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2003-06-02
2003-05-19
2003-05-14
+ 5x PageRank Speedup 11:58a
2003-05-13
! xmltramp 1:47p
* Excellent song about gamma rays is C&Ded by RIAA. 1:09p
2003-05-12
* Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception 5:10p–?
+ Google Opens New York Office 2:34p
+ technorati.py 1:40p–2:15p
+ xmltramp 12:00a–1:30p
+ Media Concentration ?–11:32a
2003-05-07
2003-05-01
2003-04-28
* Philip: Summer Trip. More fun thoughts. 10:26p
2003-04-16
! Current Projects 5:52p
2003-04-15
* Greenspun: Israel: A Backgrounder 12:10a–12:41a
2003-04-14
+ NYT Google Profile 4:23p
+ People 2:34p–2:39p
+ djb 1:38p–2:10p
2003-04-13
* The Hundred-Year Language ?–1:48p
2003-04-01
2003-03-31
* Enormous Type Designed To Induce "Shock and Awe" 5:55p
2003-03-24
2003-03-23
2003-03-22
2003-03-21
2003-03-20
2003-03-19
* Preaching to the choir. Powerful. 5:44p
* Al Gore Joins Apple's Board of Directors. “Al is also an avid Mac user and does his own video editing in Final Cut Pro,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. 5:16p
* How High Terror Alert Works: “A red [high] alert would also tear away virtually all personal freedoms to move about and associate.” 5:08p
2003-03-18
* Joe Clark on Cory Doctorow 1:54p
2003-03-17
+ How to Do Stuff 10:20a–11:10a
2003-03-16
* Happy GNU/Linux Month! 10:02p
+ Spectrum Reflections 7:37p–7:55p
* Lessig: edwards in person. “it was moving in a way I have never before seen in a politician”. 11:49a
2003-03-15
2003-03-14
* Boycott Brand America 4:23p
2003-03-13
! HTML namespaces, small caps, and temporary redirect tests 9:06p
+ The You’ll-Agree-With-Me-When-You’re-Older/More Experienced/Male Logical Fallacy
2003-03-07
* Audio Hijack Pro: Save speaker output to a file on OS X. 2:09p
* RMS on Speaking Engagements. I can imagine myself saying a lot of this. 1:43p
+ Valenti Remix 11:30a
+ Just The Ads, Ma'am 9:30a
+ The Dance Is On 9:14a
2003-03-06
2003-03-05
* Wired News story on MusicBrainz with short quote from me 11:02p
+ Google Text Ads on Other Sites 12:25p
* Supreme Court Rejects “Trademark Dilution” Claim 9:53a
2003-03-04
+ Photos from California, March 2003 5:07p
* Ping on Palladium
+ AllTheWeb Redesigns to Look More Like Google 10:25a
2003-03-02
* BSA Goes After People Distributing “Pirated Copies” of OpenOffice 11:43a
* Down and Out in Entertainment Weekly 11:39a
* ISBNv6 11:30a
2003-02-28
2003-02-27
+ haircut pictures: before (there's something eating your head!), after (ow! don't poke me with that!) ?–9:18a
2003-02-26
* QUINN GIVES BIRTH LIVE 12:13a
+ Google asks to be removed from dictionary 3:10p
* Onion AV Club: Joss Whedon. 10:36a–11:07a
+ Overture Buys Alta Vista, FAST: “It sounds like Overture is getting ready for a fight.” 10:10a
2003-02-25
* The author of 777 Mathematical Conversation Starters gave a talk at school today. Looks interesting. 4:51p
2003-02-24
2003-02-23
2003-02-22
2003-02-21
2003-02-20
! implementing CC metadata, web.resource.org/cc (added lessig note) 5:20p–5:24p
2003-02-19
* Warren Ellis: “I'll send a squad of finely trained San Francisco death pervert girls into [Cory Doctorow's] warehouse home where they will wear his dangly bits as grisly murder trophies.” 12:58p
2003-02-18
* bash-completion is cooler than I thought! add “. /etc/bash_completion” to your .bashrc; it completes apt-get, remote scp directories, cvs -options, etc. 12:00a
+ The Wireless Future 4:49p–5:14p
* Don Marti to Equifax: “As you can see from my credit report, I am 34 years old in 2002, and I began working in 1966, at the illegal age, both mathetically and child labor-wise, of minus two.” (cite) 12:26p
* Matt Webb: Okay, concept. “Maybe the 1980s were really visual, the 1720s extremely tactile. These things must go in waves, in fashions” 12:13p
+ Feature Request: Secure Google 11:20a–11:49a
+ Google + Blogger = ? (news roundup) 10:18p–
2003-02-17
* Danny O'Brien gets the hang of diapers on a practice baby 6:44p
+ Notes from Larry Page's Talk 4:28p
* Snowed in: 1, 2, 3 3:56p
* Official Sponsor of W3C Smut 3:26p
