Skip to content

Monthly Archives: December 2006

I love Miami.

31-Dec-06

For the nth time, I wish Miami had a tech industry that needed lawyers. (Taken at the mouth of the Miami River.)

Filed in forfacebook, personal | | Comments (0) »

For those down under worried about linking

20-Dec-06

A couple of you crazy far, far southerners have been posting about the recent ruling on linking. I found this post (by an Australian IP law prof) to be a really good summary, both linking to what other people have been saying, and analyzing the ruling itself. Her bottom line: if you’re not creating a [...]

Filed in law | | Comments (0) »

things I did yesterday

19-Dec-06

worked for around 14 straight hours on a take home exam
was mostly completely flummoxed by said take home exam
mostly finished said take home exam

So I’m going to do another pass of editing and (maybe) research between now and 10am, but otherwise… I think I’m just about done with my first semester. Whoop. ‘Things I learned’ [...]

Filed in law, personal, school | | Comments (8) »

Finally I understand.

14-Dec-06

This is how law school exams are graded.
(And yes, I finished Torts today, no thanks to all the way-too-literal engineering friends who sent me links like this one. Only Civ Pro to go.)

Filed in forfacebook, law, school | | Comments (2) »

(insert primal scream here)

08-Dec-06

First exam done. Incredible weight off shoulders. Multiple choice much worse than I could have imagined (I’ll be thrilled if I got them 50% right); essay much better than I could have hoped. At least, that’s what I think now. I’ll let you know in January when I get the grades… in the meantime, a [...]

Filed in forfacebook, misc. | | Comments (8) »

quick thoughts on novell, blogs as journalism, etc.

05-Dec-06

On patents and public slander(?) of distros:

Urgh. I have some beef with Novell’s agreement with Microsoft, but I tried to make all my posts on the subject constructive and fact-based. (If I failed, let me know.) Unecessarily and/or unjustly demonizing one of our largest contributors is damaging and counterproductive- it makes the people within Novell [...]

Filed in licensing, misc., personal, software | | Comments (9) »

Good news, bad news: abiword version

03-Dec-06

Good news: Filed an abiword bug, and was able to narrow down the source of the problem, giving steps to reproduce, creating a thesis about the source of the bug, and successfully testing the thesis, like a good bug filer should.
Bad news: A 1.5M, 143 page document is not really an ideal minimal testcase.
Worse news: [...]

Filed in school, software | | Comments (3) »