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November 2002
October 2002
September 2002
August 2002
July 2002
June 2002
May 2002
- 29: Developer darkness
- 28: Is Python Lisp?
- 24: MLP
- 23: Hollywood wants to plug the "Analog Hole" (Cory Doctorow's Consensus at Lawyerpoint)
- 23: Revenge of the Nerds (Paul Graham)
- 21: C++, SQL, Unix and C are key skills - still (The Register)
- 21: American Invisible, Inc.
- 19: Computers may outrank air traffic controllers (Japan Times)
- 17: Auto-blogrolling, the Python way (PyCS)
- 16: Mayor launches MetroNet high-speed data service (The Chattanoogan)
- 15: Tkinter docs
- 15: Klez paranoia
- 15: LiveJournal's poetic opinion of itself
- 14: DMCA bans electrical tape
- 14: Klez II
- 14: So close, yet, far so.
- 12: Matrox: are they back? (Inkfox's LiveJournal)
- 11: Milestone: Software Evolution In The Wild? (Kuro5hin)
- 11: MUCK news blaggplug
- 10: Apple bundles third-party apps
- 9: Time for a summer movie rundown, but this one is from Alternet. Int...
- 9: Many ad clickthroughs just kids who don't know better (Techdirt)
- 8: YACCS and JavaScript
- 7: "Why have MUDs and MOOs gotten so much attention?"
- 6: Jaguar: OS X, now with more raar!
- 6: Stapler 2.0 progress
- 6: Mixed XML content
- 6: David Chess's Saturday piece on the CBDTPA, linked here previously,...
- 4: More on CBDTPA vs general purpose computer (Log: David Chess)
- 3: Classic Computers is another place to raid for text for book CD-R, ...
- 3: RIAA, others reply to webcasters' "Day of Silence" (Politech)
- 3: SonicBlue ordered to track ReplayTV users' viewing choices (Mercury News)
- 3: Kit 1.0.1
April 2002
March 2002
- 30: The History of Flash.
- 30: Hollings Howls Will Have to Wait (Wired News)
- 29: Windows on a database - sliced and diced by BeOS vets (The Register
- 29: Dr. Ian Lane Davis on AI in video games.
- 27: Application posture, application posture, application posture.
- 27: Aggregator to blog, in Radio
- 27: Sleepy depressed but feeling a bit better after a nice rest thanks MLP
- 26: JFreeChart
- 25: More Smalltalk
- 25: Radio, Frontier, Squeak, gates
- 24: For posterity: to add to my book CD-R
- 24: This part of the Programmers' Stone, found roundabout through Meatb...
- 22: Cornerhost for blogging
- 22: Lab warning messages
- 22: I have some comments to make about MetaVerse on Meatball Wiki (paro...
- 22: Regular Expression Basics (evolt.org)
- 22: No Moore Law - Buy a Mac? (Inkfox's LiveJournal)
- 21: Got xenu?
- 21: And the #1 cool thing about Earthlink's new webmail software is...
- 21: The bug Mark Pilgrim found in Manila about unescaped referrers (or ...
- 21: 499 midterm
- 21: Kit progress
- 21: Strange loop in April DDJ Algorithm Alley?
- 20: Springmail
- 19: Wow. Ads in K5 appear in the RSS feed and have comments!!! Talk abo...
- 18: Winamp Shuffleplay 0.8f
- 18: Seen on flightgear-devel: IANAP.
Also from flightgear-devel: Inl...
- 18: A conspiracy of inertia? (CIO)
- 18: If-Modified-Since for Stapler
- 17: The Kaypro and I (Lisa Lynch)
- 16: The Old Mac That Went to Pot (Wired News)
- 15: PGP timestamping service
- 14: Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask by Jim Munroe e-text
- 14: FurryMUCK is atitter with talk of ProgressQuest. I think I'll stick...
- 14: Sketch is 80% impossible to install under Windows.
- 14: More searchers' questions answered
- 13: MLP
- 9: In 499 we started playing with Photoshop and Illustrator, so when A...
- 6: In which searchers' questions are answered, maybe
- 5: Grr, and I thought I was done with my 499 thing:
Each part shoul...
