The Core Dump
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Archive
2012
February
Exercise for the middle-aged fat guy (1352 words)
An exhortation to exercise for my fellow middle-aged fat guys.
Photo safari to Cleator and Watson Lake (341 words)
Nic is dragged along on a photo safari to rural Arizona.
January
Book roundup, part three (1176 words)
Review: Blue HR heart rate monitor strap (608 words)
If you have an iPhone 4S, the Blue HR is a solid device.
Movie roundup, part 18 (869 words)
2011
December
The dragon flies at night (549 words)
It’s 1989. Nic moves to Louisiana and discovers there’s such a thing as black culture.
Christmas is behind us and it’s time to get back in the saddle.
It’s once again the winter solstice. It’s time to sit back and relax.
Clouds over a CostCo parking lot (84 words)
Arizona experiences winter rain storms and Nic commits photography.
On azcentral.com outsourcing comments to Facebook (1029 words)
Nic outlines some of the risks of ceding comments on news stories to Facebook.
Fixing technology education in K12 (938 words)
Students aren’t being taught how to use computers. Nic offers suggestions to fix a broken system.
November
Book roundup, part two (943 words)
More contrast, please (271 words)
Nic is frustrated by a design choice for a JBL remote.
Cain and the Democratic conspiracy (333 words)
The harrassment charges against Cain and the sad kabuki theater of the Republican nominations.
October
The shibboleth of style (768 words)
Nic is not pleased with the AP stylebook.
Thank you, Steve Jobs (75 words)
Kindle 4 first impressions (1089 words)
September
Editing the hosts file in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion (383 words)
If you’re trying to edit your hosts file in Lion, here’s why it’s not working and how to fix it.
Why I’m all-in on FiveFingers (1485 words)
Nic loves his freaky clown shoes. This post explains why.
Blade Runner keyboard (122 words)
Nic really can’t understand how his keyboard gets so dirty.
Nic’s daughter isn’t what you’d call a morning person.
Book roundup, part one (1577 words)
Some books you might enjoy reading.
Even better burgers (234 words)
Nic’s dad shows him how to make even better burgers and he shares his newfound knowledge.
Death by PowerPoint (814 words)
Endless, pointless presentations are a drag on corporate worker sanity. There is a better way.
The long democracy (903 words)
Campaign season is gearing up in America and Nic has some thoughts on the endless primaries ahead.
August
Sports journalism is hurting democracy (584 words)
Political news coverage in America tends to be abysmal. Nic explores why.
Lion and the angst of the greybeards (1514 words)
Nic is bemused by the sturm und drang surrounding the iOS-ification of Mac OS X.
Web publishing made easy (741 words)
Web publishing used to require heavy-duty nerditry, but no longer.
How to create an e-book (1467 words)
Nic is creating an e-book. He shares what he’s learned so far.
July
The monster of Norway (309 words)
The horrific events in Norway hit home for Nic.
Breaking the social back (432 words)
Nic overanalyzes things again. He has no idea what to do with Google Plus.
The end of the artifact (588 words)
Spotify is finally open for U.S. customers. Nic is ridiculously excited.
Nic reads a life-changing book on nutrition and wants to share it with you.
June
Productivity for people who don’t have ADD (1374 words)
Nic thinks a lot about productivity and shares some books that have helped him.
Gaze of the Predator (92 words)
Nic attempts to reinvigorate the tradition of posting cat pictures on Fridays.
May
Movie roundup, part 17 (1250 words)
Phoenix ComiCon impressions (825 words)
Nic takes his daughter to go nerd watching at the Phoenix ComiCon.
Happy ninth birthday, Andrea! (60 words)
Our daughter turns nine years old today.
Threatening skies over the Westward Ho in downtown Phoenix.
Some good podcasts for you (965 words)
Nic listens to a lot of podcasts on his commute. He hopes some of them might make you happy.
Closer to the metal (553 words)
Nic switches from WordPress to Jekyll. He’s excited. Everybody else is bored to tears.
April
Something in the water: 10 years of the Apple Store (1570 words)
Nic talks about the early days of the Apple Store and how it came damn close to killing him.
FiveFingers help chronic compartment syndrome (681 words)
Nic finds that Vibram FiveFingers help with his chronic compartment syndrome. This makes him happy.
March
Twitter is not your free advertising (682 words)
Review: The Heroes (399 words)
February
Slowing down the news (416 words)
January
A panegyric to e-book readers (714 words)
Nic really digs e-book readers. No, seriously, he really digs them. And you should, too.
Your computer is becoming an appliance. Deal. (643 words)
Video on the Web: Your HTML5 won’t save you now (1249 words)
Frosty the windshield (192 words)
There’s frost on the car windows in Phoenix. Confusion ensues.
2010
December
An illustrated beginner’s guide to the IKEA food market (675 words)
You are the product (347 words)
November
Learning English from the Boss (501 words)
Thinking back on growing up in Sweden and the mysteries of Springsteen’s lyrics.
The dishwasher of doom (293 words)
How our dishwasher almost burned down our house. More drama than I’m used to on a Sunday morning.
October
The Arizona Republic finds a "haunted library" (414 words)
We read, we screed (332 words)
Nic tilts at windmills about readability on the Web.
Movie roundup, part 16 (756 words)
Review: Zero History (246 words)
William Gibson is back in the unevenly distributed future with Zero History.
