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December 2008

  1. The reality of Israel and Palestine
  2. The bubble rendered visible
  3. The cons of the Rails/Merb merger
  4. Defining Web 2.0
  5. Stimulus is on the way
  6. Cooking a roast (and why Food TV sucks)
  7. Merb and Rails, together at last
  8. Credit where it's due
  9. On practice
  10. Irritation is my muse
  11. Bank will pay executive bonuses in illiquid assets
  12. Bringing a legacy into the Senate
  13. Rails and Rack and Metal
  14. The Wall Street Journal blew the story on net neutrality
  15. Quotable: Steve Jobs
  16. The auto industry in a nutshell
  17. Leadership means confronting reality
  18. What's Ruby's future?
  19. The immediacy of Twitter
  20. Web site CPU usage
  21. Release windows
  22. How reporters are like developers
  23. Beware excessive abstractions
  24. Quote of the day: Eric Shinseki
  25. Things are tough all over
  26. No backtracking on torture
  27. You can only fall so far
  28. Credit card issuers preparing to reap
  29. The iPhone app store at 5 months
  30. Don't miss the punchline
  31. The state of Android
  32. The lesson I taught today
  33. Truth in advertising
  34. Financial collapse blogger Tanta, RIP

November 2008

  1. The New York Times on collaborative filtering
  2. Documents, RIP?
  3. When everything is recorded
  4. Flat is failure
  5. Google SearchWiki
  6. Context is everything
  7. What happens to campaign supplies?
  8. The new world
  9. The Kinkade aesthetic
  10. The future of fish
  11. Obama on torture
  12. Why people accept being biased
  13. Network neutrality and transparency
  14. Nick Denton's Internet advertising forecast
  15. The Atlantic
  16. Old software never dies
  17. Obama will close Gitmo
  18. The quickest route from database results to CSV
  19. How President Obama could disappoint me
  20. Something to celebrate
  21. Watching election returns (for the obsessive)
  22. Obama endorsements
  23. How we label politicians
  24. Are software patents dead?

October 2008

  1. Why I am optimistic
  2. Maybe blogs saved the economy
  3. Bulk discount
  4. Iceland's fate
  5. Limit 1
  6. Text messaging as a marketing tool
  7. I voted
  8. The New York Times endorses Willkie
  9. Liberalism 101
  10. How to read popular non-fiction
  11. I was right
  12. Why does Flash suck on OS X?
  13. Rogers Cadenhead attends an Obama rally
  14. MUDs turned 30 today
  15. How Palin was chosen
  16. The good and bad of texting
  17. Proposals for a better food industry
  18. Putting airport security to the test
  19. Programmer book club selection
  20. That other $700 billion figure
  21. Presidential Debate Live Blog
  22. Filtering versus conditional logic
  23. New York magazine interviews Nate Silver
  24. Evidence that we should not freak out, episode I
  25. One hand washes the other
  26. The "Sweden Plan" is upon us
  27. Evidence that we should freak out, episode II
  28. Evidence that we should freak out, episode I
  29. Journalism 101
  30. Fact checking the copyright industry
  31. Improving Google Mail Goggles
  32. Presidential Debate live blog
  33. Presidential Debate live blog
  34. Everything needs context
  35. The prisoner's dilemma
  36. Two posts on transparency
  37. VIce Presidential Debate: live blog
  38. Impulse philanthropy
  39. Live Vice Presidential debate blogging
  40. Bad drug interactions
  41. Warren Buffett on evaluating people
  42. Mark to market roundup
  43. Apple blinks

September 2008

  1. Managing your own medical care
  2. Political will
  3. Live debate blogging meta-post
  4. Live blogging the first Presidential Debate
  5. The danger of SQL illiteracy
  6. Support the Lupus Walk
  7. Why executive compensation should be on the table
  8. Google on rewriting dynamic URLs
  9. Knocking on doors
  10. Our current crisis in a nutshell
  11. iTunes Genius playlists
  12. Old votes or new proposals
  13. Times change
  14. Best economic joke of the day
  15. Using games for terrorist collaboration
  16. Saying what I'm thinking
  17. Pandora's Tom Conrad on Android
  18. Alaska's share of America's energy
  19. The human cost of war
  20. James Fallows on Sarah Palin
  21. Hurricane Ike
  22. Levels of candor
  23. Steve Yegge on typing
  24. Speculators and oil prices
  25. Foreign Policy's 20 questions for Sarah Palin
  26. Fighting censorship with banner ads
  27. David Simon on the problems of urban America
  28. The politics of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
  29. Interview questions for Sarah Palin
  30. Do you let your editor organize your code?
  31. Read the Chrome EULA
  32. Sarah Palin, book banner
  33. The Google Browser

