administration accepts global warming
  14. The situation in the Sudan
  15. Cry havok and rewrite the laws of war
  16. Google's strategy
  17. It's all over but the crying for the swiftvets
  18. Hibernate 3
  19. Today's Papers on Kerry
  20. The death of DVD
  21. More on the swiftvets
  22. Mise en place for programmers
  23. BugMeNot getting the smackdown
  24. Growth
  25. Grokster wins
  26. Interpreting poll results
  27. Aggregating "swiftvets" information
  28. A soldier's anger
  29. More on missile defense
  30. Check it out
  31. Political donations
  32. Feed splicing
  33. More on the Phil Agre's essay on conservatism
  34. Phil Agre on conservatism
  35. Piracy
  36. Quick and pathetic
  37. What's wrong with these people?
  38. Airport Express cracked
  39. Juan Cole on Iraqi Shiites
  40. Julia Child
  41. Craigslist not acquired by eBay
  42. Bad strategy
  43. Bad on Dotster
  44. The politics of personal destruction
  45. Cheap business Web sites
  46. Knowing the unknowable
  47. My wife's big day
  48. A couple of thoughts on the campaign
  49. Wikipedia gets free press
  50. Rick Boucher at Lessig
  51. Red Adair
  52. Disappointing reading
  53. Yes, Spring really does rock
  54. Combined rc3.org/del.icio.us feed
  55. FeedBurner link splicer
  56. Patents
  57. Back in black
  58. Yet another torture post
  59. Great hackers
  60. What's up in Iraq
  61. Technorati mea culpa
  62. James Robertson responds
  63. The value of a computer

July 2004

  1. Technorati sucks
  2. Real policy
  3. Misuse of census data
  4. Spending on customer experience
  5. Deflation
  6. Fun with debugging
  7. Ed Felten on Apple vs Real
  8. New web app framework for Perl
  9. More Python
  10. Paul Graham on hackers
  11. A thought experiment
  12. The point of it all
  13. Eclipse is harder than it looks
  14. Jane Smiley needs a weblog
  15. Software decay
  16. Working more for less
  17. Denying Google's service
  18. You might be a big shot if
  19. RSS in Thunderbird
  20. A leading indicator
  21. The New York Times is a liberal paper
  22. Refactored markup
  23. Clean Slate
  24. Final(?) word on the Syrian Terrorist Orchestra
  25. The election
  26. Take that, Red Hat
  27. More on the Syrian Terrorist Orchestra
  28. eBay and open source
  29. Second thoughts
  30. Bye bye BlogAds
  31. More on the allmusic.com saga
  32. The RSS flood
  33. New iPods
  34. Whither Lookout
  35. Avalon, the next ActiveX?
  36. Hiring people
  37. NYT mea culpa
  38. A little red
  39. Microsoft buys Lookout
  40. Registering for news sites
  41. A cloud over civilisation
  42. Laundering lies
  43. Outfoxed
  44. For all the comment bashing
  45. The Allmusic Guide
  46. My Spring experiment continues
  47. The geek test
  48. One's approach to eating
  49. Reading in decline
  50. Mark Schmitt throws water on Ehrenreich
  51. Mozilla security problem
  52. Barbara Ehrenreich
  53. Weblogger burnout
  54. More on PHP vs J2EE scalability
  55. Two big numbers
  56. Love the book? Hire the author
  57. Exploiting your own weaknesses
  58. I'm a flip flopper
  59. Bloglines updated
  60. A problem with few solutions
  61. Optimism
  62. PHP vs Java in terms of scalability
  63. Should Sun open source Java?
  64. Sounding convincing
  65. The Spring framework
  66. Where's Orkut's code from?