September
Why are my IT people such douchebags? (587 words)
Thieving bastards stole my image (269 words)
Building a news site with WordPress (1421 words)
Longish post on the creation of Cronkite News and building it in WordPress. Mostly of interest to Web developer nerds.
Your own nuclear reactor (202 words)
The inner rage of nerds (671 words)
July
An e-mail management system that works (480 words)
Movie roundup, part 15 (1506 words)
June
Nic reviews Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
Review: The Big Short (207 words)
Nic reviews Michael Lewis’s The Big Short. He likes it.
Soccer and the tyranny of the score (738 words)
Nic explores why America’s attitude to soccer has a lot to do with the things wrong with America.
May
The iPad, as the dust settles (1425 words)
Fed up with endless upsells and sexist marketing, Nic leaves GoDaddy behind.
I have reached hamburger nerdvana (407 words)
Nic grills the perfect hamburger and shows you how to do the same.
April
Does lemon juice tenderize meat? (315 words)
Nic goes all MythBusters on the idea that lemon juice tenderizes meat.
Review: The Steel Remains (256 words)
The Steel Remains is a stunning reboot of dark fantasy.
We’ve been doing it wrong (952 words)
The iPad is finally out and Nic is wicked excited.
March
The Finger Of St John The Baptist And Other Seo Annoyances (689 words)
Few things are as annoying as the braying of SEO sheep. This post explains why.
Dad is older than the glaciers (70 words)
Having a child reminds you of your mortality in more ways than one.
The future: Now with more iPad (371 words)
Nic pre-orders an iPad and is giddy with excitement.
The car must be blue (553 words)
Policy must support the vision you have for society—it's a means to an end, not the end itself.
February
Movie roundup, part 14 (595 words)
The salting of the meat (228 words)
Nic goes all Mythbusters on the idea that salting meat tenderizes it.
Googling for the login (583 words)
Tragic hilarity ensues when Google gets things mixed up.
Wishes for iPhone OS 4 (or, Nic has first-world problems) (274 words)
Unsolicited advice for Apple on what they should include in iPhone OS 4.
January
The iPad: It’s for education (437 words)
Thoughts on the iPad after the announcement.
Review: The City & The City (314 words)
The State of the State (383 words)
A reaction to Governor Brewer’s 2010 state of the state address. Guess who’s not impressed?
Review: Justinian’s Flea (334 words)
This book provides an interesting idea about the final nail in the coffin for the Roman Empire.
Sometimes medical professionals frighten Nic.
2009
December
Dagnabbit, some idiot does some dumb shit and now everybody’s air travel has to suck even more?
Home of the dollar (461 words)
Having an economy based on housing only is a bad idea. Who knew?
Hummingbird heaven (180 words)
Nic loves the hummingbirds in his backyard.
Morning conversation (56 words)
Nic’s daughter frightens him sometimes.
November
Review: Klipsch IMAGE S4i headset (442 words)
Solid in-ear headphones with Apple-compatible remote.
New hamburger expertise (167 words)
Nic shows you how to grill up a fantastic burger. Yum.
An enormously ambitious novel that mostly succeeds.
October
The never-ending drama around dinner time and Nazi parents who make nutritious home-cooked meals.
Movie roundup, part 13 (1018 words)
Infestation of raggare (280 words)
Nic looks back at one of the menaces of his youth.
Springsteen brings the angst of being human like none other.
September
The New Barbeque Expert (525 words)
Men tend to overcomplicate things, including grilling. Nic breaks down how to do it right.
Review: Drenai Tales (264 words)
A roundup of David Gemmell’s Drenai Tales novels.
Seriously, what the hell? (303 words)
Once again, shrill nutbags get under Nic’s skin.
Review: The Brass Verdict (196 words)
An excellent Mickey Haller novel.
Review: Requiem for an Assassin (193 words)
Mostly for completist John Rain fans.
August
Not exactly Kerouac (103 words)
Conversations with a second-grader are great.
Required reading for anybody interested in American history.
Movie roundup, part 12 (591 words)
Apathy and loathing at Dulles (1900 words)
Dulles airport might just be the worst in the world. This post tells you why.
Some languid thoughts from a vacationing Nic.
July
Louisiana to Missouri, via tow truck (1901 words)
June
Red carpet for the apocalypse (445 words)
Nic is a bit creeped out by survivalists.
The first letter home (217 words)
My daughter visits with her grandparents and sends a letter home.
Review: Terminator Salvation (515 words)
Nic goes to the movies. He is not happy.
Review: Let the Right One In (novel and movie) (663 words)
Movie roundup, part 11 (1041 words)
Nic is highly entertained by some very silly metal.
Microsoft and the lemonade stand parable (652 words)
Nic tries his hand at a parable to explain the problem with Microsoft.
May
Bass for your face (207 words)
Nic likes a pair of headphones.
The British Wallander (426 words)
Review: Gang Leader for a Day (203 words)
Very interesting insights into the shadow economy.
Ever wonder why parents always look tired? Here’s a video to explain it.
April
It’s the sound of inevitability, Mr. Anderson (658 words)
Nic lists the ways the Blu-ray experience is miserable.
Review: Shadow of the Scorpion (232 words)
If you know you’re right, you’re probably not.
March
People are waking up to the excesses of the banking system.
Nic doesn’t need proof he is the father of his child, but he gets it anyway.
February
Bad film nerd. No money for you (94 words)
It’s time to stop giving George Lucas money.
