Blog: 2005
These are the 401 blog posts for 2005. Older is 2004. Newer is 2006. There is also a complete archive.
December 2005
Setting up the new laptop #administration #windows
I’m special, so special #autism #music #parenting
Multiple Python installations on Windows #python #windows
Helvetica, Arial in Grotesque Accident #typography #web
Ricky Gervais podcast #audio #funny
The Story About Ping #funny #networks
Intelligent Design in schools #education #science
The downside of living online #online
XML without the <!DOCTYPE> #xml
Database schema upgrades #databases #django
Wookieepedia #obsession #reference #star-wars
Django losing its djang? #django #friends-&-family
A new gig for me #django #kubi #me #tabblo
Configuring Outlook to deal with spam bounces #email #malware
Vowels and consonants #language
Coverage.py, v2.5 #coverage #my-code
Tim Tom #animation #django #movies
Python Testing Tools Taxonomy and Jester #python #testing #tools
UI blogs & the best outlook feature ever #blogs #ui #windows
Windows notification icons #debugging #ui #windows
November 2005
Single letter domain names #web
Dangerously excited #books #quotes
How this site is made: xuff, px, bx, etc #python #site #xslt
Quick links: Pike, Air, Stickers, JS/UIX, SQL, Scarry #art #databases #google #quick-links #science #unix
Death penalty in Massachusetts #boston #politics
Amazon mechanical turk #amazon
My personal Python mind set #dev-mindset #python
Single-sheet paper sculptures #art #crafts
Pool birthday cake #cakes #lego #parenting #swimming
Coalescing Python parser info? #online
New comment feature: notify me #site
Google AdWords: reactivated #google #me
What’s Special About This Number? #math
Finding Windows error messages #exceptions #windows
Ajaxy Exception Catching #exceptions #python #web
How the Death Star works #star-wars
Repetitive information injury #productivity
Sony and rootkits #blogs #music #windows
October 2005
The Final Days of AT&T #design
Halloween pumpkins #crafts #parenting
Ghost diagrams #autism #blogs #math
Google AdWords: evil? #google #me
Susan’s blog #autism #blogs #susan
More alternatives for Python unit testing #python #testing
We share your pain #funny #geeky
Parrot post-mortem #management
More Unix cheat sheets #reference #unix
Comments prevent execution #coding
wcscmp vs StrEqual #c++ #coding
Danielle Strachman: hemispheric integration and juggling #blogs #education
Open Source licenses compared #business #open-source
Object reference not set to an instance of an object #exceptions
The curse of the were-rabbit #animation #movies #reviews
Madlibs, part 3 #parenting #python
Stack traces on windows #windows
How to price a fixed-price contract? #business #help
Scott Lewis is an angel #blogs
Today show in NYC #me #susan #tv
Help! Frozen Mac browsers! #help #mac
September 2005
I’ll be on the Weekend Today show #me #susan
The death of the main menu #ui #windows
Avoid being called a bozo when producing xml #how-to #xml
SNL celebrity jeopardy #funny #tv
Paper forest #blogs #crafts #japan
Intro to camera memory #hardware
TV in da house, part 2 #me #susan
Cog commercial: history and spoof #ads #funny
Blog searching #google #search
Gatekeeper Drainer Jockey #coding
The Aristocrats #movies #reviews
Reminder: Walk F.A.R. for NAAR #autism #help
Doorknob monsters and Jimwich’s faces #photos
What Rain Man can teach system administrators #administration #autism
Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal Theme #funny #mac #ui
Amazon sales stats grabber #amazon #python
Faces project management #management #python
Threads cannot be implemented as a library #concurrency #programming-languages
Cyan Worlds shuts down #cakes #video-games
PocketMod and D*I*Y Planner #productivity
Katrina on Google Maps #google #maps #places
Please help me export movies from Premiere #help
Database: what’s a base? #databases #language
Blogging from New Orleans #places
Interactive debugging in Python #debugging #python
August 2005
Organizing build trees #development
Making Peace With Autism is now available! #books #susan
Can hate be good? #ads #animation #cars
Link grammar parser #language #tools
There’s no way I’ll ever be as cool as Derek Sivers #blogs #online
Subversion tags #source-control
Disney sand sculptures #art #movies
Susan on WOR, and why registration is a pain #susan
Boy, that guy is really mad #parenting #work
Information Aesthetics blog #art #blogs #language
Kent Beck: software health #development #testing
“Meteoric rise” #language #space
While my ukelele gently weeps #music
Walk F.A.R. for NAAR 2005 #autism #help #walking
The lamest search page ever #search
Valid email addresses? #email #regex
Madlibs, part 2 #parenting #python
Amazing but true quotes from the 21st century #parenting #phones #quotes
Time, time, time #art #science #space
Apple’s mighty mouse #hardware
The value of patterns #architecture
July 2005
Programming with kids: madlibs #parenting #python
Multi-threading? #architecture #concurrency
Sometimes the automation really knows best #coverage #testing
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory #movies #reviews
The bourne war on terror #funny #politics #unix
Green With Satisfaction #autism #susan
Online etymology dictionary #language #reference
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close #books #reviews
Very small objects #art #science
Google maps pedometer #google #maps #walking
Google Moon #google #maps #places #space
Flipbook #animation #art #games #parenting
More lattice stuff #art #my-code
Firefox really is spreading #browsers
