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- When I say cancel, I mean cancel.
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October 2006
- IRB History
- Waterbed Prank
- Path Prank
- Stikkit
- Web 2.0!
- Hair of the dog
- I heap scorn upon Ruby's Time class
- In which I describe my lovely Saturday
- Strokes and Christina Aguilera Mashup
- llor.nu up again
September 2006
- Happy Birthday Kid
- Firefox Gaining Ground
- In which I discuss the ways of the presumed Secret Service
- Do what you love, do it well and love sharing it with others.
- Getting into Flow
- Subversion and svnrepository.com
- Mongrel and Capistrano
- CNNi Style Headlines
- Splog Attack
August 2006
- foocamp 06 Report
- Japan. Toilets.
- I can't get enough
- Two Things
- Swedish Fart
- Silent Torture
- Graph Paper Generator
- Microsoft UK: Office Clips
- Visor
- Blogging from Textmate
- Treadmill Bike
- Replacing sendmail with postfix
- Mentos + Diet Coke on Letterman
- Minority Report
- Rendering HTML with JS
- Generation Distinction Through Technology
- Inventing
- Liquids, Gels, Authorites, Nudity
- Change of Pace
- a.wholelottashaking
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
- Summer Speaking Schedule
- I Support RFID
- Starting Small Audience
- RailsConf 2006
- SXSW 06 Report
- SXSW '06
- MacBook Pro in the House
- Journey > Destination
February 2006
- Discouraging News
- Horrible Behavior
- iJoy|board
- The Austin on Rails Happy Hour
- Google Measure Map
- Tricky (for me) Math Problem
- Wirefree Office
- Nokia 770
- The Lemur
- Compiz Window Manager
- Conveyor Belts, Airplanes, Skateboards
- Rails Gathering at SXSW
- Multi Touch Interaction
- Yay Spam
- Kubrick and Romanek
- GLTerminal
- Airplane Air Causes Colds
- $1M Per Bad Guy
- New X Prize Challenges
January 2006
- Win Your Own Freedom
- Scroll Wheel Application Selection in OS X
- Ban Pomeranians
- Enough
- Small Tweak for Typo
- Rails Troubleshooting Steps
- Why World of Warcraft is So Compelling
- Country Boys
- Surprise!
- Canada, Oh Canada
- Don't Tread on this Browser
- Housewares Named After Skaters
- ActiveRecord Wall or Me Being Stupid?
- Bird Enhancer
- Email will be slow
December 2005
- Not Yet Grumpy Old Man
- Where the Hell is Matt
- Meat by Mail
- Color Gamut, Non Existance, Business Hours
- Dance, Man
- Gamma Go
- Never Make Assumptions
November 2005
October 2005
- llor.nu Goes Open Source
- Farewell Rosa
- Rails ActiveRecord vs anything ColdFusion
- Strongman
- Yahoo! Acquires Upcoming.org
- Good Luck Hollywood
September 2005
- Insect Cocoon!
- Four Hurricane Names Left
- Doing What You Love
- Planning Only Goes So Far
- iPod Interface Feature Request
- Wishlist: Expose Drag and Size Mode
- Liveblogging from New Orleans
- Sick
August 2005
- Stop Poopin' on th' Po'ch Ho'tence!
- Slaps Are Healthy
- Utah Roadtrip
- Mish Mash
- ColdFusion vs. Ruby on Rails Comparisons Part I
- Internet Be Damned
- Why Rails?
- New Site Feature
- Automator, Sweet Automator
- Violence and Video Games, Again
- Momma Swallowed a Fly
- Put Those Twins on TV
- Good Work David
- Jonas and Corn
- Cool Devices Wishlist Installment
July 2005
- My Solution to All Things Bad on the Internet
- Multiple Databases in Rails
- TactaPad
- Furniture Hacking
- Personal Cartoonist Needed
- Drag and Drop Lists in Rails
- Garage Band
- Projax.org
- Puzzled About the Brains
- Pollock Meet Pull-Up
- Ajax Mistakes
- Leah on the Slide
- Adapting My Path
- Conversation Dominator No Longer
- Leah is Very Verbal
- Not Unrelated
June 2005
- Parabolic Heat Transference Case Mod
- On the Market
- First Rails App Shipped
- Loving Textmate
- Good Idea. Horrible Implementation
- Five Modern Uses of the Armpit
- Take This Important Survey
- Privacy (or Lack Thereof)
- RoR Salted Hash Login Generator
- Don't Yelp at Hobos!