- 5: To answer my own comment (since YACCS is having an outage or someth...
- 5: Happy Hacking Lite keyboard?
- 4: And how is one supposed to read from an edit box in a non-MFC C++ p...
- 2: 499
- 1: For further exploration: arsware.org.
- 1: Piece from Julian Dibbell for the Dead Media Project on the ancient...
February 2002
- 28: Idea for yet another Radio tool: Jeweler, a gems manager, vaguely a...
- 28: PyUt, a Python UML tool under development.
- 28: Neat stuff at sloppycode.net.
- 27: As I typed in the query, I thought it'd be nice if Google would jus...
- 27: A list of screen readers at Joe Clark's Accessiblog, from Joe Clark...
- 27: "How I lost my faith:" Lisp and Python (comp.lang.lisp)
- 27: Boston judge to hear first test of GNU license used in MySQL (Politech) (updated)
- 27: La la la
- 24: [ICANN CEO] Lynn to At-Large and Non-Commercial Interests in ICANN: Drop Dead (ICANNwatch)
- 22: Stapler vs rssDistiller, I think
- 22: Python lambda tricks
- 21: Hey, an RSS generation tool for Radio
- 21: Blox?
- 21: Transport Layer Security?
- 21: CSS: It gets you out of bed in the morning [tm]
- 21: SQL validator
- 20: More 499 midterm
- 20: Why Pixar should buy Square USA (OSopinion)
- 20: Stackless Python (O'Reillynet)
- 19: Aaaagh: 499 midterm
- 19: I ♥ Unicode.
- 18: Extending Eudora with the Python scripting language through win32 e...
- 17: trained monkey:
somebody at eidos is a damn genius. they are buy...
- 15: OpenBeOS First Internal Release
- 15: Yeah, it's short notice--Sonja Petrovic said so in the mail--but UT...
- 14: David Brown is using Radio as a Python IDE.
- 14: Things to do for my 499 matching game:Fix reflection of mouse locat...
- 13: I'm still recovering from staying at school 15 hours instead of mer...
- 13: Spam around Valentine's Day reminds me of Pollen.
- 12: Apparently the new BeipMU will support triggers with regular expres...
- 11: So it's a bit wonky: my code for using proper Unicode punctuation e...
- 11: Build and Release Management (freshmeat)
- 11: Dvorak, the Nomic card game. Sort of. It comes with MUSHcode, too--...
- 10: More SSL: Unanswered questions suck.
- 10: More SSL for Radio
- 10: Eve Andersson's Diary of a Start-Up
- 10: Remote access to Radio UserLand via SSL (radio-dev)
- 9: The computer scree I discussed earlier is the CPU fan.
- 8: The secret life of Leo Laporte:
[H]e's the guy who used to voice...
- 8: No Joel tonight
- 6: Done with the car thing. Three problems in various states of resolv...
- 6: O'Reilly Network articles
- 5: Spam and Music (Flutterby)
- 5: Mozilla 0.98
- 4: How to check memory
- 2: Found out POT.py doesn't handle bad passwords correctly anymore, fo...
- 2: Ooh, ahh, deny from works in .htaccess files. Thanks, trainedmonkey...
- 1: Leo Laporte writes:
[T]his is exactly how a language evolves. I ...
- 1: Trillian won't heed AOL's message (Wired News)
January 2002
- 31: Heeey, diveintomark is now a fellow Cornerhosted weblog. Nifty.
- 30: Coccinella: Jabber whiteboarding
- 30: Radio community incest of the day
- 29: Spam from the Navy!
- 29: Aimless derivative anti-publisher rant
- 28: New Video Game Glove for PCs (BBC News, Geeknews)
- 28: After the debacle that was work last week, I'm glad to be doing som...
- 26: Alterslash
- 26: XML.com TAGlines discusses MIME types and XML namespaces (skip lowe...
- 25: Online publishing with filesharing
- 24: My POS computer is emitting a high-pitched whine, warm air is comin...
- 24: "iLoJack:" stolen iMac recovered via AppleScript
- 23: Amiga Fun and Paradroid 90 (Inkfox's LiveJournal)
- 23: Python is a bicycle
- 22: MLP
- 22: 630,000 Users Can't Be Wrong (ICANNWatch)
- 21: Dude, somebody's made DreamZZT, ZZT for the Dreamcast. How fucked u...
