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November 2008
- refactoring writ large
- don gray and personality types
- weinberg and the clinic model
- esther derby on organizational change
- weinberg on the self-esteem toolkit
- low-pressure connections
- satir change model simulation
- introverts and extroverts
- the j/p split
- choosing what to do
October 2008
- google out-of-print book deal
- living code
- liesl’s grandmother’s brownies
- rock band vocals
- random links: october 19, 2008
- deus ex: final thoughts
- vgc: deciding on game 3
- shadow of the colossus as living structure
- christopher alexander on xp
- creating life
- agile open california 2008
- rock band drums
- brain age 2
- the rock band guitar
- random links: october 2, 2008
September 2008
- delany on violence in narratives
- new blog theme
- low-carb diets
- and now we are going to have a party
- rock band, learning about music, and failure
- deus ex, week two
- math books
- deus ex, one week in
- random links: september 1, 2008
- subarashiki kono sekai
August 2008
- i am too busy
- weekly reviews
- help us decide what game to play next
- grim fandango, year 4 and final thoughts
- grim fandango, year 3
- n’gai, publicity, older games
- memory project is deployed
- garbage disposal installed
- grim fandango, year 2
July 2008
- what is a narrative game?
- grim fandango, year 1
- the social aspect of puzzle games
- puzzles in narrative games
- recent consumer experiences
- adventure games and me
- whipped chocolate ganache
- virtualbox and grim fandango
- bad week for computers
- new japanesepod101 season
- problems with grim fandango
- introducing the vintage game club
- japanese input under linux
- wii smash brothers
June 2008
- curse you, brainy gamer!
- rock band account management annoyances
- began our world tour
- two-thirds of the way through the textbook
- gordan frohman
- alive games
- malstrom’s nintendo strategy articles
- half-life 2
- excessive whining narrowly avoided
- nlp, motivation, success
- go tournament as 1 dan; japantown
- memory and references
- rock band has arrived
- removing vpath uses from makefiles
- the gold mine
- video game communities
- memory
- looking for phone company recommendations
- pimps and ferrets
- good calories, bad calories
- random links: june 4, 2008
- phoenix wright 3
- erik ray, r.i.p.
May 2008
- piercey toyota in milpitas can go fuck themselves
- gtd and standardized work
- 2007 and 2008 pictures
- the toyota way and nemawashi
- paris 2008
- pruning my library
- n+
- types of actions
- wozniak the memorious
April 2008
- saved items queue: april 30, 2008
- sticking with twitter
- someday/maybe
- just signed up for twitter
- professor layton and the curious village
- go buy okami
- caught up on japanesepod101
- comment management in wp 2.5
March 2008
- deming on examples
- the dip
- floor repairs
- upgraded to wordpress 2.5
- i guess they did something else after all
- random links: march 23, 2008
- eternal sonata
- version control systems and filesystems
- macbook pro latch repair
- bay area go players association
- shore and warden on refactoring
- inappropriate covers
- 217 down, 1728 to go
- refactoring and proofs
- primes and fractions
February 2008
- resume formats
- thoughts on testing
- front row
- i feel left out
- almost caught up!
- one-on-ones
- over a hump
- random links: february 18, 2007
- fight fiercely, harvard
- tcl uplevel
- hans rosling’s economic animations
- lessig on obama
- xanh’s new digs
- more love hina fans
- gtd update
- zack and wiki
- salty chocolate
- portal
- stupid viz
- time machine
- living in the cloud
- cards in my pocket
- mass effect
January 2008
- saved items queue: january 27, 2008
- random links: january 26, 2007
- eternal sonata: first impressions
- stupid gmail
- stylish action
- i’m making a note here: huge success
- a third of a way through the textbook
- hiring again
- the legend of zelda: phantom hourglass
- mini-reviews: beautiful katamari, hexic hd, gradius iii
- xbox 360
- get smart
December 2007
- random links: december 31, 2007
- ken robinson on schools and creativity
- super mario galaxy
- slow driving experiments
- picross ds
- reprinting (three-quarters of) zot!
- the evolution of platformers
- culinary note
- metroid prime 3: corruption
- updating web pages dynamically
- first german lesson
- holidays
- i am dense
- waiting until the last responsible moment
- maybe i should become a basketball fan?
- careful with your layouts
- upgraded to leopard
- low energy for japanese
- stupid cliffhangers
November 2007
- creation and benefits of implementation patterns
- more studio ghibli movies
- mistakes, measurements
- random thoughts: november 11, 2007
- lessig’s ted talk
- go buy zack and wiki
- stylesheet tweaks
- upgrade fun
- slow progress through saved items
- random links: november 5, 2007
- brain buster puzzle pak
- earthquake
October 2007
- finished converting dbcdb to ruby
- agile open california: the sessions
- netapp countersuit
- agile open california: the mechanics
- magic flute
- go rockies
- cd baby now selling mp3s
- micah owings
- life-long learners my ass
- random links: october 6, 2007
- steve yegge is two for two
- restful music stores
September 2007
- throw everything at the language and see what sticks
- amazon mp3s
- mad at apple
- game pictures
- a pox on both their houses
- two music sequencer toys
- unexpected benefits of tagging
August 2007
- lean math departments?