- Weird Ruby on Rails Issue
- 'stache free
- Flappy
- No Ethical Issues Here
- 7-9 Years of Blogging (You Decide)
May 2005
- Flickr Fondness Increase
- Dog Diaper
- Nagging Memory
- Happy Birthday Jonas
- Planepooling
- Ticket = Innovation Opportunity!
- What I'm Smelling
- Things Happen
- Gopher Extermination Using Projectiles
- Mustache Still Growing
- Motorola A360
- Baby Haughey
April 2005
- Smart (Robotic) Emailing
- The Wrong G5
- G5 Speed and RAM
- Dashboard Strangeness
- Tiger and the New G5
- Flickr Badge on Typepad
- Marketing Genius
- My Batteries are Fully Charged
- City Noises
- Bring on the New Web
- Pixels to Paint
- MySQL on OS X and How it Riles Me
- Michael Buffington, Meet Adaptive Path
- I want an Apple Mobile Phone
- Halfpipe Framed Up
March 2005
- Wordpress: Zen Through Link Farming
- Micro Halfpipe Details
- Miter Saw - Gateway Power Tool
- Final Reminder
- From Flu to Festivus
- Ruby Style Guides
- Ruby Progress
- Buffington in Wired
- Evolution of Old Man Sayings
- Having a Massage
- No SXSW Report
- Guinea Fowl
- That's No Thunderstorm
- Five Questions to Verify if an Entity is a Robot
- Gopher From Hell is Visiting
- POP
- Dear Safari Team
- It's Al's Fault
- Million Dollar Skills
February 2005
- Kottke Goes Pro
- Retro Cool Tool
- Asbestos Blog Status Report
- "Its tail broke!"
- The Grand Expirement
- iPod shuffle RAID
- Thrift Store Artwork Improvements.
- Where's My Laundry Robot?
- Keynote Presentations Sans Computer
- Skaters for Public Skateparks Launches
- iPhoto 5 and Photon: Part Two
January 2005
- iPod Stack
- Remote iTunes Library
- Halfpipes All Over
- Comment Spam Defeated (for now)
- iPhoto 5 and Photon First Impressions
- Buffington at Newberg
- Stampeding Baby
- Photo Albums
- Wired Office
- Solution Number Two to Comment Spam
- Moveable Type Spawned Comment Spam
- Cut Nose
- Goodbye Potato. Hello Rapido.
- Mayor Mayor
- Apple is Pure Evil or Totally Rad or Both
- Super Stereo
- New Apple Goodies
- 100 Things We Didn't Know
- Paying for Google stats
- Legos and Media Piracy
- Cool Materials
- Joe on Thailand and Tsunamis
- Reef Photos
- Mac Haters
- Jonas is Crawling
- Essential OS X Apps
- To Heck with Syncing
- Past Resolutions
- US Adds $350M
December 2004
- Relief Funds Compared to GDP
- Tsunami Videos
- Why I Don't Use Flickr
- Man Busts Back for Hoax
- Practicing Empathy
- Where's My Empathy?
- Timestamps and Weblogs
- Brush with Car Death #4
- Random Name Game
- Sneeze with Bonus Surprise
- mximize
- Linux on iPod - Hoax?
- 10 Workplace Rules for the Real World
November 2004
- I'm Eating for Two!
- Sparky the Regal Begal
- Acute Angularitis
- Lumberjack
- Second Annual Mouse vs. Man Cage Fight
- Campaign Ideas
October 2004
- ColdFusion and Perl
- Outer Space is Spooky
- Trial and Error
- Technology. Yum.
