[Am in Raleigh; getting a network connection has been a real PITA. Wrote this last night while unconnected from the network; more coming on The Red Hat Experience (tm) in due course. :)
A quick run-through (mostly for personal journaling purposes, but possibly of interest to others) of the books I read over my post-exam vacation [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2007
break reading
22-May-07last day in New York
13-May-07Managed to make the last day in New York pretty stereotypical:
wait 25 minutes for a bus that should come every 12: check
switch trains in order to save yourself a two-block walk, end up waiting 20 extra minutes: check
take a cab ride which makes you violently nauseous: check
go to a spectacularly beautiful Olmsted-ian park: check
go to [...]
[Not so much lazyweb as rushed/paniced/damnI'mtryingtopackandstillhaveatleastalittlecelebrationtonightweb...]
I’m trying to copy a large number of oggs from my HD to two vfat-formatted SDHC cards in my N800, mounted over USB. (16G worth of files, to be exact.) As far as I can tell, copying files with : in them (e.g., about 10% of my ogg files) to [...]
donedonedonedone
11-May-07Richard is so much more coherent than I can manage, I’m impressed.
Vikings: Done done done done…
Waitress: …done done done egg and done; done done done done done done baked beans done done done…
Vikings: Done! Lovely done! Lovely done!
Waitress: …or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and [...]
private journaling tool?
10-May-07Is there any decent local desktop journaling tool available for linux? I want to be able to, with a very minimal number of clicks, say ‘I just had this thought’, write it down, tag it, and easily find it later (say, at the end of a summer employment gig) so that I can review, edit, [...]
good, bad, ugly, part 20070508
09-May-07good: accepted to the staff of the Columbia STLR. Should be fun.
bad: criminal law exam. Will almost certainly be my worst grade of my first year barring a brutal curve, though property on Friday could give it a run for the money. Am going to need to do some serious post-mortem on this semester after [...]
packing!
07-May-07In between studying for crim law, I am starting to pack. Sort of sad - leaving Krissa when there is such an interesting city for us to explore is unfortunate - but mostly very exciting. I’m really looking forward to the challenge and to getting a peek inside Red Hat’s brain. And the week in [...]
Am currently re-skimming the People for the Eating of Tasty Animals case, which way back in 2001 transferred peta.org from People for the Eating of Tasty Animals to the real PETA.
I was curious to see if I could still find the Eating page. Turns out that if you google for ‘peta‘, the primary mirror for [...]
quick post on KSR v. Teleflex
01-May-07Because it is relevant to my Friday exam, I’m currently reading KSR v. Teleflex, one of the Supreme Court patent decisions which came out yesterday. It isn’t the best-written decision I’ve ever read, but the implications are fairly far-reaching for many important software patents.
The nutshell is this: the Supreme Court found that the Federal Circuit [...]
con law done, three to go
01-May-07Given how miserably unprepared I was for this exam two weeks ago, I feel like the exam went almost miraculously well. A B+ is unlikely but (shockingly) isn’t inconceivable, so I feel pretty good. (For reference, a B+ doesn’t sound that great, but all B+s with one A- will get you the lowest level of [...]