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2003

December
31
My favorite FictionWise e-book of the year
21
Halfwit Highway Patrol - Bellevue
CD-ROM disc capacities and overburning
The only Christmas carol I like
20
Why and how patents don't work
11
Smoke and tipping in Las Vegas
07
I [LEGO] New York
A Singaporean parent who doesn't like to crack the cane? Perish the thought!
I'm baaaaaaaack!
November
20
Newsweek mistakes hate group for "activists"
18
Web design - blockquotes
CSS Creator - Layout generator
17
Lowest bidder, European car rental
October
28
This month's Escape From America articles
27
Mahathir's moderate Islam
Lack of reason and morals in the Pacific Northwest
11
Spam harvester armor
08
Parable of the geek
QOTW: Invention
If the cops just stand around looking useless, are you still supposed to slow down?
05
Why fixed exchange rates make sense
I used less blankets than this.
04
At least it's not just the US
02
Wbe hsoting conpamy forghets to spel chek
September
29
Who do you want to muzzle today?
27
It's not about color
22
I won't fly jetBlue
21
Everything wrong with the Democratic Party
The card is not the shopper
Dvorak's Singapore trip
Dell's "don't press any key" license policy
Doobies aren't goodies
Construction, hard and soft
13
Your software rights aren't what they used to be
07
When does 45 out of 503 equal 69?
This company won't go into my Hall of Shame
Water bills
06
How many different objects can you stuff a full-fledged computer into?
Muslim women strike back
04
The last Jamieson column I will read
How to piss off pedestrians
Follow-up: Freedom Socialist Party allowed to keep donors secret
03
Insert inflammatory anti-Muslim comment here
If a Scientologist cons other Scientologists, is that really a crime?
01
Name undisclosed to protect the incredibly slow
August
31
How to not serve your customers
30
Freedom of Speech in Software
29
Trackback in Python: what it is, how to do it
Tech linkfest
Where ARE they?
Some questions you may face in a technical interview
24
Jamieson out of it - again
It knows what you're thinking!
21
Most expensive e-book I've seen
How to send your customers screaming...
How to live without Microsoft
17
Python QOTW
Too much good stuff in Crypto-Gram
16
Action Item, Professional Superhero!
Comcast protecting their backsides
13
Local police can only unlock foreign cars
Missing a Dvorak article
Malaysian police corruption in the park
3 pages out of Newsweek
12
WachoviaFirstUSABankOne screweth its customers (again)
11
Quote I'd like to see on a t-shirt
Charitable swearing
He says he's not a spammer!
Capitol One's false advertising
I'm not a spammer!
10
SimpleShelf - now with objects!
Boeing vs. ethics
Tonasket gets it
Escape from America article roundup
09
Cringely on offshoring
Python: how to sort on a class method
Mike Hawash pleads guilty to being a terrorist
Miva's off my radar
05
Funniest rapid-fire quote
04
"The stuff you don't hear about on CNN?"
Debunking The Bambi Hoax
Washington - we're #9!
What is the Dashboard?
Selling vs. grabbing
Windows XP reaches its half-life...
02
Good financial biblio
Flipping burgers in the future
See Spot - by heat
July
30
Monopoly's T-shirts suck
How to make money fast - affiliate programs
28
Jamieson strikes out on relatives of police shooting victims
Bill Virgin on exporting American jobs
27
Bambucicletas
26
Thunderstorms suck
Industrial espionage in 1789, lawyers, and progress
"What exactly is public about public schools?"
Cringely's "Son of Napster"
Another candidate for the Hall of Shame
"Have Web Site, Will Investigate"
How to provide tech support as a sole proprietor
22
Harlan Ellison is a big fat idiot
21
FOREX Resources
How to fight stupid security
18
Today's LEGO roundup
Another (list of) problem(s) with Internet voting
16
One problem with Internet voting
15
Unsubscribing from unscrupulous marketing
Linux PVR - for real!
14
Referral script
Interesting trading ideas
A rant about learning Mandarin
The stupidity of Chinese government
13
The most disturbing scifi I've read in a year
They CAN get along...
Tim Bray on electronic sharecropping
12
28 satellites, one small device - your exact location
Why would anyone lie about this?
11
Law enforcement increases crime
10
Social Security is a Ponzi scheme
I found a Privoxy bug!
Open Government Information Awareness
We aren't buying because we aren't impressed
09
U.S. Immigration doing their job only too well
Freedom Socialist party is Socialist only
Which pill was it?