- Kerry States the Obvious
- <cf_dropcash>
- Private Spacetravel
- Debate Spotter
- TiVo Rocks!
September 2004
- Shame on PDX
- New Email
- Some Things
- CVS Didn't Die
- Haircuts: Pure Floating Evil
- Joy
- God is Not a Republican or a Democrat
- Cubereef.com
August 2004
- Fromage, and the Many Varieties and Origins
- Hot Showers Ensue
- Plumbing
- Boiling Bath Water
- Errand with Toddler
- Toogle Redundancy
- Functional Shoes
- Dreamweaver Bug?
- Spam is Good Business
- Animal Encounters
- Conversion Complete
- IM Enablement
- Fifteen Days
July 2004
- Mr. Buffington, Famous WSJ Profilee
- Dogs / Meat Hooks / Nature / Birthday Cake / WSJ
- Perl on a Mac = Slow?
- Kitchen Computer
- I Loathe Skizzo Ads
June 2004
May 2004
- Government Purchased Butter Knives
- Welcome Jonas
- Heart Ache
- Project: Surround Sound Office
- I seek the Ergo
- Clackity!
April 2004
- Is Manhattan Spacious Enough?
- Oh Glorious Nature
- You're a monkey!
- Honey Badger vs. Anteater
- Increase the Pace
- Parking Spots
- Three Cheers for Taxes
- Punch
- Exploding Caaah
- Cubicism
- Ten Year Belts
- Stop Annoying Me
March 2004
- Social Network Devices
- Previous Week in Brief
- Speedy
- New Job
- It's Alive: stinkmachine.com
- Leah at OMSI
February 2004
- Merely Stewards of Angels
- I save the town from utter destruction.
- Lost over Lost in Translation
- Kicked in the Head
- Hitchhiker Radar Gun
- The Mighty Thames
January 2004
- Downtime
- Captain Kangaroo
- The Twins
- Horse Hair Cut
- The Costs of SXSW
- Bill Gates Money
- Put Me in a Coma
- digitalslr.org
- Adios 2003!
December 2003
- Snow!
- High Polyester Content Socks
- Mouse-tastic!
- Man vs. Rodent
- Skateboarding Photography
- Looping Insanity
- Harsh!
- You Sing Like Killer Whale
- Survivor
- Torturous Rubik
- Goodbye Google Rankings
- Snap. Snap. Snap.
- Catch and Release
November 2003
- Tasty Flavors
- Wishlist
- King of Sweat
- Ikea Journey
- Advanced Stickies
- Clayton Brothers
- New Folder Trick
- Organization Project: Step 1
- Woefully Disorganized
- Nearing Lex Luther Status
- Mr. Ito
- Home Again
October 2003
- Shaved Ape Baby and Items of Less Interest
- Violence and Video Games
- Otto
- Google Keywords
- iTunes
- Brains
- Double Double!
- Feet
- 10,000+ Shots - Still Shooting Strong
- Backup
- Doing Time
September 2003
- Snapple
- 600 Words
- Fresh Baby!
- Stranded! Betrayed!
- Not Even Busy
- Bowling for Columbine
- Violence
- Hot Flowing Hatred
- Monkeys
- New Site
- Fantastic!
- Feed Me
- Touchpad, you are the bane of me.
August 2003
- Dropping Internet Explorer
- Country Roads, Take Me Home
- How to Travel Buffington style
- Young Posh and Loaded
- File Under Big Projects
- Hot Tapir Action
- Getting Hot! Hot! Hot!
- So you wanna be a web super star?
- TypePad Review
- The Stupidest Thing
July 2003
- Technology Nirvana
- I'm Ready
- New Guineas
- The Louvre Sucks
- Tour Eiffel
- On a Jolly in Paris
- English?
- Leah in Trafalgar Square
- Must Consume Everything
- Tinfoil Jorge
- Cookies & CFHEADER
- WorldTime Clock
- I hate the word musings.
