I have to say it is pretty easy to fall in love with this place, especially on days like yesterday when it is clear and not too hot but not too cold- spent most of the day in a park relaxing at the birthday party of a friend of a friend.
dolores park by Beth Rankin. [...]
things I would not have believed if you told me ten years ago: that the most influential TV show for my demographic would be a Comedy Central news show parodying a Fox News anchor; that my old boss would be on this show; and that while doing it he’d quintuple the downloads of Netscape.
Assuming friendly wireless, power, etc., I’ll be microblogging (not at twitter) today’s Creative Commons Technology Summit. We’ll see how that goes.
Given that virtually all journal articles are published on SSRN, and read and discussed, before they hit actual journals, could journals seek to substantially shorten the amount of time between submission and publication, so that authors feel that journals are active contributors while the article is ‘hot’, rather than feeling that they are the finishing [...]
I’d contribute to the decadence discussion, except I think I’ve already said what needed to be said three years ago and a year and a half ago and again.
I will, though, point to this (and other posts that month) and then urge people to look at this if they want to talk about new features.
I’ve driven 700 miles since Thursday and have a pretty great tan (or maybe bad sunburn- we’ll see) to show for it. No computer, though, so pretty out of touch with the world. Hope to be back on track by Wednesday.
(Relatedly: I am not on IM during the workday, but my laptop is connected to [...]
blogger discussing how his lawyer used the Open Document Format instead of .doc:
The type of documents they produce in that [law] office, as in many other offices if not most I’m sure, is just pure text with a little formatting. They really have no reason to keep buying licenses for MS Office for this.
Now, [...]
Yet again I can’t attend OSCON, but for the first time, I’m going to at least be on the right coast, so I’ll be attending the FLOSS Foundations pre-OSCON meeting during the weekend before. I’m psyched to meet more people who I’ve shared a mailing list with for a long time, and to see old [...]
I’ve always been sort of morbidly fascinated by ExamSoft and SofTest, the combination of software products that, in theory, keep us from cheating during law school exams. There are a whole lot of things wrong with it (buggy, elevates books over computers, etc.), but probably the most irritating to me has always been the assumption [...]