Nic finds enlightenment in a friend’s nervous breakdown.
Review: American Shaolin (147 words)
Very interesting and funny book about an American who travels to China to become a Shaolin monk.
January
Movie roundup, part ten (680 words)
A crash course in teaching (959 words)
If you teach, you should read this post.
Your own personal GTD (648 words)
Our brains aren’t built to handle the modern world, but there are ways to deal.
Nic digs Blu-ray transfers of old World War II movies.
Review: Ready for Anything (151 words)
Not as shattering as Getting Things Done, but a worthwhile read. date: 2009-01-14 20:12:22 -07:00
It’s ... the fuuuuuture (168 words)
The future is distributed to Nic and his idolization of William Gibson grows.
Always be scribbling (159 words)
Newspapers and technology aren’t exactly best friends.
Nic discards old technology and thinks about all the money he’s spent.
The airing of grievances (668 words)
Turns out 2009 was kind of a shit sandwich. Who knew?
2008
December
Merry Christmas from drunken Irishmen.
Review: Making Money (98 words)
Terry Pratchett goes a bit darker than usual.
Nic is not impressed by the MPAA’s rating system but he is impressed by The Dark Knight.
November
Movie roundup, part nine (561 words)
Nic is not happy with the excesses of the banking system.
Review: The First Law Trilogy (283 words)
It’s like these novels were written for Nic.
Review: The Bloomsday Dead (110 words)
Brings the Dead Trilogy to a close.
Nic is excited about Barack Obama’s election win.
October
Review: Presentation Zen (197 words)
Required reading for anybody who gives presentations.
The competitive urge (350 words)
Nic is not happy about the state of America today.
Arizona ballot propositions 2008 (549 words)
A run-down of the ballot propositions with suggestions for how you should vote on each of them.
Nic is not happy about the way the presidental election debates are run.
We lose our oldest cat, Shiva.
The McCain/Palin team make Nic question his sanity.
The only thing Nic likes more than the Internet is a wicked fast Internet connection.
September
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (252 words)
Gritty and violent Swedish crime fiction, just released in the U.S.
The Republican in winter (276 words)
It must be rough to be a Goldwater Republican these days.
To the undecided voter (210 words)
Review: Here Comes Everybody (144 words)
An important book on how technology is changing society.
Merlin Mann on the creative process.
Review: The Name of the Wind (109 words)
Impressive first novel of a planned trilogy.
Review: The Last Colony (111 words)
The weakest novel in John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War Universe.
Review: Spook Country (86 words)
Not William Gibson’s finest moment.
Let them eat swamp water (244 words)
More screwed-up priorities from Republicans.
August
Wisdom from my great-uncle the farmer.
The cheese and the damage done (294 words)
Nic is not impressed with Who Moved My Cheese.
Review: The Moment It Clicks (160 words)
A must-read for anybody interested in photography.
July
Excellent noir near-future sci-fi. Read it.
Apple gets greedy with MobileMe.
Movie roundup, part eight (346 words)
No diacriticals for you and your yuppie toy! (226 words)
The iPhone keyboard doesn’t support Swedish characters so Nic files a Radar bug.
Review: The Overachievers (205 words)
Deeply disturbing book about the pressures of high-achieving high school students.
Review: Woken Furies (118 words)
The third installment in Richard Morgan’s Takeshi Kovacs saga is great.
Nic talks about the Swedish midsummer tradition. With pictures.
June
Nic muses on the blessed stillness of vacation.
On through the night (244 words)
Nic reports on his and his daughter’s flight to Sweden.
Conspicuous consumption (226 words)
Nic and his wife buy a brand-new Acura TL. It’s a beautiful machine.
May
Review: The Dragon Never Sleeps (168 words)
Glen Cook delivers epic, dense space opera.
Review: Glasshouse (152 words)
Great sci-fi that’s really a meditation on memory.
Review: Cruel Zinc Melodies (71 words)
Disappointing Garrett, P.I. novel.
The Great Pool of Money (37 words)
You should listen to this fantastic podcast which explains the origins of the credit crisis.
Science night at school meets Nic’s immaturity.
Review: The Sociopath Next Door (131 words)
An important book about the hidden menace of sociopaths.
Excellent non-fiction about homicide squads from one of the creators of The Wire.
New levels of disgust (650 words)
Nic is pissed off about politics, including the perennial favorites the war in Iraq and gas prices.
April
Idiots hotlink my images. That’s a no-no.
R.I.P. Pompe, 2001 - 008 (164 words)
Review: The Price of Privilege (225 words)
Important book about how pressure from well-meaning parents hurt affluent children.
Holy Docsis, Batman! (166 words)
The Scar is a great, weird novel, but it makes Nic worry he might be a steampunk.
Review: Everything is Miscellaneous (178 words)
Interesting book, but too much filler and techno-utopianism.
Children of the night (188 words)
Nic’s daughter has a creative understanding of the word "nocturnal."
Review: Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched (65 words)
Great book about a year in the life of animal trainers.
March
Nic gets a visit from a door-to-door realtor.
February
Nic explains how he managed to get engaged on Feb. 29.
Review: Lord of the Silent Kingdom (137 words)
The second installment of Glen Cook’s Instrumentalities of the Night delivers.
Movie roundup, part seven (523 words)
Super Tuesday! Tuesday! Tuesday! (311 words)
Nic goes to the polls and discovers you need two proofs of identity to vote in Ariz. now.