- Dry Slope Snowboarding
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Pixel Goodness
- Some Tech with Your Order?
- Finally
- Uh..
June 2003
- Software Design
- Stress Relief
- What is it?
- Good Scripts
- Busy Four Day Weekend
- You're Bad. I blow your computer up.
- Life in Notebooks
- Slow Factor
- 100% Comments Enabled
- Shameless!
- Mini Me
- Working Like a Dog
- Super Gem Drop
- The Day I Shrank
May 2003
April 2003
- Lovely
- Back Again and Off I Go
- Brain Damage
- Cut it out or something
- Let's give this a try.
- Do I dare?
- Audio Capture
- Q1 Review
- 70%
March 2003
- Termites & Horse Ants
- Ah, sweet sweet dimentia
- $95B goes a long way
- Where I stand (or shift nervously).
- Let's see you do better
- Drunk Chick & Pooping Lady
- I too wish for peace
- "The war with Iraq is
- Nostalgia
- Disturbing Development
- SXSW Photos
- My Final Report
- Elizabeth Smart : Found
- Good Thing
- More Photos from SXSW
- Austin Photos
- Marilyn in My Row
- Stupidity is not Patriotism
- Oh, Time to Go
February 2003
- codeGen alpha
- A Hint of Web Services
- The Grammys Suck
- Well Finally
- Deep Thoughts
- Amazon Women
- Dreamweaver MX on OS X
- El Amor de la Muchacha I
- Weezer
- Get on the Ball
- TiVo Revealed
- Dude, You're Going to Jail
- Hello TiVo. Again.
- Puffy Lumps and Such
- You Eat Like Killer Whale!
- New Design
January 2003
- Time Machine Umbrella
- Another Update
- About My Dad
- Use Frames. Go to jail.
- Joy!
- Bad News
- Dear Man Who Hassles,
- The Magic is Gone
- Dance Crazy
- Small World
- Good to Know
- Name Change
- Bonk
- Monkeys on Wiener Dogs
- Australia!
- ColdFusion on OS X
- VIP Penn
- Say Hello to Carrie
- Vocabulary Drought
- Online Color Tools
- Greedy!
- Life of Pi
- With Resolve
December 2002
- Scorpion King
- Happy Birthday Baby
- Loyal Defender
- Ah, the Marathon Endeth
- Merry Christmas
- Classic Tastes
- Strange
- Nobel Prize Thinker
- Manhattan Over Time
- SXSW Confirmed
- Don't be evil
- Planes and Pork Rinds
- "We prefer 'souvenir'"
- CFMX/RedHat 8.0
- Mr. Thompson Would Be Proud
- Don't Panic
- Save a Tree
- Spammer Revealed!
- Ouch
- Productivity Booster
- Jog or Scrub
- Headphones = Serenity
- The Fury!
- Living La Vida Ignorante
November 2002
- Save Elian
- Good Luck Jacque
- Near Perfection Part II
- Why Bother?
- Cry Baby
- Scary
- Near Perfection
- Website Flow
- Communication Overload
- Reefer Madness
- Dreamweaver MX
- Several Thoughts of the Day
- Fax Unplugged
October 2002
- Liquid Metal
- ColdFusion MX
- Email Backlog
- Shame Shame
- Cast Your Vote
- Switch Story
- Cookbooks and Cookie Sheets
- Nachos for Profit
- Wild Kingdom
- Are you ready kids?
- Some Thoughts
- Pillsbury Doughheads
- Fatherhood & Night Critters
September 2002
- Welcome to the World Baby Girl
- Maybe Not
- RSS Feed
- It's time.
- Fly Away Home
- Virus Spam Explained
- Language Subtleties
- Silence Tomorrow
- Bandwidth Bandit
- Topless
- WebLog Expert Lite
- The Final Month
- Aumsville
- Mobinem
August 2002
- Chef Buffington
- Meteorite Hits Girl
- Alaska Airsickness
- Enough About the Tapes
- Intensity Metered with Experience
- Chatting with Bots
- I Married No Turk
- Introspect This Inspector
- They are a title it.
