Archives

Welcome to the Archives. Here you’ll find every article ever written, conveniently organized by the year and, somewhat more usefully, article category (a completely arbitrary taxonomy that is utterly clear to me, but probably somewhat obfuscated to everyone else).

2010: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2009: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2007: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2006: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2005: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

  • Chapters

  • Don’t ship broken software
  • Formal inspection: an introduction
  • Mission impossible — the art of choosing the right project
  • Navigating the methodology maze
  • Rational Scrum
  • The case for certification
  • Whole teams

  • Education

  • Coehesive teams
  • Don’t ship broken software
  • Finding strategic learning funds
  • Formal inspection: an introduction
  • Low IQ connection
  • Mission impossible — the art of choosing the right project
  • Navigating the methodology maze
  • Organizational evolution
  • Quality as a way of life
  • Rational Scrum
  • Recommended reading
  • Rough seas
  • Tell me thrice
  • The agile disease
  • The case for certification
  • The Decline of Education in the Corporate Empire
  • The folder is irrelevant
  • The twenty-year setback
  • Where we stand today
  • Whiteboard-space to wall-space (WBS/WS) ratio
  • Whole teams

  • Entropy

  • 100 years in the wrong direction
  • A bad seed in the Apple store?
  • A bit of good press…
  • A bruise or two on Apple’s reputation
  • A giant leap backward
  • A tale of two laptops
  • After the war
  • Airport and time machine
  • And on the 7th day, the spaghetti monster…
  • Antiprivacy policy
  • Apple intel?
  • As embarrassing as George Bush
  • Backwards
  • Big computers are silly
  • Britney virus
  • Bush couldn’t care less…
  • Bush is making a better nation
  • Cell phones are bad
  • Cheerleading competition or paid advertisement?
  • Contextual interfaces
  • Covering up the ugly truth
  • Defending elitism
  • Democracy isn’t always the first answer
  • DirecTV is in the dark ages (and Vonage isn’t)
  • Domain ownership favors sovereign control
  • Don’t call me
  • Don’t call me (again)
  • Earth friendly digital mail
  • EBay absolutely, positively guaranteed almost safe
  • Gadzooks, I’m filthy rich!
  • Gift wrapped head?
  • Has Sony just lost it?
  • Have you had enough?
  • Hemingway fix for WordPress 2.1.3
  • How a web site design goes straight hell
  • I don’t understand…
  • Idiot
  • iGasm
  • Impeachment in the air
  • Imperial nation
  • Installing Adobe CS4
  • International travel easier… kind of
  • iPod index
  • Is Email Marketing Still a Viable Marketing Channel?
  • It’s not free
  • It’s solid!
  • Just stupid
  • Latin politics are more fun
  • Legal technology
  • Leopard trips
  • Linux growth outstrips Windows… but…
  • Lock down
  • Losing our soul
  • Low IQ connection
  • Mira la vista!
  • Mission impossible — the art of choosing the right project
  • Mission possible
  • Moveable type 3.2
  • Nagios
  • Nation of idiots…
  • New York Times photo from Iraq
  • No real ID?
  • Nobody did anything wrong…
  • On climate change (yea, you should care)
  • Opportunistic much…?
  • Organizational evolution
  • Our newest worst president
  • Outsourcing your offshore nearshoring? What?
  • Pancake bunny
  • Parallels 4.0 printing problems
  • Poor man’s pharm
  • Priority mail
  • Proof that names don’t equate
  • Quality not quantity
  • Quantum technology is here…
  • Rah, rah, rah
  • Reinventing the wheel
  • Rough seas
  • Satire worthy of Colbert
  • Save the Constitution
  • Secure OS/X Squirrelmail
  • See you Intel
  • Snow Leopard headache
  • Social networking explosion
  • Spam death
  • Spam killer!
  • Speaking of quotes
  • Stop the aliens!
  • Stop the spam attacks
  • Ten things I’m looking forward to in 2006
  • Ten things I’m looking forward to in 2007
  • The case for global cooling
  • The conversion to MoveableType
  • The Decline of Education in the Corporate Empire
  • The final word on Vonage
  • The Force is not with them
  • The net has too much stuff, Harmony, and Sith
  • The real unemployment rate
  • The sum total of human experience
  • The tablet’s out of the bag
  • The twenty-year setback
  • There aren’t enough atoms
  • They aren’t really evil, they’re just drawn that way
  • To kill a toolbar…
  • Too much social networking
  • Too sad to be funny
  • Turtles all the way down, of course…
  • Twitterpated
  • Two conflicting views
  • Unheeded warnings: Bush knew war in Iraq was a bad idea
  • Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
  • VMware converter
  • When you’re boss doesn’t listen
  • Where we stand today
  • Why Sun is dying (and HP, and…)
  • Windows XP “almost ready” for home users
  • Wish it were true
  • WordPress 2.5 and Gregarious
  • Yes, that is ironic
  • You’ll pay extra for networking
  • Your money, ozone paper