August 2008

  1. Ruby Gems as an attack vector
  2. On Sarah Palin and everything else
  3. On experience
  4. Opinions sought: OS X text editors
  5. Strong opinions, weakly held
  6. Email is dead
  7. The state of play
  8. Is China punishing Apple?
  9. When is linking to yourself bad form?
  10. The state of the art in interface spoofing
  11. John McCain and Rick Warren, distilled
  12. Why design should not be divorced from engineering
  13. The candidates on evil
  14. When's framework overhead justified
  15. Another blow to Thomas Friedman
  16. Open Salon
  17. Gruber on leadership
  18. Why are good people involved in politics?
  19. Sports statistics analysts take over the world
  20. Why you may want to protect your Twitter updates
  21. Craig Newmark on Internet literacy
  22. American Airlines withdraws from Kayak and SideStep
  23. On hunting

July 2008

  1. A good blog should be self-subverting
  2. Really big government
  3. Why people grind in games
  4. Cory Doctorow on the music industry
  5. Tim Bray on the Apple keyboard
  6. Tom Vanderwell on moral hazard
  7. Ways the government helps rich people
  8. Fred Clark on FICO scores
  9. Free Software Foundation vs iPhone
  10. NPR on Mr. Jalopy
  11. iPhone 2.0 password masking
  12. Another look at the long tail
  13. FISA fight ends with a whimper
  14. The curse of arrogance
  15. Physical CDs, what should I do with them?
  16. Barack Obama's FISA shame
  17. The Long Tail revisited again
  18. Ethics on a Web where links are currency
  19. The wrong tail
  20. Adobe is making Flash searchable
  21. Why Firebug is awesome
  22. Xeni Jardin on unpublishing
  23. Whitespace sensitivity

June 2008

  1. Embargoed for one year
  2. Anil Dash on Bill Gates
  3. Where globalization is headed
  4. Why Johnny can't Google
  5. Dead media strike again
  6. The how and why of The Big Picture
  7. The Media Bloggers Assocation
  8. Add some white space
  9. The Red Cross
  10. Right up my alley
  11. Pick one feed format
  12. Winning process
  13. Gitmo detainees have rights under the Constitution
  14. Is it OK to require JavaScript?
  15. How I roll
  16. Adventures in consulting (from June 30, 1998)
  17. A couple of Obama items
  18. John Royal's obituary for Jim McKay
  19. Warren Buffett is down on hedge funds
  20. Higher gas prices and air travel
  21. Busy busy
  22. Advice for visiting a developing country
  23. Don't confuse principle and politics
  24. A Web 2.0 perspective on open government
  25. Obituary for a career and an industry

May 2008

  1. Would you want to work for this guy?
  2. Upton Sinclair reviews Scott McLellan's memoirs
  3. How the media really works
  4. Apple's astounding numbers
  5. Hillary and the Kübler-Ross model
  6. Working conditions for designers
  7. The concert experience
  8. Why not just support HTML?
  9. A blog for Tivo users
  10. Institutions that are actually hedge funds
  11. What users do
  12. Skipping the error handling?
  13. Priming the pump
  14. Why people oppose peak oil on philosophical grounds
  15. My rules of thumb for developers: use less indentation
  16. Our drug war feeds Mexico's civil war
  17. There are programmers ...
  18. OpenOffice for the Mac
  19. Those who can't do ...
  20. Data recovered from hard drive on Columbia
  21. The aftermath in Burma
  22. Will Blackberry users like the iPhone?
  23. _why has a better hobby than me
  24. Why food is becoming more expensive
  25. The headless browser
  26. Used 1984 Ferrari for sale

April 2008

  1. The investigative humorist
  2. White House email: malice or incompetence?
  3. Is the personal Web site a thing of the past?
  4. Donald Knuth on unit tests
  5. Mass SQL injection update
  6. Truer words
  7. Mass SQL Injection attack
  8. Tyler Cowen on the reality of politics
  9. The LAFD on Twitter
  10. How law schools juke the stats
  11. What happened to Snopes.com?
  12. Six Apart moves into advertising and services
  13. More on the state of publishing
  14. The risks of monkeying with DNS
  15. Links for April 19
  16. At the convention
  17. Apple and Safari for Windows
  18. Usability and performance, part 1
  19. Links for April 16
  20. Links for April 14
  21. Best $50 I ever spent
  22. Links for April 13
  23. Links for April 9
  24. Links for April 8
  25. Analyzing Git
  26. Links for April 7
  27. My rules of thumb for developers: less code
  28. Links for April 6
  29. Links for April 3rd
  30. What I seek to find and perhaps provide
  31. The tabbed interface schism in OS X
  32. Links for April 2nd
  33. Links for March 31