- 20: Imici
- 20: The Reg on the rumored AOL += Red Hat.
- 19: The history of the OpenGL teapot.
- 19: Games People Build, Then Play (Wired News) and Ink's adventure
- 17: Orchard?
- 17: A Silicon Valley funeral for Be Inc (The Register)
- 16: Pointer arithmetic sucks
- 16: P2P file transfer coming soon to BeipMU?
- 16: Huh, collaborative suggestion music site Rate Your Music. Hmm.
- 14: The Bat! and cursor constraint
- 14: Someone's trying to use Radio with Wine.
- 14: Aaron Swartz et al publish the Swhack Weblog, which has cool stuff ...
- 13: Todd Boyle on limited 802.11 (decentralization)
- 12: Is Jabber's Chatbot the Command Line of the Future? (O'Reillynet)
- 11: Triangle stripping.
- 10: Ka-Ping Yee of Roundup and FoRK
- 10: st3 Technology Firm Goes Bankrupt And Closes Doors (The Chattanoogan)
- 8: Today's markpasc.blog is brought to by markpasc's LiveJournal, sinc...
- 7: And thanks to Joshua, I received the understandably belated Christm...
- 7: Apache: underpinnings for iPublish?
- 6: MUCKzilla: The Case for a Trouble Ticket System.
- 5: Connectivity, but mostly access logs
- 4: I'm trying to write something on MUCK administration to post to Fuz...
- 4: So, Chattanooga has a JUG now. @Whee.
- 4: I might use XML-RPC for Python in a project.
- 2: Mmm, Network Solutions horror story
- 2: Damien Barrett on Apple's secret
- 1: Gassee leaves Be, blah blah blah
December 2001
- 30: Reactions to "Tales of a BeOS Refugee" (Scot Hacker)
- 30: So I'm looking into buying 802.11b cards, one PCMCIA and one PCI or...
- 29: POT.py.
- 26: UserList in Python 2.2?
- 26: Getting Things Done When You're Only a Grunt (Joel on Software)
- 24: LiteStep update
- 23: The LiteStep story so far
- 23: FCC wants to yank Kevin Mitnick's radio license (The Register)
- 23: LiteStep in Background
- 22: Features POT.py needs
- 22: More playing with POT
- 21: My Fitts's Law nightmare
- 21: 2.2 and 0.71 in the house, yo. Word to Señor Coconut.
- 21: Euro Bank Notes to Get Radio Frequency ID Chips (eetimes)
- 20: .biz url
- 20: Boring Thursday MLP
- 20: Scot Hacker reviews Mac OS X (OSNews)
- 19: Bah to rexec
- 19: WinAmp 2.78 with not only cddb2 support, but a minibrowser powered ...
- 19: Garbled messages from ICQ 2001b users in Trillian 0.70, on Windows 95.
- 19: Blah, blah, blah
- 18: The One Humvee (SF Weekly Lab Notes)
- 18: Friends' LiveJournals
- 18: I actually bothered to read some not-awful-looking spam I received ...
- 18: line = not ''
- 17: @Yay
- 17: In case anyone else notices this problem wherein rexec.RExec.s_eval...
- 17: Is it just me or does faqts.com suck? They have low system availabi...
- 15: Kuro5hin draws breath
- 14: Where Were Suspect's Porn Pics? (Wired News)
- 13: Not-so-bearproof suit. [thanks, Flayrah.com]
- 12: Back to Basics (Joel on Software)
- 12: Partnership For an Idiot-free Internet. Pretty old school, but with...
- 12: Blinkenlights
- 11: Didn't know Nullsoft hired Ryan Geiss of the infamous Geiss plugin....
- 10: A Non-Free Internet: Could it happen?
- 9: DVD Menu Design: The Failures of Web Design Recreated Yet Again (Alertbox)
- 9: BeipMU 2.0 coming soon
- 8: Undead typography: Michael Hamm's shareware Slurry
- 8:
Markfox774: Soup, dawg.
smarterchild: This is SmarterChild, buil...