  • Family

  • Iceland
  • India and back again
  • Live longer (and make better presentations)
  • Low IQ connection
  • Mumbai
  • Not enough travel
  • Tea garden

  • FAQ

  • Frequently Asked Questions

  • Fun

  • How to win a photography contest
  • Modern data visualization
  • Ocean kayaking and whisky!
  • Skitch
  • Tea garden
  • Virus

  • Life Hacking

  • A little scifi story
  • An excellent self-exemplifying example
  • Back from vacation…
  • Back to getting things done
  • Being demotivated
  • Better fax support for OS/X
  • Brit’s have their priorities sorted
  • Cool content stuff
  • Cryonauts?
  • Don’t call me
  • Don’t call me (again)
  • Earth friendly digital mail
  • Evernote
  • Finally, definitive iCal to iPhone syncing
  • Good wiki
  • Have you had enough?
  • How to win a photography contest
  • Idiot
  • India and back again
  • Into the breach
  • iPhone guidance
  • Is community better than institution?
  • It’s a state of constant decline
  • Linked
  • Live longer (and make better presentations)
  • Lots of very happy caffeine
  • Mentat
  • Modern data visualization
  • Most repulsive billboard
  • Moveable type 3.2
  • My god, it’s full of plugins…
  • No real ID?
  • Omnifocus inbox aka getting things done
  • On being a suit
  • Quantum technology is here…
  • Quicksilver: A practical user’s guide
  • Real life hacking
  • Rejuvinating the technologist
  • ROTS
  • Shotokan videos
  • Simple English
  • Social media defined
  • Social networking explosion
  • Speaking of quotes
  • Spreading our voice around
  • Ten things I’m looking forward to in 2007
  • The irrelevance of folders
  • The moon is made of cheese
  • The new freemium
  • The worst customer service in the world?
  • Verizon reviled, Vonage not
  • Virtual file management with dropbox
  • Why smart people defend bad ideas
  • Windows on Apple hardware
  • Wireless nation
  • WOW
  • Zoë

  • Politics

  • After the war
  • Brit’s have their priorities sorted
  • Bush couldn’t care less…
  • Bush is making a better nation
  • Cheerleading competition or paid advertisement?
  • Covering up the ugly truth
  • Defending elitism
  • Democracy isn’t always the first answer
  • Halfway between the gutter and the stars
  • Hear hear
  • I don’t understand…
  • Idiot
  • Imperial nation
  • Low IQ connection
  • No real ID?
  • Nobody did anything wrong…
  • Our media stinks
  • Our newest worst president
  • Rah, rah, rah
  • Satire worthy of Colbert
  • Save the Constitution
  • Ten things I’m looking forward to in 2007
  • The Decline of Education in the Corporate Empire
  • The Force is not with them
  • The real unemployment rate
  • Unheeded warnings: Bush knew war in Iraq was a bad idea
  • Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
  • Where we stand today
  • Yes, that is ironic

  • Random

  • Ad fan
  • AppleTV… one year later
  • Coffee index
  • Easy legal reference material
  • Finally some sense on extended warranties
  • Good porn video
  • I don’t understand…
  • Idiot
  • Mac video
  • Michael Dell on Apple
  • More dock hackzors
  • Opportunistic much…?
  • Pancake bunny
  • Really bad blogging
  • So long to jetlag?
  • Social networking explosion
  • Well run beta
  • Wish it were true

  • Rantings

  • …Sorry, my phone crashed
  • A bruise or two on Apple’s reputation
  • Act without doing
  • Antiprivacy policy
  • Brit’s have their priorities sorted
  • Cell phones are bad
  • Contextual interfaces
  • Do it!
  • Finally some sense on extended warranties
  • Good porn video
  • Halfway between the gutter and the stars
  • I don’t understand…
  • Intolerant RAID?
  • It’s a state of constant decline
  • Leopard trips
  • Losing our soul
  • Nation of idiots…
  • New York Times photo from Iraq
  • Opportunistic much…?
  • Our media stinks
  • Really bad blogging
  • Reinventing the wheel
  • Say someone breaks into your house…
  • Snow Leopard headache
  • Spam death
  • The case for global cooling
  • The Decline of Education in the Corporate Empire
  • The Force is not with them
  • The real unemployment rate
  • Twitterpated
  • Unheeded warnings: Bush knew war in Iraq was a bad idea
  • Well run beta
  • What I want in my iPhone…
  • When you’re boss doesn’t listen
  • Whiteboard-space to wall-space (WBS/WS) ratio
  • Wish it were true
  • Yes, that is ironic