January
My daughter hears anti-semitism and blissfully misinterprets it.
Review: Consider the Lobster (82 words)
Excellent collection of writing from the great David Foster Wallace.
Review: The Overlook (100 words)
Michael Connelly delivers a weak Harry Bosch novel.
Review: Darkness, Take My Hand (145 words)
Dennis Lehane manages to write a novel that is too noir for Nic.
The nerd has flown (343 words)
Reflections from Macworld 2008.
The nerd has landed (451 words)
Nic reports from Macworld 2008.
Review: The Big Switch (250 words)
Nice book on the commoditization of corporate IT services. Worth reading for anybody in the field.
Entertaining book about a man’s obsessive quest to become a professional chef.
Corporate communications at its finest (351 words)
Cox Communications isn’t great at, well, communicating.
2007
December
Review: Perdido Street Station (213 words)
Excellent fantasy from China Miéville.
Review: Made in America (88 words)
Nic loses sight of his daughter at the store and freaks out.
Say hello to my little friend (139 words)
We adopt a third cat, Athena Fairy Princess.
November
Review: The Lies of Locke Lamora (140 words)
A tentative debut novel from Scott Lynch.
Game changer: Flip Video (438 words)
How the Flip Video is turning the amateur video recording industry on its head.
Review: Nature Girl (118 words)
Carl Hiaasen wants you to not visit Florida.
Review: Bleeding Hearts (173 words)
A disappointing non-Rebus novel from Ian Rankin.
The G-rated Internet (225 words)
Nic highly recommends OpenDNS if you have children who use the Internet.
Movie roundup, part six (391 words)
October
Douglas Coupland continues the exploration of the lives of tech workers he started in Microserfs.
Review: Right as Rain (105 words)
Hard boiled crime fiction from one of the writers for The Wire.
She rules the night (318 words)
Nic’s daughter loses her first tooth and the tooth fairy is off to a shaky start.
Review: A Cruel Wind (220 words)
The granddaddy of dark fantasy. Highly recommended.
Review: On Intelligence (309 words)
September
The payback begins (160 words)
The stupid things you say as a teenager have a way of coming back to haunt you.
The winged messenger swoops in (534 words)
Version control is a necessity for staying sane. Nic looks at some options.
Movie roundup, part five (418 words)
Pathfinder, Stalker, Pusher and Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny.
Firefox downloading PDFs to Lexmark folder (145 words)
A solution to a weird Firefox glitch is proffered to the altar of Google.
Review: All Creatures Great and Small (142 words)
Well-deservedly known as a classic.
Nic moves his site to a new server. Excitement! Drama! Jazz hands!
Review: Passage at Arms (151 words)
A decent installment in the Harry Bosch saga.
The suspension of disbelief (665 words)
August
Review: Stumbling on Happiness (298 words)
A slim volume on how we determine whether we’re happy or not. Worth reading.
The first five years from a father’s perspective (1018 words)
iMac (Mid 2007) first impressions (553 words)
Nic buys a 24" iMac and tells you about it.
It’s Nic and his wife’s 13th wedding anniversary.
July
You and what army? (600 words)
On the joys of giving medicine to a cat.
Review: Twilight Watch (163 words)
Brings the Nightwatch trilogy to a satisfying end.
Review: Nightwatch (237 words)
The first novel in the great Nightwatch saga. If you like fantasy, this is the real deal.
Movie roundup, part four (619 words)
June
A dark and hungry god arises (618 words)
The hype about the iPhone mystifies Nic.
Classic cyberpunk, well worth reading.
WWDC Keynote Death March (415 words)
Nic attends his first and last Stevenote.
Review: The Digital Photography Book (173 words)
Will help improve the quality of your photographs.
May
The fairy princess Wii (181 words)
Fairytopia rips off the Wii mote and it actually doesn’t suck.
Review: The Ghost Brigades (205 words)
Fun space opera with emotional depth.
Review: The Dead Yard (155 words)
The second Michael Forsythe novel is grim and fast-paced.
Movie roundup, part three (268 words)
Review: Bitter Gold Hearts (108 words)
The second Garrett, P.I. novel is an improvement on the first.
Review: Sweet Silver Blues (180 words)
The first Garrett, P.I. novel is a fun mix of fantasy and noir.
Review: Dead I Well May Be (125 words)
A strong first novel in a dark and grim series.
Review: Judas Unchained (174 words)
The follow-up to Pandora’s Star is epic sci-fi at its finest.
Car alarm yadda yadda (626 words)
Nic gets stuck in customer service hell when he replaces the fob to his car alarm.
April
Wii first impressions (173 words)
Nic’s family scores a Wii. Here are his first impressions.
You’ve had your car too long when... (113 words)
Nic Lindh, breaker of car fobs.
Pics of the gorgeous cactus roses we get in the Sonoran desert.
No sex until marriage doesn’t seem to work (336 words)
A study finds that abstinence-only sex education doesn’t work. Nic is not surprised.
Review: The Sundering (151 words)
The second novel in the space opera.
Review: The Praxis (145 words)
The first novel about the Shaa empire is pure and unabashed space opera.
She’s beautiful! Let’s name her Metallica (242 words)
A Swedish couple decide to name their daughter Metallica. \m/
March
You are not funny. Neither is your April Fool’s joke.