March 2008

  1. Push button ignition
  2. On the road
  3. Links for March 27
  4. HTML really sucks right now
  5. Links for March 25
  6. The genesis of agile software development
  7. Links for March 24
  8. Links for March 22
  9. Links from March 19th
  10. The Obama disconnect
  11. Links from March 18th
  12. New blog: Agile Testing
  13. Links from March 16th and 17th
  14. Is the Fed losing traction?
  15. Links from March 15th
  16. Links from March 14th
  17. Links from March 13th
  18. Links for March 12th
  19. Is there an IT skills shortage?
  20. jQuery evangelism
  21. Real estate numbers that astound
  22. The aesthetics of politics
  23. The physics of control
  24. What Obama may lack
  25. Matt Raible on picking a framework
  26. The developer's conception of time
  27. OpenAIM
  28. Against TDD orthodoxy
  29. PHP tip of the day
  30. Voice mail for the homeless
  31. Neutral Milk Hotel
  32. Hillary Clinton vs Barack Obama on civil liberties

February 2008

  1. My misbehaving Rails application
  2. Hillary Clinton's argument for stealing the nomination
  3. Yet another Obama economics article
  4. Lessig out
  5. On Twitter and blogs
  6. The death of small magazines
  7. The future of the exurbs
  8. Is local food production overrated?
  9. Comment preview
  10. Microsoft Office XML
  11. An ugly hack
  12. Lessig for Congress
  13. Josh Marshall wins a Polk Award
  14. What if we give it away?
  15. Bad day for good government
  16. Massive beef recall
  17. More Katrina fallout
  18. Two phones for every pocket?
  19. Flags as infographics
  20. President Bush on the Olympics
  21. Installing Ubuntu on OS X
  22. What the prediction markets think
  23. How I watch football
  24. Aesthetics in the era of disposables
  25. John Robb on the surge
  26. The OpenID explosion continues
  27. My prediction for music DRM
  28. Larry Lessig on Obama
  29. More on Obama's economics
  30. Will the Microsoft/Yahoo merger lead to innovation?
  31. Under the sea
  32. Thoughts on Microsoft and Yahoo
  33. The price of cheap meat
  34. We live in the future

January 2008

  1. Thanks for blowing my mind
  2. Actions in the stream
  3. How not to handle trolls
  4. Yahoo is an OpenID provider
  5. Are you a Mac user at heart?
  6. On Hillary Clinton and Florida
  7. Movies are getting dumber
  8. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama
  9. Hoping for better politics
  10. iPhone WebClip icons
  11. Quit blaming poor people
  12. Definition of the law of unintended consequences
  13. Mozilla is 10 years old
  14. Spring is a more desirable skill than EJB
  15. Bill Gates at Davos
  16. The implications of IE8
  17. Andrew Leonard on today's rate cut
  18. David Simon is wrong about the news
  19. Bloatware afflicts the auto industry
  20. WordPress, for now
  21. Is IM interop alive?
  22. Bruce Schneier runs an open wireless network
  23. Sun acquires MySQL
  24. Time is money, even in World of Warcraft
  25. Is there a missing tier of Web hosting?
  26. The truth about Rails
  27. Enough predictions
  28. The newsroom of The Wire
  29. Ron Paul and the gold standard
  30. David Simon hits the Internet
  31. Nikki Finke is her own worst enemy
  32. Scott Rosenberg's history of blogging
  33. On The Wire premiere
  34. Life by the beep
  35. The economics of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
  36. What's the ceiling for Rails?
  37. Reviewing 2007 predictions
  38. Presidential candidates on video games

2007 468

December 2007

  1. Unusual UI design considerations
  2. Football history
  3. Dumbest Bush adminstration legal arguments of 2007
  4. Assessing the candidates' digital policy
  5. Registration for commenters enabled
  6. Happy blog birthday!
  7. Search forms should use the GET method
  8. Going to the movies
  9. The economics of Kayak
  10. Minute fingerprints
  11. Settling a bet
  12. Apple and thinksecret.com settle
  13. Quote of the day
  14. MooTools developer kicked off the team
  15. Gamers are clever freaks
  16. Really organized crime
  17. Amazon.com takes on the relational database
  18. The one thing to look for in an interview
  19. What's a knol?
  20. Movable Type Open Source
  21. Best compliment ever
  22. Fake municipal government in India
  23. The future of timekeeping
  24. The implications of the CIA destroying its torture tapes
  25. Malcolm Gladwell on IQ and race
  26. Building a community site these days
  27. The bubble pattern
  28. Why is Macrovision buying Gemstar?
  29. It's not subprime, it's negative amortization and ARMs
  30. Not fired yet
  31. You can now use AIM from Gmail
  32. ArsTechnica on ethics in the gaming industry
  33. If you could only ask one question
  34. US government thinks Iran isn't working on nuclear weapons
  35. You want to control your infrastructure
  36. Don't read CNET
  37. Magazine marketing is all lies

