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Ramblings on law school in New York, free software, and the spaces in between.
By Luis Villa

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Last Entry: February 26, 2020 at 00:21:04

GNOME Mobile Stewardship Team

Posted on September 08, 2008
On behalf of the board, I just announced a new GNOME Mobile Stewardship Team on foundation-announce. I’m pleased with this announcement for a number of reasons. Primarily, I think it’ll help us get better focus and direction around GNOME Mobile, and obviously that is important...

Software Freedom Day event in New York City

Posted on September 07, 2008
James Vasile asked me to pass along that the Software Freedom Law Center is having a reception for Software Freedom Day. Details are at his blog (which is worth subscribing too- low volume, high value when something is said. (I’ll try to make it, but my brother will be in town, so… possibly not...

Deblois plays NYC!

Posted on September 04, 2008
My sister Deblois will be playing her acoustic-folk-blues-surf-rock in New York City on Friday and Saturday nights; details here or below the fold. (Some sample music here; buy here.) Krissa and I will be at both shows; let us know if you want to join us! Friday, September 5th, 2008 THE NATIONAL UNDERGROUND 7pm 159 E Houston NY NY [...

creative commons picture script request?

Posted on September 03, 2008
I’m doing a lot of slide show work of late, so I was wondering if any of my readers knew of an in-image equivalent of the gfwa script I use on the blog? Basically, I’d love to know of (or have written?) a script that, given an image, a license, attribution strings, etc...

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quick thought on blizzard?s thoughts on google chrome

Posted on September 01, 2008
“The fact that Google believes that they can launch a browser based on new technology means that the market is alive.” –Blizzard monopoly-e-commerce by Daniel Broche. License: It is a pretty bizarre “market” where the major participants are, in market share order: a repeatedly convicted monopolist that makes no money off its product in this market a non-profit [...

hands on a hard body online!

Posted on August 26, 2008
Apparently Hands on a Hard Body has been legally posted, in its entirety, to Google Video. (Wikipedia) You should really find a couple hours and watch it. On the surface the movie looks completely uninteresting- I was pretty much kicking and screaming when I was dragged into watching it...

openid plugin installed; couple diso links

Posted on August 25, 2008
I’ve finally installed the WP-openid plugin. Please email me if there are any problems with it; one hopes it works well at this point. WP-openid is nominally affiliated with diso. I’m curious to see where else diso goes from here- lots of interesting ideas there, and apparently now some corporate sponsorship, but not a whole lot [...

notes on ?the slacker?s guide to law school? by Juan Doria

Posted on August 25, 2008
Disclaimer: at some point my email address got added to a list of ‘people to email if you want to pimp your law-related product.’ Most of the solicitations I get that way I ignore, but every once in a while something looks interesting. This is one of them...

good keyboard bleg?

Posted on August 24, 2008
Anyone have any recommendations for good desktop keyboards with integrated pointing devices (preferably a ‘nipple’ aka ‘pointing stick’)? I really like my MS ergo keyboard, but hate having to move my hand to the mouse regularly...

seen at a party over the summer

Posted on August 23, 2008
Berkman@10: I’m with eon by Wendy Seltzer. License: It was worn at the party by Jimbo Wales. (You probably have to know eon, aka Charlie Nesson, to really appreciate it…)

gnome wishlist: one-click backup/restore?

Posted on August 10, 2008
Krissa’s hard drive is dying, beginning the unpleasant process of rsync dump + restore on the new hd. So- is there a one-click backup/restore tool for single-user machines, along the lines of the backup/restore experience in Time Machine. The Ubuntu folks were working on something along these lines but AFAIK there is no actual code [...

taking stock of the summer

Posted on August 09, 2008
If you’re ever in Istanbul, make it a point of getting dinner near the time of the last prayer call at the Golden Horn Hotel Sultanahmet. Bring your camera. A fragment of Uncle O’s surfboard. I’m back in New York, still taking stock of the (generally pretty awesome) summer...

enjoying having Krissa around again

Posted on August 02, 2008
Besides all the obvious reasons that I’m pleased to have Krissa around, it is always a real joy to hit a farmer’s market with her. We are well stocked for tomorrow. :) The San Francisco farmer’s market is a very different beast from the ones in New York- we don’t get citrus and rice (among many [...

istanbul

Posted on July 13, 2008
Great time; great conference; even pretty good board meetings. Came into the week convinced that hiring Stormy was a good idea; exited believing that hiring Stormy was an excellent idea. Krissa and I on the pillows in the restaurant in the alley behind our hotel...

dinners

Posted on July 07, 2008
Night one. Night two. So far, so good. Now, wish me luck finding the conference today… :)

GNOME Foundation hiring Stormy Peters

Posted on July 07, 2008
I’m excited to announce that, after a long search, the GNOME board has decided to hire Stormy Peters as executive director. Formal language press release, for those of you interested in such things, is here. If you want to discuss the Stormy hire (or just say ‘welcome’ :), take it to foundation-list...

contacting me in istanbul

Posted on July 06, 2008
During my istanbul stay, the best way to reliably reach me in a timely manner will be text message at +16172307951. Please include your name so i know who i am texting with :) My email access is spotty so far, and voice mail is hard/expensive to check...

10 years and excitedly counting

Posted on July 04, 2008
For some reason she volunteered to continue putting up with me… :)

san francisco, etc.

Posted on 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...

things I would not have believed if you told me ten years ago

Posted on 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’d quintuple the downloads of Netscape.

continued experiments in microblogging

Posted on June 18, 2008
Assuming friendly wireless, power, etc., I’ll be microblogging (not at twitter) today’s Creative Commons Technology Summit. We’ll see how that goes.

journaling in internet time?

Posted on 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 ‘hot’, rather than feeling that they are the finishing [...

decadence

Posted on June 11, 2008
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.

observation on my office and the dominance of Word

Posted on June 06, 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 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...

integrity in software and law school, strike 58104

Posted on June 04, 2008
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...

some SF photos, and experimentation with WP 2.5 gallery

Posted on May 26, 2008
Probably can’t quite use the Wordpress gallery full-time yet. In particular note the picture that is not rotated correctly, the lack of f-spot support, and some UI quirks. But I’d guess that within another wordpress release or two I’ll switch away from gallery after seven years...

Istanbul!

Posted on May 25, 2008
Istanbul Mosque at Sunset by David Dennis. License: Marked out of my Tracks TODO list: purchase tickets for Istanbul. Soooo psyched. (Pretty pleased about completing my first week at work too, but still a little too overwhelmed by that to actually write anything...

podcast recommendations?

Posted on May 21, 2008
I find myself with lots of podcast-appropriate car time1, and correspondingly my blog-reading time has cratered. And I was given an ipod on my first day of work.2 So… anyone have any recommendations for podcasts worth listening to? I’ll probably try to catch up on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum music podcasts, these boneheads,3 and [...

in san francisco

Posted on May 18, 2008
Spirals as eyes? by Brett L.. License: I have arrived in the south end of the Mission district in San Francisco, near Precita Park, and will be here (and/or near Menlo Park for work) until the beginning of August. Party invites for a housewarming will probably be going out soon for friends that I know [...

interesting research on ?conditional cooperation?

Posted on May 10, 2008
Interspecies cooperation by Barry Rogge. License: For those interested in some of my previous writings on intrinsic motivation, this survey paper by Simon G�chter may be of interest. Key sentence: [W]e find strong evidence that many people?s attitude toward voluntary cooperation is conditional on other people?s cooperation… Moreover, the fact that many people contribute more the more [...

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