Done with movie theaters (553 words)
Nic has (yet another) horrible experience at a movie theater and swears he’s done.
300’s strength and weakness are the same thing: it’s based on a graphic novel.
Review: The Undercover Economist (234 words)
Marketed as being similar to Freakonomics, which it is not.
The voice in the wilderness (52 words)
College is a time for drama, as this graffiti artist illustrates.
My mighty, mighty navel (119 words)
Nic’s daughter graduates from child seat to booster seat.
One of our cats gets an enema. I feel her pain.
You know you’re a parent... (22 words)
When you’re a parent your gross meter breaks.
Early morning coffee (373 words)
Movie roundup, part two (358 words)
February
Why the first job for any technology company is to make their product easy to use.
All your podcasts are belong to us (475 words)
Nic puts an iPod connector in his car and his life is changed forever.
Review: What the Dormouse Said (140 words)
A great history of the early days of the personal computer revolution.
How to spot movies that stink (238 words)
Nic provides an easy rule of thumb for determining if a movie stinks.
The tortellini incident (502 words)
Getting your child to eat can be unbelievably frustrating.
Review: The Tyranny of the Night (111 words)
First book in Glen Cook’s The Instrumentalities of the Night series. Good stuff.
January
The future reality TV winner (201 words)
Nic’s daughter is introduced to show-and-tell at school.
Review: Den of Thieves (182 words)
Welcome to the world (43 words)
Nic’s niece arrives on Earth. Welcome.
Bad Stevenote. No credit card (145 words)
Boy are my arms tired (198 words)
2006
December
The culinary final frontier (164 words)
Remembering Carl Sagan (83 words)
Frost on window pane (38 words)
The MacBook and the Apple curse (288 words)
Gardening for dummies (261 words)
IM IN UR XMAS TREE (127 words)
November
Review: How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk (175 words)
Review: Valentine’s Rising (145 words)
Review: The Search (209 words)
November 1: Santa’s firing up the rockets (48 words)
October
Awkward conversations with a four-year-old (256 words)
Build it and they will crumble (236 words)
Review: A Feast for Crows (271 words)
Firefox 2 RC2 and teh snappy (100 words)
September
Review: A Drink Before the War (165 words)
Top 10 "invisible" tech (644 words)
All computers great and small (262 words)
Review: The World Is Flat (243 words)
Professor Moriarty, I presume? (142 words)
Changement de Pieds (86 words)
Review: Tale of the Thunderbolt (86 words)
Review: Choice of the Cat (91 words)
Review: Way of the Wolf (198 words)
Review: The Lincoln Lawyer (156 words)
August
V for Vendetta, Nightwatch, The Matador, Ginger Snaps, Evil, Alien Versus Predator, and Ultraviolet.
Review: Berlin Noir (197 words)
Review: When Genius Failed (145 words)
10 years in the sun (393 words)
Review: Fooled by Randomness (159 words)
Finding the right color (145 words)
What I’ve been up to the last four days (33 words)
July
Review: The Skinner (152 words)
Review: Gridlinked (180 words)
Review: Century Rain (173 words)
Review: Old Man’s War (159 words)
Adventures in schooling (634 words)
We move our daughter to a Reggio Emilia preschool
June
It’s a good thing I’m rich (455 words)
Review: The Ancestor’s Tale (205 words)
No World Cup for you. Four years. (200 words)
Review: A Question of Blood (161 words)
Review: Resurrection Men (182 words)
Review: Set in Darkness (204 words)
Number of the Beast (42 words)
Review: Dead Souls (192 words)
Murdered 600 years ago (297 words)
May
Memo to Isis the kitten (80 words)
Happy Birthday, Andrea! (34 words)
Review: The Hanging Garden (235 words)
Review: Secrets and Lies (152 words)
Pedal to the metal (225 words)
Review: Black and Blue (124 words)
Review: Let it Bleed (187 words)
April
Let them drink oil (368 words)
Review: The DaVinci Code (191 words)
An early morning gross-out (93 words)
A good year for cactus (143 words)
Aryan race laws in Sweden (236 words)
Review: Mortal Causes (119 words)
Review: The Black Book (182 words)
March
Prayer’s healing power disproven (224 words)
Review: Caesar’s Legion (235 words)
Review: Tooth and Nail (155 words)
Review: Hide and Seek (114 words)
The Core Dump after dark (92 words)
Review: Knots and Crosses (224 words)
Reprieve from the drought (103 words)
All about the Salmons, yo (55 words)
The silence of the fans (160 words)
Begin world domination (181 words)
Review: The Closers (149 words)
Review: The Smartest Guys in the Room (164 words)
UnLinksys my heart (150 words)
February
Review: Fleshmarket Alley (167 words)
Water, my Bête Noire (453 words)
A pox on hard water (193 words)
Nic joins the 21st century. Film at 11 (360 words)
Review: Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (189 words)
January
Review: Loaded Dice (68 words)
The silliness of developers (275 words)
Review: Funny Money (99 words)
Objects in windshield may be closer than they appear (78 words)
A pox on all computers (141 words)
Long day’s travel to night (1064 words)
2005
December
Some notes on cold weather (215 words)
Random observations from Sweden (397 words)
Greetings from Sweden (84 words)
Posting from somewhere over the Atlantic (194 words)
Boy are my arms going to be tired (114 words)
Review: Armageddon (221 words)
Big it up for the Holidays (103 words)
Review: Tides of War (232 words)
November
Post-gobble wrap-up (121 words)
The Thanksgiving conundrum (241 words)
Thanksgiving approaches (118 words)
Top 20 geek novels (131 words)
It’s a long way to cat heaven (116 words)
Putting Turbo to sleep (1226 words)
Putting a pet down is one of the worst things you have to do. Nic cried writing this one.
