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Blog entries for 2003

January 2003
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2: Something completely pointless
3: Philip Pullman
4: game design
5: sudden wish
6: Interview with Scott Meyers
7: new job, same employer
8: Obscure
10: Don't be a good German
12: Subversion
13: Task list
15: Today's music
16: Penguins
17: Politics and the English Language
20: Cold, foggy ride
21: Educate yourselves
22: More with the flash
23: sentences I spoke in Japanese class
24: Righteous XML rant
26: Lovely weekend for motorcycling
27: Interview with Guido Rossum
28: Play the war in Iraq game!
29: the news at 10
31: More DAoC maps

February 2003
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1: Odd reactions to the shuttle? Maybe.
3: Jury duty
4: Antisocial
5: Columbia Loss FAQ
6: KnasterBlog
7: What would Tufte do?
9: The problem with Java
10: More Guido
11: Warren Spector interview
12: Animal madness
13: Bookstores coming and going. Mostly going.
14: The DRY principle
15: "What's the big hurry?"
16: Baseball on the radio
17: cvsmail
18: Cat tree
19: What the Bushies are after in Iraq
20: Impostors
21: Diamond notes
22: NASA email
23: Shuttle, continued
25: Laser Squad Nemesis strategies
26: MOO3 summary
27: Sanitizing images of war
28: NYT on naked sportbikes

March 2003
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2: Weekend reading
3: Spring training
4: Sigh
7: start/2003/03/07/001
8: There might be hope for Asheron's Call 2
11: Am feeling wakeful
12: I AM HAVING A HARD TIME WITH THIS
13: Slouching toward war
14: Konfabulator
16: Evening walk
17: I ask you
18: Pulseprogramming
19: midi editing under os x
20: Perhaps some hope
21: One of them journal entry things
22: Mix in progress
23: Terry Jones
24: US States I have visited
25: The Onion, again
26: Get your war on
27: One of those socratic dialogs, no doubt
28: Coverage of protests doesn't test well
29: Legend of Zelda: Windwaker
30: Seattle 3, San Francisco 1
31: National do-not-call list

April 2003
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1: Baseball Prospectus
2: The Rummie doctrine
3: ToadHead
4: Personal update
5: Saturday update
6: A lazy day
7: More on Suzuka
9: Sakana
10: And on a more trivial note
11: Idiocy from the baseball Hall of Fame
12: Moto shopping
13: 12 innings and a sweep!
14: Fancy putty has arrived
15: Hacking the Segway
16: Tim Robbins
17: A lap at Thunderhill
18: More on that Honda ad
19: Daijiro Kato
20: Teddy Roosevelt on criticizing presidents
23: Corporate naming nonsense
24: Leathers
25: Australian doctor's experience of SARS in Hong Kong
26: Teaser
27: Jack Vance
28: I am restraining myself, but only just
29: Japanese baseball words
30: More on iTunes 4 music sharing

May 2003
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1: Exercise and all that
2: The cognitive style of PowerPoint
3: This morning's fun
6: Nick Yee on MMORPGs
7: Things that are good
8: Reason 2.5 released
9: Remote control of iTunes
10: More Half-life 2 infons
11: How SARS does its thing
12: SSC
13: What I hate about your programming language
14: That magical number 7
16: Menace
17: Still sick
18: Weekend update
19: Matrix 2
20: Why I mostly spell things correctly
21: Shooter
22: Senator Robert Byrd, again
23: Planetside is out
24: Blizzard's MMORPG
27: Giants 4, Diamondbacks 3
28: Presidential smash-fest!
29: Today's grumpy project
30: Tom Lehrer interview

June 2003
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2: Do I need another programming project?
3: Enossification
4: 10 questions to ask Tony Blair
5: Flaming motorcycle
6: Disturbing childhood lessons
8: Go to the ballpark...
9: Apple music business details
10: An accomplishment of sorts
11: DAoC needs team leads
12: Crackle boom
13: Bayesian spam filtering
16: Why innocent air passengers are being hounded
17: Watching B5
18: Planetside: not ready for prime time
19: Impending Harry Potter book
20: G5 specs, or not?
21: Well, I've read it
24: Back from the track
25: BARF
27: Heat wave
28: Corbin Motor Company
29: Katharine Hepburn, 96
30: Battered TiBook is more so