November 2007

  1. A guide to judging a Layer Tennis match
  2. Anthropological evidence, or fairness if you prefer
  3. The new sports media empire
  4. Timing out attempted socket connections
  5. Google Storage, the next logical step
  6. The Cambrian Explosion of communications
  7. Apple needs to handle tabs more elegantly
  8. The cure is worse than the disease
  9. URLs by design
  10. Random Kindle thoughts
  11. Home cooks versus restaurant cooks
  12. The cost of the war in Iraq
  13. A true story about my Mac
  14. Prizes are usually about love, not money
  15. What's the deal with Rackspace?
  16. The WGA strike
  17. The Android SDK is up
  18. Armistice Day
  19. Engineering and terrorism
  20. Best site for WGA strike news
  21. How the iCal dock icon in Leopard works
  22. Greg Knauss on developers vs managers
  23. What is Comet?
  24. Grassroots Network Neutrality
  25. The Google phone arrives
  26. Why Apple fans have a grudge
  27. A thousand flowers
  28. Treaties and standards
  29. The how and why of AT&T's eavesdropping
  30. This and that
  31. Issues and the 2008 election
  32. The pre-bankruptcy debt trade

October 2007

  1. Top Model Syria
  2. Leopard and Java
  3. Package scope and unit testing with Java
  4. Is whois on the way out?
  5. John Siracusa on Leopard
  6. Forever '95
  7. More on BitTorrent and convenience
  8. How software warps your brain
  9. The allure of conspiracy theories
  10. How studying economics makes you happier
  11. The state of politics today
  12. Ed Felten on Comcast and Net Neutrality
  13. More on bridge blogs
  14. 20 million virtual gifts
  15. Did net neutrality die in its sleep?
  16. Quality is the killer feature
  17. The URL says it all
  18. Bridge blogs
  19. Nice quarter, Apple
  20. How to get an innocent man to admit to being a terrorist
  21. Recursion
  22. Saving things in Ruby on Rails: the solution
  23. Why root matters
  24. Fun with saving things in Ruby on Rails
  25. iPhone and network neutrality
  26. iPhone SDK in February
  27. Amazon.com one-click patent rejected
  28. code.nytimes.com
  29. Some thoughts on testing
  30. LinkedIn vs Facebook
  31. The Nobel Prize for Blogging
  32. Evidence-based scheduling in FogBugz 6.0
  33. Ian Rogers on DRM
  34. On influence
  35. YouTube and fair use
  36. The North Carolina lottery is a bust
  37. IE7 for everyone
  38. suexec Blows
  39. Developing for the iPhone
  40. Amazon MP3 tracks don't include watermarks
  41. Thousands of Burmese monks executed?
  42. Analysis and iPhone

September 2007

  1. Ringtone madness
  2. Judge reverses two provisions of the Patriot Act
  3. Reading the Bible
  4. Burmese monks demand democracy
  5. The new Amazon.com Music Store
  6. Best recycling program ever
  7. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Donovan McNabb
  8. Expanding innovation in the mobile industry
  9. Ditching Rails
  10. MailPlane and specialized browsers
  11. President Bush is afraid of horses
  12. The origins of restaurant criticism
  13. Six Apart's great experiment
  14. Sophia from Kid Nation assesses President Bush
  15. 25th birthday of the emoticon
  16. Belgian separatism
  17. Does two make a trend?
  18. eMusic and Epitaph Records
  19. The "fat" iPod Nano
  20. Two views of regular expressions
  21. I am not a systems administrator
  22. Unlock an iPhone for free
  23. The last word on climate change?
  24. Thinking about unobtrusive JavaScript
  25. One refugee's story
  26. The final word on the iPhone rebate
  27. My old friend Perl
  28. Links from September 8
  29. Apple killed iToner
  30. Apple just gave me $100
  31. Kick the can
  32. MarsEdit and Movable Type 4
  33. Mortality salience
  34. Down down down

August 2007

  1. Feed now served through FeedBurner
  2. Unix command flag of the day
  3. The original Macintosh user manual
  4. How do prediction markets do?
  5. QOTD: Harvey Pekar
  6. re3.org
  7. Java is what it is
  8. Since 2000
  9. Upgrade fever
  10. Links for August 26
  11. Movable Type 4
  12. The Wire
  13. Links for August 16
  14. Karl Rove's resignation
  15. Anil Dash the work/home divide
  16. SCO loses
  17. Hands-on review of the OLPC laptop
  18. Street Charity
  19. Links for August 9
  20. Busy week