- lean dentist
- random links: august 26, 2007
- phoenix wright 2
- that’s creepy
- etrian odyssey
- post length
- game development
- dealing with annoying drivers
- ide assumptions
- clueless drivers
- detailing carpets
- learning japanese: a month and a half in
- i guess that’s why they’re there
- joshua bell in a subway station
- more shuffle, please
- mechanical assistance
- car models
- belches
July 2007
- boston trip notes
- random links: july 28, 2007
- xml, html output
- generating html output
- jason kendall
- ipod, car, shuffle
- queues, tags, blog posts
- random links: july 1, 2007
June 2007
- array.join
- switched over to ruby version of the cli tool
- super paper mario
- learning japanese: initial hiccups
- weinberg on incremental construction
- welcome, jordan!
- go refactoring!
- parenthesized_list revisited
- more groovelily rhymes
- japanesepod101
- is every single one broken, or what?
- console buying thoughts
- ruby talking to mysql
- maintaining a steady state of books
- finished book queue; rorty
- pasta procope
- sun street cred
- good fsck!
- isolated podcast episodes
- bad fsck!
- punch-out
- more memory
- good pitching
- this american life; iraq
- puzzle quest
- i love ruby
May 2007
- that was unpleasant
- i don’t completely suck
- i am teh suck
- feisty fawn
- wii play
- weinberg quotes
- rejection in person; printf debugging
- misplaced hiring confidence
- eternal sonata
- finished backing up cds
- grand theft auto iii
- the recipient can arse it
- groovelily; regret
- warriors-mavs, games 5 and 6
April 2007
- warriors-mavs, game 4, fourth quarter
- probability
- streamstar launch
- warriors-mavs, game 4, third quarter
- warriors-mavs, game 4, first half
- warriors
- streamstar details
- we’ve launched!
- lego star wars ii
- random links: april 21, 2007
- wii sports
- at rest with attributes
- elebits
- random links: april 8, 2007
- objection!
- go, akismet!
- xbox elite
- go emi!
- earthsea thoughts from 2007
March 2007
- schiphol queues
- braces
- ear-reddening
- whale songs
- mike cohn on estimating and planning
- too perky for words
- elite beat agents
- finished backing up b’s
- mental arithmetic
- dad had enough gall to be divided into three parts
- earthsea thoughts from 2002
- one down, four to go
- divine intervention
- random links: march 23, 2007
- random flash games: march 20, 2007
- growing backlog
- server woes
- big brain academy
- grow cube
- turned on akismet
- back from vacation
February 2007
- codification of experience
- don’t broadcast information
- and they will be difficult to get along with
- good jobs, bad jobs
- random links: february 11, 2007
- video of cells at work
- reading left to right
- twilight princess
- alphavax
January 2007
- ubuntu weirdnesses
- upgraded to ubuntu
- fun moving around directories
- miranda, age seven
- what to do in amsterdam?
- missing from dictionary
- following distances in traffic
- numbers, numbers
- iphone
- bully
- curious about queueing theory
- wii update
- ruby notes 5: sql libraries
December 2006
- ruby notes 4a: overloading constructors
- ruby notes 4: overloading
- ruby notes 3
- reflection
- tv news
- first ruby experiments
- podcast queue management
- fellow diners
- ipod, incremental (un)improvements
- the child garden
- a week of wii
- exploratory testing
November 2006
- bonny doon
- wii!
- happy thanksgiving
- wordpress 2.0.5
- categories?
- random links: november 21, 2006
- waa
- legacy gardens, revisited
- trauma center
- reading pro games
- les petits
- response time
- go, netflix
- chorus
October 2006
- okami
- pick my next distro
- remote state
- serre
- lean thinking, shared purpose
- scrum and bottlenecks
- alcs
- the shame of the nation
- alds
- netflix
- throughput and latency
- new hard drive
- benefits of slack
- how to improve?
- august 2, 1961
September 2006
- feeling quiet
- backup woes
- no more yosha
- mii
- civ 4
- backing up cd collection
- a/v formats
- bad itunes
- go small companies
- random links: september 10, 2006
- new super mario bros.
- nintendo 1, sony -1
- it’s not luck
- two weeks with new team
August 2006
- toc vs. jit
- i do not like first-person shooters
- random links: august 26, 2006
- indigo animal
- andy bechtolsheim on thumper
- expanding team
- new aim digs
- what to do next?