04
Dvorak weighs in on file-sharing
03
Young vs. Old
Business 2.0 gets stupid
02
Two movie reviews
Knowledge by Ear?
01
Comcast strikes (out) again
Them Futures Magazine Classifieds
eBay's non-privacy policy
NetMAX in the doghouse
June
30
2003's Fourth of July movie
29
'Don't feed the fundamentalists'
IKEA's prices
28
Harry Potter vs. Tanya Grotter, Tim Wu officiating
Column note: "Nukes are unthinkable if business is good"
26
Cool space scenes
Ferengi ROA
Zero sum games and networks
Why I don't like Malaysia
Malaysia monkeys around again with price controls
25
Procedure for investing in Panamanian gold mines
Freaky - Wednesday?
Female programmer's road rage
AppDev professional training via CD-ROM
24
How to hijack a plane - pretend you're a teenager
Emerson on money
"What eBay Isn't Telling You"
23
"I won't be apologetic for the World Trade Center attacks..."
Earthlink troubles
22
"Call it the Seattle Taliban"
21
Eric Raymond's top 10 reasons why he isn't a liberal OR a conservative
LEGO today
20
Fry not, lest ye be fried
19
Dan Gillmor: We must engage in copyright debate
New candidate for the Hall of Shame
18
MacGyver on ice
17
IT in FS
Yet another site that won't work well with Opera
15
Bad quote from EPIC
13
Techdirt screws up
Those kooky telemarketers
12
Book Review: Secrets from an inventor's notebook
One of the many reasons I won't work for Microsoft
Lies, damn lies, and Deloitte & Touche reports
11
Salam Pax is real
Very personal finance
Beware the Pirillo
Illegal immigration, lawful deportation
10
"...we should be sending teams of psychiatrists."
What he said
The artifacts are still there
Why people won't buy software
Another good columnist to read
Trading process management
For those of you who pay your taxes righteously
09
Single Stock Futures vs. Stock Options
California Trade Agency is shut down
Today's LEGO roundup
08
Stock options in Singapore
07
Amateurs vs. Pros
Jamieson vs. the NAACP
06
Signing your life away
How stupid can an event organizer get?
When what was said was not what was reported
Best hick comedy content
05
Not innovation or technical ability, but...
Spamming is not a legitimate sales tool
03
Books
Compare and contrast: Rebel Blockade Runner and BattleStar Galactica
This is what I needed to hear
02
BitTorrent
Age isn't important
01
US expats in Australia: resources
May
30
Good movie: Enigma
Bill Kearney said it best
29
xmltramp: Make XML documents easily accessible.
Bezos quote
Emerson quote
HR is the same the world over
Morpheus' Hovership - in LEGOs
28
Google AdWords
BusinessWeek roundup
27
Definition
There is a better way
26
One of the many reasons I won't contract for Microsoft again
25
Portable music alert
24
Digital music without the hassle
MS v LNX
22
Valenti fisked
How to write main() functions
Uphill battle (of water and gravity)
Another idiot journalist comments on technology
What else to do with LEGOs
21
It's not just for consumption anymore
Street sales tactics
No more Internet/cable discount
Arguments for Iraq war - from someone who wasn't an early supporter
20
Stupid Security
I didn't do it!
Preserving "the rights of young people to surf an unfiltered Web"
Local congressional representative bought and paid for
19
eBay feedback
Gbbldygk jb app
18
Ignorance
Converting XML Nodes into a Dictionary in Python using SAX
IT employees do the right thing, then get fired
17
I am absolutely disgusted at this privacy stupidity
Bugtoast is some other part of my morning meal
16
Blankenhorn on blog advertising
TradeWins Publishing kept their word
The Fiction of Life - interview with an Iranian woman
15
The long arm of the law
Spam blacklists and E2E
14
Freedom is not free
This is your company's brain...
Jamieson strikes (out) again
See, we're not all monsters and thieves
Lockergnome loses a writer
13
Tree huggers beware
Is this for real?
Algorithms make my head spin
Yet another reason to ditch TV news
Why did I bother turning my computer on this morning...
easyDNS rocks
Landlord/Tenant info
12
Sologig sucks
I gradiated from collage
08
Bart uses Google
When i say this webcam is cool...
Use the numbers
What USED to be on my Ryze home page
07
Portals to the world
I promised myself...