July 2007

  1. Web 2.0 vs Open Source?
  2. Links for July 31
  3. Bruce Schneier interviews TSA administrator
  4. Avoiding Harry Potter spoilers
  5. Obvious programming tip for the day
  6. How's the iPhone?
  7. Links for July 25
  8. Grim housing news
  9. David Petraeus' September progress report
  10. Links for July 23
  11. Today's Links
  12. Today's Links
  13. Yesterday's links
  14. Safari 3.0 is ahead of its time
  15. Do you eat in the car?
  16. Correspondent Inference Theory
  17. My iPhone analogy
  18. Whole Foods' CEO is a message board troll
  19. Think big
  20. On the iPhone, you're always root
  21. Israel is pondering Internet censorship
  22. Design documents for small teams
  23. You never know who might be paying attention
  24. An iPhone gripe
  25. Testosterone makes you spiteful
  26. Terrorism doesn't work
  27. Google acquires GrandCentral
  28. eMusic/Internet radio mashup
  29. iPhone activation hell ends
  30. Google woos the health care industry
  31. iPhone activation tip

June 2007

  1. I got an iPhone
  2. The Flickr iPhone tag
  3. Facebook is the new AOL
  4. WSJ reporters walk out
  5. Rhino on Rails
  6. I am the perfect iPhone customer
  7. Why "strict construction" is a joke
  8. Early word on the iPhone
  9. The clueless media
  10. Another angle on database scalability
  11. Will the bureaucracy save us?
  12. The iPhone in the enterprise
  13. The birds and the bees
  14. The health care primary
  15. The iPhone and Email
  16. Search warrants now required to access email
  17. Ed Felten on gold farmers
  18. Golf is exciting
  19. Not yet beyond surprise
  20. Sy Hersh on the Taguba Report
  21. Stitching conversations
  22. Are book reviews a better deal than books?
  23. Tivo UI Suggestion
  24. The race for Ruby IDE support
  25. Bruce Schneier on terrorism
  26. Liberate the blazer
  27. Misuse of scientific laws
  28. The scale of America's economy
  29. More Sopranos commentary
  30. On Safari
  31. Ron Moore on The Sopranos
  32. The Sopranos Easter Egg
  33. Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote agenda leaked?
  34. Hillary Clinton in two paragraphs
  35. Job hunting advice from both sides
  36. Monit is on it
  37. Wikigroaning
  38. Movable Type 4
  39. Zero day tracks
  40. The PHP encapsulation problem
  41. The BradLands turns nine
  42. New OS, old problems
  43. Gene Spafford on computer science education
  44. The skinny on Apple's DRM-free tracks
  45. Anti-globalization riots in Germany
  46. Stephen O'Grady's giant Google Gears Q & A
  47. Steve Ballmer is a peach

May 2007

  1. Sudan threatens global cola supply
  2. Mark Cuban's new pro football league
  3. CBS scrobbles last.fm
  4. Google Gears
  5. Torture through the ages
  6. Laptop as phone accessory
  7. DCampSouth
  8. The rising cost of steak
  9. Back door censorship
  10. Mall of America
  11. FreeBSD has arrived
  12. Back in the saddle again
  13. Downtime ahead
  14. Curse Gaming runs Django
  15. The Google Bus
  16. The suicide bombing poll
  17. David Plotz on the Middle East
  18. Future proof Web hosting
  19. Dead in the water
  20. The case for .bank
  21. Who planted the iPhone news?
  22. Warp your brain
  23. Ruby on Rails layouts and JavaScript includes
  24. Visual Studio is deficient
  25. Matt's excellent tips on running a community
  26. Stephen O'Grady on Microsoft's patent assertions
  27. Why artists tend to be liberal
  28. Microsoft makes it explicit
  29. Thinking like a programmer
  30. A disturbing prediction for the British army
  31. Afraid of flying?
  32. Bye bye Blackbird
  33. Brad DeLong on Paul Wolfowitz
  34. The Iraqi refugee crisis
  35. Why JavaFX isn't competitive
  36. The organic thrifty food plan
  37. From the mouths of sportswriters
  38. Troubling poll results
  39. Planet Earth
  40. Spare cycles
  41. Impeach Bush?
  42. Moneyball everywhere
  43. Ed Felten on the 09 dustup
  44. Many news sites use RSS poorly
  45. iPhone Pricing
  46. Computers are disposable
  47. Amazon S3 is getting cheaper