- dbcdb: improved compound author links
- lean employer-employee relations
- grr
- business novels
- random dbcdb tweaks
- bezos investing in 37 signals
- this is why i want to learn ruby
- guitar hero
- leadership
- zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
July 2006
- dbcdb: link changes
- wordpress 2.0.4
- there’s baloney in our slacks
- bowling
- planning retrospectives
- agile 2006: last day
- downtown minneapolis, revisited
- agile 2006: day 4
- agile 2006: day 3
- zombies are people, too!
- agile 2006: day 2
- agile 2006: day 1
- whisper of the heart
- downtown minneapolis
- agile 2006
- traffic, flow, quality, signals
- working effectively with legacy gardens
- carpaccio
- exciting launch
- apple ][ games
- an active prefrontal cortex is a happy prefrontal cortex
- back from vacation
- initial release of unit test framework
- holt on responsibility
- random links: july 6, 2006
- the progressive
- who designs?
- kaze ni naru
- oberlin
June 2006
- beck on alexander
- recasting the architect, iterative design, and onsite customers
- kabuki
- unit test framework
- precocious
- reading/writing xml in c++
- amazon prime
- go norway!
- doctor fun, r.i.p.
- authority
- summer 2005 pictures
- dbcdb: links!
- lean sales
- dog diagnosis
- aids
- how buildings learn
- wordpress 2.0.3
May 2006
- god of war
- thumper
- no luck with music recommendations
- sbn
- i miss go
- random links: may 29, 2006
- aging dog
- books with more than two authors
- i’m hiring!
- wrote cli tool to edit sql
- lean software development
- star wars: knights of the old republic
- the rise of the creative class
- (x)emacs is not supposed to crash on me
- e3 2006
- random links: may 8, 2006
- house of rpgs
April 2006
- lean book-buying
- lean manufacturing
- how do i find my router’s external ip address?
- jane jacobs, r.i.p.
- customers and tests
- proper level for tests
- live house
- mario & luigi: partners in time
- help me with my sql query!
- pasta siracusani
- random links: april 2, 2006
- wordpress 2.0.2
- patty cake
- immigration
- 2006 baseball season
- mac, nano
March 2006
- the mac is here
- intrusive collections
- art museums
- career paths
- (badly) generating html from sql
- duct tape
- panini is live
- random links: march 23, 2006
- bad joker
- i read way too many blogs
- guess the glyph
- how laws get made
- fc5
- go france!
- new ip address
- yum update
- from 1970
- computer status
- trinity score
- playground scene
- benjamin vikram staveley vakil
- router and static ip addresses
- more on octavia butler
- red bean is changing computers
- octavia butler
- apple is bad
- sixteen cores
- gpl happiness
- new theme
- test post
- random links
- protected and package
- killer 7
- my first time using bittorrent
- populated database
- bok bun ja
- shopping for computer
- showing all but first line from a file
- break out your chocolate bars
- oldest saved post
- plum blossoms
- living with the animal kingdom
- i want a customer
- turn me into a mac expert!
February 2006
- more home network thoughts
- go jdbc!
- breaking the rules and xp
- load game, not new game
- do not buy a philips hdrw 720
- help me design my home network!
- nails
- pasta alla anna
- my first sql statements
- popup zen
- first, break all the rules
- things i didn’t learn
- animal crossing
- over/under
- mea culpa
- introducing malvasiabianca.org
- nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
- multi-touch
- i love egg
- plain and simple
- fit
- ready to start using sql
- choice of url
- 2003 miranda pictures
- perplex city
- meteos
- beatles christmas records
- responsive blender
- ta-da
- chocolate mousse
- cost-saving measures: oops
- ipod number two
- more mercury news political coverage
- red turn signals
- j-pop, k-pop wanted
- sri lankan chicken curry
- pictures
- yoiks
- books without authors
- ds game sales
- unfinished fugue
January 2006
- humans as specialized processors
- john lennon interview
- charming hostess
- finished tour through music
- indonesian chicken curry
- more on counterpunch
- iraqi death toll
- lean manufacturing reading
- an interesting exception idea
- lean manufacturing?
- cambodian chicken curry
- bad patents
- bush text adventure
- good journalism
- mindful programming
- interactive interaction with a language
- shifting cards between people
- functor moustache
- paper = air?