July 2003
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1: Robert McCloskey, 88
2: Tree update
3: Major SWG community here on spies
4: SWG
6: Crafting, crafting, maniacal crafting
7: The SF killer dog couple
8: Balancing for powergamers
9: SWG design and balance issues
10: Kasky vs Nike
11: Minitrue
13: And in sporting news...
14: 10-minute railgun
15: Java source line counter?
16: A little bit of space shuttle followup
17: Heart vs head
18: It's review time!
29: Hello from the road

August 2003
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1: Watch out for edifice complex
2: Aubrey and Maturin in the movies
3: SWG, casually
4: Aurilia on the DL for 3 weeks
5: Episcopalian bishop
6: I'm being egged on
8: SWG: player cities
9: Rest in peace, TiBook
10: SWG: when the bugs are bad
11: More on Howard Dean
12: The Gene Wolfe workshop thing
13: Bacon
14: Dear god
15: Certainly not logic
16: SWG: why this game rocks
18: SWG: the crafting economy
19: Am I governor or not?
20: Bonds. Barry Bonds.
21: What you do with kids
22: More SCO-crap
25: Wired article on XP
26: Demographics of gaming
27: SWG: that's a lot of players
28: The B5 original story arc
29: My SWG review
30: SWG: things that are fun
31: Hard drives

September 2003
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1: Larger than life
2: Dubya's psyche
3: Another motorcycle track day
4: Time traveller spam
5: Half-life 2 purchase
7: American interventionism
8: Whamadoodles
9: SWG: the sins continue
10: Warren Spector interview
11: Software patents are a bad idea
12: More on the Eolas patent
15: Mailblox: a boycott
16: SWG: demo video of mounts
17: Google code jam
18: Wesley Clark in the race
19: SWG: best screenshot ever
21: 15" Powerbook pr0n
22: Nostalgia
23: Thinking about SWG
24: Election stuff part 1 of N
25: Engines of creation
26: Columbia: one engineer tried
27: Krugman on the economy
28: Helimot suit revisited
29: The original author of Google news
30: That was nice!

October 2003
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1: Presidential politics, 2 of N
2: Griffin RadioShark
3: Still no Powerbook
4: Condon plagiarism article
5: Weekend update
6: Baseball noise
7: Heh
8: Synthesizer technology
9: A Plan for Spam, followup
11: Bought Halflife again as well
12: Some thoughts about HL maps
13: Enron email
14: More on problems with electronic voting
15: Sox force a game 7
16: Finally over
17: Max Payne 2
18: Star Wars Galaxies: the final straw
19: Kernel madness
20: New bookage
21: Off to my trackday
23: Planetside
24: Best UT2003 skin ever
25: Congratulations to the Marlins
26: Unreal documentation
27: Aside about hooliganism
28: More on the mysteries of SWG
29: Such a sucker I am
30: G5 cluster redux
31: Fruitcakes

November 2003
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2: Lots of software
3: Earplugs soon to be legal in CA
4: What to do with .max files?
5: Star Wars Galaxies forums
6: Let's get all excited about "Master and Commander"
7: Google phone number search
8: Tom of Finland action figure
9: Motorcycle show
11: Apropos of nothing
12: Gamer jargon
13: Master and Commander opens tomorrow
14: Final Fantasy XI
15: Giants broadcasting changes
16: FFXI
17: Reasons to like Wes Clark
18: Very nice
19: Don't work for Ebay
20: New Myst game
21: Bartle test
22: Jedi in SWG
23: User interface
24: Trouble in Googleland?
25: LOTR: RotK
26: Somehow I don't think Cyan wants this reaction
27: Pie
28: The happiness quotient of things
30: All about the iPod

December 2003
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1: San Diego fire followup
2: Cats and dogs
3: Which game?
4: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
5: Birdwatching
7: Cringley on electronic voting
8: Politician who killed motorcyclist guilty
9: Kanji travails
10: Sex symbol
11: Burning DVD-Rs
12: Worst baserunning in the history of the game
13: Cellphone misery
14: Booted into OS 9
15: Whiskey update
16: Obscure joke
17: World of Warcraft
18: 30-second ads
19: Down for the count
20: Halo
21: Whiskey update
22: Krugman on our new Gilded Age
23: More MMORPG discussion
24: I need a handle
25: Note found
26: Indy Jones
27: Phil Goldman
29: When squirrels attack
30: ReiserFS promises not to screw up data in future
31: Useless lament