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All of the posts I've created for this site, indexed by date. The most recent posts always appear on my home page. As they age, they are permanently archived here.

April 2007
12: Boot Camp + Windows Vista = no more Airport Extreme reboots
March 2007
30: Apple should sort out iTunes sorting
20: iTunes sorting strategies
11: Lisey's Story
February 2007
03: Mac Pro Windows Experience Index
02: MacBook Windows Experience Index
December 2006
22: The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution
17: Mac Pro
November 2006
21: The Ruins
05: A playlist for Halloween
02: For One More Day
October 2006
23: Week 23 results
18: Week 0 vs. week 23 in pictures
11: Week 22 results
09: Week 22 update
September 2006
22: Healthy recipe sources
22: Sick days: what to eat
22: My target heart rate
21: Week 19 results
21: Downconverting my iTunes library
20: Quick and easy chicken soup
16: Week 18 results
14: Choosing restaurants wisely
14: Tips for dining out
10: Eating out, choosing healthy
06: Week 17 results
August 2006
30: Quick meal ideas
30: Smart snack ideas
30: Healthy breakfast ideas
30: Week 16 results
29: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (2nd Edition)
23: Healthy shopping list
23: Week 15 results
16: Week 14 results
14: From a Buick 8
09: Week 13 notes
02: Week 12 notes
July 2006
26: Week 11 notes
20: Red Bean and Quinoa Chili
20: Miso Chicken with Brown Rice
20: Quinoa
20: Quinoa Pilaf
20: Curried Couscous
20: Mediterranean Chicken and Brown Rice Salad
20: Whole Wheat Couscous
20: Minted Couscous
20: Creamy Indian Lentils and Rice
20: Fried Rice
20: Brown Basmati Rice
20: Basic Cooked Brown Rice
20: Sunny Millet with Peaches
20: Rolled or Steel-Cut Oats
20: Whole Wheat Pizza Crust
20: Baked Millet Croquettes
20: Basic Millet
20: Tofu Quiche with Bulgur Crust
20: Lemon-Dill Bulgar Salad with Scallops
20: Bulgar Tuna Tabouli
20: Basic Bulgar
19: Week 10 results
15: Definitive Technology speakers
13: Week 9 results
05: Week 8 results
June 2006
30: Simple Chili with Kidney Beans
30: Meatless Lentil Chili
30: Slow-Cook White Chili
30: Spicy Edamame Dip
30: White Bean Dip
30: Crab Salad with White Beans and Gourmet Greens
30: Marinated Balsamic Bean Salad
30: Dark Beans and Sensuous Spices Soup
30: Roasted Pepper and Chickpea Salad
30: Lentil Soup
30: White Chicken Chili
30: Tuscan Beans with Sage
30: Hummus
30: Garbanzo Bean Salad
28: Week 7 results
22: VH1's Top 100 One-Hit Wonders
21: Week 6 results
19: Haunted
16: Baked Fruit
16: Fruit Salad
16: Fruit Kebobs
16: Fruit Salad with Yogurt and Mint Sauce
16: Onion, Orange and Olive Salad with Tuna
16: Oriental Orange and Spinach Salad
16: Asian Asparagus and Orange Salad
15: These are the fruits I can eat
15: Week 5 results
14: My MacBook arrived today
13: Week 4 results
03: Curried Chicken Breasts
03: Tandoori Chicken
03: Salmon with Dill Sauce
03: Week 3 results
May 2006
30: Roasted Vegetables
29: Garlic Sauteed Greens
29: Roasted Cauliflower with Rosemary and Garlic
29: Mashed Cauliflower
29: Very Green Beans
29: Green Beans Dijon
29: Faith's Hot and Sour Soup
29: Three-Pepper Salad
29: Broccoli and Cherry Tomato Salad
29: Green Bean and Red Onion Salad
29: Super-Quick Dinner Salad
29: Healthy sauces and salad dressings
29: Oils I should use for cooking, from best to worst
29: These are the vegetables I can eat
29: Creative Vegetable Entrees
27: Week 2 results
20: Week 1 results
13: Red-Hot Scallion and Sesame Sauce
13: Grilled Salmon Fillet with Sesame and Scallions
13: Spicy Chicken
13: Baked Poupon Chicken or Fish
13: Ginger and Lime Fish
13: Grilled Salmon with Mustard Sauce
13: Basic Asian Fish or Poultry Marinade
13: Basic Fish or Poultry Marinade
13: Baby steps
April 2006
28: Me, version 2
28: Cell: A Novel
March 2006
15: The Arraignment
03: The Attorney
February 2006
10: Trading Up: The New American Luxury
January 2006
20: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
December 2005
29: The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
08: Infinite Loop: How Apple, the World's Most Insanely Great Computer Company, Went Insane
November 2005
10: Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut
October 2005
29: Blog Design Solutions
17: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after 20 Years Away
08: Star Wars: Dark Lord - The Rise of Darth Vader
02: </floppies>
02: Me Talk Pretty One Day
September 2005
16: iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
08: Who Let the Blogs Out? A Hyperconnected Peek at the World of Weblogs
August 2005
31: Bulletproof Web Design: Improving Flexibility and Protecting Against Worst-Case Scenarios with XHTML and CSS
25: How semantic is your site? Find out!