  • Tao of Mac

  • …Sorry, my phone crashed
  • 160GB in my lap
  • A bad seed in the Apple store?
  • A giant leap backward
  • A spotlight on Spotlight
  • A tale of two laptops
  • A taoist view of music
  • Airport and time machine
  • AppleTV… one year later
  • Are mainframes just high-performance PCs?
  • As embarrassing as George Bush
  • Automating menus with Quicksilver (and other tricks)
  • Being agnostic (about technology)
  • Best named product
  • Better fax support for OS/X
  • Blogging from OS/X
  • Casting the first pod
  • Contextual interfaces
  • ecto
  • Editing from Mars (of your blog)
  • Evernote
  • Fighting obsolescence
  • Finally I can buy a new car…
  • Finally, definitive iCal to iPhone syncing
  • Flip out
  • Future shock
  • Glitches in a new release, or…?
  • Good and simple
  • Graphically friendly
  • Growl down, PGP to go
  • Here here!
  • iPhone guidance
  • iPhones in Iceland?
  • iPresent
  • iWork ‘08: Not ready for the Office yet
  • Leap
  • Leopard trips
  • Mac mini done right?
  • Mac toys, revisited
  • Mac video
  • Mail doesn’t work
  • Map your mind, your project
  • Megahertz myth versus reality
  • Michael Dell on Apple
  • More dock hackzors
  • My hovercraft is full of eels
  • My life on Intel
  • New Mac toys
  • Notebook event
  • Omnifocus inbox aka getting things done
  • Ooohhh… yummy.
  • OS/X is turning into Gnome
  • OS/X software for writers
  • OSeXy
  • Perfect key shortcut memory
  • Precipitate
  • Priority mail
  • Project time tracking
  • Quicksilver: A practical user’s guide
  • Really bad blogging
  • Reinventing the wheel
  • Secure OS/X Squirrelmail
  • Self-charging iPod?
  • Setting up OS/X Server
  • Skitch
  • snerdware
  • Snow Leopard headache
  • So that’s how they’ll do it
  • Stack patching
  • Subversion of OS/X
  • Ten things I’m looking forward to in 2006
  • The BOSS logic look & feel
  • The iPhone revolution… has not begun?
  • The new classic
  • The new freemium
  • The tablet’s out of the bag
  • Think
  • This has all happened before…
  • This is funny
  • Too many moving parts are bad
  • Trillian comes to the Mac
  • Try Tofu!
  • Unmanaging my to-do list
  • Upgrade
  • Using Ruby to automate with Applescript
  • Virus
  • Well run beta
  • What I want in my iPhone…
  • Wiki notes
  • Windows on Apple hardware
  • Wish it were true
  • Xcode 2.3 wasn’t built for Java

  • Technology

  • …Sorry, my phone crashed
  • A giant leap backward
  • A little scifi story
  • Airport and time machine
  • AppleTV… one year later
  • Being agnostic (about technology)
  • Beyond Java?
  • Cell phones are bad
  • Coehesive teams
  • Contextual interfaces
  • Don’t ship broken software
  • Evernote
  • Finally, definitive iCal to iPhone syncing
  • Formal inspection: an introduction
  • Future shock
  • Hell all over again?
  • Hemingway fix for WordPress 2.1.3
  • iGasm
  • Intolerant RAID?
  • iPhones in Iceland?
  • iPod index
  • Is Email Marketing Still a Viable Marketing Channel?
  • It’s solid!
  • iWork ‘08: Not ready for the Office yet
  • Leap
  • Leopard trips
  • Mac mini done right?
  • Map your mind, your project
  • Mentat
  • Modern data visualization
  • More dock hackzors
  • Mouse-less computer?
  • My god, it’s full of plugins…
  • My new, favorite CM tool
  • New skin and WordPress 2.6
  • Not finding
  • Notebook event
  • Omnifocus inbox aka getting things done
  • Ooohhh… yummy.
  • Open source testing
  • OS/X software for writers
  • Ox Locks (or PGP no more!)
  • Parallels 4.0 printing problems
  • Plone 3 really is sexy
  • Precipitate
  • Project time tracking
  • Proof that names don’t equate
  • Quantified
  • Quantum technology is here…
  • Quicksilver: A practical user’s guide
  • Rational Scrum
  • Recommended reading
  • Reinventing the wheel
  • Reversing Google’s fall?
  • Samsung SSD awesomeness
  • Secure OS/X Squirrelmail
  • Self-charging iPod?
  • Skitch
  • Snow Leopard headache
  • Social media defined
  • Solid-state computing
  • Spam death
  • Spam killer!
  • Stop the spam attacks
  • Subversion of OS/X
  • The agile disease
  • The case for certification
  • The folder is irrelevant
  • The iPhone revolution… has not begun?
  • Think
  • Too much social networking
  • Trillian comes to the Mac
  • Upgrade
  • Upgrading: WordPress 2.3
  • Using Ruby to automate with Applescript
  • Virtual file management with dropbox
  • VMware converter
  • Well run beta
  • What I want in my iPhone…
  • When you’re boss doesn’t listen
  • Whiteboard-space to wall-space (WBS/WS) ratio
  • Whole teams
  • Wind power
  • WordPress 2.5 and Gregarious
  • Wordpress 2.5… already
  • Xcode 2.3 wasn’t built for Java

