odegards.com/derek: archives

May 28, 2007

This is lemuel. He is a pain in the butt.…
November 22, 2004

Seen this yet?…
May 09, 2003

Skyscrapers from every city in which I’ve either lived for longer than…
May 02, 2003

Just so I have something on the front page of my new…
May 28, 2002

This guy is going after a problem that drove me nuts a…
May 27, 2002

Ray Kurzweil: Reflections on Stephen Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science.…

Poor Sysadmin’s Guide to Remote Linux Administration.…

Two-stage recursive algorithms in XSLT: This article presents several examples of two-stage…
May 14, 2002

Funny anecdote I hadn’t heard before (from this Slate article): [Neil] Young…
May 10, 2002

Attempting (again) to blog this from work using my Hotmail account, so…
May 01, 2002

I posted a review of Eric’s website on the new Amazon/Alexa web…
April 18, 2002

Now you can get a hardcover facsimile of the 1st edition (1931)…

Worth watching: UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh and his brother have a…
March 30, 2002

Template Languages in XSLT: “This article will show you how to implement…

Windows on a database - sliced and diced by BeOS vets…

Tips for Scripting Java with Jython.…
March 29, 2002

Ronald Simmons, a private citizen who lives four blocks from my house,…

Top five search engine keywords which brought traffic to pixelpony.com this week:…

In honor of Good Friday, a selection from this fantastic article by…

Wow! These look great:DomAPI {courtesy glish}Xml Extras {courtesy scottandrew.com}…
March 28, 2002

Rafe Colburn pointed to an article on aspect programming, which is described…
March 27, 2002

Songs you won’t be hearing at our wedding: rec.music.christian Wedding Song List.…

In honor of yesterday’s five-year anniversary of the Heaven’s Gate mass suicide,…

Mozilla 1.0 is coming soon.…

Rob Neyer on Derek Bell: Upon reading the news that Derek Bell’s…
March 26, 2002

New to me: Java Data Objects (JDO), “an API to store and…

Verisign/Network Solutions is evil. But you knew that, right?…
March 23, 2002

Xindice (pronounced “zeen-dee-chay”) is an open source native XML database from the…

Articles I want to read when I get time:Microcontent News: How the…
March 19, 2002

Varny-varn-varn sent along this MSDN article comparing XSLT to Microsoft’s Mobile Internet…
March 18, 2002

Business Week: “Today, people have a fondness for mixing, matching, and managing…

XLink: Who Cares? I got excited at the concept of linking that…

Funny: “The IBM PC was created by people who drank alcohol. The…

Stopping Spam with SpamAssassin.…
March 08, 2002

New O’Reilly book: SAX2. Sample chapter: Producing SAX2 Events.…

Best Practices with Expresso Framework using Struts: The Expresso Framework, until version…

Proposed final draft: Java™ API for XML-Based RPC (“JAX-RPC”)…
March 07, 2002

Today’s flood of new programming links courtesy of a gigantic backlog of…

XML Parsing With DOM and Xerces: part 1 and part 2.…

mozBlog: “[Future improvements include] the new feature that automatically save draft posts.…

Danny Goodman: While simple events have been part of the JavaScript vocabulary…

An interview with David Flanagan: The current schedule calls for the release…

O’Reilly Network: Hierarchical Menus with the Underrated style.display Object.…

More cool doo-dads on the XML/XSL Portal:XMLMail: An HTML Application to transfer…

Great way to research book prices: isbn.nu.…

David Flanagan on Java 1.4: Java 1.4 has just been released. This…
March 06, 2002

XML/XSL Portal has lots of good stuff, none of which I have…

Andrew Orlowski of The Register: “Every one of our competitors tries to…

A brief history of Unix: During this long hiatus, when what was…
March 04, 2002

XML.com has a bunch of recent articles I want to read when…
March 03, 2002

Some scenes and characters that were cut from Fire Walk With Me,…
March 02, 2002

You may now comment on anything I post here by clicking on…

On his site, Aaron is selling some pretty paintings by Ed Kellogg,…

Doing my part to subvert Scientology’s clever manipulation of Google’s search results.…
March 01, 2002