- 7: As reported on Slashdot (I was looking for the link to DomainMonger...
- 7: More Python-web notes
- 6: Trillian 0.7 is indeedily keen.
I think I might wanna write new ...
- 6: I am becoming increasingly convinced that a fascinating thesis topi...
- 6: A win in the battle against HTML email: No-HTML display plug-in for...
- 6: A MetaFilter thread on GameBoy synthesizers and sequencers courtesy...
- 6: One of the crazier things [Cameron Barrett has] written of late, an...
- 6:
Trillian 0.70. Will upgrade this evening, maybe. [thanks, Geekn...
- 5: Yahoo, Yahoo, Yahoo
- 5: Interview with Yukihiro Matz Matsumoto, creator of Ruby and author ...
- 5: ICANN, CANNU?
- 4: Which makes sense to you, mucker? What you type is in white. @rec! ...
- 4: Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Smalltalk Compiler
- 4: This subject line typifies the spammer's target audience:
Make y...
- 4: Sealand resident Ryan Lackey has an interesting response to Sterlin...
- 3: Geeks and Spooks by Bruce Sterling
- 3: TechTV's electronic music show, Moby, Beatnik and sonify.org
- 1: .NET leverages the Internet using XML to modularize software and cr...
- 1: me too, weblogs-com!!
November 2001
October 2001
- 31: Attack of Son of MLP
- 30: I just spent quite a while figuring out how to turn my Snakes and L...
- 30: MLP
- 27: anygui GUI API for Python
- 25: Ogging the Vorbis
- 22: Leaving SourceForge from advogato of.. uh.. Advogato. Because of VA...
- 21: Chris Pirillo has 50 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Windows ...
- 20: A long time ago, Kelly mentioned he thought news (as in NNTP, as in...
- 19: Mmmm, GNU Smalltalk. [thanks, Bill St Clair's End the War on Freedo...
- 19: RTFS
- 19: So it's the second day I've woken up with vague, dreamlike recollec...
- 16: Since when is saying there would be less vulnerability if sysadmins...
- 16: Conversations with Joshua (Disenchanted)
- 14: British Teens Check Into Online Flop House - Habbo Hotel Turns Seedy (Plastic)
- 14: Because I don't believe for a second that life is about bits flicke...
- 13: Josh has done up some cool slides for our Python presentation next ...
- 12: Network Associates cuts PGP unit, reports eWEEK. 250 people lose th...
- 12: Notes, then MLP
- 11: Read that Onion article, Freedoms Curtailed in Defense of Liberty? ...
- 11: So I sez to my Johnny Bell:
I was told when I ordered FastAccess...
- 10: Well, I have DSL. I'm just not sure if I want to keep it. I also th...
- 10: MLP
- 9: O'Reillynet articles
- 9: st3 Internet Firm Tells Employees Shutting Down (The Chattanoogan)
- 9: Is snake too deep a bad error message?
I have a CS440 Wide Area ...
- 9: Mark Pilgrim is the author of Dive Into Python--my intro to Python,...
- 8: Artificial stupidity
- 5: The Internet is a place, says the Eleventh Circuit US Court of Appe...
- 1: Mmf
September 2001
August 2001
July 2001
June 2001
- 29: NetAddress - no more free email? reports Geeknews, which is apparen...
- 26: Party like it's 999,999,999
- 26: Attributed trees in Python?
- 25: Midway Quits Arcade Business; Coin-Op Games To Follow Pinball?
- 25: Adult virtual world
- 24: An era ends as a BeOS user doesn't
- 24: David Chess's memo to Atrus
- 24: "Bigger Geek Than You," not from Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters
- 23: "There are several sorts of handheld device"
- 20: Do Unions Have a Place in the High-Tech Market? at GigaLaw
- 19: C?AN
- 19: Murderous metaphor shear
- 18: Web comics stories from Wired News
- 18: In which I'm a computer criminal
- 17: Desktop.setWallpaper(Farscape)
- 17: Scott McCloud's I Can't Stop Thinking #6: Coins of the Realm part 2
- 15: Alan Kay leaving Disney
- 14: Matt Haughey is "the target demo" in the NYT.
- 13: The corrected strict-out-lenient-in quote.
