Welcome to The Dredwerkz Archives. There are four ways to search through old posts on the website:

1. Go back and look at the site at a particular day/time/year.
2. Click on a list of pre-defined dates.
3. Search using keywords.
4. Search using our search engine.

There are advantages and disadvantages to each. I'll outline the methods below.

1. Every post on the website has a timecode stamped to it that looks something like this: http://dredwerkz.com/archive:2003-01-24/10:21:30/. It's fairly intuitive, and using that sequence of year-month-date, you can easily navigate through the past months and years of the site. (If you wish to omit the time, you can: it automatically assumes 11:59pm if you do so.) Using this method, however, does mean that one cannot use method #3 simultaneously.

2. Rather than list every time and date for the past several years on this post, I'll just link to this article which does so. I may not be super-vigilant about updating that article, but I'll try my best.

3. The keyword search is explained here. Essentially, you can use keywords (or "tags" as they're known) to look for particular articles on the site. The advantage to this is that your results are easy to see. The disadvantage is that you cannot combine the tags with the archive (from #1 above) so if you choose popular tags, you'll need to add more tags to the mix to filter things down to a reasonable size. To look for a post about bush and polls, for instance, you could type in http://dredwerkz.com/bush/poll/ and get back several results.

4. The regular, ordinary search engine has been offline for awhile. Once it goes back online, it will be located right here. The advantage to this search engine is that you can search through all the words in an article, rather than just the keywords. The disadvantage is that, currently, you cannot search for words of 3 or less letters. (It's a problem with the engine, not my coding!)

If all else fails, you can always head over to the internet archive to see what this site has looked like in the past. Unlike the four methods outlined above, the archive will also show you what the site itself looked like (style/color/images) in the past, which is mildly amusing to peruse.

after some careful web log analysis i realized that certain spiders need to have a link to each article in order to log the information contained therein; unfortunately, since i've now set a 7-10 article limit on most subsections, items that are old get pushed into the archives more quickly than spiders can search them; (the archive subsection/tutorial, fortunately, should never have more than 7 articles in it!) although you can easily use the wayback machine to get them, there is no hard-coded link to these articles; to remedy this, i'm now incorporating a series of anchor links to various weeks into this article; this way one can simply click on the link to go back to a particular week; i'll keep it up to date, adding new weeks, as time goes on; well, here goes:

two thousand and five

February

• February 27th
• February 20th
• February 13th
• February 6th

January

• January 31st
• January 24th
• January 17th
• January 10th
• January 3rd

two thousand and four

• december twenty-sixth
• december nineteenth
• december twelfth
• december fifth

• november twenty-eighth
• november twenty-first
• november fourteenth
• november seventh

• october thirty-first
• october twenty-fourth
• october seventeenth
• october tenth
• october third

september twenty-sixth
september nineteenth
september twelfth
september fifth

august twenty-ninth
august twenty-second
august fifteenth
august eighth
august first

july twenty fifth
july eighteenth
july eleventh
july fourth

june twenty-seventh
june twentieth
june thirteenth
june sixth

may thirtieth
may twenty-third
may sixteenth
may ninth
may second

april twenty fifth
april eighteenth
april eleventh
april fourth

march twenty-eighth
march twenty-first
march fourteenth
march seventh

february twenty ninth
february twenty second
february fifteenth
february eighth
february first

january twenty fifth
january eighteenth
january eleventh
january fourth

two thousand and three

december twenty-eighth
december twenty-first
december fourteenth
december seventh

november thirtieth
november twenty-third
november sixteenth
november ninth
november second

october twenty-sixth
october nineteenth
october twelfth
october fifth

september twenty-eighth
september twenty-first
september fourteenth
september seventh

august thirty-first
august twenty-fourth
august seventeenth
august tenth
august third

july twenty-seventh
july twentieth
july thirteenth
july sixth

june twenty-ninth
june twenty-second
june fifteenth
june eighth
june first

may twenty fifth
may eighteenth
may eleventh
may fourth

april twenty-seventh
april twentieth
april thirteenth
april sixth

march thirtieth
march twenty-third
march sixteenth
march ninth
march second

february twenty-third
february sixteenth
february ninth
february second

january twenty-sixth
january nineteenth
january twelfth
january fifth

two thousand and two

december twenty-ninth
december twenty-second
december fifteenth
december eighth
december first