June 2004

  1. Jfluid
  2. Jaw dropping
  3. Migrating from JSP to PHP
  4. Great job for somebody
  5. J2SE version 5 aka 1.5
  6. Another one bites the dust
  7. Judged by a different standard
  8. Cheap Visual Studio
  9. The power of Google
  10. The medium and the message
  11. The Supremes
  12. Freedom
  13. Hacking for profit and pleasure
  14. One reason to have comments
  15. The meaning of security
  16. Invitation only
  17. The dangers of insular thinking
  18. Hiring programmers
  19. Fighting spam
  20. Misery loves company
  21. Two graphs
  22. Reforming the DMCA
  23. Microsoft and its partners
  24. The dumbest bug ever
  25. Screenshots please
  26. My iPod loves the Talking Heads
  27. Gmail rave
  28. Labels versus folders
  29. Christian entertainment
  30. del.icio.us
  31. Bloomsday
  32. How Microsoft Lost the API War
  33. First mobile phone virus created
  34. The impact of phishing
  35. The ethnic food obsession
  36. William Pfaff on torture
  37. What really counts
  38. Subversion
  39. Christopher Hitchens
  40. Test Driven Development
  41. I think email is dying
  42. Jack Sparks' Top 100 Country Songs of All Time
  43. Traffic light cameras
  44. What's new in Firefox 0.9
  45. The Witty worm
  46. The Irresponsible Investor
  47. Making sport of Gentoo Linux users
  48. The lowest common denominator
  49. PowerBlogs
  50. Christopher Allbritton reports
  51. Becoming part of the story
  52. TheyWorkForYou.com
  53. Ignore this
  54. The seriousness of war
  55. Hibernate versus JDO, or today is my lucky day
  56. Afghanistan
  57. Keeping bad company
  58. Eavesdropping on the president
  59. Tomcat tips
  60. Free suggestion for Google
  61. John Kerry, please try harder
  62. The Kerry intern rumor

May 2004

  1. John Kerry interview
  2. The tragedy in Haiti
  3. PowerBlogs
  4. Proof of sloth
  5. Vetting the Vice Presidential candidates
  6. Periodic Table of Perl Operators
  7. My worthless theory
  8. Bad news for Eric Sink
  9. Bluetooth superhero
  10. For the person who has everything
  11. Silly Slashdot
  12. Candidate weblogs
  13. Infectious tie
  14. Java and PHP
  15. Food for thought
  16. Answering the question
  17. Gmail psychology
  18. LoveSac.com
  19. Social programs that work
  20. Interview with a marine
  21. Why is Chalabi out?
  22. National Guard spam
  23. Let America Be America Again
  24. Pomp and circumstance
  25. Kerryism of the Day
  26. BlogAds
  27. Open Source CRM
  28. Weblogging and money
  29. Charles Miller on Java
  30. Make no mistake
  31. Thought for the day
  32. Sex and dogs
  33. Gwyneth Paltrow's baby
  34. The psychology of conformity
  35. The fight over Movable Type licensing
  36. The case of Nick Berg
  37. The Zimbardo experiment
  38. RSS readers
  39. Why the beheading video?
  40. A cheap way to help
  41. Poison Ivy, Oak, and Sumac Information Center
  42. Eclipse usage is growing rapidly
  43. Is it just me?
  44. WordPress
  45. A Wretched New Picture Of America
  46. The New Blogger
  47. Killed or captured
  48. Donald Rumsfeld and Howell Raines
  49. The Misunderestimated Man
  50. The list keeps on growing
  51. Profound and succinct
  52. The New York Times on IRC
  53. Note to Tom Friedman
  54. A contrary view on Ted Rall
  55. Christopher Hitchens is wrong a lot
  56. Drip Drip
  57. Irrational fears
  58. Ted Rall and cynicism
  59. The bottom line
  60. The blogosphere strikes again
  61. Tim Bray and Sun's public face