April 2007

  1. 3qd update on Katrina recovery
  2. The MySQL conference
  3. New debate rule
  4. Define irony
  5. Prototype, Internet Explorer 5.5, and select lists
  6. Backing up to S3
  7. One Iraq prediction
  8. Subclipse won't be part of Eclipse
  9. What's next for the Bush administration
  10. Southern Culture on the Skids
  11. On the topic of eMusic
  12. Another iPod theory
  13. Big brother is watching you, and your pharmacist
  14. Be careful where you enter your email address
  15. eMusic is still growing
  16. Using Yahoo Pipes
  17. How big is the club?
  18. Spammer infests hosting account
  19. How to build online community
  20. War and public opinion
  21. Gene Weingarten on the Bush administration
  22. Google is a big company now
  23. Scaling Ruby on Rails, continued
  24. One laptop per child
  25. Andrew Leonard on Kurt Vonnegut
  26. OS X release delayed due to iPhone
  27. IT wages are going up everywhere
  28. Voter fraud
  29. Jon Carroll on YOYOW
  30. Twitter developer: Rails performance blows
  31. Kurt Vonnegut, RIP
  32. How programming is like golf
  33. Links for April 10
  34. Link roundup for April 9
  35. Anil Dash on civility among bloggers
  36. The idiocy of "The Secret"
  37. The quotable Dave Winer
  38. The wild world of intellectual property
  39. The death of the record industry
  40. Predatory mortgage lenders and credit snobs
  41. Today's victims of climate change
  42. News breakout?
  43. The grim toll of politics
  44. When deployments go wrong
  45. The Overton window
  46. Keyboard shortcuts for tabs
  47. What's the Apple-EMI deal mean?
  48. Slate is rebuilding its forum software
  49. The case against torture
  50. 10 years of Scripting News
  51. The Kathy Sierra incident moves into its final phase
  52. You own your own words

March 2007

  1. The ubiquity of harassment on the Internet
  2. Microsoft's leaked memo on transparency
  3. Are they really cylons?
  4. I don't understand
  5. Tyler Cowen on a social safety net
  6. The Blackberry defense
  7. National security letters in practice
  8. Evidence of Bubble 2.0
  9. Twitter's growth rate
  10. Green Screen Challenge winner at The Colbert Report
  11. Why the US Attorney firing scandal is a big deal
  12. The prospects of NewTube
  13. Markdown evangelism
  14. Corrosive relationships
  15. Returning to the scene of the crime
  16. Consumer debt and recessions
  17. Bad times for the CD market
  18. RIP John Backus
  19. Unlocked phones are OK
  20. Ian Murdock joins Sun
  21. Donand Knuth writes to Condoleezza Rice
  22. Starting at the bottom
  23. The male mind
  24. How subprime mortgages work
  25. Getting a feel for Twitter
  26. Jimmy Carter and apartheid
  27. The scandal that keeps growing
  28. Super PEBL
  29. Way too much about Leeroy Jenkins
  30. The SEC is cracking down on stock spam
  31. Mark Frauenfelder on Colbert
  32. Better backups using S3
  33. The Red campaign is horribly inefficient
  34. The war on spam
  35. Is Lua the next big thing?
  36. A profound thought on the EssJay affair
  37. Good advice for software developers
  38. Shoot the messenger
  39. Who's contributing to the Linux kernel?
  40. Wikipedia editor lies, nobody cares

February 2007

  1. Do soldiers learn to torture from TV?
  2. Today in poverty
  3. Fidgeters of the world, unite!
  4. Is your web site blocked in China?
  5. Chris Anderson on the future of CIOs
  6. On refusing to become an official campaign blogger
  7. Why diversity matters
  8. Women and men
  9. Is MP3 the new GIF?
  10. Nice work if you can get it
  11. The ups and downs of OpenID
  12. Are .plan files the direct ancestor of blogs?
  13. Dealing with comments and feeds
  14. Everybody loves cartoons
  15. Salon had the Walter Reed story two years ago
  16. A pipe from your Netflix queue to your DVR
  17. Who says you can't have it all?
  18. Great customer service
  19. Simple sketching application
  20. Help with a dissertation
  21. The problem of "rogue aid"
  22. The 2006 Slate 60
  23. Your permanent record
  24. SCO is trying to find the blogger behind Groklaw
  25. REST support to be added to the Java class library
  26. Spinning Iran
  27. Salon is profitable
  28. Run a Web server in your browser
  29. RU Sirius interviews Cory Doctorow
  30. The NoScript lifestyle
  31. Anthony Bourdain reviews Food Network personalities
  32. Record company CEO says CDs are legacy product
  33. Exercise and the placebo effect
  34. Yahoo Pipes
  35. The hidden cost of fancy bottled water
  36. Larry Lessig challenges Steve Jobs
  37. Ruby on Rails tools are maturing
  38. Chalk one up for the little guy
  39. Apple throws down the gauntlet
  40. Setting up other accounts with Gmail
  41. Resolving the NameError problem with Rails 1.2
  42. Do programmers like coding for its own sake?
  43. Your vulnerable search history
  44. Adium 1.0 is released
  45. What's a mooninite?
  46. iConcertCal, too cool for school
  47. Churchill on democracy
  48. Taking pictures in restaurants
  49. Molly Ivins, RIP