Privacy clue-by-four
How to lose a lifetime customer for life
06
No BJ in NC?
Sad but true
Definitely smaller than a breadbox
05
Geeks In An Unreal World
Rude Awakening
Oh well.
Bugtoaster
04
Bugtoaster is toast
02
eBay take-away
It's probably just me...
Canna believe it.
Frustrating
01
I see a trading possibility here
Yet another reason to avoid Northworst
Aah, the disfiguring power of poetry.
Shutting off Flash via CSS
April
30
the World as a Blog
Update to CBOE & Opera
How NOT to influence your elected officials
29
To Read: Jared Diamond
Mike Hawash - the charges
Yet another site hates Opera
28
Chess quote
Oh, really...
Opera and Expedia
26
Laughing women
X-Men 2
Human rights & libel
Spot the CEO
25
One more reason to not avoid Linux
I tried not to write about this guy...
24
Linux PVR
Associative Remote Viewing
Dot-com triple bubble redux take two
23
"In space no-one can hear you build."
Opera - whatchya doin'?
22
China's deadliest plague
This makes me sick.
It's a bug! It's a bug!
21
Wonderful, he sighs.
Apple & young teenagers
Cisco Q&A
This is why I want to become a trader.
20
Napster's downfall - from within
Lord of the Peeps
Flying
Spam judo
Just say no to HR
The Chinese government is from Venus, the truth is from Mars
19
Dog owners beware
No conspiracies or theorists here
Amp test
The Paradox of Privacy
How many Marylands are there?
0.5 seconds of no electricity
18
Paypal is not a bank - or your friend
Young or old, just as dumb
17
Phone ring, nobody talk
Baghdad arts
Dunphy on China
Columnists' archives
Paul Allen
16
Harry Pothead
15
A true story and a great quote
14
Jamieson on Ujaama
Chinese "news" media
Tradewins Publishing
Bill of [No] Rights redux
Bill of [No] Rights
Privacy International Stupid Security Contest Winners
Mike Hawash again
Peace protesters
Have a bake sale instead
13
Programming by the pound
12
She ain't here, bubba
How to tap fiber optic cable
11
Mike Hawash
A letter to the editor good enough to read
09
MS temp whiners
Amazed and appalled
08
Another thought-provoking article
Quote
07
When you should NOT teach a class
All that is required for evil to triumph
An engineer is to physics as a lawyer is to...
Geek.com needs to shut its beak
06
Comedy, drama and stupidity at 30,000 feet
04
Leave it to a lawyer...
More BS from the BSA
03
Aisle bee their fore ewe...
eBay bidding
TV is really a wasteland now...
Things to know...
02
Sushi tech
IMDB down?
PI are not round...
Winer on MS
Python re module
"Share, not scare!"
Another blog to read
01
A stirring speech
The Ideas Battlefield
April fool's?
March
31
Lido?
What technologists should do
L to the E
You call this secure?
How much better we are
30
Spam. Just say no.
Spam, spam, spam, spam
28
...but don't swallow it
Ryze
Quiet power
Palladium, networks, and privacy - oh my
Killing web bugs using Privoxy
27
The Blankenhorn Effect - again
"The Blankenhorn Effect"
EPIC - credit cards
Barcelona - the movie
The sound of celebrity pieholes snapping shut
26
wxPython and the clipboard
25
Freerange Media is gone
24
Well, don't that beat all
Politics among the Fellowship
Snowdogs
23
NVST
Cool search functionality
Big ideas from Shane McChesney
New keyboard
Bookmark categorization
I confused
22
QOTW from IITM
Chairman Dana sez
Generalists
Notetab Pro
Definition: straw man argument
20
Congratulations, Burlington Coat Factory
Software blamed for grounding flights
HP Blimp
Start of Iraq offensive
19
Called the recruiter today.
15
Mark really lays it on
USPS
F---thatjob.com
"Tech Generalist"
U.S. Jobs Jumping Ship
Less permanent, more secure
11
Site creation script
10
Like a cross-eyed discus thrower
Monopoly breaking its own backwards compatibility
Larry Niven on Slashdot
French freeze
07
Are there ever any "can" lose trading systems?
06
Writing code vs. engineering
ALA quote
05
Let's get an action movie and a comedy...
Lawful civil disobedience?
January
15
Weblogs vs. conversation
14
Hitchen's objections
Woulda, shoulda, coulda