2004

January

On Lisp: beyond state machines

Dance Movement Therapy and Sensory Integration, by Sarah Cleary

minor URL redesign

Testing first creates friction against creeping featurism

February

Wave patterns in animal locomotion

MyDoom, NovaRG, Worms and Mac OS X

Lisp blazed the trail, (code generation and dynamic languages)

Mac OS X Preview doesn't display Acrobat Forms

Hacking PDF forms with iText, jython, perl, and emacs

March

Don't think. Write.

Duncan caught Coyote Gulch at Emerging Tech 2004

Comments now moderated

Political introspection and the G. W. Bush administration

April

Life, Death, Zen, and the Art of Household Maintenance

Diplomacy of troubleshooting and the telecom alphabet soup: T1, CRC errors, ESF, B8ZS, HDSL, CSU/DSU, clock source

May

True genius is knowing when to stop

3D change: analyzing 12 years of backup data

Mac OS X security exploit and countermeasure

Yahoo! DomainKeys anti-spam measure

Made in the USA: Iraq invasion, occupation, and war

Citizen Power and the Political Bell Curve

Functions rising

Revolution and Political Engagement

June

JavaScript form vs. content

OS X's (disappointing) full text search at your fingertips

I now understand why small-town voters vote republican

July

so-called-Republican leaders are grabbing for more power

Political parties follow population

Finger pointing

August

bivio manages the risks of software development

State Machines described and a few examples

Perl state machine to scrape HTML

September

Java 5 is better, but I still prefer perl, python, and lisp

Overconsumption and Terrorism

Learning from failure

Overzealous comment moderation

The debate, the war on terror, and freedom from fear

October

FSM kitchen sink: workflows, pipelines, asynchrony, SOAs

State Machines and Business Process and Workflow

Exercise your rights. Speak up. And vote.

Welcome Intruder - Robert E. Cleary signing his new book at Tattered Cover tonight

November

Creating islands of peace in a terrified world

My childhood memory of Star Wars is finally confirmed

December

Teasing apart Struts Actions

Welcome home, Elliott