Tonight I attended a talk by Eben Moglen titled “The Empire & the iPhone: ‘Technology Platforms,’ the Commons, and the Way We Live Now”, put on by the Information Law Institute Students Assocation at NYULS. They are hosting a Stallman talk on Wednesday; it is Krissa’s birthday so I won’t be attending that one.
The talk [...]
Thanks to the excellent InfoLaw NYC calendar, I just discovered that Prof. Moglen is speaking tonight at NYU Law School. The talk is titled “The Empire & the iPhone: ‘Technology Platforms,’ the Commons, and the Way We Live Now.” I’ll be going- hope to see folks there.
[Tangent: is there any way to get notifications when [...]
When I mentioned I was switching from epiphany to ffox, I mentioned that I thought that epiphany still offered a better basic user experience. A couple friends asked me to elaborate, so here is an unordered list of things gathered over several days:
printing dialog: ephy’s is native; ffox’s is not native in Ubuntu’s build, and [...]
… next time you’re brainstorming, try a party. Nifty. Now I just need to find something to brainstorm about. :)
[Aside: I wonder how many people say 'still hungover' to twitter on Saturday and Sunday mornings?]
3 people + 3 1/2 bottles of wine = a nice dinner.
Great career advice in only about 30 seconds.
Sigh. Never long enough. High points/low points:
Love my half-siblings, so much that I woke up c. 7am on my vacation to drive them to school.
Love my step-siblings, so much that I watched two hours of American Idol with them. (Was actually fun. Not sure I’d ever become a regular, but I won’t avoid Idol-watching parties [...]
I was cited in an article on testing tips this past week. Here is some cut and paste from the email I sent to the author (Joe Barr) when he asked me for tips; my email goes into more detail than he was able to put in his article so I thought it might be [...]
I left my laptop at home this week when I went on spring break, and used good old fashioned pen and paper for reading Con Law, and the N800 for everything else. Before I forget, a few notes:
if I could figure out how to get ogg support on this thing, I’d buy very large memory [...]
Next week is spring break, which is why I had time to cook and shop yesterday. I’ll be going to Miami, so I’ll be warm, but the theme for the week will be Con Law. Con Law. Also, more con law. Exciting, no?
I plan to do the work on paper, and for the first time [...]