* Sen. Robert Byrd: “On this February day, as this nation stands at the brink of battle, every American on some level must be contemplating the horrors of war. Yet, this Chamber is, for the most part, silent -- ominously, dreadfully silent. There is no debate, no discussion, no attempt to lay out for the nation the pros and cons of this particular war. There is nothing.” (cite) [berry] 2:19p
2003-02-16
* Paul Graham: Why Nerds are Unpopular. Excellent thoughts on school, suburbia, and society. “It seems to me there is something wrong when it's routine for smart kids to dwell on suicide.”11:20p–12:15a
+ rescued Seth David Schoen: classic photo of (from the Linux Revolt), floating ASCII head of (by Nick Moffit) 5:30p
+ writing indictment of the semantic web hype 3:54p–4:31p
* Dan Hon: CNN removes portions of Hans Blix's speech that disagree with US from transcript 12:09p
* Bruce Schneier: “Seems that it is official Microsoft corporate policy not to be seen in public with Bruce Schneier.” (cite) 10:05a
+ our anniversary cards! 9:34a
2003-02-15
* Brent Simmons: “Parsing RSS is like walking across a field of broken glass. (And the glass has been heated to just below its melting point. And your hair is on fire.)” (cite) 12:43a
+ Google Buys Blogger 12:21a
* Chicago Media Action 8:57p
2003-02-14
+ Google's Privacy Problems ?–12:48p
+ wrote httpclient, part of ucspi-http 11:59a
2003-02-13
* Tinderbox Slogan: “Are your research notes on cocktail napkins?”
! web.resource.org/cc (fixed schema) 11:47a
* Reversible (about) is very clever! (1, 2) 10:12a
* What was John Glenn thinking when he was crouched in the rocket nose-cone awaiting blastoff? “I was thinking that the rocket had twenty thousand components, and each was made by the lowest bidder.” 9:18a
* New DMCA Indictment: “The hacking community should understand from this announcement we've infiltrated their chat rooms and Web sites, and we are identifying targets and bringing charges when appropriate,” Mr. Spertus said. (cite)
* 2003dnssec: True DNS security is near! 8:54a
2003-02-12
* Manual 12:27a–1:41a
* wow, apparently in california you can tell when an elevator is out of service because pings timeout. 9:54p
! application/rdf+xml Media Type Registration (updated social context to match last call drafts) 7:48p
! RSS 3.0 (added uri) ?
+ Gill Sans Test 1:09p
+ Survey Says: Google Top Global Brand, coming in ahead of Apple, Coca-Cola, and Starbucks. Which one of these is not like the other ones? 11:14a
2003-02-11
* MouseZoom makes your Mac's mouse G6 fast. Zooooooooooom! 5:38p
* T-Shirt: “The government is taking away my civil liberties and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.” (cite)
2003-02-10
* 100 stories of unfamous people 11:17p–11:20p
+ explain it to me 8:18p–8:50p
* IMS asks for IANA function. Yay! 12:39a
* First Issue of TEKKA out! 12:38a
2003-02-09
! bits.are.notabug (patents, djb bit at the bottom, trade secrets, privacy) 3:22p–3:56p
* reading CHIPS 3:03p–3:22p
* On the other hand, what I really want is for RealPlayer to give a continuous stream of music (so you don't have to keep going back to the site), with thumbs-up/thumbs-down buttons that go into a collaborative filter (so it learns what you like). I remember Imagine Radio (which they sold to Streamspincast or something) was like this, except for signed bands. Of course, they got shut down by the RIAAPolice. 12:27p
* Garageband.com, once you figure out how to get it working (hint: don't use Safari), is pretty nice. It's basically what I want: a continuous stream of new music from new bands. Nothing super-great, but it makes fun background music. 12:06p
2003-02-08
2003-02-07
* Action Item! 12:32a
2003-02-06
* Wow: Bill O'Reilly screams “shut up!” at a guest who disagrees with him. 5:59p
* Wow: only 17% of americans know that no hijackers are from Iraq 11:36a
* Brewster Kahle talk 11:00a–12:30p
2003-02-05
+ Enabling IPv6 on OS X or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dancing Kame 1:32p
2003-02-04
* Report of the Privacy Commisioner of Canada: “Let me be blunt: "The United States made us do it" cannot be a sufficient or acceptable justification for the Government to intrude on a fundamental right of Canadians.”