Zoloft withdrawal is making me feel a bit loopy, but I’m still…

Tiny google (WARNING: will open in new window)…

Jon Bosak is trying to create a “Universal Business Language” (UBL). Here’s…

Wigwam looks interesting: Say I were to check in to the revision…
February 28, 2002

Not exactly sure what Eclipse is, but I think I need to…

John Draper, aka Cap’n Crunch: So, lets go back to the year…
February 27, 2002

Disturbing “found poetry”: The Platumpussy.…

Two articles about email headers, both sent to [wd] by Steven Champeon:…

XML in Mozilla…
February 19, 2002

Rover is a bad dog.…
February 18, 2002

Java 1.4 introduced a URI class: An instance of this class represents…
February 17, 2002

theknot.com: “Are you exchanging your vows along a beautiful beach? Do you…
February 15, 2002

The Surrealist Compliment Generator: “The ocean’s foam matches the froth of hair…

The Register: Apple exec refused ‘Kill Dock’ bribe… How long before the…
February 14, 2002

In my inbox from Jon: “This 10MB PDF is purportedly every single…

Yet another ironically amusing quote on an Enron promotional piece: “Our lives…

The Denver Post pulled this article from their website after an outcry…

Imported all of my posts from Blogger into Radio Userland, going back…

Posting this message via email. Radio Userland should post it to my…

Windows Product Activation cracked: “Two different programs, that can activate Windows XP…

Recently released: Cocoon 2 and Java 1.4.…
February 13, 2002

From the July 1945 issue of Atlantic Monthly: As We May Think,…
February 12, 2002

Yet another article to read when I get some spare time: One…
February 09, 2002

Missed one photo:…
February 08, 2002

Engaged! More info to follow.…

TheraLlama: “By sponsoring a therapy llama you are establishing a special connection…

Harpers: Diary of a Terrorist. “From the thirty-five-page handwritten prison diary of…
February 07, 2002

A glowing review of The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark:…

Don’t have time to read this at the moment: The significance of…

Some words I didn’t know were “bad”: Vertical Taco, Bulldager, Dog, Lessy,…
February 01, 2002

Some interesting comments/flames over at Jim Romenesko’s Media News (apparently this article…

Funny quote from an Enron ad on the back cover of the…

Microsoft to Offer Popular SQL Server 2000 Driver For JDBC at No…

From The Register: MS fixes Win2K with 17MB security patch: “Microsoft’s new-found…

Interesting: “FOA [Formatting Objects Authoring] is the world’s first XSL-FO Authoring tool.…
January 30, 2002

NYTimes: Before the Towers Fell, Fire Dept. Fought Chaos: Walter Kowalczyk, the…

Some day they will say about me what they are now saying…
January 29, 2002

Since I am now in a blogging frame of mind, here is…

A free IDE for C# and VB.NET: SharpDevelop.…

“George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States of America,…

Andrew Orlowski writes in The Register about retrograding his machine from OSX…

Probably not.…
January 28, 2002

Playing around with Radio Userland for the next 23 days. As it…
January 22, 2002

Excellent… everything seems to be working now.…

Testing 123…
November 01, 2001

After three batches of interviews on three consecutive days with about twelve…
September 11, 2001

Fighter jets overhead. Hospital in my neighborhood unable to take blood donations…

I’m fine.…
September 07, 2001

Responded to an ad today that was perfect for me: Experience [sic]…
August 16, 2001

Posting with blogBuddy. Did it work?…
August 13, 2001

Posting with Radio Userland. Did it work?…
July 29, 2001

More reading material:Processing XML with JavaMental Health: A Report of the Surgeon…
July 27, 2001

Articles I want to read when I find some time: Interface Design;…
June 13, 2001

Experienced web developer seeking senior-level programming position in New York City……
May 31, 2001

I now live here. More info and photos to follow.…
April 11, 2001

Red Sox backup catcher Scott Hatteberg responds to selected passages from Ball…

Jim Bouton on Joe Torre in Ball Four, a wonderful book I…
April 07, 2001

On an afternoon stroll through my neighborhood yesterday, the flowers were blooming…
April 03, 2001

