The Archives

2002 - Present Day

I've kept a blog on and off (mostly off) for more than a decade. Much of that has been lost to the ages, thankfully.

Every Post by Date

• The Plumbing Revolution: Developers' Improving Toolbox 15 Jun 2010
• Banksy in Cambridge 03 Jun 2010
• Rolling Rails Deploys with Passenger 31 May 2010
• Downtime Postmortem 08 Feb 2010
• Favorite Albums of 2009 03 Jan 2010
• Mac OS X Setup 27 Jul 2009
• Jekyll Transformation 21 Jul 2009
• Photography Portfolio 16 Jul 2009
• On Mobile Photography 09 Jul 2009
• Planet Money on On Point 25 Jun 2009
• TextMate Project Tree Refresh 21 Jun 2009
• Harry Parker Boathouse 01 Jun 2009
• Memorial Day 25 May 2009
• Banning Non-Competes in Massachusetts 13 Apr 2009
• Dynamically Loading Javascript 02 Apr 2009
• Rails i18n Talk at Boston.rb 11 Mar 2009
• Translator - Rails i18n Simplifier 09 Mar 2009
• Wordpress on OS X 07 Mar 2009
• Shepard Fairy "Supply & Demand" 26 Feb 2009
• Pseudo Cursors in Rails 23 Feb 2009
• Breville Kettle & Good Design 18 Jan 2009
• Proxying a Subdomain in Apache 07 Jan 2009
• Favorite Albums of 2008 31 Dec 2008
• Farewell tourb.us 28 Dec 2008
• Creative Commons Discussion 13 Dec 2008
• Git Branch Auto-Tracking 02 Dec 2008
• Costa Rica Travels 02 Nov 2008
• Fall is Dropping 18 Oct 2008
• Boston Contemporary Architecture 20 Sep 2008
• MBTA Photography Policy 28 Aug 2008
• Netflix Roku Player 25 Jun 2008
• Sheridan and Hastings 24 Jun 2008
• Equal Marriage or Bust 24 Jun 2008
• Cat Bonds & Tail Pricing 23 Jun 2008
• Madison Road 11 Jun 2008
• Old Money 20 May 2008
• WhoShouldiFollow: Twitter Friend Suggestions 29 Apr 2008
• Captain William Smith House 28 Mar 2008
• Drive-By Truckers at the Paradise 24 Mar 2008
• Sigur Rós Heima on YouTube 09 Mar 2008
• Introducing Grindstone: Stay Focused 06 Mar 2008
• Traveling Light 03 Mar 2008
• Clay Shirky at Berkman Center 29 Feb 2008
• Trunk Monkey 27 Feb 2008
• iPhone EDGE Speed Test 27 Feb 2008
• Styling Feeds for Feed Readers 26 Feb 2008
• Morning Breaks 26 Feb 2008
• Greasemonkey Tips 25 Feb 2008
• Lunar Eclipse 21 Feb 2008
• Rational with IBM Five Years 20 Feb 2008
• History in the Small 17 Feb 2008
• In Bloom 14 Feb 2008
• Super Tuesday 05 Feb 2008
• Daily Commute: The Movie 31 Jan 2008
• Boston Web Innovators 16 30 Jan 2008
• Canon Powershot G9 29 Jan 2008
• Software Engineering Radio: Richard Gabriel on Lisp 28 Jan 2008
• iTunes Silently Deleting Songs 27 Jan 2008
• Kids in the Hall Classics 24 Jan 2008
• Fake Steve on Lotus Notes on the iPhone 23 Jan 2008
• E.B. Sledge: With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa 13 Jan 2008
• Out With the Old 11 Jan 2008
• Top Ten Albums of 2007 11 Dec 2007
• Photography on a Modest Budget 01 Dec 2007
• Ken Burns' "The War" 31 Oct 2007
• Boston Startup Weekend Builds Deskhappy 29 Oct 2007
• iPhone Improvement Requests 18 Oct 2007
