Blog: 2002
These are the 172 blog posts for 2002. Newer is 2003. There is also a complete archive.
December 2002
Meetings: None of Us is as Dumb as All of Us #funny #work
Callbacks should always have context #architecture
No pause on Goldmember? #business #tv
VGA, SVGA, XGA, SXGA, UGA, huh? #hardware
Python behind the scenes: Chandler and THE #osaf #python
Crowbars and invisible people #games #law
Comedian #funny #movies #reviews
My disabled son deserves a diploma #autism
STL iterators can be char* #c++
The ACLU and the EFF #politics
Log message style guide #coding
The root cause of lousy software #testing
Huffman compression in Notes #lotus
Validating credit cards #coding #javascript
November 2002
Pixar is the Anti-Lucas #movies
Growing A Language #language #programming-languages
Shenv.py and Readurl.py #my-code
Max’s Lego micro AT-AT #lego #parenting
Too many new things #python #quick-links #xml
Picasa and ThumbsPlus #photos #tools
Phoenix and CSS #browsers #css #site
The web is great, part 2437 #music #online
Doom for the Nokia 7650 #games #hardware #phones
Auto-smileys and code don’t mix #im
Project management rant #management
Notes questions from the mailbag #lotus
More-logical alphabets #characters
Pyx: the last thing I need #games #video-games
October 2002
Quentin Tarantino on journalists #quotes
Halloween pumpkins #crafts #parenting
Python discoveries #perl #python
Instrument jokes #funny #music
Notes on postmodern programming #architecture #c# #java
Increase in autism baffles scientists #autism
Character sets and encodings #characters
Massachusetts voters: No on 2 #politics
World’s largest display lit Paris skies #places
Tips from The Pragmatic Programmer #books #development
Apparently I’m evil #blogs #lego #lotus
Two new utilities: ramp and hexdump #my-code
Python’s maturity #java #programming-languages #python
September 2002
Goering on political dissent #history #politics
Evolutionary systems #lego #science
Vigilantism unbound: the Berman P2P bill #law
A Formal Semantics of Patterns in XSLT #xslt
256bytes demos archive #graphics #hacks
The first emoticon? #autism #history
Patents on impossible compression #law
Pyramid robot #politics #robots #science
Conference Presentation Judo #presentations
Flanders and Swann #funny #music
Corey Jackson sketchbooks #art #blogs
Polyglot programs #postscript #programming-languages
Pedagoguery Software geometry models #art #math
August 2002
Richard Napoleon Bonaparte Batchelder #friends-&-family #history
Does anyone still use search engines other than Google? #search
Piet programming language #programming-languages
Obfuscated code #hacks #postscript
Edsger W. Dijkstra: 1930–2002 #comp-sci #obituaries
Google Groups ASCII art #art #google
High-Performance Server Architecture #architecture
July 2002
Pixar shorts #animation #movies
Stephen Wolfram’s unfortunate ego
Flaky coffee grinder #debugging
Mark Fiore animation #animation #comics #politics
June 2002
ILM short: Work In Progress #animation #movies
Wonderful animated type video #animation #typography
Toward a more accessible blog #site #web
The Philosophy of Punctuation #language
Description of a project gone badly wrong #management #work
More of my brother’s pictures #friends-&-family #photos
The federal government shouldn’t decide what we can read #books #law #politics
May 2002
Tales of Mere Existence #funny #movies
Luc Devroye’s font pages #typography
Jamie Kellner: clueless dinosaur #ads #business #tv
Programming with kids #education #parenting
I’ve started posting code #site
Stephen’s Guide to the Logical Fallacies #language
Patrick Batchelder Photography #friends-&-family #japan #photos
April 2002
Bagel abattoir #food #machinery
How to draw a monkey #art #how-to
Building cathedrals #dev-mindset
Method of Swinging on a Swing #law
Code should only do nothing if nothing is the correct thing to do #coding
Another bully of a company “wins” out of court #business
The West Wing Continuity Guide #tv
March 2002
Minesweeper mathematics #games #math
Weasly Starbucks #business #walking
The Handbook of Rhetorical Devices #language
Eisner tries to take the high road #business
Pirate ship birthday cake #cakes #crafts #parenting
Gunnlaugur Briem #blogs #typography
EXSLT #javascript #libraries #xslt
Ever notice? #books #parenting
baxterant #blogs #friends-&-family #politics
What inspired Heinlein? #history #quotes
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica #books #reference
Python: batteries included #python
Coliseum Books #books #history