Blog: 2003

These are the 441 blog posts for 2003. Older is 2002. Newer is 2004. There is also a complete archive.

December 2003

Windows XP box #hardware

Robot origami #robots

Browser as desktop ui #python #ui #web

The man behind the motion #funny #movies #video-games

Newspapers US and worldwide #reference

Spirograph #toys

Joke: WASP orgies #funny

Quick links: dreems, holograms, hypercomic, tinygrow, moovl #comics #quick-links

Bob books #books #parenting #reviews

Livio De Marchi #art

Nancy Bea Miller #art #autism #blogs #friends-&-family #parenting

How to fold paper in half twelve times #crafts #how-to

Ben Folds: The Bens #music

Quick links: Characters #quick-links

Quick links: Letters #quick-links #typography

Quick links: Seasonal Fun #quick-links

Newspaper terminology

Complex scripts #characters

Coffee stirrer stars #crafts

Poll on homosexual marriage #politics #society

MIT Wright flight hack #hacks

Java musings #exceptions #java #programming-languages #quick-links

Orac3 case mod #hardware

National film registry 2003 #movies

Deconstructulator #video-games

PostScript control structures #postscript #programming-languages

WikidPad #tools

SmoothTeddy #graphics

Snow sculptures #art

Top ten databases #databases

Link dumps #blogs

Ubergeek.tv: Geeks in Love #animation #comics

Perforce merge sucks #source-control

Search highlighting #javascript #site #web

winGuiAuto.py #python #windows

ProleText #hacks

Dates on articles #site

iCapture #browsers

SchoolTool #python

Behind the typeface: Cooper Black #funny #typography

The museum of HP calculators #hp #hardware #history #obsession

Perl advent calendar #perl

Black ice #cars

Schema primer #xml

Styling XML files #xml #xslt

Why pretend to care #people

Low-tech game systems #games

Bloglines #feeds

November 2003

Brooklyn bridge #places

Metakit #databases

Doodle-O #games #parenting

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time #autism #books #reviews

LKG and Gauntlet #blogs

IncrediBuild #tools

The money map #politics #reference

Switching sides #history

My autistic child in the balance #autism #susan

Pragmatic starter kit #books

Recipezaar #food #reference

Bill Cutler puzzles #puzzles

Cargo cult engineering

Take Control electronic books #books

Quick links: Applets, eggs, economists, tetragrams, colors, numbers #art #language #quick-links

Oracle fighting WMD #databases

Storing hierarchical data in a database #databases

muxway #blogs #phones

MaxDB by MySQL #databases

Words and expressions commonly misused #language

IE difficulties: font size rounding #css #help #windows

IE difficulties: link targets #help #web #windows

A sufficiently large program #architecture #quotes

Reading: Ray, REST and fallacies

Innovation principles

Paul Otlet #history

Internet Explorer as an application #browsers

Semantic web difficulties #semantic-web

Creatures in my head #comics

.int domains #web

Making a LEGO brick #lego

Do/fix vs prepare/commit/abort #architecture #puzzles

XPointer IE plugin #web #xml

We’ve got the sun in the morning and the moon at night #space

Smash the windows?

Trends in logo design #design

OneLook #language #search

Shirky: The Semantic Web, Syllogism and Worldview #semantic-web

Matrix Revolutions abridged script #funny #movies

Styled RSS #feeds

Kabalarian philosophy

M3u files in a tree #music #python

30 search tips in 40 minutes #search

Political compass #politics

Linking into documents #web

Stencil revolution #art #how-to

Quick links: Relativity; sky; balancing; large; enormous #lego #machinery #math #quick-links #robots #science