April 2004

  1. EditCSS
  2. John Battelle on Google
  3. In Fallujah
  4. Changing the terms
  5. Who are the bad guys again?
  6. Say it ain't so
  7. I'm not a big fan of the copyright industry, but ...
  8. Muqtada al-Sadr profile
  9. Wesley Clark to President Bush: shut up
  10. Heavy artillery
  11. Bikeshed revisited
  12. Your mother's maiden name
  13. The exception or the rule?
  14. Getting your money's worth
  15. Nukes
  16. The ultimate sacrifice
  17. Comparing the junior officer evals of Bush and Kerry
  18. Programming Apache Axis
  19. Rolling back those prices
  20. Regular expression question
  21. New Thunderbird logo
  22. Buzzword of the day: Resume Driven Development
  23. Making it as a lone entrepreneur
  24. Surveying Iraqi weblogs
  25. Uh oh, SCO
  26. Andrew Sullivan on raising the gas tax
  27. Mark Cuban vs Donald Trump
  28. The Fallujah fallout
  29. More important than the usual campaign stuff
  30. From a reader
  31. Quoting the Melian dialogue so I don't have to
  32. Lindows name change
  33. Amazon's search engine
  34. Fair and balanced
  35. Trickery
  36. National ID cards won't work
  37. Quitting in disgust revisited
  38. Scum exploit a loophole
  39. Eclipse shortcuts
  40. Pricing downloadable music
  41. Gmail 2
  42. Jim Henley at length
  43. Gmail
  44. PlayFair, adieu
  45. Dr. Seuss political cartoons
  46. Tim Bray on blogging and the enterprise
  47. It's funny when you think about it
  48. Recap of The Swan
  49. Jeffrey Veen: How I stopped buying CDs and started loving music
  50. The NSA greppers
  51. Dostum unbridled
  52. It's better to be a blogger than a politician
  53. You have to laugh
  54. Horrific images in the media
  55. Boing Boing, from hobby to business
  56. Quitting in disgust
  57. Apple DRM remover
  58. Brilliant catch by Genehack
  59. Incitement
  60. More revision marks hilarity
  61. phpCodeBeautifier
  62. It's true
  63. The implications of Gmail
  64. Early adoption
  65. Linux usability
  66. Brad knows about a lot more than shaving cream
  67. Hibernate 3.0
  68. Rolston on Fallujah
  69. I hate April Fool's day
  70. Worth noting

March 2004

  1. Another bad sign
  2. Situated Software
  3. Simon Willison on PHP and Apache 2.0
  4. Jeremy Zawodny switches
  5. Revisiting how bad it is
  6. Drezner on Clarke
  7. The problem with the DBunker
  8. Toiletries
  9. File sharing doesn't hurt record sales
  10. The evil command.com
  11. Why Do Java Developers Like to Make Things So Hard?
  12. Google 2
  13. Tim Bray on OpenOffice
  14. Eclipse 3.0 M8
  15. There is no loop
  16. Yes, DRM really does suck
  17. More on the SCO front
  18. Dare we hope?
  19. What about Bob?
  20. No open source Java
  21. Top Ten Things They Never Taught Me in Design School
  22. Richard Clarke's credibility
  23. Bob Edwards gets the boot
  24. Obligatory Fred Kaplan link
  25. Now, that is clever
  26. On CSS
  27. SCO license getting more expensive
  28. Often imitated, never duplicated
  29. All Clarke, all the time
  30. Java's skills gap
  31. Operation Ignore
  32. The Bush plan to defeat al-Qaeda
  33. Amen, brother
  34. Josh Marshall's analysis
  35. Today's fun technical challenge
  36. Ayman al-Zawahiri
  37. It seems kind of quaint now
  38. Welcome to the quagmire
  39. The future of software development
  40. Coalition of the what?
  41. Idea
  42. The trouble with politics
  43. Eclipse pet peeve conquered
  44. The world of C++
  45. Nice smile
  46. The Journey of Man
  47. Resisting the temptation
  48. Arrogance
  49. Congressman Ed Cone?
  50. The meaning of the word "imminent"
  51. Spain's elections
  52. Bray goes to Sun
  53. Galbraith on jobs
  54. Apache and Tomcat, sitting in a tree
  55. More on judicial elections
  56. Subscriptions
  57. Full text posts now enabled
  58. The state of Mono
  59. Missile defense
  60. The taste of
  61. The truth about income inequality
  62. The horse race
  63. Save the Hubble!
  64. Today's terrorism
  65. It takes a lifetime
  66. Pandora's box
  67. Local politics
  68. How today's economy works
  69. Good hybrid news
  70. Loading up
  71. I can't stand bigotry
  72. Global Warming
  73. CalPundit gets a paid gig
  74. Flip flops are part of the job
  75. It's early, but ...
  76. Thinking about traffic
  77. The trouble with Bush
  78. Josh Marshall strikes back
  79. Duh
  80. An accurate prediction
  81. SCO's numbers
  82. Put up or shut up
  83. Don't blame me, I'm just the President
  84. Will miracles never cease?
  85. The Diebold voting machines
  86. Why civil war?
  87. It's that time
  88. Go figure
  89. Yahoo paid search
  90. Understanding the troubles ahead for Social Security
  91. Krugman on Social Security
  92. It's Diebold day
  93. The war on science
  94. SCO lands a
  95. Lessig on Eldred v Ashcroft
  96. The trouble with Haiti
  97. The Social Security shell game
  98. Must read science and technical books
  99. The trouble with Pakistan