January 2007

  1. Paul Boutin reviews Office 2007
  2. Why Democrats shouldn't abandon the south
  3. Clay Shirky on virtual worlds
  4. Scott Rosenberg op-eds the Vista launch
  5. Ari Fleischer sinks Scooter Libby
  6. Why my link blog is dead
  7. Abbas Raza explains Shiism and Ashura
  8. The imperial Vice Presidency
  9. More than 100 federal court rulings have cited Wikipedia
  10. Microsoft steals feature and patents it
  11. A new opportunity
  12. The conditional shuffle
  13. Rands interviews TextMate creator Allan Odgaard
  14. The "war on terror" in the UK
  15. The origin of Windows Vista wallpaper
  16. Diebold is dangerously incompetent
  17. Romantic gift giving for pragmatic people
  18. Desperate times call for NoScript
  19. Microsoft pays writer to update Wikipedia articles
  20. The exclusive Blockbuster - Weinstein deal is illegal
  21. Keep your mouse off of those links
  22. Flash for cross-platform GUIs?
  23. The crux of the matter on health insurance
  24. Less interesting
  25. My problem with George W Bush in a nutshell
  26. Defining your music collection
  27. Yesterday's question on Iranians
  28. The Iranians in Irbil
  29. Steve Jobs is wrong
  30. Keypads are useful
  31. iPhone Questions
  32. Why I'm excited about the iPhone
  33. Iphone
  34. The trouble with icons
  35. The unit testing gap
  36. Predictions for 2007
  37. The execution of Saddam Hussein

2006 240

December 2006

  1. 2006 Predictions, revisited
  2. Comparative history
  3. Blog-media cliche report
  4. Rules are made to be broken
  5. Software development in one sentence
  6. An Inconvenient Truth
  7. Too much mail
  8. Why more troops in Iraq?
  9. My current thinking on Iraq, part 2
  10. Marketing versus simplicity
  11. Strange confluence
  12. Trying to make use of Google Spreadsheets
  13. Gmail versus Thunderbird's Bayesian filter
  14. Becoming more thoughtful
  15. Ten links, one year, 1500 bucks

November 2006

  1. A wry comment on real life
  2. Spam that I like
  3. Found on emusic.com: 1000 Years of Popular Music
  4. Is auto development mimicking software development?
  5. Why stats matter
  6. Transitioning from mystery to thriller
  7. Merging a branch back into the trunk in Subversion
  8. Testing the boundaries of ActiveRecord
  9. Having a TV show is better than having a blog
  10. Snap verdict on PDF books
  11. Midterm election thoughts
  12. I voted
  13. Reading blogs is good for you
  14. What to do with ten years of National Geographic?

October 2006

  1. The secret of YouTube
  2. What happened to Sourceforge?
  3. Rafe's Law
  4. Tabs versus new windows in browsers
  5. The paradox of Ralph Peters
  6. Dealing with homophily
  7. Incentives for developers
  8. Irrational exuberance has returned
  9. Trying to grok the mobile phone generation
  10. Use constants instead of string literals
  11. Movable Type and Atom feed upgraded
  12. More on free upgrades and social media
  13. Getting free upgrades on airlines

September 2006

  1. Go ahead and sugar coat it for us
  2. Automated nagging
  3. A torture hypothetical
  4. Al Gore's Current TV
  5. A Rails blog you must read
  6. Pay closer attention
  7. Just an observation
  8. The golden age for wannabe programmers
  9. The future of Ruby
  10. Is the TV industry getting smarter?
  11. Lobbying the government for your favorite airline
  12. Weeding out splogs
  13. Soapbox
  14. Niche job boards
  15. Why who writes Wikipedia is important

August 2006

  1. Foo Camp angst
  2. Puzzling question of the day
  3. The politics of war
  4. svnmerge
  5. Five quotes
  6. Anthony Bourdain in Beirut
  7. Getting smarter about airfares
  8. Cool idea: homework assignments for job interviews
  9. Why African Americans can't swim
  10. The next step with the Pebl
  11. Fun with numbers
  12. Security theater
  13. Jon Carroll on bloggers
  14. Status reports
  15. Platform vendors and shareware developers
  16. Nikon D50 afield
  17. Afk 4
  18. Slow on the draw
  19. 10 questions for other programmers
  20. Testing meebome
  21. Fun with MediaWiki markup
  22. The eBay Phone

July 2006

  1. Nested loops, or when to write a method
  2. Managing Rails migrations
  3. Tim Bray on Ruby
  4. Akismet
  5. Spam-proofing my Movable Type installation
  6. A survey of the conflict in the Middle East
  7. Unlocked cell phones
  8. The essence of wisdom
  9. Has Digg jumped the shark already?
  10. Fred Clark on the "Left Behind" video game
  11. Log it, don't count it
  12. Political reading on the wane again
  13. My home town
  14. Fighting comment spam