The management of Major League Baseball sank to an all-time low when…
March 24, 2001

Just finished drafting my Fantasy Baseball team, and I don’t think it…

In case you hadn’t noticed, I moved some stuff around and fiddled…
March 03, 2001

A fascinating graphical representation of all the major sorting algorithms, using Java.…

How to explain the pure joy that can come from small epiphanies…
February 27, 2001

I don’t have anything interesting to say. Go see the fake dub…
February 07, 2001

I could sit and look at this webcam all day long. When…
February 06, 2001

Lunch today:…
February 03, 2001

I redesigned my online bible today. There is still much I want…
January 28, 2001

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January 26, 2001

Voros McCracken offers a provocative and counter-intuitive argument: There is little if…

At a time like this, curiously, you begin to think of the…

Ongoing discussion on our music listserv: what is the best string of…
January 25, 2001

In my junior year at Covenant College, the soccer team got a…
January 22, 2001

Here is a thoughtful response to Simson Garfinkle’s original attack on Java,…
January 20, 2001

Through the power of Google, I stumbled across two messages I sent…
January 19, 2001

Here’s a pretty good history of the four major browsers. Also on…
January 18, 2001

A concise guide to troubleshooting performance problems in SQL Server 7.…

I know XSLT pretty well, or so I thought. I’ve always hated…

As of November 2000, MSXML is by far the fastest XSLT processor,…
January 15, 2001

Looks like debugging Java apps for Motorola’s iDEN is pretty straightforward:…

Even though it is possibly illegal for me to do so, I…
January 12, 2001

At lunch this afternoon, Captain Kurt mentioned that he is preparing a…

This is what I look like (on a good day):Spotted on CamWorld.…
January 11, 2001

Stealing. How could you? Haven’t you learned anything from that guy who…
January 10, 2001

Paper towl patterns make excellent desktop patterns.…
January 09, 2001

For lunch today, I made Spinach and Tomato Pasta Sauce, Romagna-Style (scroll…

The latest incarnation of WinerLog is childish, vindictive, and boring:Dave seems to…

Reminder to self:Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, or field, or…
January 08, 2001

Every December, Slate hosts a listserv-like roundtable discussion on the year’s movies.…
January 06, 2001

Re-design more or less done. Feedback and bug reports encouraged. Also added…
December 12, 2000

The Smoking Gun dug up copies of contract riders for Britney Spears,…
December 11, 2000

Hey, Andy: Malcolm Gladwell is the New Yorker writer we were talking…
December 06, 2000

Riothero attempts to write a blog entry without the letter e, and…

Xml.com is going gaga over XML Schemas. Schemas are meant to replace…

I’m sad to report that herbal tea is not nearly as invigorating…

Opera Software has released a free (ad supported) version of their browser.…
December 04, 2000

I linked to I, Faker yesterday, but just now finished reading it.…
December 03, 2000

I, Faker. This article mentions Stephen Glass, who was fired by The…

The 2000 Bad Sex Award winner:Now. Yes. Brupt, he rises, turns her…

Eric has been trying for several years to convince me to learn…

An interesting article in the Atlantic Monthly (12/96) about a quest on…

Philip Greenspun’s collection of New York City photos, and some tips on…
December 01, 2000

Ostensibly, adding new classes to Java should be easy. I should be…
November 30, 2000

Depressing pictures of the once-great, now-crumbling city of St. Louis, Missouri. Around…
November 29, 2000

Sample chapter from a book I need to buy tomorrow: Java in…
November 27, 2000

Looks like UUNET is by far the most spammer-friendly ISP, relaying more…

From an article in The Star Ledger (NJ): “[Turk Wendell] told…

From Wayner: an interview with Godspeed You Black Emperor!…
November 20, 2000

Here is one of the better spams I’ve received (note the convincing…
November 16, 2000

My employment objective, as listed on monster.com (and other online employment services).Put…
November 15, 2000