- Meat? Fungus?
- Please, keep it down
- Remember the 90's?
- Four Years
- The Wailing Sirens
July 2002
- Fantastic Contraption
- Moving Days
- Middle Name: Mischievous
- Home
- Mutual Bathroom Use Issues
- Fight the Evil DMCA
- Smooth Blueness
- When I was in highschool
- That same site mentioned previously
- While I understand the intent
- My new favorite spam: YOUR
- Ben Livingston sues spammers and keeps
- I did some research on
- "Michael, that green car is
- Some mysteries in life can
- ColdFusion MX: The Complete ReferenceYet
- I'm going to keep a
- Last year my friends and
- And I must say, that
- I have this problem. Offline,
- Mena received some funny spam.
- This is so last week,
- Google.com almost makes me cry.
- My left leg has been
- Carrie mentioned something the other
June 2002
- I've posted my first idea
- I'm an idea machine. There,
- The Joy of Dreamweaver MXMy
- Supporting the idea that Blogs
- Everyday I think the Internet
- For the last week or
- Frustration begins with F. The
- Obversations, thoughts, and experiences made and
- Four days to move an
- It's official. I'll be calling
- Some things can make a
- Just posted a new article
- I get traffic to this
- It only took a few
May 2002
- I'm mad as hell. It's
- I've been dipping my toes
- I haven't had much time
- Last night as I was
- As I'm sure is the
- I just posted a new
- Would you like a bucket
- So America is probably the
- Exactly thirty minutes after posting
- Am I the only one
- As I believe that one
- On Friday I saw Stacey
April 2002
- Some entertaining stuff at crunchygods.com.
- PopUpKiller is a great little
- "David Manning of The Ridgefield
- New site design coming. We're
- A freight train crashed head
- I dropped a link to
- I got pretty tired of
- I've been getting pressured by
- Time for a nanotech news
- Bummer. I just wrote an
- If I were Bill Gates,
- Finally, I can stop pumping
- What do you get when
- I used to talk extensively
- Last night I began tearing
- While I don't see "Work
March 2002
- Feet. Look at that word
- Baffling black blob floating near
- I had a dream that
- Imagine pressing a button on
- I've been getting deeper and
- I found a free little
- Having a pickup truck means
- I've gone over a week
- Five minutes ago I felt
- I found something pretty funny.
- I just spent some time
February 2002
- I almost got in a
- I'm so much happier now
- New month, new look!
- This study on information placement
- "The devices -- which contain
- What's up with Alf? Remember
January 2002
- Google.com is a bit tweaked.
- Remember the cinnamon challenge? Stinkfactor.com
- Yet another reason for me
- I've been looking for a
- I recieved the following email
- I just thought of something.
- A few years ago I
- Stayed up a few minutes
- Someday, I will have a
- I love fighting robots. Not
- I think this is the
- I just gave the site
- I love illustration. When I
December 2001
- So on the last day
- I don't have a belt
- Want to smoke Osama? Put
- If I had this stuff
- Wow, the response to the
- Erik and Joel and I
- I bet Erik his lunch
- And for those who are
- I think it's probably too
- I just lost the last
- I've avoiding news sources as
- Sometimes I just don't know
- Found my old 5k entries:
- I found a funny thing
November 2001
- I've been getting into a
- A week or two ago
- Since I jump around from
- The artwork on this site
- I found a site of
- So conservative Christians are calling
- An interesting thing happened yesterday.
- My site now shows up
- So a plane went down
- Erik put an entry into his
- I did some HTML polishing.
- For months now my brothers
- Remember the SNL fake commercial
- I still don't fully understand
October 2001
- I think that the AlienWare
- Caribbean photos are now up.
- We're back. For those of
- Carrie and I are floating
- Found an interesting tutorial on
- There a few machines I'd
- I made my first Flash
- So as I'm writing this,
- What's up with New Jersey?