• Command Line for the Web 17 Oct 2007
• North Shore 16 Oct 2007
• Wes Anderson & The Darjeeling Limited at the Brattle 12 Oct 2007
• True Red Sox Spirit 09 Oct 2007
• Attack on Red Sox Nation 05 Oct 2007
• Hum in Cadillac CTS Ad 03 Oct 2007
• Boathouse Banks 02 Oct 2007
• WGBH LED Display Above the Mass. Pike 30 Sep 2007
• Inspired to Take Bad Photos 17 Sep 2007
• NBC Fall Shows Free on Amazon Unbox 12 Sep 2007
• Donnie Darko the Play 09 Sep 2007
• Techcocktail Boston at Tequila Rain 07 Sep 2007
• Red Sox vs. Blue Jays Slugfest 04 Sep 2007
• Altec Lansing inMotion iPod Stereo 01 Sep 2007
• The Other Mike Champion and the WS-Death Star 30 Aug 2007
• Two Ears and a Heart 29 Aug 2007
• Redheads May Face Extinction 23 Aug 2007
• BioShock and Boston's Game Makers 21 Aug 2007
• Shiny, New Mac Book Pro and Data Everywhere 20 Aug 2007
• AWS: The Start-Up Project Coming to Cambridge 20 Aug 2007
• Michael Palin Reading in Harvard Square 19 Aug 2007
• Got More Louie than Phillip Rizzuto 15 Aug 2007
• Intruders.tv Tech Interviews 15 Aug 2007
• IBM Assembling Massachusetts Campus 13 Aug 2007
• Betahouse, Haven for Web Entrepreneurs 11 Aug 2007
• Okkervil River: The Stage Names 08 Aug 2007
• Summer of Ping-Pong 07 Aug 2007
• Preparing for Rock Band 06 Aug 2007
• The Plight of Silicon Valley's Single Digit Millionaires 05 Aug 2007
• Merging Digital Lives 05 Aug 2007
• Placeblogging and GeoRSS 03 Aug 2007
• New Balance 991 vs. 992 02 Aug 2007
• Chris Rock on Costas Now 29 Jul 2007
• Inbox Zero 26 Jul 2007
• Boston Startup Weekend 26 Jul 2007
• Tivo HD "Series 3 Lite" Reviewed 24 Jul 2007
• AT&T Subscribed 146,000 iPhone Customers 24 Jul 2007
• NY Magazine: Andy Samberg 23 Jul 2007
• Globe: Boston Playing Catch-Up to Silicon Valley 23 Jul 2007
• RCN Outage 23 Jul 2007
• Battles at The Paradise 19 Jul 2007
• WNYC's Radio Lab 18 Jul 2007
• Quiet Revolutions 18 Jul 2007
• iPhone Hating 18 Jul 2007
• "OK X" Tribute to "OK Computer" 16 Jul 2007
• "Hey, Look" 16 Jul 2007
• Once 16 Jul 2007
• Flight of the Conchords 15 Jul 2007
• George Packer's Interesting Times 14 Jul 2007
• Overheard in Gears of War 13 Jul 2007
• Simplify Media - Sharing iTunes Libraries Online 10 Jul 2007
• Philip-Lorca diCorcia at the ICA 06 Jul 2007
• The Honeymoon is Over 21 Jun 2007
• Andrew Bird at Berklee 17 May 2007
• Web Innovators Dinner on Widgets 10 May 2007
• Baseball and Hospitals 09 May 2007
• Ted Leo and the Pharmacists at Avalon 05 May 2007
• 24 Hours of Flickr 05 May 2007
• Moved to Slicehost 02 May 2007
• Burning Bridges is the New Hotness 02 May 2007
• Watertown In Top 10 Bloggiest Neighborhoods 24 Apr 2007
• The Law of Time Shifting 23 Apr 2007
• Over The Falls 23 Apr 2007
• Lansdowne Street Music Hall 22 Apr 2007
• No Hiding From The Watchful Eye Of Google 20 Apr 2007
• Founders at Work 20 Apr 2007
• Zune & Xbox 360 14 Apr 2007
• Panda Bear: Person Pitch 12 Apr 2007