- 12: NASA considers cooling Earth by moving it says this Observer articl...
- 10: MP3 Goes Pro at MIT Technology Review is bandied about by NewsForge...
- 9: Four eaten, destroyed cassette tapes later, I'm back to something d...
- 8: A Flutterby thread on HTML and stylesheets, which is actually about...
- 8: Electronic Ink Now in Color, and Humans Responsible for Megafauna E...
- 7: You can't pass out free software here. NewsForge covers Linux vs Mi...
- 7: Jakob Nielsen explains why the First-Mover Advantage Is Overrated a...
- 7: DMOZ adopts social contract. [thanks, Geeknews] This has been the O...
- 6: Some programming notes.
Some of these are from Bruce Eckel's gli...
- 5: NewsForge reports, New GPL Q&A posted by Microsoft, but I'm more in...
- 5: Happy Birthday, PGP. The blurb for this Wired News article says PGP...
- 3: The answer of course is the X closes the window and the no symbol b...
- 3: WinJab's chat window has a UI bug.
See the two completely re...
- 2: Ballmer: "Linux is a cancer", reports The Register, countermanding ...
- 2: Look! Here's a twenty-dollar bill lying on the sidewalk. Of course ...
- 1: Artificial Intelligence Software to Command Mission
, says NASA JP...
May 2001
- 31: Quoth Hack the Planet: Kodo is the first JDO [Java Data Objects] im...
- 31: Weblogs: A New Source of News, part two of two at Online Journalism...
- 31: More school stuff: PowerPoint Invades the Classroom at the NY Times...
- 31: Cowboy cracker nails Apache from The Register. Fluffy Bunny was als...
- 29: PuTTY is the best SSH client for Windows. Part of the full putty su...
- 29: I should update Stapler's feeds page to resemble the sources page, ...
- 26: Ten days ago at eight in the morning was systime 990,000,000. Only ...
- 25: Super Dodge Ball Advance sounds awesome. GameCast is down, looks li...
- 25: Blogging as a Form of Journalism at the Online Journalism Review: W...
- 25: Groceries trip triclosan switch at Nature, meaning random off-the-s...
- 24: Cafe au Lait has lots of details about the new Java 1.4 beta. [than...
- 23: Jackal is now in CVS. It doesn't have the latest fixes by a contrib...
- 23: Comments on Stapler from p3k:
but it lacks usability, messes wit...
- 22: Well, reportedly I managed to screw my SourceForge CVS for Jackal u...
- 21: JabberFoX (Jabber for OS X) has some new screenshots, and a cool lo...
- 20: Jackal, Stapler. Stapler, Jackal. Now let's all get along.
- 20: Wow, people are using Stapler. Ain't that the keenest? Here are my ...
- 19: Time travel using slow light? at Ars Technica.
- 18: Good security journalism in Security outfit targets cDc anonymity a...
- 18: This month's Crypto-Gram has an interesting article, Safe Personal ...
- 18: Coming Soon ... the AOL Operating System. [thanks, OSOpinion via Ne...
- 17: LA Times: Boy, You Fight Like a Girl. Thanks, Plastic, where the ar...
- 17: Welcome to Stapler.
- 17: It's funny, but two of the three GameCube games Nintendo showed off...
- 14: Latest boneheaded move in Stapler development: failing to comment o...
- 14: Of course no one's normal; we're all Charge Parity violators. [than...
- 11: With the release of Mozilla 0.9, the next version of the best web b...
- 10: The DSL provider for FurryMUCK, the first furry MUD and largest MUC...
- 10: Jamie Zawinski prev next prev next thing. Oh this would do; all wha...
- 10: "As a diversion last weekend, [James Tauber] wrote the beginnings o...
- 9: Hopefully Stapler will be done soon. I'm adding help pages now, wri...
- 9: The Legacy of Science, a speech by the ever enlightening James Burk...
- 8: Sony empowers Aibo pet robot to read e-mail. [thanks, NewsForge] Ye...
- 8: So I finally heard this quote today:
Computer games don't affect...
- 7: Byte: Turning Point For BeOS, Users? [thanks, Hack the Planet]
- 7: New research confirms that natural selection is acting on the curre...