  • Things that Matter

  • A little scifi story
  • Act without doing
  • After the war
  • Bush couldn’t care less…
  • Bush is making a better nation
  • Cell phones are bad
  • Coehesive teams
  • Contextual interfaces
  • Covering up the ugly truth
  • Defending elitism
  • Don’t ship broken software
  • Earth friendly digital mail
  • Evernote
  • Finding strategic learning funds
  • Formal inspection: an introduction
  • Gadzooks, I’m filthy rich!
  • Halfway between the gutter and the stars
  • Hear hear
  • Imperial nation
  • Leap
  • Live longer (and make better presentations)
  • Low IQ connection
  • Mentat
  • Modern data visualization
  • My new, favorite CM tool
  • No contingency plan
  • Nobody did anything wrong…
  • Omnifocus inbox aka getting things done
  • On climate change (yea, you should care)
  • Open source testing
  • Organizational evolution
  • Our media stinks
  • Our newest worst president
  • Quality as a way of life
  • Rah, rah, rah
  • Rational Scrum
  • Recommended reading
  • Rough seas
  • Satire worthy of Colbert
  • Save the Constitution
  • Say someone breaks into your house…
  • Secure OS/X Squirrelmail
  • Tell me thrice
  • The agile disease
  • The case for certification
  • The case for global cooling
  • The Decline of Education in the Corporate Empire
  • The folder is irrelevant
  • The real unemployment rate
  • The twenty-year setback
  • When you’re boss doesn’t listen
  • Where we stand today
  • Whiteboard-space to wall-space (WBS/WS) ratio
  • Whole teams
  • You cannot not communicate

  • Travel

  • Brit’s have their priorities sorted
  • Coffee index
  • Iceland
  • India and back again
  • International travel easier… kind of
  • iPhone guidance
  • iPhones in Iceland?
  • iPod index
  • Mumbai
  • Not enough travel
  • Ocean kayaking and whisky!
  • So long to jetlag?
  • Tea garden

  • Uncategorized

  • About
  • Archives
  • Chapters
  • Looking for something?
  • Vitae

  • Work

  • (Sub) version management
  • Anti-patterns
  • Best named product
  • Beyond Java?
  • Coehesive teams
  • Do it!
  • Don’t ship broken software
  • Easy legal reference material
  • Finding strategic learning funds
  • Formal inspection: an introduction
  • Future shock
  • Gnomedex is not Gnome
  • Good wiki
  • How a web site design goes straight hell
  • I’ve been busy…
  • Intolerant RAID?
  • iPhones in Iceland?
  • iWork ‘08: Not ready for the Office yet
  • Keeping it together
  • Management and collaboration
  • Map your mind, your project
  • Mentat
  • Michael Dell on Apple
  • Mission impossible — the art of choosing the right project
  • Mission possible
  • My god, it’s full of plugins…
  • My new, favorite CM tool
  • MySQL and Tiger
  • Nagios
  • Navigating the methodology maze
  • Network disk
  • New Hyrax site up and running
  • OCMS
  • Open document standards
  • Open source testing
  • Organizational evolution
  • OS/X software for writers
  • Outsourcing your offshore nearshoring? What?
  • Ox Locks (or PGP no more!)
  • Project time tracking
  • Quality as a way of life
  • Quicksilver: A practical user’s guide
  • Rational Scrum
  • Recommended reading
  • Reinventing the wheel
  • Rough seas
  • Safety net
  • Secure OS/X Squirrelmail
  • Software as a service
  • Spam killer!
  • Stop the spam attacks
  • Tell me thrice
  • The BOSS logic look & feel
  • The case for certification
  • The folder is irrelevant
  • The real unemployment rate
  • Up to date
  • Upgrade
  • Using Ruby to automate with Applescript
  • VMware converter
  • When you’re boss doesn’t listen
  • Where’s the simplicity
  • Whole teams
  • Why Sun is dying (and HP, and…)
  • You cannot not communicate