Blog: 2006
These are the 227 blog posts for 2006. Older is 2005. Newer is 2007. There is also a complete archive.
December 2006
How to move a subversion repository #how-to #source-control
Adobe and Office icons #design
Account suspended due to spam #email #site
Holiday card 2006 #friends-&-family #photos
Yahoo: the good and bad of ajax #javascript
Quick links: statue, lego, visualization #lego #quick-links
Making Peace in paperback #books #susan
Svn annotate all? #source-control
November 2006
Stranger Than Fiction #movies #reviews
Non-euclidean juggling #juggling
Drawing and manufacturing, then and now #design
October 2006
Halloween pumpkins #crafts #parenting #tabblo
Subversion branching quick start #how-to #source-control
The difference between Democrats and Republicans #politics
Porter stemming algorithm #language
Actual conversation #funny #malware
Cameras with wireless #photos #tabblo
Google code search #google #search
Iterator merge in Python #python
Glimpsing the garden over the wall #python #work
Cameras and Wookiees #reference #star-wars
September 2006
An emergency at Tabblo #tabblo
Naming planets #science #space
Escher-like Google maps #google #maps
TechCrunch Tabblo review review #tabblo
Show image catalog Greasemonkey script #javascript #web
Geek humor #comics #funny #geeky #unix
Impoverished exceptions #exceptions #python
assertRaisesMsg #exceptions #python #testing
August 2006
Frameworks make software easier, but only the easy part #development #django
Bronx Science math team, 1980 #me #photos
White House photo #me #photos #special-olympics
Coverage.py v2.6 #coverage #my-code
Ruby on Rails security flap #ruby #security
New exit strategy: eBay #business
The biology of b-movie monsters #movies #science
Same-sex marriage bans in Washington and New York #politics
IE7 is coming, and fast #browsers
Helpful un-helpful magic #databases #debugging
July 2006
Silliputtimation #animation #movies #parenting
Spamlent Green is people #malware
Sue and Ned’s excellent adventure, part 3 #gatherings #me #special-olympics
The diversity of digital media #video-games
Not being a dot-bomb 2.0 #business #star-wars #web
Sue and Ned’s excellent adventure, part 2 #gatherings #me #special-olympics
Sue and Ned’s excellent adventure, part 1 #gatherings #me #special-olympics
Quick links: Etch-A-Sketch, Linea, Fancypants, Lost Mac ads #ads #animation #art #mac #quick-links #video-games
Black tie at the White House #gatherings #me #special-olympics
June 2006
The Vietnam of computer science #databases
All you can eat Buffet #business
Wedding toast #friends-&-family
On the fate of entrepreneurships #work
Mossberg Tabblo review in the WSJ #tabblo
At the movies: Sarah Silverman and OCD #movies #reviews
Math factoid of the day #math #me
Web application framework stacks #django
Mentos + Diet Coke: an illustrated guide #food #science
Scent of a Robot #music #robots
Digital Equipment Corporation #history #me #postscript #work
Fortress #programming-languages
Revenge breeds revenge? #society #war
Google really has turned a corner #google
Robot Chicken #funny #star-wars #tv
May 2006
Garamond Premier Pro #typography
The perils of stock photos #ads #photos
For best results, write your own ad-hoc data representation #architecture
Introspection via pseudo-objects #architecture
Ten things I hate about commandments #funny
Attributing climate-change data #science
Erlang vs. Java, by Ben #art #java #programming-languages
Color calibration #color #help #printing
Search engine indexing limits #search
April 2006
Why is reliable software so hard? #exceptions
Python tuples are not just constant lists #python
Big Hug #autism #parenting #photos
Code Monkey #development #music
Advanced sudoku strategies #puzzles
The brick testament #lego #religion
Five truths about code optimization #development
Working hard, or hardly working? #work
Ride to laundromat lands cabbie on sold-out stage
How to feel miserable as an artist #how-to #philosophy
Client-side PHP #javascript #php
A variant of the LAMP stack #web
Marketing Biathlon #business #comics
Japanese Rube Goldberg machines #japan #machinery
Stick figure and Lego cakes #cakes #lego
Web frameworks, seriously #django #python #ruby
Web frameworks: RoR is the winner #django #python #ruby
March 2006
Peacenik designer t-shirt #design #politics
The adventures of scaling #web
How not to run an ad service #ads #business
Quick links: finance, accent, sliderule, disturb #quick-links
Lightsaber for $33 in 33 minutes #crafts
Entrepreneurial proverbs #business
Caption contest answer #comics
Modifying library code #development
Who can name the bigger number? #math
Riven and Cone birthday cakes #cakes #lego
Techy crafts #crafts #lego #quick-links
Big Adventure in the Big Apple: A Sketchbook #art
Everything in the same minute #coding #debugging
Many features of the product are unavailable
Jason McElwain #autism #sports
An extraordinary act of public obedience #cars #law
The problem with checkboxes #ui
February 2006
Microsoft iPod packaging #business #design #funny
Monospace fonts compared #coding #typography
The Generator Blog #blogs #games
It will probably be dark for a while #site
Say goodbye to nedbatchelder.com #site
Juggling to the Beatles #juggling
Things that bug me about two-dimensional programming #coding #python
I have to use my Gmail account in Google Groups? #google
Autism Saturday #autism #parenting #special-olympics
Programmable web mashup matrix #web
Usability testing on the cheap #how-to #testing
Brokeback to the Future #funny #movies
January 2006
Using Eclipse #ides #java #python
The QA mindset #quotes #testing
Quick PIL tip #graphics #python
Video game maps #maps #video-games
Unwitting bloggers and witless structured blogging #feeds #online #semantic-web
HTML screen scraping and sgrep #tools
JavaScript as a real language #javascript
Toshiba Tecra M3 review #hardware #reviews
The Conversations Network #audio
Lead in power cords? #hardware
Tecra M3, nVidia and Dell 2005fpw? #hardware #help
Email validation again #email #php #regex
Tattooed nerds #geeky #obsession #video-games
Every OS Sucks #funny #geeky #mac #unix #windows
Network speed tests #networks #tools
Email validation in PHP #email #php
Quoting hell #development #php
Joel Spolsky is a crotchety old man #comp-sci #education #java