• Massachusetts Voluntary Tax 10 Apr 2007
• Boston Music Bloggers and the Readers Who Love Them 10 Apr 2007
• Unicode in JRuby 09 Apr 2007
• Archives Rescued 09 Apr 2007
• School of Rock in Watertown 07 Apr 2007
• Tamrac Messenger Camera Bag 06 Apr 2007
• Tecmo Super Bowl 04 Apr 2007
• The Death of DRM? 02 Apr 2007
• Shorpy: Computing Division 01 Apr 2007
• Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha 28 Mar 2007
• 245 Grove Street 27 Mar 2007
• Watertown In Boston Globe’s Hot Five 26 Mar 2007
• Dreaming in Code 26 Mar 2007
• New WordPress Plugins Directory 23 Mar 2007
• The Wisdom of Children 20 Mar 2007
• Boston BarCamp 17 Mar 2007
• Justin.tv - Streaming Reality Show 16 Mar 2007
• Arcade Fire Debuts at #2 15 Mar 2007
• GPS for Cameras 14 Mar 2007
• Comfort for the Those SXSW Left Behind 13 Mar 2007
• Daylight Savings Time Can Suck It 12 Mar 2007
• Ugly vs. Pretty Permalink URLs 10 Mar 2007
• Tivo Amazon Unbox Video Service Goes Live 07 Mar 2007
• Lightroom and Lua 07 Mar 2007
• Lightroom and Flickr 05 Mar 2007
• Canon EF-S 10-22mm Lens 04 Mar 2007
• Moved from Wordpress.com to Wordpress 02 Mar 2007
• Picasa Missing Support for Canon Rebel XTi RAW 28 Feb 2007
• Think of the Children, BillG 26 Feb 2007
• Mozy Backup Does The Trick 24 Feb 2007
• Impact of JRuby Support for Rails 22 Feb 2007
• Lighted Halls 21 Feb 2007
• Beware The Gary Uprising 21 Feb 2007
• My Kind of Random 14 Feb 2007
• Upcoming Boston BarCamp 2 at MIT 13 Feb 2007
• Boston’s Upcoming Flagship Apple Store 13 Feb 2007
• Sloths, Don’t Call Us Slow 12 Feb 2007
• The Thermals - The Body, the Blood, the Machine 06 Feb 2007
• Josh Ritter at the Somerville Theatre 03 Feb 2007
• Boston Web Innovators 10 03 Feb 2007
• Nerdcore for Life 22 Dec 2006
• Paul Graham =~ Travis Morrison 18 Dec 2006
• Love The New Yorker / Hate NewYorker.com 16 Dec 2006
• Friday Night Lights & 30 Rock 15 Dec 2006
• 24 Hours in Philadelphia 11 Dec 2006
• Steven Seagal’s Lightning Bolt Energy Drink 08 Dec 2006
• The Wire Season 4 06 Dec 2006
• Screw California 05 Dec 2006
• Game Library 04 Dec 2006
• Aftermath Cleaners 03 Dec 2006
• Semi-Generic Java Generics 02 Dec 2006
• Babies Love Movies 01 Dec 2006
• Clell Tickle: Indie Marketing Guru 30 Nov 2006
• Ed Burns on Creating ‘The Wire’ 29 Nov 2006
• Once More into the Breech 27 Nov 2006
• Startup School 21 Oct 2005
• JavaScript as Web Service API 09 Aug 2005
• CVS Java diff bug? 02 Aug 2005
• RSS, Friend of the Design-Challenged 31 Jul 2005
• A Blog Reborn 29 Jul 2005
• Lessons for Desktop Linux from OSX 18 Jul 2005
• 4th of July 04 Jul 2005
• Back From Vacation 16 Jun 2005
• Cats & Dogs 24 May 2005
• Took the Vonage Plunge 19 May 2005
• Everything Bad is Good for You 19 May 2005
• IBM Pushes Blogging 16 May 2005
• Miguel Speaks at Boston .Net Group 11 May 2005
• Making Wrong Code Look Wrong Stops Short 11 May 2005
