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2007

October

Surprise self referential search result

September

Songs and how miserable my brain is with them, and some discussion of Natalie Portman and nude human being parts.

July

My 386-33 outperformed my Mac Pro

Acute Trackinosis - a horrible mental condition.

I need to hire people!

it's concerning when you

Shame appeasement

new deafness suggests to

Ok. I *really* must

Am I really here?

My dog can talk.

Behind a senior citizen

Just cut the webbing

Time to replace the

Mr. McTavish, Let's Return.

Arg. Just spent aged

AT&T drops over half

Transformers. Worst. Movie. Ever.

The 30" cinema displays

@mike2 I'm in a

Someone just stole the

Uh, thanks spell correction.

Eating a late lunch

Comcast seems to have

Wow. Just started playing

When the three foot

Washington state fireworks a

Neat. Stikkit works just

April

Doing what I love

February

Stikkit Nominated for SXSW Award

January

The Valentine One

Top Ten Things I Will Do For An iPhone

2006

December

Happy Birthday Dead Dictator

Speaking in March

November

When I say cancel, I mean cancel.

Burning rope puzzle.

How to Rid Yourself of Television

October

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

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

August

foocamp 06 Report

Japan. Toilets.

I can't get enough

Graph Paper Generator

Microsoft UK: Office Clips

Blogging from Textmate

Replacing sendmail with postfix

Mentos + Diet Coke on Letterman

Minority Report

Rendering HTML with JS

Generation Distinction Through Technology

Liquids, Gels, Authorites, Nudity

a.wholelottashaking

July

The Morning After

June

Thanks Everyone!

May

Macbook Pro == Fiery Hot Stinker

A Camera for katzeye

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Proud to be an American

April

Spring. Finally.

March

Summer Speaking Schedule

Starting Small Audience

MacBook Pro in the House

Journey > Destination

February

Discouraging News

Horrible Behavior

The Austin on Rails Happy Hour

Google Measure Map

Tricky (for me) Math Problem

Wirefree Office

Compiz Window Manager

Conveyor Belts, Airplanes, Skateboards

Rails Gathering at SXSW

Multi Touch Interaction

Kubrick and Romanek

Airplane Air Causes Colds

$1M Per Bad Guy

New X Prize Challenges

January

Win Your Own Freedom

Scroll Wheel Application Selection in OS X

Ban Pomeranians

Small Tweak for Typo

Rails Troubleshooting Steps

Why World of Warcraft is So Compelling

Canada, Oh Canada

Don't Tread on this Browser

Housewares Named After Skaters

ActiveRecord Wall or Me Being Stupid?

Email will be slow

2005

December

Not Yet Grumpy Old Man

Where the Hell is Matt

Color Gamut, Non Existance, Business Hours

Never Make Assumptions

November

October

llor.nu Goes Open Source

Rails ActiveRecord vs anything ColdFusion

Yahoo! Acquires Upcoming.org

Good Luck Hollywood

September

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

August

Stop Poopin' on th' Po'ch Ho'tence!

Slaps Are Healthy

ColdFusion vs. Ruby on Rails Comparisons Part I

Internet Be Damned

New Site Feature

Automator, Sweet Automator

Violence and Video Games, Again

Momma Swallowed a Fly

Put Those Twins on TV

Good Work David

Cool Devices Wishlist Installment

July

My Solution to All Things Bad on the Internet

Multiple Databases in Rails

Furniture Hacking

Personal Cartoonist Needed

Drag and Drop Lists in Rails

Puzzled About the Brains

Pollock Meet Pull-Up

Leah on the Slide

Adapting My Path

Conversation Dominator No Longer

Leah is Very Verbal

June

Parabolic Heat Transference Case Mod

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

No Ethical Issues Here

7-9 Years of Blogging (You Decide)

May

Flickr Fondness Increase

Happy Birthday Jonas

Ticket = Innovation Opportunity!

What I'm Smelling

Gopher Extermination Using Projectiles

Mustache Still Growing

April

Smart (Robotic) Emailing

G5 Speed and RAM

Dashboard Strangeness

Tiger and the New G5

Flickr Badge on Typepad

Marketing Genius

My Batteries are Fully Charged

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

Wordpress: Zen Through Link Farming

Micro Halfpipe Details

Miter Saw - Gateway Power Tool

From Flu to Festivus

Ruby Style Guides

Buffington in Wired

Evolution of Old Man Sayings

Having a Massage

That's No Thunderstorm

Five Questions to Verify if an Entity is a Robot

Gopher From Hell is Visiting

Dear Safari Team

It's Al's Fault

Million Dollar Skills

February

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

Remote iTunes Library

Halfpipes All Over

Comment Spam Defeated (for now)

iPhoto 5 and Photon First Impressions

Buffington at Newberg

Stampeding Baby

Solution Number Two to Comment Spam

Moveable Type Spawned Comment Spam

Goodbye Potato. Hello Rapido.