19: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
08: My stylesheets
July 2005
31: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
31: The War of the Worlds
31: The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat
June 2005
30: Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet
30: Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft
30: We've Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture
29: Opening a link in a new window
05: My Textpattern form templates
05: My Textpattern sections and page templates
04: My Textpattern setup and plugins
May 2005
31: A better approach for code samples?
30: Running the Cosmos UI on the Mac
26: Using CSS selectors
March 2005
16: The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web
05: 1GB iPod Shuffle
February 2005
28: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
01: msn.com 9.4 released
January 2005
31: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
31: The Broker
15: Expanded my PowerMac
December 2004
31: The Well of Lost Plots
20: An iPod-ready CSS reference
06: Lost in a Good Book
02: World of Warcraft
November 2004
30: The Eyre Affair
30: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
17: 60GB iPod Photo
11: Designing styles for smartphones
11: Yahoo's move to CSS
11: Audiovox SMT 5600 smartphone
10: Who turned down the music?
03: Need some text and quick?
02: Now hosted by TextDrive
October 2004
31: Gradients, behaviors and conditional comments in a strict world
September 2004
27: Browser release history
17: A standard MSN homepage, part V: lessons learned
16: A standard MSN homepage, part IV: onwards to XHTML 1.0 Strict
09: A standard MSN homepage, part III: consistently interpreted CSS
08: A standard MSN homepage, part II: valid CSS
07: A standard MSN homepage, part I: valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional
02: Best practices for keeping CSS files light
August 2004
31: The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
31: Marking up definition lists
26: Verification for Javascript Files
26: Recommended tool: HttpWatch
26: For Pete's sake, encode your URL-valued attributes!
25: XHTML 1.0 in XML Schema
22: The gift that gives, and gives and gives
22: Announcing danboe.net!
20: My favorite hometown record store
20: Zen and the art of CSS
19: A simple approach for alternative styles
18: Styles for printing and other media types
17: Applying style to markup
15: Marking up text on a web page
14: Marking up tables
13: Marking up quotations
12: Marking up forms
12: Marking up links (or anchors)
11: Styling flexibility by using unordered lists consistently
09: Marking up lists
08: Marking up headings
07: Browser rendering modes: standards and quirks
06: XHTML and CSS validation? Why bother?
05: Class vs. ID
05: Choosing values for XHTML class and ID attributes
04: Why use CSS?
04: Why choose valid XHTML over HTML?
03: HTML attributes deprecated in XHTML Strict
03: HTML tags deprecated in XHTML Strict
02: Rules for valid XHTML Strict
02: Why semantic markup?
01: The Rolling Stone's top 500 albums of all time
01: Changing our mindset and approaches
July 2004
31: Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook
31: Designing with Web Standards
29: 40GB click-wheel iPod
28: Pot au-feu
27: Boerner family fruit salad
27: Bacon
27: Chocolate jimmy cake
26: Jambalaya!
