Random memes

2026-07-30 The Art of Talking to Loud, Literate Machines
2026-06-23 Conversation with an AI
2026-02-06 How the galaxy is explored
2025-11-30 Print farm - chapter zero
2025-10-08 Networking naming anti-pattern
2025-09-01 Reading Adam Smith
2025-08-30 Religion and writing
2025-08-25 Bondtech INDX and the next step in 3D-printers
2025-08-20 Private versus public schools
2025-08-19 Deoptimized web search and SEO
2025-08-08 Mersenne twister - random number generator
2025-07-12 How to explore the galaxy
2025-07-11 Competed Once
2025-07-09 Software Philosopher
2025-05-11 UTF-8 is now Everywhere
2025-05-10 Out of the Cave
2025-05-02 Worked for a defense contractor
2024-05-10 Economics as Politics
2023-09-01 Constitution as base
2023-07-03 Linux distributions as airliners
2023-06-24 Slow motion train wreck
2023-06-16 Cloud is Fierce
2023-05-07 Unexpected job
2023-05-06 Risky business
2023-05-05 Converted to 11ty
2017-02-02 Minimum wage
2016-09-18 Nameless beasts
2016-08-30 Private clouds and the future
2016-07-27 Prelude to an experiment, and down the rabbit-hole
2016-07-22 Explosive decompression of de-duplicated storage
2016-07-14 Measure of rolling hash
2016-07-08 Back where I started
2016-07-07 Building a Cloud - futures
2016-07-06 Building a Cloud
2016-07-04 Catching up on web applications
2016-07-01 Backup and OpenStack
2016-06-27 A measure of Skein
2016-04-27 Presented at OpenStack conference
2015-06-28 Programming Myths
2015-02-25 OpenFlow and SDN
2015-02-01 Are Big Companies Odd?
2015-01-05 Example - Mersenne Twister random number generator
2015-01-01 Example - feed-workers
2014-12-04 Security in numbers
2014-12-04 Security by number
2014-12-04 Security and time
2014-11-25 Keep up
2014-10-29 Multiplier
2014-08-21 Cloud application backup and OpenStack
2014-08-20 Coming up to speed with OpenStack
2014-06-28 David Keirsey died
2013-12-24 Vapors
2013-10-13 The Involved Father
2013-08-31 Choosing ordered distinct random integers
2013-08-11 The tree died
2013-07-26 New Buildings and Old Sidewalks
2013-07-05 House Concert
2012-03-18 Another Lisp flashback
2012-03-04 Progress
2011-07-02 Active organizing in place of passive participation?
2011-07-01 The Longevity Project
2011-05-11 When spending time with doctors and hospitals is good news.
2011-05-11 An odd insight - Dyson on Feynman
2011-04-15 Story based reasoning and interviews
2011-04-15 Segregation - Partition the problem
2011-04-15 Firsts
2011-04-04 Burning Man isn't - anymore
2011-03-29 Found a doctor I like ... for the very first time
2011-03-27 What went wrong with nuclear power
2011-03-19 Very pleased
2011-02-06 What is an efficient "Free Market"?
2011-02-05 That’s not correct (on economics)
2011-02-03 The end of the world ... and we do not care.
2011-02-02 Example of certificate creation with OpenSSL
2011-01-16 User interface fail - in a research building
2011-01-16 Scalable democracy
2011-01-01 Corporate rights
2010-12-07 How to make a perfect omelet
2010-11-27 Practical thermonuclear power at small scale?
2010-08-15 Strict mode for Javascript - continued
2010-07-31 Strict mode for Javascript
2010-07-30 Perfect Pineapple Pizza
2010-06-22 Java for Business = Zinger from Oracle
2010-05-20 Anachronisms - Icon for "Save..." is a floppy, HDTV sized in inches
2010-04-21 Stepped on someone's gravy train?
2010-04-10 Less noise
2010-03-31 Do you trust Oracle?
2010-03-15 Re-thinking the IDE - a starting point
2010-03-08 Magnetic propulsion?
2010-01-16 Efficient UTF-8 recoding and secure processing
2010-01-12 UTF8/UCS conversion benchmark
2010-01-08 Musing about cumulative impact
2009-12-30 Almost but not quite ... server-side JavaScript
2009-12-23 Trie in Java - revisited
2009-11-10 Shallow or deep?