R.I.P. Turbo, 2000-2005 (8 words)
Review: Grift Sense (133 words)
Review: Freakonomics (190 words)
A budding comedienne (57 words)
Review: Going Postal (155 words)
Fear the Candy Monster (175 words)
October
Review: High Fidelity (192 words)
Review: Gates of Fire (150 words)
Review: Pandora’s Star (147 words)
Extreme catblogging Friday (108 words)
Charlatan survives own prophecy (95 words)
Happy blogaversary! (60 words)
San Diego trip roundup (336 words)
Get your beach on! (194 words)
September
azcentral bites the dust (312 words)
Notes from under a blanket (99 words)
High-tech law enforcement (263 words)
Review: What’s the Matter with Kansas? (120 words)
Life support system (257 words)
August
New Orleans in the crosshairs (80 words)
Review: Chasm City (159 words)
Review: Absolution Gap (97 words)
Review: Rain Storm (116 words)
Review: Redemption Ark (170 words)
"What’s your car doing?" (150 words)
Review: Market Forces (168 words)
Viagra for the nerd (288 words)
July
Hollaback Girl deconstructed (84 words)
Cat claw implants getting closer (278 words)
The dawn of deception (246 words)
Think you’re having a bad day? (120 words)
I, for one, welcome our creepy fish overlords (8 words)
Uncomfortable movie moments (166 words)
Review: Revelation Space (162 words)
Review: Blue Blood (132 words)
Another day of infamy (14 words)
June
Review: King of Foxes (101 words)
Review: Talon of the Silver Hawk (147 words)
Review: Gust Front (111 words)
Alphabetical filing, oh yeah (166 words)
Midsummer’s lament (176 words)
Review: Generation Kill (162 words)
Bill Frist, Insta-MD (146 words)
The taste of burning bone (913 words)
Nic goes to the dentist. It’s not a good time.
Random observations, redux (566 words)
The art of listening (250 words)
Review: The Zenith Angle (203 words)
Review: Native Tongue (55 words)
May
Yet another redesign (92 words)
Happy birthday, Andrea! (27 words)
Home again, home again (140 words)
Review: Revenge of the Sith (276 words)
Checking in from Austin (166 words)
Random observations (370 words)
Review: The Narrows (297 words)
There’s a new engine in town (379 words)
Revenge of the angry fan boy (230 words)
Your own personal drive-in (172 words)
April
Review: Broken Angels (233 words)
All your lawn are belong to us (178 words)
Review: Altered Carbon (267 words)
Mr. Histamine is not your friend (195 words)
Review: The System of the World (177 words)
More fun in the 100-acre wood (416 words)
March
There’s a calm in your eye (202 words)
Review: A Talent for War (243 words)
Review: The Confusion (259 words)
Bye bye, ET, we hardly knew ye (407 words)
February
Quite a lot of pain (298 words)
Mad gardening skillz, yo (89 words)
Review: Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (203 words)
Water from sky good (50 words)
Review: Quicksilver (346 words)
Review: Eats, Shoots & Leaves (204 words)
Fall ill, go bankrupt (63 words)
Interesting but gross (50 words)
Junk food and ’rithmetic (218 words)
January
The smell of burning feeds (171 words)
Review: The Devil’s Armor (163 words)
Final (hopefully) post-mortem on the attack (179 words)
The assault continues (313 words)
"The blinking lights are killing me" (315 words)
Review: The Eyes of God (186 words)
2004
December
You can never look back (111 words)
A new home for The Core Dump (169 words)
Cat Blog Theatre Presents: The Visitor (221 words)
The joys of having another cat visit while it’s owners are on vacation.
Friday catblogging redux (126 words)
Manning the barricades for apple juice (192 words)
Nic’s daughter might be a socialist.