June 2004
30: The Indispensible Calvin and Hobbes
30: Travels
May 2004
31: The Cluetrain Manifesto
March 2004
31: Pattern Recognition
February 2004
28: The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
28: Choke
28: Survivor
28: The Present
28: Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure
January 2004
31: Watership Down
31: Utopia
31: Frommer's Europe 2003
08: MSN 9 released
December 2003
31: The King of Torts
November 2003
30: A First Look at ASP.NET v. 2.0
22: PowerMac G5 1.8 Ghz dual computer
14: 40GB iPod
October 2003
31: The Finish Rich Workbook
September 2003
30: The Teeth of the Tiger
24: Sony Ericsson T616 cell phone
18: PowerMac G5 1.8Ghz computer
August 2003
31: 1984
31: Brave New World
31: Animal Farm
30: 30GB iPod
23: Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen NX
July 2003
31: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
21: HP iPAQ 2215 Pocket PC
June 2003
30: Digital Fortress
30: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
May 2003
31: Deception Point
31: C# Design Patterns: A Tutorial
31: Robinson Crusoe
April 2003
30: The Da Vinci Code
30: Debugging Applications for .NET and Windows
30: Strip City
30: Frequencies
March 2003
31: The Remnant: On the Brink of Armageddon (Left Behind v10)
February 2003
28: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
28: The Jungle
28: Cascading Style Sheets, the Definitive Guide
28: Saucer
25: Cat's Cradle
January 2003
31: Jennifer Government
31: The University of Hard Knocks
20: Optimal Strategy for Pai Gow Poker
December 2002
31: Prey
31: The Time Machine
November 2002
30: Skipping Christmas
30: Tuesdays with Morrie
11: Sony DVPNS715P DVD Player
04: Mitsubishi WS-B55 HDTV
October 2002
31: Star Wars: The Last Command
31: Star Wars: Dark Force Rising
31: The Invisible Man
24: MSN 8 released
23: Got a cell phone
September 2002
30: Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
30: Developing ASP.NET Server Controls and Components
August 2002
31: Red Rabbit
July 2002
31: Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne (Left Behind v9)
June 2002
30: A Short Course in Photography
May 2002
31: Everything's Eventual
April 2002
30: Building XML Web Services for the Microsoft .NET Platform
30: Star Wars Episode II: The Attack of the Clones
30: Building .NET Applications for Mobile Devices
March 2002
31: Star Wars: The Approaching Storm
31: The Summons
31: Leadership and Self-Deception
January 2002
31: Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
31: The Terminal Man
December 2001
31: Javascript: The Definitive Guide, Third Edition
31: Black House
November 2001
30: The Prometheus Deception
30: Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onion
30: 1000 Play Thinks: Puzzles, Paradoxes, Illusions and Games
October 2001
25: MSN 7 released
September 2001
30: American Gods
August 2001
31: The Mark: The Beast Rules the World (Left Behind v8)
31: The Ice Limit
July 2001
31: World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies
31: The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
June 2001
30: Catch-22
30: A Farewell to Arms
May 2001
31: Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
31: T2:Infiltrator
April 2001
30: Dreamcatcher
30: The Microsoft Edge: Insider Strategies for Building Success
March 2001
31: The Indwelling: The Beast Takes Possession (Left Behind v7)
31: Assassins: Assignment: Jerusalem, Target: Antichrist (Left Behind v6)
31: Apollyon: The Destroyer is Unleashed (Left Behind v5)
February 2001
28: Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides (Left Behind v4)
28: Nicolae (Left Behind v3)
January 2001
31: Tribulation Force (Left Behind v2)
31: The Poe Reader
31: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Personal Finance
31: Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (Left Behind v1)
December 2000
31: Weaving the Web: the Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
November 2000
30: Inside Out: Microsoft - In Our Own Words
30: XHTML 1.0 Language and Design Sourcebook
30: XSLT Programmer' Reference
October 2000
31: XML IE5 Programmer's Reference
31: XML Step by Step
31: Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
31: XHTML Black Book: A Complete Guide to Mastering XHTML
31: How to Succeed in Business without Lying, Cheating or Stealing
September 2000
30: The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
28: Professional C#, 2nd Edition
14: A Programmer's Introduction to C#