- 7: Java IAQ: Infrequently Asked Questions. Peter Norvig examines some ...
- 6: My guidelines for finding new RSS channels.
- 5: The Death Penalty for Corporations Comes of Age at CorpWatch, which...
- 4: AOL marshalls troops against MS XP. [thanks, NewsForge] AOL is worr...
- 4: The same Doc Searls item points at zgp.org, leading to zgp.org/~dma...
- 4: You've got to read this, says Doc Searls here of a Linux Journal ar...
- 3: For any Radio UserLand users who're curious what this Stapler tool ...
- 3: At EarthLink, we know the less time you spend dealing with hassles,...
- 3: Soapbox points to Edelman the PR firm's response to NUblog's reques...
- 1: Can Be survive its transition to BeIA? Will BONE ever release? Neal...
April 2001
- 30: Some MLP about Neal Stephenson and virtual worlds.
Wired magaz...
- 30: No real posts today. I worked on Stapler a lot; the feed configurat...
- 28: Eric S. Raymond: Why Python? [thanks, Scripting News] Encouragement...
- 27: Dave rants about My.Netscape, then talks about a corporate death pe...
- 27: Some insight (well, sounds like insight to me) into Wired News's I ...
- 23: Am exhausted. 499 presentations ran over (like, measured-in-multipl...
- 23: Just bumming around now. The paper's done whether it wants to be or...
- 23: James Gleick on being connected. Marvelous stuff, as usual. Gleick ...
- 22: Today and last night I've come pretty far with my comics aggregator...
- 21: UPC R.I.P. ? How Smart Labels Will Work. [thanks, GeekPress] Grocer...
- 21: CDDB alternatives, namely FreeDB and MusicBrainz. [thanks, Geeknews...
- 18: I'm sitting here in CS499 Network Security. An EE grad student just...
- 18: A selection from Salon's Haiku Error Message challenge:
The Tao ...
- 18: Well, wouldn't you know it? I found something to code yesterday, th...
- 18: The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing. Joel says: Hire people who are...
- 18: Finally have some time to discuss My PC, the Teenager, the new Dise...
- 17: My PC, the Teenager at Disenchanted. Can't think about it just now ...
- 17: Ask Slashdot: National Governments and the Internet? [thanks, iRigh...
- 17: From teen 'hackers' to job hunters in the Washington Post. [thanks,...
- 17: Piracy judge slams 'rip-off' games software. [thanks, The Register]...
- 17: Browsing the legal stuff on AudioGalaxy. Here's a review of OHM: Th...
- 17: A music-driven racing game would still be neat, where the road cond...
- 16: Silly rabbit, HTML is for weblogs.
- 13: Those of you who have free web or MU* hosting from a friend, take a...
- 13: ZDNet: Yahoo backs off on porn sales. I'd seen this article in seve...
- 12: I put a LinuxCare LNX sticker (not unlike this one) on my gateway m...
- 10: Peter Gabriel wants to rent you a song. First Thomas Dolby, now thi...
- 10: I remember Suzanne Vega playing World Before Columbus on a now canc...
- 10: The Silence of the Hacked. [thanks, Wired News] The seduction of th...
- 9: The C64 stuff was fun. Now here's BeOS stuff:
BeOS 5 for Deskt...
- 9: Joe Crawford sends this link to Bruce Sterling's prescient "Free as...
- 9: Last quick note before I get to work: want to add an archive calend...
- 9: Brain Dead Means Dead by Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News] In some ...
- 8: Programmers: "A programmer is a rigorous scientist determined to co...
- 7: David McCusker says, "This post doesn't qualify as hacking the plan...
- 7: I got my part of the CS460 paper (RTF) on the Commodore 64 done Fri...
- 5: DaveNet: Call it a shakeout? [Scripting News] Be, for example, who ...
- 3: The part of Life on the Screen I'm reading deals with humans' intel...
- 3: On the subject of the Turing test, Sherry Turkle's Life on the Scre...
- 3: Be and Amiga: ominous parallels? "The recent plight of Be... can in...
- 2: Complaints about Linux touched off by Are LUGs hurting widespread L...
- 2: Computer security a question on nation's campuses. [via U-WIRE and ...
March 2001