• Should Joel be on Java? 31 Mar 2005
• LogWatcher 1.4.0.1 Released 25 Feb 2005
• Back to the Blog 25 Feb 2005
• LogWatcher now supports Eclipse 3.0 02 Aug 2004
• Supreme Court Visit 10 Mar 2004
• Thanks for Build Survey Results 05 Mar 2004
• The Grey Album 01 Mar 2004
• Open Source Java 01 Mar 2004
• Build Practices Survey 01 Mar 2004
• Eclipse 3.0 UI Changes 18 Feb 2004
• February 17 2004 17 Feb 2004
• The Pipeline Problem 12 Feb 2004
• In Montreal 08 Feb 2004
• Liberal Massachusetts? 04 Feb 2004
• Patriots Win 02 Feb 2004
• Deathblow 29 Jan 2004
• We Are All Individuals 19 Jan 2004
• Cold Is Relative 17 Jan 2004
• Fastow the Jumbo 14 Jan 2004
• Bugs and Kittens 13 Jan 2004
• So-Called Blog 11 Jan 2004
• Punch It 07 Jan 2004
• Bobos In Paradise 06 Jan 2004
• Sleepless Raytracer 22 Dec 2003
• Not Entirely Random 17 Dec 2003
• Hometown Throwdowns 16 Dec 2003
• Hardly Outkast 10 Dec 2003
• LogWatcher 1.3.1 Released 05 Dec 2003
• Eclipse Vs. Emacs 05 Dec 2003
• Jess In Action 02 Dec 2003
• NationStates 23 Nov 2003
• Eclipse Visual Editor 18 Nov 2003
• Belle & Sebastian at the Orpheum 14 Nov 2003
• 100 Suns 13 Nov 2003
• SSX3 12 Nov 2003
• Political Compass 11 Nov 2003
• SWT OpenGL plugin 10 Nov 2003
• Amnon Landon 07 Nov 2003
• Rock the Electoral College 04 Nov 2003
• Will Ferrell & Tina Fey 02 Nov 2003
• October 31 2003 31 Oct 2003
• Fun with RSS 31 Oct 2003
• SharpReader 30 Oct 2003
• Absolutely American 29 Oct 2003
• October 26 2003 26 Oct 2003
• October 24 2003 24 Oct 2003
• October 22 2003 22 Oct 2003
• October 20 2003 20 Oct 2003
• October 18 2003 18 Oct 2003
• October 18-2 2003 18 Oct 2003
• October 15 2003 15 Oct 2003
• October 10 2003 10 Oct 2003
• October 6 2003 06 Oct 2003
• October 5 2003 05 Oct 2003
• Pete Peterson on NOW 27 Sep 2003
• West Wing Season Premiere 25 Sep 2003
• Paul Krugman Talk at First Parish Church 22 Sep 2003
• Nokia 6100 19 Sep 2003
• Virtual Memories 18 Sep 2003
• Special Delivery 10 Sep 2003
• Back From Alaska 02 Sep 2003
• Larry Summers Profile 24 Aug 2003
• 8-bit Desktop 18 Aug 2003
• Power Lines 17 Aug 2003
• Fair And Balanced 13 Aug 2003
• No More Books 12 Aug 2003
• SWT + JFace 10 Aug 2003
• Typepad Beta 09 Aug 2003
• Group Forming 09 Aug 2003
• Version Tree Art 06 Aug 2003
• Technology Sucks 04 Aug 2003
• Steven Levitt 03 Aug 2003
• Middle East Map Quiz 30 Jul 2003
• Flash Mob 29 Jul 2003
• Bill Hicks 25 Jul 2003
• Atul Gawande: Complications 24 Jul 2003
• Me Search 16 Jul 2003
• Karsh Portraits 15 Jul 2003
• Logwatcher 1.3 released 08 Jul 2003
• The Echo Chamber 06 Jul 2003
• Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy 04 Jul 2003
• Boston Skyline Changes 02 Jul 2003
• Listening to TechNetCast 01 Jul 2003
• WiFi Coming to Arlington 15 Dec 2002
• IBM Acquires Rational 09 Dec 2002
• Rational Agents 05 Nov 2002
• Game On 31 Oct 2002
• It Begins 29 Oct 2002