november twenty-fourth
november seventeenth
november tenth
november third

october twenty seventh
october twentieth
october thirteenth
october sixth

september twenty-ninth
september twenty-second
september fifteenth
september eighth
september first

august twenty-fifth
august eighteenth
august eleventh
august fourth

July twenty-eighth
July twenty-first
July fourteenth
July seventh

June thirtieth
June twenty-third
June sixteenth
June ninth
June second

may twenty sixth
may nineteenth
may twelveth
may fifth

april twenty-eighth
april twenty-first
april fourteenth
april seventh

march thirty-first
march twenty-fourth
march seventeenth
march tenth
march third

february twenty-fourth
february seventeenth
february tenth
february third

before i forget this after a deluge of news, read this article about larry king live: it's hilarious and totally true; i never understood why people wanted to watch LKl, let alone go on the show; of all the cnn shows, save the pile of intellectual sloth called talkbalk live, larry king live is the least informative and interesting. the fact that he mixes famous actors and politicians seems to underscore the point that larry doesn't interview news-worthy people so much as he interviews celebrities. furthermore, he's been given his own column entitled "kings things" courtesy the good folks at aol-time-warner-cnn. read it here and laugh your head off...yes, it's true, he actually discusses barney, the indy 500 and arianna huffington, in a series of sentences. Twenty sentences. anyone who's used to length will be sadly disappointed, but given mr. king's faulknerian stream of idiocy, that's not a bad thing.

i can tell it's a slow news day when i've already exhausted my extensive list of news sources before 9:00 and still have little to post on. anyway, in the "it's news despite the fact that it's not news" department, the israelis are attempting to remodel palestine while they simultaneously expand quickly in an action described as "relatively legal". say what you want to about the 1967 border...but there's no justification for further annexation of land in the occupied territories, something the geneva convention prohibits. read this and try to keep an open mind about everything. my life's problems are very insignificant by comparison.

okay, to begin with, i'd like to critique the new usda method of food distribution with respect to french fry consumption. in the past, the usda cafeteria simply sold boardwalk fries in the traditional tub containers. this presented problems for those of us too hungry for the "small" size, as few large containers were ever put on display; in an effort to remedy this, tptb decided to simply provide the empty containers along with some tongs to put the fries in the container; this enabled utility minded individuals, like yt, to physically cram in as many fries as possible into the container, in clear compensation for the horrible fry space packing that has been visited upon us for years in the form of mcdonald's super-size, burger king's king size, or wendy's biggie size bait and switch techniques. yet today, upon my return to the caf, i discovered that they had moved to the old system again (albeit with new containers). argh! speaking of not getting what you voted...er...paid for, there's a great piece on ari fleischer here in tnr today. As i watched the west wing last night i thought to myself, does ari ever engage in panic-driven moments of conscience? or is he so clueless that he believes his own lies? the answer is, of course, that ari intellectual gimics have twisted his mind into in-spin-anity;

sorry for the tardiness in posting today...work on my personal website has taken a bit of time (of course there's not a link, idiots! i'm not about to shed the veil of secrecy just yet!); in other news, check out this piece on intelligent design, and then shake your head at this piece on intelligent design. When will people realize that school should help kids learn to think critically, and that rigorous examination of "faitH" reveals, in the end, that "faith" cannot be dissected in a rational manner? if it were possible (as descartes tried) to prove the existence of god, then everyone would be a believer...in the end, if you believe truly, you don't need miracles or a microscope; faith is not built upon equations or code: spam-bots are.

upon further investigation, i managed to dig up this list of politicians and pundits who avoided service. it was used to create this comparison of democrats versus republicans in the veteran category. conventional wisdom, as it turns out, is dead wrong!

after a fairly relaxing memorial day of eating, watching war movies and, in general, enjoying the freedom purchased with american lives, i watched Swordfish, a movie with a deliciously morally ambiguous conundrum...just how far are we willing to go to protect our freedom? the movie puts the question in a new context: rather than espouse the gun-toting civil libertarian side of things, it instead proposes that a government by the people, and for the people, be able to kill those same people for the greater good...go utilitarianism! while empathizing with the general sentiment, such a view can be knocked around when the person in charge doesn't get enough sleep. Thank god bush knows how to delegate...or the country would be in worse shape than it already is. it seems ironic that bush couldn't remember his own dad celebrating memorial day in italy...until one remembers bush forgot to serve himself for the national guard, no less. and to think this guy lost to mccain...