Karl Auerbach, longtime ICANN critic, is speaking at the Perkins Coie Computer/Internet Law Roundtable on Wednesday, January 22. Topic: “Technology Frying Pans, Policy Fires: Internet and the Law – Past, Present and Future.” Lunch: Chinese food.
Month: January 2003
Shabbos Dinner at Flexie’s
When you eat a meal at Flexie’s, you think you’ve died and gone to heaven. No, Toto, this isn’t Kansas. It’s Los Angeles!
Psychoanalysis and the Palm Zire
I have some new insight on the Palm Zire I bought last week. As I was talking to my shrink today, I mentioned buying the Palm and not the PocketPC as an example of the “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” mantra. Au contraire, he countered, it’s actually the perfect example of not […]
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act upheld
The whole IP world is buzzing today about the Supreme Court decision regarding Eldred v. Ashcroft, upholding the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act as constitutional. Larry Lessig is understandably bummed out. So am I.
Rachel’s a hacker
My friend Rachel who likes rabbits, always wears red, and talks about weird diseases has become a hacker. She’s sportin’ some slick CSS on her blog and kickin’ around some phat SAS. Welcome to the club, Rach. It won’t be long before you’re coding PHP like the rest of us.
Happy Birthday from My Yahoo!
Marc Hedlund: Swearing Off (and at) My Yahoo My take: Mr. Grumpy-pants isn’t too happy about being a year older. Mikel’s take: “You shouldn’t be using your computer on your birthday anyway.”
Compaq Evo Notebook N610c
The Yahoo! IS department delivered a Compaq Evo N610c laptop to my desk today. My almost-3-year-old IBM Thinkpad 390X has been sent off to the place where All Good Laptops Go To Die. I had been schlepping the IBM 390X from LAX to SJC pretty much every week since fall of 2002. About 6 months […]
big@boss.com virus
I just got another email from big@boss.com which looks to me like a virus. This is the 3rd or 4th in a couple of days. So I went to both Symantec‘s and McAfee‘s anti-virus pages, and didn’t turn up anything. Then I tried a Yahoo! search for “big@boss.com virus”. Nothing. For kicks, I tried a […]
A leaner version of the Yahoo! homepage
There’s a mean, lean version of the Yahoo! homepage. If you pull up search.yahoo.com in a web browser, you’ll get a bare-bones page with no ads. It’s even got the nifty little trick to put the cursor in the search box. The total page weight (HTML + Images + JavaScript) comes in at 10.3K, which […]
=rand(2,5)
Reading the most recent copy of PC Magazine, I stumbled across an article called Generating Dummy Text in Word. I gave it a shot this morning, and sure enough, it worked: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over […]