- Erik made an important distinction between
- Carrie and I are going
- I got an underwater camera
- It's been a sad and
- Carrie and I spent some
- I won't be skateboarding for
- I don't yet have proper
- Someone asked why when first
- I've been reading up on
- Slashdot has an article about
- On Saturday morning my wife
- I didn't like the color
- Check it out. After months
- I'm nearly finished with the
September 2001
- I caught a lizard in
- In the past few days
- There was a day when
- Carrie and I went to
- Carrie bought new pillows. She
- A friend sent me a
- I didn't chicken out on
- I need a haircut. I'm
- I'm using a new editing
- Very informative graphic on escape
- There's an email hoax making
- My wife is awesome. She
- Amazon is taking monetary donations
- Some incredible photos from space
- I woke up today to
- Back up. What an ordeal.
- Dang, a whole month went
August 2001
- I'll be moving my website
- If you're seeing this then
- You know you've been writing
- From Wired news: Looks like
- It's now possible to view
- I have this thing where
- I'd really love to see
- Going to Vans skatepark today,
- Rancid milk sucks! Nonfat milk
- You may have noticed some
- AT&T and Excite@Home (who I
- New illustration titled sod donkey.
- I just lost a little
- I now have a message
- Check this craziness out. I
- I have two new friends,
- I'm trying to write a
- I got on the board
July 2001
- Once again, I slammed hard
- At around 2am this morning
- 5 years ago my girlfriend
- I'm sore. I wonder sometimes
- Finally finished my rotoscoped kickflip
- I just discovered a concept
- I forgot to mention that
- I grow more tired of
- Getting a ton of traffic
- Major update to the site!
June 2001
- I decided there's nothing to
- Back in SoCal - I
- Pictures are up of the
- I witnessed the fury of
- This guy has a pretty
- I've got the sudden urge
May 2001
April 2001
- Started a new photography portfolio.
- Sneak peak of my latest
- Made a new illustration.
- Had the Laguna Hills skatepark
- Updated my resume entry page
- I was just remembering how
- Wow. I've known about the
March 2001
February 2001
- I'm available for short to
- This is pure evil genius.
- I guess when I moved
- I rebuilt the photos section.
- I'm doing some site maintenance.
- Just got back from Oahu.
- I'm now committed to making
- I'm ready for a new
January 2001
December 2000
- Wow. I added that "What
- Lesson Learned: The moment before
- I went to my step-Dad's
- I'm living at my in-laws
November 2000
- Long story, simple anecdote. I
- Added some of my illustrations.
- I've got a new skateboard
- If anyone ever tells you
- I made a new toy.
- Hindi ko alam, dahil hubad
- Apparently there's some confusion about
- I figured out why astronauts
- So I guess IIS 5.0
- I've been taking pictures of
- People posing for pictures in
- I updated the date filtering
- This is really stupid. I
October 2000
- I'm a midget today. It's
- I finally hooked up a
- I was in the elevator
- While considering what to be
- Dwarf invasion.
- The ficus is gone. I
- Sorry for the downtime. Had
- Ficus, why do you like
- I just checked on the
- Carrie and I came home
September 2000
- I just love Microsoft. Apparently
- My site is all messed
- Ok, things seem to be
- When you give blood, and
- Stinkbeetle.com is coming!
- I need ideas for a
- For several years now I've
- Got back from Maui on
August 2000
- So it's finally live. Let's
- Going to Maui this Saturday.
- Built the links page, the
- Travel videos use terms
- If you were invisible, like
- I've nearly finished this thing.
- I changed everything. I didn't
- I wrote a cool module
- Every day I say something
- New Site. New Title.
August 1998
- I'm a Big Retard
- On Writing Well
- Girlfriend. Funny.
- Surfing, Otto, Fun
- Something BIG
- Joe Maller
- Digital Sucks
- Movie Reviews?
- Sneak Peak
- Lost