2009-10-28 Moon rocks and a bit of math
2009-10-05 Example - general purpose Trie in Java
2009-10-02 Concurrency and threading is the new thing, again.
2009-08-26 Building things
2009-08-22 How improve both oil production and the economy
2009-08-18 Extending the Pearson hash function to larger values
2009-06-18 Tigers of Granularity
2009-05-20 Another take on the class system
2009-04-22 I am not a Scientist
2009-04-13 Maybe Bill Gates was smarter than I thought?
2009-04-07 Matrix Revisited
2009-03-30 Rationalization needed...
2009-03-26 Windows 2008 Server
2009-03-23 Recovery whiplash?
2009-03-22 Hater
2009-03-19 Apple NetBook? Or not.
2009-03-18 My sister and spam
2009-03-17 Class nightmares
2009-03-16 Newspapers = obsolete
2009-03-15 Better living through chemistry
2009-03-09 Trusting trust
2009-03-09 Subcutaneous fat, and global resurgance
2009-03-09 My Google Android phone
2009-03-03 Are designers stuck in a rut?
2009-03-02 Professional Journalism is Evil
2009-02-28 Can a modern country have a monarch?
2009-02-28 Absent minded
2009-02-23 Guess I'm a little slow...
2009-02-22 How to get started?
2009-02-17 Making pizza
2009-02-17 Disposable appliances
2009-02-13 Questions about urban architecture
2009-02-11 Dissonance
2009-02-10 Ten years
2009-02-08 Mathematics is Metaphor
2009-02-07 Just enough "Security"
2009-02-05 KCRW - Jewish Public Radio?
2009-02-03 Elegant distributed applications
2009-02-02 Long-term compatible protocols
2009-01-30 Scripting inspired by Monad - for Unix
2009-01-26 RSS-Atom
2009-01-17 Sam Ruby - Contributions Welcome
2009-01-16 Malfunctioning mindset - the HTML5 working group
2009-01-04 Vacation 2008.12
2009-01-02 Oops? Tripping over a math problem.
2008-12-30 Mystery houses decrypted!
2008-12-21 Performance parsing CSV data
2008-12-09 Metaphors and reality
2008-12-06 The Other Tiger
2008-12-03 Isolating the UI Thread
2008-11-08 Hosting a polling place in Orange County, California
2008-11-02 Got my election supplies, and a few surprises
2008-10-29 Hosting the local polling place
2008-10-25 On the Economy
2008-10-16 Filler
2008-09-19 Paper size and user interface design
2008-09-17 Covering a use-case for many screens
2008-09-15 Google's Chrome - Bet your enterprise on it
2008-09-14 Design for standard screen sizes
2008-08-19 The stock File Open dialog is wrong.
2008-08-18 Why FileInputStream is slow - continued
2008-08-15 Guilty as charged...
2008-07-30 Presidential candidates at the local mega-church
2008-07-29 Today's surprise - applet reload does not sandbox
2008-07-19 Linus is a bit of a jerk
2008-07-16 Swing, Java, and old notions not yet met
2008-07-06 Looking for a good breakfast, found another Sysco restaurant instead.
2008-06-22 Why FileInputStream is slow.
2008-06-18 Wide Finder 2 - over to the dark side
2008-06-13 Wrapping up Wide Finder 2
2008-06-12 Wide finder - final result
2008-06-12 Wide finder - combine for top N
2008-06-11 property.import task for Ant
2008-06-10 Wide finder - combine and sort
2008-06-08 Wide finder - first round
2008-06-01 Breaking the cell-phone deadlock
2008-06-01 Accessibility and HTML
2008-05-31 Not so much (electromagnetic) noise?
2008-05-31 alt="waste"
2008-03-22 One guy's take on the iPhone user interface
2008-03-21 Convert at the edges
2008-03-08 A pleasant surprise
2008-02-25 Good design, and connecting the dots
2008-02-24 Good places to eat on the I-70 in Utah
2008-02-05 The Republicans are in deep trouble!
2007-12-06 From my daughter's last soccer game
2007-11-30 Wrapping up "Wide Finder"
2007-11-22 What you need for a "Wide Finder", and no more.
