On This Day: Jan 2

This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on January 2, 2020). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.

Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past. Here are my past posts for January 2…

There are 33 posts previously published on January 2nd

  • 2022
  • 2021
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on January 2, 2021). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.Happy National Science Fiction day! Right now I’m reading Ursula K. ... Read more
  • 2020
    • RSS Feed Weirdness and PHP Debugging Successfully debugging PHP code in the WordPress 'Post Today' plugin. I feel accomplished!
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on January 2, 2020). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.Happy National Science Fiction Day, everyone! Spend some time with a ... Read more
    • On This Day: Jan 2 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 2
  • 2019
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on January 2, 2019). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available. “Sen. Romney’s statement is not a profile in courage. Rather ... Read more
    • Hugo Best Novel Reading I've decided to work my way through reading all of the Best Novel Hugo Award winners over the coming year (or however long it actually takes), and will use this page to track my progress.
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on January 2, 2019). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available. Book one of 2019: The Fifth Season, by N. K. ... Read more
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on January 2, 2019). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.Personal goal for this year (or, well, however long it takes): ... Read more
    • Linkdump for November 29th through January 2nd An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between November 29th and January 2nd. • 365 IETF RFCs: a 50th anniversary dive • Is Grover swearing? No, it's in your ears. • Against Peter Jackson’s "They Shall Not Grow Old" • On radical kindness (another aspect of hopepunk) • The opposite of grimdark is hopepunk
  • 2016
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on January 2, 2016). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.DJ Wüdi emerging from hibernation and prepping for @norwescon #nwc39. Gear ... Read more
  • 2015
    • Looking for a Shmoe Bones is one of the better shows on TV right now, but this short little clip from S10E08 made me quite literally laugh out loud. Just a wonderful bit of silliness.
    • This Year’s Health Efforts After letting my exercise regimen fall apart in November, it's time to get going again. For my own accountability, this is some rambling about my current status and what goals I have moving into the new year.
  • 2014
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on January 2, 2014). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.Six months of wearing contacts, and they still kinda seem like ... Read more
  • 2013
    • Housekeeping I did some housekeeping on my Flickr account and severely culled my contacts--from somewhere over 250 to slightly under 90. A little housekeeping every now and then is a good thing.
  • 2009
    • Books, Books, Books, and More Books! For a few years now, I've been using LibraryThing to track my book collection. Ever since Prairie and I moved in together, we've been occasionally talking about adding her books to the listing...and now, the project is done: our entire library -- all 1,465 books -- is cataloged!
  • 2008
    • Condescended Still -- not _every_ geek out there works for Microsoft and has a gazillion expendable dollars..._or_ sees the need to toss out a perfectly good (and, actually, very nice) TV set that works fine, aside from not having the ATSC tuner.
  • 2006
    • 2005 Traffic Report I've been using the free traffic monitoring service StatCounter for some time now to get an idea of how much traffic I'm pulling in. Here's a look at the past year's traffic for Eclecticism.
  • 2005
    • Visual Halo Nice and easy, and now I've got my own DVD of Nine Inch Nails videos — and even when they are officially released on DVD, I'd lay good money down that the collection won't include the Broken short film, so I've got that, too.
    • Recycle! According to the Seattle PI, recycling is mandatory. So what to do when my apartment building doesn't offer ways to recycle?
    • DVD-R? DVD+R? Argh! Boo to the industry for having two competing and incompatible DVD formats, though, especially so similarly named. If I hadn't had some vague memory of reading about the different formats at some point in the past, I'd probably just have assumed that there was something wrong with my computer or the Superdrive, and been a lot more frustrated and aggravated than necessary.
    • Rollback A little morbid, but it's just how my mind works at times — when all's said and done, is someone going to have to roll back the World Population Counter by however many hundreds of thousands of people died in the tsunamis and their aftereffects?
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • Top ten web design mistakes Usability guru Jakob Nielsen posted his list of the year's top ten web design mistakes, and while it's aimed more at commercial sites, I thought I'd take a quick gander and see if there are any that I should worry about.
  • 2002
    • Fire your friends Okay, so your friend's passed out from all the booze he drank at your New Years party. Okay, so the old 'hand-in-a-bowl-of-warm-water' or 'shaving-cream-on-the-face' tricks are pretty old. But is dousing his leg in lighter fluid and setting him on fire really the best and brightest idea for a prank?
    • Beyond the rumor sites This time, around, however, Apple -- rather than staying their characteristically silent self -- is doing the online equivalent of tossing a goldfish into a pirahna tank.
    • [From Usenet: 1.2.02 0143] First off, I hope your experiences with OS X continue to improve, as you indicated they had started to in a followup post. Figured I could go ahead and jump in the fray, though... ;)
  • 1995
    • [From Usenet 1.2.95 0638] For those who might be interested, Critters Buggin' played a New Year's party up here in Anchorage, Alaska. Pretty damn good show, too.
    • [From Usenet: 1.2.95 0541] A friend told me that reznor had done some work with them, so I went out and picked up their first album, only to figure out trent was nowhere on that, but was still a really good disc.
    • [From Usenet: 1.2.95 0541] I might as well join in the fray...`` Semi-lurker here...been reading for quite a while, do occasinally post bits and pieces...
    • [From Usenet: 1.2.95 0448] True, Bytet is quite fun...as is Fsunjibleableje (if you ever caught them...great early Einsturzende Neubauten type industrial). The Critter's concert was pretty good, too...even a guest appearance by Stone Gossard.