Pictures of the year (40 words)
Review: Neverwhere (212 words)
Psst, wanna try something new? (415 words)
November
Most awesomely bad metal song (89 words)
The countdown has begun (136 words)
Review: Hard as Nails (239 words)
Review: Deathday and Earthrise (252 words)
Throwing out the comments with the spammers (495 words)
Catblogging Friday (202 words)
Review: Guilty Pleasures (332 words)
Review: Just for Fun (391 words)
Review: Hard Freeze (282 words)
All right, I give up (124 words)
The IKEA experience (306 words)
Gigabit and RAID, oh my (329 words)
October
Review: Destination: MORGUE! (378 words)
I was strong but now I am weak (80 words)
Dirty diapers and Usama (170 words)
Review: Angels and Demons (317 words)
The first blogiversary (270 words)
Review: Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (94 words)
Fall in the Valley of the Sun (282 words)
September
Taking a light saber to the wallet (118 words)
Neurons flaring like a Christmas tree (138 words)
Review: Monstrous Regiment (238 words)
Mini-Review: The Waste Lands (94 words)
Flashing lights in the rear-view mirror (128 words)
August
Review: The Drawing of the Three (175 words)
Review: The Gunslinger (349 words)
Most clueless spammer ever? (73 words)
A conversation with a two-year-old (71 words)
Water equals money (244 words)
As the clock spits clicks (276 words)
July
O’Reilly reboots college textbook publishing (212 words)
There are cars for sale! (128 words)
So that’s where he went (42 words)
Review: Blood Music (228 words)
You have been assimilated (218 words)
Review: Darwin’s Children (162 words)
Water falling from sky... (160 words)
An old friend returns (27 words)
Gas versus charcoal (239 words)
That alien landscape (116 words)
June
The drink of pale death (166 words)
Midsummer’s Eve kit (240 words)
Review: The Chronicles of Riddick (186 words)
Wintermute shall rise (104 words)
It’s a strange web indeed (117 words)
The whole nine yards (54 words)
Terminator 3: Snore of the Machines (266 words)
Be kind to the apostrophe (202 words)
The goddamn comment spammers (67 words)
EU elections and the Dark Tower (236 words)
US citizenship test (94 words)
Review: Basket Case (114 words)
Further proof of the unfairness of the Universe (156 words)
Review: Darknesses and Legacies (271 words)
Must boil braaaaains (62 words)
Feed logging in progress ... keep hands away from moving parts (296 words)
May
The peeing of the cat (88 words)
Happy Birthday Andrea (21 words)
Review: Digital Fortress (527 words)
This bezel would make me a happy man (78 words)
How not to treat an Iraqi (147 words)
Another semester ended (124 words)
Dictionary reality check (47 words)
The Movable Type announcement (522 words)
Held up without a gun (34 words)
Review: The Paths of the Dead (269 words)
New home for technology content (159 words)
Getting a headache at work (60 words)
Nic’s ignorance further revealed (139 words)
It’s time for bloooood (284 words)
RIP J. Maynard Smith (23 words)
Welcome new members (100 words)
April
Verily, he speaketh the truth (21 words)
The Coors brew master (42 words)
Phantom publicist hyping dead musician (92 words)
Offshoring bullseye painted on Phoenix (72 words)
What’s that clicking noise? (236 words)
Now I’m feeling zombified (80 words)
Stay out of the water (95 words)
The Council of Elrond (22 words)
Tim O’Reilly on the fuss about Gmail and privacy (305 words)
Taking the red pill again (74 words)
The right to profanity (140 words)
What is journalism? (494 words)
A new name for syndication (115 words)
One lousy Christmas (61 words)
Review: Pattern Recognition (214 words)
The ominous sound of drums (157 words)
Review: The Banned and the Banished (431 words)
Micro-review: Tungsten T2 (7 words)
Utterly conspicuous computers (83 words)
Apple’s vision thing (47 words)
FrankenPod now 20% cheaper (165 words)
Zero Install: The solution to dependency hell? (140 words)
Bloglines impressions (145 words)
Die, April Fool’s, die, die (46 words)
Maybe the music’s just lousy? (351 words)
March
Review: The Apocalypse Watch (160 words)
You know you’ve been in Sweden too long when... (482 words)
Say hello to the 21st Bagel (58 words)
DRM is bad, mmkay? (182 words)
Some command line discipline (38 words)
Mac OS X turns three (274 words)
MT-Blacklist is large and in charge (125 words)
Anna Lindh’s assassin sentenced to life in prison (116 words)
The way you make me feel (168 words)
Very nice wallpaper (18 words)
Review: The Grand Crusade (169 words)
Thoughts on a really bad movie (1023 words)
Nic wastes his time watching an awful movie and decides to spread the pain by telling you about it.
Download like the wind, little friend (69 words)
Spammers show creativity (77 words)
AT&T upgrade open letter (68 words)
RSS making the mainstream (125 words)
Happy birthday to the Power Mac (48 words)
Windtunnels and ambient temperature (106 words)
Old-school Internet (958 words)
Nic looks back on the early days of the Internet when a 2,400 baud modem was the shit.
Even more AT&T upgrade (286 words)
One ... million ... dollars (103 words)
More on the AT&T upgrade (218 words)
Anna Lindh’s killer found mentally competent (119 words)
Slashdot on the AT&T phone upgrade (54 words)
iPod minis selling like hotcakes (261 words)
A trip down memory lane (243 words)
Bring your flippers to Mars (59 words)
RepKover bindings are back (50 words)
Guessing that email address (96 words)
Internet users create content (195 words)
The number of the Passion (41 words)
February
More on the AT&T upgrade phone (209 words)
Review: Lost Light (109 words)
Subversion looks good (315 words)
The Word 6.0 nightmare (274 words)
Review: Chasing the Dime (159 words)
This is an upgrade? (134 words)
We don’t support that (66 words)
Review: Permission to Land (157 words)
The BSDs have it as secure servers (80 words)
William Gibson Interview (646 words)
More on ApplePMU::PMU Forced Shutdown (151 words)
Dumb GUI awards winner (174 words)
Blogging about blogging (694 words)
John Kerry--referrer spammer (30 words)
See download speed in Safari (82 words)
Welcome MacSurfer visitors (36 words)
The carrot and the stick (376 words)
Virginia Tech G5s on sale (48 words)
Die Windows Update, die, die, die (142 words)
Headless iMac: When pigs fly (317 words)
The chicken or the egg (75 words)
It’s about freaking time (125 words)
Top 10 reasons to not shop online (195 words)
Keep watching the stars (154 words)
A quick comparison of Gnome and KDE (245 words)
Keeping your GUI street (133 words)
Spammer shows creativity (68 words)
KOffice fails install (104 words)
Fink goes defeatist (133 words)
Stress test that rig (300 words)
Lucida is fabulous (147 words)
Teeth red, not blue (173 words)
Geeks with torches and pitchforks (469 words)
Building a GNU autoconf static library (79 words)
The first Unix virus (51 words)
Boohbah ... Boohbah (101 words)
The pain, the pain (279 words)
January
DJ this ... or not, perhaps (111 words)
Apple and encryption (207 words)
The Feds on computer security (260 words)
Crawling to the cross (82 words)
2,048 bits of comfort (225 words)
Car buying from the inside (250 words)
No anniversary for the Mac? (33 words)
iTunes Music Store RSS feeds (92 words)
Copyright protection for databases (82 words)
Interesting solution to comment spam (129 words)
Permissions problems (483 words)
Tevanian Microsoft trial testimony online (110 words)
Gnome 2.4 on Mac OS X (756 words)
How to install Gnome 2.4 on Mac OS X.