2007-11-14 Dumb GUI example - menubars
2007-11-12 The Wide Finder Project
2007-10-29 Point of view
2007-10-22 Wildfires
2007-09-01 Taxpayer bailout for sub-prime investors
2007-08-29 Not the definition of "lean"
2007-08-17 User centered social networks
2007-08-03 Security flaws, e-voting, and reform
2007-07-28 Trillion Dollar Man
2007-07-24 Fewer mediocre "journalists" is good news
2007-07-01 Organized violence
2007-06-14 Mapping components - Javascript
2007-06-14 examples
2007-06-14 Auto-adjusting sizer - Javascript
2007-06-10 Bouncing JSON requests - Javascript
2007-06-09 Simple Base64 encode/decode - Javascript
2007-06-09 Reading parameters from URL - Javascript
2007-06-09 Reading and saving cookies - Javascript
2007-05-17 Semantics, AI, and the Web
2007-05-12 Are political parties the problem?
2007-05-05 Programming for the web - Javascript
2007-04-30 More reliable voting
2007-04-27 Getting the issues with "e-voting" completely wrong
2007-04-21 Either a comedy or a tragedy
2007-04-17 Point of view and W3C HTML
2007-04-07 Yet another JSON implementation - Javascript
2007-03-29 REST should not be "uniform"
2007-03-20 Fuzzy worlds
2007-03-15 Clarifying HTML
2007-03-09 Sudoku
2007-03-07 Publish or Perish
2007-02-24 Structured documents, DITA, DocBook, and Wikis
2007-02-23 OpenID is a big win
2007-02-22 Groundswell - means what?
2007-02-21 Frustrated with WYSIWYG document editors
2007-02-17 Introducing RDFa - or re-implementing Lisp, kinda
2007-02-17 Benchmarking and FastCGI
2007-02-08 Other reasons cost overrun
2007-01-22 Net Neutrality - put simply
2007-01-22 How to boost the birth rate
2007-01-13 Asymmetric warfare and how to boil a frog
2007-01-13 2007 and ending needless repetition
2007-01-02 Mersenne twister - random number generator
2006-12-29 WHATWG - What for?
2006-12-19 Revisiting server-side Javascript
2006-12-18 HYDRAULIC CLUTCH - Google Patents
2006-12-07 Prelude to internal passports?
2006-12-03 In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning
2006-12-02 Traces
2006-11-24 Insecurity on 9/11 no surprise
2006-11-20 More about how votes are collected
2006-11-19 Making politics more local?
2006-11-17 Get out of Washington - use the Internet
2006-11-13 Missing absentee ballots - error or malice?
2006-11-11 Diet and Nutrition
2006-11-07 Election day - lots on the ballot
2006-11-04 Wrong and Right fats - over-thinking the problem?
2006-11-01 Slightly broken weblog ... and inspiration
2006-10-27 Better schools - make sure of what you measure
2006-10-11 Wholesale - not retail - vote fraud
2006-10-11 What is next?
2006-10-11 Dreams, and other nonsense
2006-10-04 Today's handy tip - LRF replacement
2006-10-01 Deflecting the blame
2006-09-30 Avocados - Proof of Atlantis
2006-08-21 Subtext - and alternate representations of program structure
2006-06-15 Kind of annoying, actually
2006-06-15 Breakage - or misapplication?
2006-06-12 REST notes
2006-06-04 Javascript on the server
2006-05-19 The Value of Privacy
2006-05-11 Bob Hoover flying aerobatics with a stopped engine
2006-04-25 Paul Cornish
2006-04-01 The Early Bird Specials
2006-03-25 Improbable
2006-03-06 Misplaced concern over Google book scans
2006-02-18 If the quote fits...
2005-12-31 Cookies are not scary
2005-12-31 Are men programmable?
2005-11-20 Xen, Java and Web Hosting
2005-11-18 Setting up Ubuntu, VMware and Windows
2005-11-14 No respect
2005-11-05 Postel’s Law - liberal in what you accept, conservative in what you generate
2005-11-03 Graphing the Deficit
2005-11-02 Secret CIA jails
2005-10-30 Insurance, inefficient healthcare -- the Elephant in the closet
2005-10-17 How Swing Components are displayed (Tell me it isn't so!)
2005-10-16 Passwords on the web as a security risk
2005-10-16 Fading history
2005-10-16 Dramatic light
2005-10-12 The Physics of Extra-Terrestrial Civilizations
2005-10-12 Is Microsoft becoming Burroughs?