June 2006

  1. Wikipedia is up to date
  2. Use no, copy maybe
  3. Growl! and iTunes
  4. The fight for Net Neutrality
  5. Warren Buffett's big donation
  6. Today's vice is tomorrow's virtue
  7. Mowing for answers
  8. Why allegations work
  9. The independent state joke
  10. Trust and online casinos
  11. Redundant validation is evil
  12. The bottom line on Net Neutrality
  13. Making computer books more usable
  14. Ceca in Wikipedia
  15. Establishing facts on the ground
  16. How many controllers do you need in a Rails application?
  17. Flickr Suppresses Screen Shots
  18. Yahoo, get a clue
  19. How Vox is different
  20. Feed authentication
  21. My new photographic sensibility
  22. A few months with emusic.com
  23. Preventing lost updates in Web applications
  24. Vox: day two
  25. Vox: day one
  26. Google Spreadsheet?
  27. Units of reuse and Ruby on Rails
  28. Vox invitation
  29. Tinderbox for Ruby on Rails applications
  30. Testing out MarsEdit
  31. The Revenge of the Sith was terrible
  32. I love YouTube
  33. Screenshot app for OS X
  34. Ruby on Rails gets the details right

May 2006

  1. Bad blogging
  2. How to move your iTunes library from a PC to a Mac
  3. Hardware firms and Net neutrality
  4. Macroeconomics and you
  5. Presentation post-mortem
  6. Just hack
  7. Thinking abstractly about immigration
  8. The grim time sink that is World of Warcraft
  9. Tide To Go
  10. Giving presentations

April 2006

  1. ActiveRecord documentation followup
  2. The ActiveRecord documentation sucks
  3. Network Neutrality
  4. A NewsGator account is required
  5. I just wanted some cold medicine
  6. The new email etiquette
  7. Nikon D50
  8. Don't turn your customers into rats
  9. What software should be packaged with a Web publishing book?
  10. Will Ruby on Rails become mainstream?
  11. Why Boot Camp may be good for OS X users
  12. The brilliance of Boot Camp
  13. Aggregator discipline
  14. Very simple, very smart

March 2006

  1. Free idea du jour
  2. Aggregator vacation
  3. Many people are ingrates
  4. America in a nutshell
  5. Digital camera economics
  6. Somebody screwed up
  7. Full feed or not full feed
  8. Clickthrough fraud again?
  9. What is REST?
  10. He loves QA
  11. New Yorker on Bill O'Reilly
  12. Ruby on Rails Migrations
  13. Where the action is
  14. Universal Firefox and Thunderbird
  15. Ruby pays off
  16. The MacBook Pro is hot
  17. Standard implementations versus standards documents
  18. Ruby on Rails: A big fixture failing
  19. Being smart about database backups
  20. Smarter random screen saver for the Mac
  21. The Oscars and why I love Jon Stewart
  22. MacBook upgrade speedbumps
  23. Overpowered
  24. Cookin' with gas
  25. Deal or No Deal
  26. A new formula

February 2006

  1. Macs for Web development
  2. So long, Camino
  3. Of Interest
  4. The new golf
  5. The postmaster
  6. PHP is bad
  7. Camino vs. Firefox
  8. Web publishing resources
  9. Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face
  10. Shotgun pellets
  11. Email hell
  12. Eating out on Valentine's Day
  13. The memory leak, fixed
  14. Using Movable Type to publish a link blog
  15. Craigslist and fair housing laws
  16. The gatekeepers
  17. The great American novel
  18. Welcome to the new server
  19. Comments are down for now
  20. The dilettante sysadmin strikes
  21. Firefox is finished
  22. Server set up
  23. Cocomment looks interesting
  24. Managing email
  25. Web hosting update
  26. Lonely Planet Bluelist
  27. Salon blogs leaving Radio Userland

January 2006

  1. Hamas takes to the papers
  2. I love renting
  3. What does Google know?
  4. Planning and execution
  5. Never mind
  6. Google and China
  7. XML schemas are fun
  8. How HTML is really used
  9. The economics of DRM
  10. MSN comments on the DoJ warrant
  11. Tom Socca on James Frey
  12. Bad Washington Post
  13. Will Firefly change TV?
  14. Google video DRM review
  15. Snapper and the Wal-Mart death spiral
  16. Rebecca Blood automates
  17. More on eMusic
  18. Browser support for clickthrough tracking
  19. Giving smart people stuff to do
  20. Down with resolutions
  21. Identity management pains
  22. Shelley Powers on eMusic
  23. Why, Microsoft, why?
  24. MacBook Pro vs the Wintel competition
  25. SpyTunes
  26. Yes, I watch Lost
  27. I Heart Intel
  28. The memory leak, continued
  29. Guy Kawasaki's blog
  30. Liar liar liar
  31. iPod Rescue
  32. Google DRM
  33. About time
  34. One dangerous idea
  35. 2006 Predictions
  36. iPod Trauma

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