04: The Bear and the Dragon
August 2000
22: XHTML 1.0 Web Development Sourcebook
09: A Preview of Active Server Pages+
July 2000
26: Eon
14: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
June 2000
30: The Nudist on the Late Shift: And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley
May 2000
31: Web Rules: How the Internet is Changing the Way Consumers Make Choices
April 2000
28: Star Wars: Rogue Planet
09: Certain Prey
March 2000
17: Getting Back
04: Cryptonomicron
February 2000
16: Kingdom Come
January 2000
30: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0 Documentation
19: The Brethren
02: Timeline
December 1999
14: High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet
04: All Tomorrow's Parties
November 1999
24: Microsoft Windows User Experience
12: The Cobra Event
04: The Chaneysville Incident
October 1999
27: Hearts in Atlantis
16: Barbarians Led by Bill Gates: Microsoft from the Inside
02: Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up that Took on Microsoft
September 1999
23: Back to the Moon
14: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
August 1999
22: Programming Office 2000 Web Components
03: How the Web Was Won: The Inside Story of How Bill Gates and His Band of Internet Idealists Transformed a Software Empire
July 1999
31: Microsoft OLAP Solutions
14: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
June 1999
30: To Build a Fire and Other Stories
12: XML in Action: Web Technology
May 1999
29: Microsoft Dynamic HTML Reference and Software Development Kit
18: The Testament
04: Kissing the Trail: Greater Seattle Mountain Bike Adventures
01: HP Pavilion computer
April 1999
28: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
21: Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source
09: Ender's Game
March 1999
27: Rainbow Six
11: Database Access with Visual Basic 6
February 1999
22: Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People
17: Creating Web Pages for Dummies
January 1999
02: The List
December 1998
16: home.microsoft.com Vesta release
03: Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 Enterprise Developer's Workshop
November 1998
12: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
October 1998
31: Bag of Bones
23: Blindness
11: Walks and Hikes in the Foothills & Lowlands Around Puget Sound
September 1998
29: Timequake
06: Generation X
August 1998
25: Dirty Jokes and Beer: Stories of the Unrefined
18: Stupid Web Tricks
July 1998
10: Speeding the Net: The Inside Story of Netscape and How It Challenged Microsoft
June 1998
07: Microserfs
May 1998
31: The Light of Falling Stars
16: Professional Active Server Pages 2.0
April 1998
27: Internet Information Server Resource Kit
March 1998
19: Rulers of Darkness
February 1998
16: The Street Lawyer
January 1998
28: Inside Dynamic HTML
December 1997
28: Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace
November 1997
17: Professional Visual Basic 5 Business Objects
October 1997
31: The Tao of Pooh
September 1997
14: The Celestine Prophecy
August 1997
26: Official Microsoft Intranet Solutions using Microsoft Office 97 and FrontPage 97
July 1997
17: The Brothers Karamazov
June 1997
23: The Trial
05: Atlas Shrugged
May 1997
16: The Fountainhead
April 1997
29: Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships
22: Active Visual Basic 5.0
04: The Partner
March 1997
31: Working with Active Server Pages
02: Walt Disney World for Adults: The Original Guide for Grown-Ups
February 1997
19: Into the Wild
January 1997
21: Airframe
12: Client/Server Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic
December 1996
26: Uh-Oh
18: Interface
November 1996
30: The Regulators
13: Desperation
October 1996
27: The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel
04: HTML in Action: Hot Tips for Cool Sites
September 1996
18: I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year With Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier
August 1996
31: Executive Orders
13: IE midnight madness
July 1996
05: It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
June 1996
28: The Runaway Jury
May 1996
27: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic & SQL Server, Fourth Edition
April 1996
03: The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
March 1996
18: The Memory of Old Jack
03: Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Developer's Workshop, Third Edition
February 1996
28: Gump & Co.