- magical mystery tour
- shadow of the colossus
- i want to build jet engines
- newspaper political coverage
- kung pao chicken
- go keith knight
- mealbox
- sql schema
- fair use report
- two recent books on writing
- hiring-related take on alito hearings
- task ownership
- address book
- manufacturing glitch
- finished all our cards
- quivering poodle
- new mac
- pao bhaji
- wordpress 2
- skills, learning, mistakes
- targeting journalists
- fuck fuck fuck
- poem a day
- the chicken that miranda likes
- supreme opinions
- ds impressions
December 2005
- broadway melody of 1940
- curlblog
- mild curry paste
- writing before reading
- boot problems
- ils peuvent etre des geants
- games magazine
- self pingbacks
- upgraded wordpress version
- interesting use of rss
- sql
- the new methodology
- meyers-briggs personality types
- more brainbashers
- weird
- calming signals
- planning improvements
- pirates
- bought a ds
- name lookup problems
- thomas merton
- video games
- that was fast
- dependency checking
- marquise au chocolat
- podcast recommendations wanted
November 2005
- thanksgiving dinner
- google reader
- book index
- esteban loiza
- more html explorations
- health
- we love katamari
- conservative bloggers
- rorty and latour, part two
- what i’m reading: the css spec
- rorty and latour
- internet explorer css problems
- sidebar
- 2004 miranda pictures
- i miss destructors
- recently read books
- ant aargh
- homework
- ant and junit
- benefits of white shirts
- rhyming
- ant
- test blog spam
- sudoku revisited
- jade empire
- release planning
- questionable content
October 2005
- resident evil 4
- css tweaks
- dell bad; apple, ultra 20 good
- dell annoyances; upgrade possibilities
- style
- generating valid xhtml
- semco
- bill king, r.i.p.
- battalion wars
- xbox
- shenmue ii
- pneumonia
- violent explusion of air
- this spartan life
- plague and pestilence
September 2005
- a’s postmortem
- fire emblem
- author improvements; dynamic typing
- linux cameras
- french history, arcades project
- volumes with their own titles
- caleb!
- french volumes
- weird controllers
- one year
- tao te ching
- recycled knowledge
- ruby on rails demo
- author pages, more fields
- kepler’s r.i.p.
- king felix
- dbcdb: generated using Java
- podcasts
August 2005
- first story
- dbcdb
- stopped-up sink
- pinkwaters
- paris arcades
- gran turismo 4
- crayon shinchan
- sudoku
- copyright office
- donkey kong jungle beat
- code reviews, tasks
- pair programming update
- dan johnson, shanghai crab
July 2005
- livres
- programming by intention
- upgrade finished
- upgrading to fc4
- (more baseball)
- howl’s moving castle, families
- literate programming
- strategy of the weak, revisited
- strategy of the weak
- foreign money
- DEWN
- international herald tribune
- rich harden!
- raclette
- vacation
June 2005
- dance recital
- baseball, computer, nausicaa miscellany
- aged indians
- nausicaa
- end of school year
- dance dance revolution
- supreme pot
- offense!
- spore
- kushiel trilogy
- computer problems continue
May 2005
- computer scariness
- finished gta: san andreas
- jane jacobs
- the cat returns
- e3 2005
- pasta rouille avec thon
- xboxen
- a pattern language
- kalpa imperial
- next steps towards xp
- geek pleasures
- offense?
- aging software
- errors of TeX
- managing categories
- agile planning
April 2005
- psp
- the legend of zelda: the minish cap
- blog upgrade woes
- alfie kohn on john holt
- quality software management
- alfie kohn
- phallos
- dessert presentation
- jak 3
- archetypes in video games
- computer unfortunateness
- fedora core 3 is in tha house
- miscellany: fedora, work weeks, ddr, pujols
- os upgrade and incremental development
March 2005
- miranda cooking
- stan freberg
- school closure: one more year
- blogosphere
- school closure: second castro meeting
- down with the State
- school closure: castro community forum
- processor speed
- go bibliography
- more iPod comments
February 2005
- tokyo godfathers; movies
- refactoring twists and turns
- a few last Java comments
- old-time religion
- bruno latour
- school closure: not done yet
- mary poppins
- metroid prime 2: echoes
- school closure, continued
- generics in Java
- grand theft auto: san andreas
January 2005
- school closure
- const, and iterators
- not the best week
- almost everything is an Object
- frances hodgson burnett
- java: what is an object? what is a variable?
- free math books
December 2004
- disgusting food
- the programming bug strikes
- organizing information
- electronics miscellany
- hudson; ipod
- i pod people
- paper mario 2
- random access, top hat
- adventure games and rpgs
- truffles
November 2004
- morality
- dvd/hdd player
- the singing detective
- kent beck
- cities and overworlds
- virtual functions and access control
- followups
- prisons
- gay divorced tables
- election night
October 2004
- refactoring milky video games
- katamari damashii
- infinite justice
- blog spam
- playoffs, round two
- mplayer
- pikmin 2
- mpeg: interlacing
- mpeg: frame rates
- no playoffs