Tallest bridge: Viaduc de Millau #places
June 2005
The Tens of Commandments #politics #religion
Windows shell reads XML processing instructions #windows #xml
Iraq war casualties map #google #maps #war
Keyed lookups in XSLT 1.0 #xslt
Stupid flag burning amendment #politics
Another distraction I didn’t need: Sudoku #puzzles
Last place at Special Olympics #autism #special-olympics #sports
Spolsky/Scoble workplace fracas #work
Robyn Miller’s blog #blogs #video-games
On this day three years ago... #me
Practical MD5 collisions #postscript #security
More stock photo places #photos #web
Stick figure adventures #games #puzzles
Quick links: contraption, real life, easter egg, shufflehacks, lightsaber #graphics #lego #quick-links #star-wars
Customizable keyboards #hardware
Quick links: tiny houses, organic desktops, anti-social, beach animals, robot hut, star wars logo #art #quick-links #robots #star-wars #typography
May 2005
Brian Levine #blogs #friends-&-family
Store Wars #funny #movies #star-wars
Of course, sometimes it is your software’s fault #concurrency #databases #debugging
Bad hardware #administration #networks
Synergy: software keyboard sharing #tools
Children’s cosmological questions answered #space
Character styling with Unicode #characters #mac
Unix cheat sheets #shells #unix
Star Wars crawls #star-wars #typography
Revenge of the sixth #reviews #star-wars
The mermaid #history #religion
Context Free Design Grammar #art
Gay marriage, one year later #politics
Precog and Templarian #cog #php
Seven-year glitch #parenting #quotes
.NET stuff: dispose guidelines and c++/cli #c# #c++
I want my MTV at Skywalker Ranch #star-wars
More C++ constructor trivia #c++
Making Peace With Autism #autism #books #susan
Quick links: fade, logos, comic, colourlovers, edit, png #css #color #design #graphics #javascript #quick-links #web
Bad day for date formats #testing
Web single signon #security #web
Summer Without Structure #susan
Alien birthday cake #cakes #parenting #space
April 2005
Protected members in sealed classes? #c#
Updated Python parsers page #python
How to make a coin ring #crafts #how-to
Dictatorship of relativism #politics #religion
How to start a fire with a can of Coke and a chocolate bar #hacks #how-to
Wrapping-paper tie #crafts #parenting
Big Apple Circus #juggling #parenting
Adobe buying Macromedia #business
How to destroy the Earth #science
Staying organized with index cards #productivity
Disappointed: T30 DVI #hardware
Abston Church of Christ #lego #religion
Temporary internet files and my recent documents #windows
Sub-pixel font rendering technology #typography
Phishing fun with Unicode #characters #email #malware
The disappointment of ADO.NET #databases
The beauty of the relational model #databases
Different strokes for different folks #swimming
Franny K. Stein #books #parenting #reviews
March 2005
My own private WTF? #c# #coding
Argent: Cog for Ruby #cog #ruby
Wrapping delegates in C# #c# #exceptions
Robyn Miller is entirely cool #video-games
Python limericks #geeky #python
Velcro snail and Jimwich #art #blogs
Myst island birthday cake #cakes #parenting #video-games
Opening a file with an unknown extension #how-to #windows
New Microsoft typefaces #typography
Microsoft DLL help database #windows
Super Mario crafts #crafts #video-games
BitTorrent + RSS = TiVo? #feeds #tv
NYPL Digital Gallery #history #photos
The long tail of software #business #online
Ultimate boot CD #administration #tools
Who’s on First? #funny #movies
L0rd 0f teh Ringz0rz #funny #movies
I’m an Amazon associate #amazon #site
Cell phone virus #malware #phones
Properties vs. public members #c# #coding
Muy macho shredders #machinery
Brookline ScienceFest ‘05 #education #parenting #science
The book stops here #online #reference
Portrait illustration maker #online
Building a modern computer from first principles #comp-sci #education
C# and OutputDebugString #c# #debugging
SQL hacks: numbers table #databases #hacks
Doodle-O drawings #art #games #parenting
February 2005
Two Windows launcher utilities #tools #windows
Managed developer testing #management #testing
Art, high and low #animation #art #funny
Microsoft’s guide to leetspeek #online
Kubi is hiring: engineering, sales, and qa #kubi
Christo’s Gates #art #places #walking
Unable to send email #administration #email
Amazing basketball shot #sports
Ryan’s cog tips, and Theoden’s code tips #coding #cog #funny #how-to
Ask Jeeves to buy Bloglines? #business #feeds
The original, updated #ads #movies
Getting back to work #productivity
Quick start for Subversion #how-to #source-control
Get out of the zeros! #development #open-source
So you want to be a consultant? #work
January 2005
Nice Windows icons with wxPython #how-to #python
Things to say when you are losing a technical argument #funny #geeky
Dispatching events in wxPython #python
Mongoose #exceptions #libraries #python
More exception handling debate #exceptions
Misaligned fragment URLs #site #web
We’re looking for QE contractors #kubi
Let me be brave #autism #special-olympics #susan
Quick links: earthquake, Mario music, wonkavision #music #quick-links #science #video-games
IBM releases 500 patents #business #law #open-source
Generalizing Overloading for C++2000 #c++
Autism car magnets #autism #cars
MAME arcade machines #video-games
Tricks of the trade #blogs #how-to
Rosemary Kennedy, 1918–2005 #obituaries #special-olympics
Deleting code in Russian #site
Nat’s Pooh picture #autism #parenting
SQL injection attacks #databases #security
Music notation modernization #music