February 2004

  1. A postcard from Jerusalem
  2. The Senate stock profits story
  3. Land mines
  4. Code Complete
  5. Fair is fair
  6. Krugman on free trade
  7. The Passion of the Christ
  8. The argument for Kerry
  9. Go go IBM
  10. It's not the bugs, it's the patches
  11. Those were the days
  12. Open Source Java
  13. 13 Ways to Save Orkut
  14. Politics as usual
  15. Common sense on outsourcing
  16. The burning questions of our time
  17. Grey Tuesday
  18. The Homeland Security budget
  19. John Kerry's military record
  20. Your 2004 reading list
  21. Ralph Nader
  22. Semi-revolutionary
  23. George W Bush, the person
  24. Weblogger meets the President
  25. Techie day
  26. Just for fun
  27. Webb on Bush (and Kerry)
  28. Special Interests
  29. The reality of outsourcing
  30. The SUV Menace
  31. What's an echo chamber?
  32. Common sense on spam
  33. Best roleplaying game ever
  34. Growing authoritarianism
  35. First day at the new job
  36. Server side aggregators
  37. Winding up the military service issue
  38. Phil Carter on Bush's National Guard service
  39. Cingular eats AT&T Wireless
  40. Tangible outcomes
  41. Just a comparison
  42. Afghanistan
  43. I knew it!
  44. The Windows source code
  45. Nice catch
  46. Fair and balanced
  47. Giving props to John Edwards
  48. A blast from the past
  49. MS source leak
  50. Feed on Feeds
  51. Dr Atkins
  52. The single most important issue we face
  53. I hate Windows
  54. Wes Clark, adieu
  55. Techno-lust engaged
  56. The Russert interview
  57. Fear the bloggers
  58. Mozilla Firefox 0.8
  59. Bush with Russert
  60. Playing chicken
  61. Tivo and Nielsen working together
  62. Rethinking things
  63. Orkut
  64. Bizarro world
  65. The debt all Americans owe
  66. Obligatory tech post
  67. Recalibration required
  68. More on the budget
  69. The Dean campaign
  70. Signing email messages
  71. Hurts so good
  72. Defining evil
  73. Playing catch up
  74. One to one marketing

January 2004

  1. Bruce Schneier on terrorism
  2. More bad news on electronic voting
  3. The job market
  4. Freaky Friday
  5. Polling
  6. Imperialism
  7. Enough is enough
  8. Tax followup
  9. Rendering unto Caesar
  10. The Cheetoh factor
  11. Maher Arar follow on effects
  12. Maher Arar
  13. The Iowa caucuses
  14. I hate Cingular
  15. Reliability of the media
  16. Job Search Update
  17. Hubble update
  18. Space program fears confirmed
  19. Bush in 30 Seconds
  20. The Salon campaign weblog
  21. Money money money
  22. The polling numbers
  23. The new space program
  24. The Suskind book
  25. Show's what I know
  26. The Howard Dean debate
  27. Apache vs Microsoft IIS
  28. Brad DeLong on Paul O'Neill
  29. Dialog among liberal hawks
  30. This will make you feel safer
  31. Another George W Bush halo picture
  32. Eating your own kind
  33. Dog food
  34. Following up
  35. Our broken federal budget
  36. Closing the loop
  37. My favorite baseball player
  38. The iPod Mini
  39. Why Wesley Clark?
  40. The trouble with Pakistan
  41. Noted in passing
  42. Mencken on Bush
  43. Tivo squanders its advantage
  44. Dining out
  45. Reading the presidential budget
  46. On the hunt
  47. The so-called Free Republic
  48. Series 60 apps
  49. UN takeover of the Internet
  50. Happy 2004

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