Programming Pearls is a fascinating book about programming. Sitting on the crapper…
November 14, 2000

Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days…
November 12, 2000

New Scientist: Suspicious baseball fans have finally been vindicated: gradual alterations to…

A couple of clever Palm Beach ballot jokes: 1) a demonstration of…
November 11, 2000

Free electronic book: Thinking in Java, 2nd Edition. I started to go…

A great interview (Dr. Dobbs Journal, Feb 98) with Larry Wall, creater…

A couple of Larry Wall quotes, from the 3rd State of the…
November 10, 2000

Software That Does Fuck All™:November 2000: We have now cancelled the Java…
November 07, 2000

This makes me ill, partly because I fear he may be right:If…
November 04, 2000

Reach Out And Annoy Someone:What is it about these things that makes…

Refresh: The Art of the Screen Saver. Curator James Buckhouse explains the…
November 01, 2000

I might start blogging again. You have been warned.…

Last night, I made a few changes. First, I switched back to…

A BLOGGER BEEF. The button used to post a message to your…
October 12, 2000

Added a couple of things yesterday… some photos of my bathroom drain,…
October 10, 2000

Over the weekend, I re-designed meaningless.com for Aaron. An XML file for…
September 29, 2000

Aaron chimes in on the debate raging between Eric and me regarding…
September 28, 2000

Eric reminds the world that pixelpony.com is not a weblog.…
August 22, 2000

Redesigned over the weekend. Several motivations:it was loading way too slowlythe timeline…
July 30, 2000

Today I did a little DLL thing that uses the XML aggregation…
May 23, 2000

The verse below was embedded with a single line of Javascript code.…

Below should be a bible verse, embedded in this page using my…
May 15, 2000

Oops! I set out to create a personal site, and I ended…
May 11, 2000

My name is Eric Costello. I gained unauthorized access to this blog…
May 10, 2000

Ladies and gentlemen, a bold new policy initiative: eContract 2000! Does that…
May 09, 2000

That’s more like it! Scored 9000 on Double Webpardy, and Final Webpardy…
May 08, 2000

I only scored an embarrasing 2200 on Single Webpardy. I was CLOSE…

I really wish this was still in operation:…

As much as I hate splash screens, if you must have one,…

Used the WebTV Viewer for the first time this morning to troubleshoot…

WebTV seems to have come a long way. The sites I’ve worked…
May 07, 2000

Last night at Llywellyns, a couple of friends were mocking Microsoft’s statements…

Peter Gammons on Pac Bell Park:For a fan, it may be the…

Ridiculous statement in an otherwise interesting article:Ballmer hopes to build Microsoft’s new…
May 06, 2000

Oh, one more thing… I finally got around to adding a contact…

Also, I hope you like the new site name [“Derek’s narcissistic cyber…

I added a couple of doodads to the timeline today. This solves…

The NetBlaster wireless bridge has an MSRP (manufacturer’s suggested retail price) of…
May 05, 2000

Arrived from Amazon.com this afternoon:Neil Young— After the Gold RushNeil Young— Everybody…

MisterVomithead (11:19:34 AM): i like your site. i’d like it better if…

So I guess Dave has a T1? May I suggest the onLoad()…
May 04, 2000

Picked up at Vintage Vinyl this afternoon:Big Star— Third/Sister LoversWeen— White PepperBuilt…

Launched: The Edys/Dreyers Dreamery Cool Scoops promotional website. I’ve been working on…
May 03, 2000

Foppish1 (11:49:41 AM):How many times are you 2 going to blog…
May 02, 2000

Lest you think I have never set foot in the world of…

I am generally anti-flash for all these reasons and more:In my experience,…

Plus, I just left a company that thought everyone on the web…

Eric mentioned that some people on our music mailing list recently argued…
April 27, 2000

Eric posted this link yesterday: The world can’t even agree on the…
April 23, 2000

I figured out what I need for this thing… an editor! I…
April 22, 2000

It looks like I have nearly all of the technical problems figure…

I have been working from the moment I wake until late late…

Hello World!…