Horton Hears A Who! #books #parenting #reviews

Reading mp3 metadata #music

Pac-Man implemented in Excel #hacks #video-games

October 2003

youngpup.net #blogs #javascript

Abuse of XML #xml

Fun with circles #art #math

Impossible CSS gripe #2 #css

Impossible CSS gripe #1 #css

Halloween pumpkins #crafts #parenting

Guidelines for focusing on learning #education

re.split #python

Women weren’t designed for homemaking #religion #society

Japanese emoticons #japan

MC Hawking #funny #music #science

Women were designed for homemaking #religion #society

The sound an eye makes #parenting

Amazon full text search #amazon #search

InkTank #comics

PHP and magic quotes #php

Terror profiles by computers are ineffective #security

Wooden mirror #art

Ned Gully: autism and the Red Sox #autism #boston

Google definitions #google #language

anybirthday.com #reference

Jonathan Coulton’s Mandelbrot Set #math #music

The rite stuff #autism #religion #susan

Fisheye menus #ui

Chain of trust #malware #security

Unicode test strings #characters

Space cadet keyboard #hardware #history

More on exceptions and status returns #exceptions

Wooly-thinker’s guide to rhetoric #funny #language

Joel on exceptions #exceptions

Objects have failed? #architecture

Time for space wiggle #photos

Computer science history #comp-sci #history

Fall of 5? #juggling

How should I backup data? #administration

I don’t really get CSS #css

XSLT behind the scenes #xslt

Henry Ford and the RIAA #business #history

Free hosting #web

PDF printing with Ghostscript #pdf #postscript #printing

Acrobat 6 #how-to #tools

William Steig #books #obituaries

Kernighan on debugging clever code #debugging #quotes

Juggling with packets #networks

Resign patterns #development #funny

How exceptions really work #exceptions

A client crash hunted down #debugging

Five best and worst things to say to your kids #parenting

SF paper craft gallery #crafts #japan #space #star-wars

September 2003

Metadata is nothing new #semantic-web

Lego inventor game #games #lego

Chandler 0.2 #osaf

A server crash hunted down #debugging

Child on shoulders game #parenting #walking

How to improve a day #coding #how-to

Helpful PHP articles #php

Smicbnalrg lrttees #language

Joel’s bionic offices #work

Maven Networks #business

Rant against web technology #web

Two-column resume #work

Pathological #games #puzzles

Network address translation #networks

I have to buy a computer #hardware

Standards misconceptions #architecture

Proggy fonts #coding #typography

Eric Lippert #blogs

Streamlined XSLT #xslt

Windows startups #administration #windows

Technical debt #management

Real autism tests #autism

From the Geometry Junkyard #math

Reversing regular expressions #hacks #regex

Exceptions vs status returns #exceptions

Rubik’s fanatics 2 #games

Autism quotient test #autism

Shop Amazon with Treemaps #amazon #ui

Toyota POD #cars

New optical illusions #art #science

Spybot search & destroy #administration

Rubik’s fanatics #puzzles

Bookmarks with referrers

Simple virtual hosts with PHP #php

Purr programming #development #funny

makeroom.py #my-code

Power users tools list #tools

Lines of code per month #management

Bitflux editor #web #xml

Software apprenticeship #development #education

Retail alphabet game #design #games

3D laptop display with cellophane #hardware

Ye olde thorn and eth #characters

Flying Pig paper models #crafts

Political graveyard #history #politics

Abortion doctor’s killer executed #politics

Monotone distributed version control #source-control

Processing #art #graphics #programming-languages

Master of Fine Arts in Software #development #education

Underware #typography

Orange juice trick #parenting

August 2003

Comments say why #coding

Writing a resume #work

Kasoh Taikai #japan #tv

Command prompt selection coloring #shells #windows

Raymond Chen #blogs

Celestia #space #tools

Perforce support #source-control

When action grows unprofitable #management #productivity

Paul really is dead #music

Bob Congdon #blogs #friends-&-family

Engineers are people #management

Glass: solid or liquid? #science

The spoon trick #hacks

Photo retouching #photos

Google calculator #google #math

More mirror project photos #me #photos

Eliyon CorporateAlumni #online #work

Blogging song parodies

Copy Shop #movies

Eclipse impressions #ides #java #python

Stroke technique #how-to #swimming

What’s a “blog”?