Anna Lindh killer remanded (55 words)
State of the Union drinking game (28 words)
iLife ’04 first impressions (728 words)
iLife ’04 is a worthwhile upgrade.
When incompetence becomes sadism (125 words)
The Unix-Haters Handbook (34 words)
Mijailovic trial gets underway (79 words)
Review: No End Save Victory (617 words)
Email more unreliable than ever (116 words)
Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music (116 words)
Triangle block in square hole (104 words)
Lightning reviews: Baen books (513 words)
Review: March Upcountry (70 words)
Confession from Anna Lindh’s murderer (133 words)
Fare thee well, PageMaker (84 words)
2003
December
Windows and back again (293 words)
The state of ethics (34 words)
CSS goodness for NetNewsWire (394 words)
RSS is your friend (410 words)
Some sanity in Norway (64 words)
Cozy up to the monitor (35 words)
Review: The Return of the King (188 words)
We’re going to need a lot of coffee here (165 words)
Conjunctivitis in da house (32 words)
Anna Lindh murder suspect linked to DNA evidence (76 words)
Just say no to lutefisk (170 words)
Whoa! A paradigm shift! (212 words)
All your spam are belong ... well, you know (392 words)
A solution to spam (208 words)
Bush tough on crime (101 words)
Happy birthday to me (72 words)
Time for a lynch mob (78 words)
CVS over SSH on Mac OS X (249 words)
U.S. government fails computer security (31 words)
Weather channel for nerds (114 words)
LOTR pitch meeting (237 words)
TrackBack pings behind the firewall (74 words)
Creativity in the board room (299 words)
The small fry speaks (48 words)
Reading books on the Palm (320 words)
Review: A Hymn Before Battle (80 words)
Dark November in Sweden (115 words)
iTunes for your pleasure (105 words)
Services: A new dawn for the daemon (193 words)
Auto complete everywhere (103 words)
November
Review: Crossroads of Twilight (170 words)
Wells Fargo computer theft suspect caught (98 words)
AppleTalk in Directory Access (230 words)
No Santa Claus for you! (41 words)
Pet peeve: logging on to site (116 words)
Review: The Lions of Al-Rassan (183 words)
Wells Fargo accounts in the wild (236 words)
Must ... resist ... temptation (60 words)
Your uptime is 0wnz0r3d (186 words)
Method acting site design (202 words)
Paris to Prague by way of bureaucracy (24 words)
Reality distortion field run amok (53 words)
Software’s lizard brain (498 words)
Log file parsing is addictive (172 words)
Review: Under the Banner of Heaven (236 words)
Crayon reign of terror continues (105 words)
Toddler + crayons = danger (135 words)
Darth Vader’s employee evaluation (36 words)
Backup for the average user (569 words)
Crayons and Teletubbies (91 words)
The meaning of unsupported (324 words)
The greatest of all usabilities (105 words)
Matrix Revolutions abridged script (58 words)
Review: Matrix Revolutions (168 words)
Adrift with a political compass (108 words)
File under strangely disturbing (37 words)
Moving and shaking in Linux space (90 words)
Apple dealers taking it in the shorts (337 words)
Let’s get fair and balanced (131 words)
Review: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (472 words)
October
Star Trek nerds rejoice! (20 words)
Using REST with Amazon (222 words)
Lord of the Switchers (154 words)
The network is the computer (359 words)
The cow goes metal (113 words)
Custom Yahoo! news feeds (126 words)
FileVault considered harmful (392 words)
Disruptive technologies: News aggregators (309 words)
Fifteen seconds of sort-of fame (268 words)
SoCal fires from space (50 words)
The best laid plans (137 words)
Microsoft Kool-Aid (336 words)
First Panther impressions (534 words)
Classic from rec.humor.funny.reruns (381 words)
Coupling: Now without subtitles! (216 words)
New iBooks out of left field (249 words)
First snow in Sweden (68 words)
Shiny bright computers (204 words)
Ode to a dead hard drive (333 words)
Hot enough for you? (81 words)
In-a-gadda-da-vida (116 words)
It’s supposed to be black and white (100 words)
I’ll tune your Windows (94 words)
SmartyPants everywhere (84 words)
Queer eye for the slob (129 words)
Three little letters (351 words)
Seven bits of evil (248 words)
The silence of the phones (110 words)
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