* Ben Franklin's Autobiography: “Gov'r. Thomas was so pleas'd with the construction of this stove, [] that he offered to give me a patent for the sole vending of them for a term of years; but I declin'd it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, viz., that, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.” 6:20p
* Dive Into Mark's 404 5:42p
+ atx website, converter and source code 10:13a
2003-02-03
* Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine 11:59a
+ It's 5:00. Do you know what your Google results are? 4:43p–5:07p
+ atx, the true structured text format (source) 2:30p
2003-02-02
* Observer: Bush, NASA ignore warnings that the Shuttle was unsafe? (Class, please turn to Visual Explanations, Chapter 2.) 2:43p
* ibid (whole article is good): “XML is the drug-addicted gang member who had committed his first murder before he had sex, which was rape.” 11:32a
* Erik Naggum on XML: “Robbery is not just another way of making a living, rape is not just another way of satisfying basic human needs, torture is not just another way of interrogation. And XML is not just another way of writing S-exps. There are some things in life that you do not do if you want to be a moral being and feel proud of what you have accomplished.” 11:29a
* simonstl: Is civility harmful? “I think alienation is important” 11:26a
* EU refuses to apply criminal sanctions to noncommercial copying! (cite) tx Donna Wentworth 11:24p
* Scary: Police checkpoint incident. Now you can be forcibly removed from your car, handcuffed, thrown to the ground, and have your wallet removed just for driving home from work! 11:01a
* Fascinating: How to fly without ID! 10:46a
* Dave Winer: Moon Missions. “Yes it's sad they died. Yes. But it's also great that they lived.” 10:39a
+ IP is IM response 10:24p
* wonderful rave for Japanese game Ico 2:00a
+ why “intellectual property” isn't property 2:00a
2003-02-01
* Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle (aka Appendix F) by Richard P. Feynman 12:32p
2003-01-31
2003-01-30
* Jeremiah has his own activity log 12:17p
2003-01-29
* New Yorker Science Fiction: Jon. “I will turn to her and say, Honey, uh, honey, there is a certain feeling but I cannot name it and cannot cite a precedent-type feeling, but trust me, dearest, wow, do I ever feel it for you, right now.” 10:42a
2003-01-28
! updated travel plans (planning DRM, Spectrum conf trip) 12:37a
* Uncut Interview with Cory Doctorow 7:25p
* “"According to Jewish law," deadpanned Yossi Vardi, an Israeli software entrepreneur, "life begins when the fetus becomes a lawyer."” (cite) (I have a pic of me and Vardi someplace.) 1:30p
2003-01-27
* UNIX HATERS website 10:45p
* Fair Use, Hillary Rosen's Switch Ad 8:20p
* listening to Danny O'Brien's talk 6:59p–7:55p
+ Small is Beautiful 3:58p–4:10p
+ Activity Log 3:40p–3:50p
! Front Page (travel plans, projects); About/Places
+ War Tax 7:50a
2003-01-26
2003-01-25
+ Between Iraq and a Hard Place 11:33p
2003-01-24
+ Tolkien's Lawyers Harass Small Publisher 4:00p–4:08p
2003-01-23
* Is this real or a joke: PR10.com? 10:42p
2003-01-22
* watching Between Iraq and a Hard Place ?–1:12a
* imaginative pastures 10:13a
2003-01-21
+ responding to Clark 10:36p–11:08p
* mixerman 6:17p–9:44p
* mixerman / orasis 4:28p–5:58p
* more mixerman 10:52a–11:29a
+ Google in BusinessWeek 10:20a–10:45a
+ Google Tour, Safari, MLKJ Day 9:52a
2003-01-20
* seeing what Ping's up to 9:10p–9:48p
+ responding to Creative Comments: On the Uses and Abuses of Markup 9:00p–9:10p
* reading mixerman adventures [jwz] 8:10p–9:00p
* reading upsideclown 5:27p–6:00p
+ setting up confirmation system for emails caught in spam trap 2:30p–3:20p
+ Re: Markup Challenge: aaronsw.com 11:58a
+ Re: Why your XHTML article is wrong 11:50a
* Joe Clark: “Let's not go quoting overrated anecdotalist curiosity Edward Tufte here.” (cite) 11:03a
* John Burkhardt: SUV Angst. “Its not "God Bless America" for these folks. Its "God Bless Me".” 10:25a
2003-01-19
+ creating an activity log 5:00p–6:27p
+ writing inside the secret government