Primate programming #java

New on Google: synonyms #google #language

Miniputt #games

Reactor #php #site

Edit and continue #ides

Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 #browsers

DevStudio persistent find #ides #tools

July 2003

Kubi reviewed in PC Magazine #kubi

My boys, the new media artists #animation #art #parenting #robots

Quiet, content-wise #blogs #site

Tamworth calendars #friends-&-family

Genetic algorithm learns to walk #animation #comp-sci #walking

When good interfaces go crufty

Python and Eclipse #ides #osaf #python

Pickle hiccups #python

Pirates of the Caribbean #movies #reviews

Candy from strangers #architecture

Star Wars alphabet project #lego #space #star-wars

Ethan Diamond interview

Pinebank, before and after #history #photos #walking

Matrix ping-pong #funny #japan #movies

Wayback machine stymied by squatters #search #web

Mega Lego #lego

Post-vacation fun #funny #games

June 2003

World’s longest slinky #art #toys

Machete mode #dev-mindset

ArsDigita post mortems #work

McBurgers #food

Alice’s restaurant #movies #music #reviews

Google site search #google #site

Kevin Cornell’s sketchbook #art

William Heath Robinson #art #comics #machinery

Mirror project #me #photos

Clickmazes again, and SuperMaze #games #puzzles

Sue’s bathing suit rag #susan

Will Ferrell Matrix parody #funny #movies

Quick links: Rotation, pixelHugger, visualOrgasm #quick-links

I’m one step closer to being $12 richer #business

Paul Rand’s geometry books #books #boston #design

A good thing about autism #autism

Animatrix: Beyond #movies

Finding Nemo #movies #parenting #reviews

Construction methods #coding

Bray on performance #development

Quick Python links: MSNbot, Project planning, GD #python #quick-links

Flash click to view #browsers

Marble Madness #obsession #video-games

Qu’ranic illumination #art

The Incredibles #movies

Holland Schmolland #autism

Do signatures matter? #art #society

Python main() functions #how-to #python #shells

Peter Norvig #blogs #java #python

Kubi Client reviewed in PC World #email #kubi

Translation is hard #language

Business card cubes #crafts

Well-written job posting #work

May 2003

Matrix XP #funny #movies

Simpsons Math #math #tv

Real-world patterns: Ghetto

Recent Python-URL gleanings #python #quick-links

Graph paper printer #tools

Lessig on Starbucks #business

The dark side of the popularity of weblogs #productivity

WiFiMaps.com #networks

Blambot fonts #comics #typography

My very own button #me

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie #movies

Steal these buttons #web

SysInternals #tools #windows

The Selfish Class

CSS ain’t rocket science #css

Eat more words #blogs #books #online

The Google Cluster Architecture #architecture #google

Matrix Reloaded #movies #reviews

Starship dimensions #space

Quick links: darcs, Capon, twiddling, xmltramp, meld #algorithms #python #quick-links #source-control #xml