16: The Relic
January 1996
29: The Bachman Books
14: Developing Excel 95 Solutions for Visual Basic for Applications
09: Fatherland
December 1995
28: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
14: Client/Server Survival Guide
November 1995
29: The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
18: The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
October 1995
31: Excel/Visual Basic Programmer's Guide
26: The Nature Company Guides: Skywatching
18: The Lost World
14: Mostly Harmless
September 1995
30: Field Guide to the Internet with Windows 95
24: MENSA Riddles and Conundrums
10: Walden
August 1995
09: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
July 1995
31: Life, the Universe and Everything
14: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
June 1995
30: The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
May 1995
31: The Rainmaker
04: Jurrassic Park
April 1995
23: They Whisper
March 1995
19: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
February 1995
23: Myst: The Book of Atrus
January 1995
12: Insomnia
December 1994
31: Millennium
November 1994
30: Couplehood
October 1994
31: The Book of Guys
September 1994
13: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
August 1994
31: The Alienist
July 1994
31: A Boundary Waters Fishing Guide
30: Jefferson Starship at Ribfest
10: Canoe Country Camping: Wilderness Skills for the Boundary Waters and Quetico
June 1994
30: The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House
May 1994
18: Nightmares & Dreamscapes
April 1994
30: The Tale of the Body Thief
March 1994
31: Breathing Lessons
13: The Vampire Lestat
February 1994
28: Snow Falling on Cedars
09: The Cobweb
January 1994
31: Disclosure
December 1993
31: Leaves of Grass
28: The English Patient
17: NCSA Mosaic
16: Interview with the Vampire
November 1993
30: Programmer's Guide to FoxPro 2.5
10: Night Shift
October 1993
17: The Queen of the Damned
05: Sein Language
September 1993
30: The Death and Life of Superman
19: I Can See You Naked
August 1993
31: Without Remorse
30: Bungee jumping at the fair
July 1993
24: Skinny Legs and All
June 1993
30: Jitterbug Perfume
May 1993
31: Still Life with Woodpecker
16: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
April 1993
30: Another Roadside Attraction
March 1993
31: The Client
February 1993
12: Reinventing Government
January 1993
31: A Time to Kill
December 1992
31: Dolores Claiborne
October 1992
31: The Big U
September 1992
30: Timescape
02: Zodiac
August 1992
09: Snow Crash
July 1992
31: Gerald's Game
May 1992
22: What the Odds Are: A-To-Z Guide on Everything You Hoped or Feared Could Happen
April 1992
30: The Pelican Brief
March 1992
19: The Complete Prose of Woody Allen
February 1992
28: What Counts: The Complete Harper's Index
January 1992
14: Harlot's Ghost
December 1991
31: Needful Things
17: The Firm
03: Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
November 1991
18: The Joy of Photography
October 1991
11: Reframing Organizations
June 1991
30: Nine Stories
April 1991
12: The Catcher in the Rye
March 1991
31: The Bourne Ultimatum
February 1991
28: On the Road
November 1990
26: When Do Fish Sleep? and Other Imponderables of Everyday Life
October 1990
31: Four Past Midnight
September 1990
30: Leadership is an Art
August 1990
22: Carrie
June 1990
30: Misery
May 1990
31: Mr. X
February 1990
18: Headcrash
December 1989
31: The Dark Half
04: Koko
August 1989
31: Clear and Present Danger
July 1989
31: Uncommon Cents: Benjamin Franklin Secrets to Achieving Personal Financial Success
May 1989
31: Rush to Nowhere
April 1989
30: The Coming of the King
March 1989
31: The Icarus Agenda
February 1989
15: The Holcraft Covenant
December 1988
31: Fatherhood
September 1988
30: The Complete Fairy Tales
August 1988
31: The Little Black Book of Budgets and Forecasts
July 1988
31: The Cardinal of the Kremlin
February 1988
28: The Golden Book of Stars & Planets
November 1987
30: The Tommyknockers
September 1987
30: Patriot Games
July 1987
27: The Hunt for Red October
June 1987
30: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
May 1987
31: The Tragedy of Puddi'nhead Wilson
14: The Prince and the Pauper
April 1987
30: The Bourne Supremacy
09: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
March 1987
31: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
February 1987
16: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County and Other Sketches
January 1987