2005-10-10 Medieval Times
2005-10-02 Election day - replacing Chris Cox
2005-09-19 Jetex - random memory
2005-09-19 Insecure voting
2005-09-12 mouse test
2005-09-07 Inequality and Risk
2005-09-05 Which "everybody"?
2005-08-29 Mom's art
2005-08-28 Real and unreal threats
2005-08-26 The Family Research Council wants to make porn harder to block
2005-08-20 The "AOL of broadband"
2005-08-17 Missing the point - China and Climate Change
2005-08-14 Global Warming - for a Change
2005-08-14 Fingerprinting Paper
2005-08-03 Tacky namespace grab
2005-08-03 Hitting the High Notes
2005-07-24 Roundabouts
2005-07-24 Model Quality Introductions
2005-07-14 Santa Claus, Arizona
2005-07-10 Slow radio?
2005-06-26 Overheated Honda
2005-06-25 Splendid isolation
2005-06-25 A different sense of distance
2005-06-22 Wonderful twisty scenic roads
2005-06-20 Threads and Whimsy
2005-06-20 Raise the bridge or lower the river?
2005-06-15 Another beautiful thing
2005-06-10 Memorial bench
2005-06-10 Bogus filtering
2005-06-09 Excluding a robot
2005-06-04 fishing
2005-06-04 family-flying
2005-06-04 Dog Days Criterium
2005-05-27 Astronic Super Hero!
2005-05-24 The Astronic Express
2005-05-22 On adults and responsibility
2005-05-13 Web versus desktop - a personal example
2005-05-01 First impressions
2005-04-28 Computer Chaos
2005-04-24 The Prince
2005-04-09 Ubuntu - seems to be it
2005-04-05 Enticing EULA
2005-03-27 Butterflies
2005-02-19 ajax - a new approach to web applications
2005-02-17 Travel to Cuba by US Citizens
2005-02-17 A thing of beauty
2005-02-16 Is Ada one of the "Technology Losers"?
2005-02-15 Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing
2005-02-12 Global warming and herd behavior
2005-01-31 Building a better string class
2005-01-23 Speed versus complexity in User Interface interaction
2005-01-23 Nice weather
2005-01-21 Building a better string class - sentinels and wrap up
2005-01-20 Building a better string class - what advantage in copy-on-write for std::string?
2005-01-19 Structure editors, IDEs, and another Lisp flashback
2005-01-19 Building a better string class - comparing class implementations
2005-01-18 Continued - building a better string class - assumptions revised
2005-01-18 A diversion into hash tables and binary searches
2005-01-17 How to build a better string class - and a surprise
2005-01-16 Warlords
2005-01-08 Legacy of Dhrystone
2004-12-31 Robot Vacuum
2004-12-30 The Tyranny of Resturant Cooking
2004-12-20 Promised Deficits
2004-12-20 Can LEDs emit polarized light?
2004-12-19 Welcome to Jim Taggart's cocktail party
2004-12-17 Shallow Bush
2004-12-05 Optimal code
2004-12-04 Persimmons
2004-11-28 Remember South Africa?
2004-11-25 Thanksgiving
2004-11-15 Can We Please Bury the Netscape Metaphor?
2004-11-15 After the rain
2004-11-10 Islands in the distance
2004-11-07 Puzzled
2004-11-02 Working the polls
2004-10-18 Wildfire
2004-10-09 My Politics
2004-08-31 No bull?
2004-08-22 Maybe using XHTML is not such a good idea
2004-08-20 Sun was cool
2004-08-01 Backyard needs work...
2004-07-27 Compilers - back to basics
2004-07-11 Klunky user interfaces
2004-06-27 NPR - National Jewish Public Radio?
2004-06-24 Tax and spend ... er, Republicans?
2004-06-24 Lisp and blurring the line between code and data.
2004-06-19 (sub)Urban planning
2004-06-19 Massively scalable wikis
2004-06-04 Source code control and precluding errors
2004-06-04 Doug Engelbart 1968 Demo
2004-06-01 Hiking, again
2004-05-31 Memorial Day ... and beer?
2004-05-27 Vintage - software?
2004-05-14 Finding Lisp
2004-05-08 Long Bets - Passing the Turing test by 2029
2004-04-18 Santa Barbara
2004-01-31 Talk at UCI
2001-11-02 Driving
2001-10-31 Unexpected
2001-10-07 Saddleback (cooler)
2001-06-16 Saddleback (again)
2001-06-03 Saddleback (first try)