Structural markup nit: headers #web

Lunar Eclipse #science

Perforce vs. CVS #source-control

Hummer mileage disappoints #cars

Progressive lenses #me #science

Streamed Lines #source-control

Helpful meteorite statistic #science

Crashing Browsers #browsers

Self-contained Python #python

Safety sign builder

Browsercam #browsers

Chandler demo transcript #osaf

Phoenix comes through again #browsers

April 2003

Two links from Bob #how-to #japan

Why Edison lost the record business #business #history

Looking for heap tools #help #tools

Are programmers people? #programming-languages

Summer of 5 #juggling

MIME message structure #email #networks

Hand-rolled blogs #blogs

Quick links: Microsoft, Xanadu, Ozzie #quick-links

Kubi Client Ships #kubi

Chandler and Vera #osaf #typography

T-Shirts from cafepress #site

OpenEXR #graphics

Gardening and agility #dev-mindset

Mutexes and critical sections #concurrency #windows

Time cover archive #history

Memory management glossary #development #reference

FtpUpload.py #my-code

Innovative music software: Noodle and Hyperscore #music #tools

Self-googling #google

Verbose Python regular expressions #python #regex

More Bookmarklets #browsers #css #javascript

Free Paper Toys #crafts #star-wars

Smoke test #language #printing #testing

Blogs save lives #online

dispmode can set the refresh rate #my-code

Chaco and MakeMenu #python #tools

Quick links: cvs2rss, Hydra, dynamicobjects, events #feeds #quick-links

Quick links: UPS, alteration, San Serriffe, covers #quick-links

H. S. M. Coxeter, 1907–2003 #math #obituaries

Disappointed in “XML names and addresses” #xml

Robustness Principle #architecture

TypeTool #typography

March 2003

Overheard at a local startup #quotes #spotted #work

Perl shivers and AmphetaDesk #perl

Ultra-conservative RSS publishing #feeds

Python Photo Gallery #photos #python

AmphetaDesk customizability

Quick links: wreckage, evolution, strategies #quick-links

Iraq maps #maps #places #war

Tomatos are vegetables #science

Local web servers as applications #architecture

Quick links: greed, Milhouse, uri’s, perl patterns #lego #perl #quick-links

Superman birthday cake #cakes #parenting

Error handling in wxPython #exceptions #python

Quick links: leaders, synechdoche, xrefer #quick-links

Nice favelets #browsers #javascript

The best damn cat food any cat ever imagined #comics

Intolerance of dissent #boston #society

Happy belated Pi Day #math

What’s so tough about favicon.ico? #browsers

The Tyranny of Email #email #productivity

Boring3D #blogs #graphics

Ghostword #postscript #tools

pdf995 #pdf #tools

Nat’s Mini World code #my-code

Past and future #hardware #programming-languages

Matrix birthday cake #cakes #parenting

One-year blogaversary #site

1944 Dime #history

Sam Ruby’s wx3pa #feeds

Naming classes without ‘Manager’ #coding #java

Redefining Asparagus #funny #spotted

Tim Bray’s Ongoing blog #blogs

Hex words #geeky

February 2003

How to be a programmer #dev-mindset #how-to

Placebo progress bars #ui #unix

YourHostSucks #web

FingerWorks iGesture #hardware

Homer for Governor? #funny #politics #spotted

Google does reverse phone numbers #google

McSweeney’s Lists #blogs #funny

PictureLogic and nonograms #puzzles

Hornby on autism and music #autism #music

Fish, Codeville, PSP8 #python #quick-links

At DEMO 2003 #kubi

Quick links #quick-links

reStructured Text vs. XML #c# #java #xml

GWB amusement #animation #funny #politics

Car Talk credits #cars #funny

Brookline Library gala #books #gatherings

Amazon’s recommendation algorithm #algorithms #amazon

Snowcakes #me #photos

Fix Error Handling First #exceptions

Life in the 21st century #email #parenting #spotted

Shavian alphabet #characters

Lazyweb.org #online

PragDave #blogs #development

Help me find a site #help

Space shuttle #space

January 2003

Blugs #language

The path Python module #libraries #python

Biological clock discovered #science

Rights Amplification in Master-Keyed Mechanical Locks #security

ABC and D #programming-languages

Omniglot #characters

Assertive Introvert #society

Kubi Software #kubi

SQLite and Structorian #databases #tools

Back from the Bahamas #me

Python Success Stories #python

Pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, ... #language #math

Stages of Acceptance of Innovation

Erroneously Empty Code Paths #coding

Python’s package metadata repository #python

Hyperspace Star Polytope Slicer #math

Computer Lib/Dream Machines #books #reviews

Humphrey quote #politics #quotes

I’ve been translated into French #site

Ted Nelson and Xanadu #semantic-web

Amazon: sell your past purchases #amazon #business #online

Semantic Web: the new AI? #semantic-web

Happy #philosophy