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Monthly Archives: August 2006

Metro Lines I Have Used

31-Aug-06

Got at b3co.com! (by way of Jordi)
Listing the Paris Metro and the RER separately is cheating a bit, but what the hell… :) I should maybe go back and put them in proper chronological order at some point…

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Miscymiscmisc.

30-Aug-06

I don’t know if it is a good or bad sign that the most satisfactory thing I’ve done in, dunno, ages, is finish reading a day early so that I can have a relaxing evening with a friend from out of town. Good sign: I actually accomplished something! Bad sign: to most of the world, [...]

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turns out I’m not completely incompetent after all

29-Aug-06

We’ve been handed a lot of cases in the past two weeks that I didn’t agree with, because we’ve been watching the evolution of the law, and that means reading lots of things written by people whose worldview is, well, rather Victorian. Literally. But we’ve recently gotten to more recent cases; cases that are presumably [...]

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taking on giants and living to tell, and misc. law school thoughts

29-Aug-06

My buds at stopbadware.org released a report Monday, finding AOL 9.0 to be… well, not perfect. And today it makes the NYT. Good for them.
We wrestled a lot with the notion of language at stopbadware- how to define badness beyond a porn-like ‘know it when I see it‘. Ed__ said it well in one of [...]

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on blogging in the corporate open source context

27-Aug-06

One of the more interesting sub-threads spun off by my QA posts of the past week happened in the comments of this post, where I glibly tossed off the comment that ‘I assume that at least some developers blog about what they are thinking about/working on, and if no developer blogs about this Very Big [...]

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continuing to enjoy New York

27-Aug-06

It is hard not to enjoy New York. Even if some people swing through New York without saying hello :), there is still plenty to do.
Friday night Krissa and I had a private night, not even a laptop to be found. Since it was Bernstein’s birthday, and we now live on the Upper West Side, [...]

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Things I’ve learned in law school, part 1 of…well, a lot

25-Aug-06

Some things I’ve learned in a week or so in law school:

We (the whole culture, not just lawyers) badly need to figure out a laptop etiquette. One of my professors is strongly anti-laptop, but won’t quite ban them, and another outright bans them. The inconsistency is irritating, and I think it is regressive and damaging, [...]

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More on QA, Ubuntu, trust, etc.

24-Aug-06

Heard from Ubuntu this morning (in comments and via email, neither official) so I figured I owed an update, having slammed them fairly thoroughly here :) So some notes from email and comments:

I didn’t see an official Ubuntu announce about this because I didn’t look in the most obvious place of all- ubuntu.com. Looking there [...]

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Notes about distros, QA, etc.

23-Aug-06

Yesterday I flamed Ubuntu, I think with cause, for breaking X. Followups:
Points out of the comments in that thread yesterday:

Fedora now believes that they are going to be able to support (apparently already have supported) distro->distro upgrades, like Debian has done for years and Ubuntu has done since day 1. This is very big for [...]

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!@#@!#@!- still learning what ‘long term support’ means

22-Aug-06

Things that are not good:

put all your class notes in something X-based
see an X update from Ubuntu before you go to class
decide not to install the X update, because, hey, you wouldn’t want a broken X right before class
read some email, have breakfast
remember you’re running not just any distro, but hey, the ‘Long Term Support’ [...]

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