Apple is Pure Evil or Totally Rad or Both

New Apple Goodies

100 Things We Didn't Know

Paying for Google stats

Legos and Media Piracy

Joe on Thailand and Tsunamis

Jonas is Crawling

Essential OS X Apps

To Heck with Syncing

Past Resolutions

2004

December

Relief Funds Compared to GDP

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

Linux on iPod - Hoax?

10 Workplace Rules for the Real World

November

I'm Eating for Two!

Sparky the Regal Begal

Acute Angularitis

Second Annual Mouse vs. Man Cage Fight

October

ColdFusion and Perl

Outer Space is Spooky

Trial and Error

Technology. Yum.

Kerry States the Obvious

Private Spacetravel

September

Haircuts: Pure Floating Evil

God is Not a Republican or a Democrat

August

Fromage, and the Many Varieties and Origins

Hot Showers Ensue

Boiling Bath Water

Errand with Toddler

Toogle Redundancy

Functional Shoes

Dreamweaver Bug?

Spam is Good Business

Animal Encounters

Conversion Complete

July

Mr. Buffington, Famous WSJ Profilee

Dogs / Meat Hooks / Nature / Birthday Cake / WSJ

Perl on a Mac = Slow?

Kitchen Computer

I Loathe Skizzo Ads

June

What's with the Flags?

Price.com : Take Two

Apparently I'm a Nazi

May

Government Purchased Butter Knives

Project: Surround Sound Office

I seek the Ergo

April

Is Manhattan Spacious Enough?

Oh Glorious Nature

You're a monkey!

Honey Badger vs. Anteater

Increase the Pace

Three Cheers for Taxes

Exploding Caaah

Stop Annoying Me

March

Social Network Devices

Previous Week in Brief

It's Alive: stinkmachine.com

February

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

Captain Kangaroo

The Costs of SXSW

Bill Gates Money

Put Me in a Coma

2003

December

High Polyester Content Socks

Skateboarding Photography

Looping Insanity

You Sing Like Killer Whale

Torturous Rubik

Goodbye Google Rankings

Snap. Snap. Snap.

Catch and Release

November

Advanced Stickies

Clayton Brothers

New Folder Trick

Organization Project: Step 1

Woefully Disorganized

Nearing Lex Luther Status

October

Shaved Ape Baby and Items of Less Interest

Violence and Video Games

Google Keywords

10,000+ Shots - Still Shooting Strong

September

Stranded! Betrayed!

Bowling for Columbine

Hot Flowing Hatred

Touchpad, you are the bane of me.

August

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?

The Stupidest Thing

July

Technology Nirvana

The Louvre Sucks

On a Jolly in Paris

Leah in Trafalgar Square

Must Consume Everything

Cookies & CFHEADER

WorldTime Clock

I hate the word musings.

Dry Slope Snowboarding

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Some Tech with Your Order?

June

Software Design

Busy Four Day Weekend

You're Bad. I blow your computer up.

Life in Notebooks

100% Comments Enabled

Working Like a Dog

The Day I Shrank

May

Proof of Angels

Russian Breakfast

Drat the Dreaded Slump

April

Back Again and Off I Go

Cut it out or something

Let's give this a try.

March

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

Disturbing Development

My Final Report

Elizabeth Smart : Found

More Photos from SXSW

Marilyn in My Row

Stupidity is not Patriotism

February

A Hint of Web Services

The Grammys Suck

Dreamweaver MX on OS X

El Amor de la Muchacha I

Get on the Ball

Dude, You're Going to Jail

Hello TiVo. Again.

Puffy Lumps and Such

You Eat Like Killer Whale!

January

Time Machine Umbrella

Use Frames. Go to jail.

Dear Man Who Hassles,

The Magic is Gone

Monkeys on Wiener Dogs

ColdFusion on OS X

Say Hello to Carrie

Vocabulary Drought

Online Color Tools

2002

December

Happy Birthday Baby

Ah, the Marathon Endeth

Merry Christmas

Nobel Prize Thinker

Manhattan Over Time

Planes and Pork Rinds

"We prefer 'souvenir'"

CFMX/RedHat 8.0

Mr. Thompson Would Be Proud

Spammer Revealed!

Productivity Booster

Headphones = Serenity

Living La Vida Ignorante

November

Good Luck Jacque

Near Perfection Part II

Near Perfection

Communication Overload

Several Thoughts of the Day

October

Cookbooks and Cookie Sheets

Nachos for Profit

Are you ready kids?

Pillsbury Doughheads

Fatherhood & Night Critters

September

Welcome to the World Baby Girl

Virus Spam Explained

Language Subtleties

Silence Tomorrow

Bandwidth Bandit

WebLog Expert Lite

The Final Month

August

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.

Please, keep it down

Remember the 90's?

The Wailing Sirens

July

Fantastic Contraption

Middle Name: Mischievous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2001

December

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've been in New Jersey

April

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

Just installed an instance of

February

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

After almost 2 months of

2000

December

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

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

I'm a midget today. It's

I finally hooked up a

I was in the elevator

While considering what to be