Advogato blog for louieAdvogato blog for louiesan francisco, etc.- June 23, 2008 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. License: There were people in the park collecting petition signatures for (1) prostitution legalization and (2) naming the sewage treatment plant after George Bush. (Big Sort indeed.) I am still having problems getting used to the.http://www.advogato.org/person/louie/diary.html?start=485 things I would not have believed if you told me ten years ago- June 18, 2008 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&8217;d quintuple the downloads of Netscape.http://www.advogato.org/person/louie/diary.html?start=484 continued experiments in microblogging- June 18, 2008 Assuming friendly wireless, power, etc., I&8217;ll be microblogging today&8217;s Creative Commons Technology Summit at an open source microblogging provider who has asked that I not blog their URL yet. We&8217;ll see how that goes.http://www.advogato.org/person/louie/diary.html?start=483 journaling in internet time- June 14, 2008 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 &8216;hot&8217;, rather than feeling that they are the finishing polishers of an already-cooling project In particular, is journal work &8216;parallelizable&8217; In other words, if you put four...http://www.advogato.org/person/louie/diary.html?start=482 decadence- June 12, 2008 I&8217;d contribute to the decadence discussion, except I think I&8217;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.http://www.advogato.org/person/louie/diary.html?start=481 in case youve been trying to get in touch with me- June 9, 2008 I&8217;ve driven 700 miles since Thursday and have a pretty great tan (or maybe bad sunburn- we&8217;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 the network at home. So it looks like I&8217;m online but it is almost completely certain that I will not read them. Try email instead; unlikely I&8217;ll read it during the day but it is at least...http://www.advogato.org/person/louie/diary.html?start=480 observation on my office and the dominance of Word- June 6, 2008 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 Im sure, is just pure text with a little formatting. They really have no reason to keep buying licenses for MS Office for this. Now, disclaimer: this guy&8217;s law firm is different than my firm. He says it is basically three lawyers plus some assistants; the firm I&8217;m at this summer is around 1,000 lawyers with...http://www.advogato.org/person/louie/diary.html?start=479 attending FLOSS Foundations Conference pre-OSCON- June 4, 2008 Yet again I can&8217;t attend OSCON, but for the first time, I&8217;m going to at least be on the right coast, so I&8217;ll be attending the FLOSS Foundations pre-OSCON meeting during the weekend before. I&8217;m psyched to meet more people who I&8217;ve shared a mailing list with for a long time, and to see old friends too.http://www.advogato.org/person/louie/diary.html?start=478 integrity in software and law school, strike 58104- June 4, 2008 I&8217;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 that somehow using it meant that there was no cheating. This is silly- like all software not open to public inspection, I always assumed it would be easy to...http://www.advogato.org/person/louie/diary.html?start=477 |