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Writing from 2005

277 posts

  1. Shame on Mass Surveillance

  2. Working with people...

  3. The Afghan Music Project

  4. AppleCare Rocks

  5. A very rough way to judge classroom blog participation...

  6. NYT: Military's Information War Is Vast and Often Secretive

  7. A note on citing Wikipedia...

  8. Freaky computer woes...

  9. New paper on ballot design...

  10. Voting System Information Database

  11. Cool Voting Machine on eBay...

  12. Anarchism and Open Source...

  13. FireFox 1.5, good

  14. Make old extensions work with new FireFox

  15. Recent Shows...

  16. Getting perl's DBD::mysql module to install on Mac OS X

  17. Classic Pumpkin Pie

  18. New Orleans

  19. NOLA

  20. Google Print and ungood commentators

  21. AB 369 in California

  22. Our SoS responds, technologically, to criticism...

  23. Converting strings to titlecase in perl

  24. The purrrrrrrfect bird...

  25. Alamdea County Voting Machine Demos

  26. Copy protection infringing copyright?

  27. More on voting glitches from Tuesday...

  28. SIMS now has a Wikipedia page

  29. Mitch Kapor speaks at SIMS

  30. Arnold hits a voting glitch

  31. Technorati breaks into mainstream media?

  32. We might not need totally secret ballot...

  33. DRM can kill...

  34. Jimmy Wales' talk at SIMS

  35. Changing text encoding in emacs...

  36. Avi's new book...

  37. Danzig O' Lantern

  38. Shows page back up...

  39. Sony's got balls...

  40. Forbes barfs on blogging

  41. Electronic Voting in Brazil and Argentina

  42. recent shows... the Gossip, Bauhaus

  43. Care for your absentee ballot...

  44. More coverage on GAO report...

  45. GAO e-voting report

  46. Berkeley Information Technology Review Committee

  47. "History of Voting Systems in California" by Ed Arnold

  48. Prefacing lines in emacs...

  49. What if...

  50. Documents surface in NC with Diebold and Gaston Co.

  51. Mmmmm Blueberry Muffins

  52. ACCURATE's comments to the EAC on 2005 VVSG

  53. Report from “Making a Business on Free Software”

  54. Top or Bottom?

  55. Birthday present to Dad...

  56. Pics of Rita Remanents in West Texas

  57. The clownside of soapbox-ism

  58. Need to get a paper accepted... cite the reviewers!

  59. Creating release notes from CVS logs...

  60. EML moves in the direction of an ISO standard...

  61. at NIST workshop...

  62. Hacking to make a point...

  63. Wow. Hacker Court

  64. Firefox 1.0.6, bad

  65. Way meta...

  66. Send me S/MIME encrypted email...

  67. Ah, Security

  68. Stewart on Cheney...

  69. My Orphan Work Comment in the SF Guardian

  70. ACCURATE web site launch

  71. Microphones can record keystrokes

  72. How to do a hard reset on the Jabra BT250v

  73. Illinois opens voting system testing information

  74. Was Robertson's Chavez threat criminal?

  75. Google IM [...It works already!]

  76. Niyazov bans recorded music in Turkmenistan

  77. Executing PHP in Perl just got easier...

  78. ESI to test voting machines...

  79. I learned something today...

  80. Licensing Woes...

  81. Atty letter (on behalf of no one) claims AutoMARK is not accessible...

  82. Desperate need for PHP programmers at VerifiedVoting

  83. Announcing the ACCURATE center

  84. Announcing ACCURATE

  85. the fam

  86. Google gets a bit closer to evil...

  87. Modest Mouse Lyris for Lives

  88. Weber on Iraq

  89. You may soon need a BS in CS to code software...

  90. The Automark is accessible... no matter what Jim Dixon says

  91. Diebold Election Systems in the news in CA and FL...

  92. We have a tenth planet...

  93. I'm a blogging slacker...

  94. Congrats to the Van Houwelings

  95. MSN Virtual Earth and Cal...

  96. Keep RFIDs out of CA state IDs...

  97. Back in space...

  98. A strange circle of connection...

  99. Slyck News - Difficult time for EZTV

  100. A new way to read bloglines feeds...

  101. EFF15: Freedom fighting created my career

  102. Bare Licenses vs. License Agreements on the IP List

  103. Running again...

  104. Praise for Markdown...

  105. The height of pizza nerdery...

  106. IE and CSS

  107. Yahoo Research Labs Berkeley

  108. Which evil nation state are you? (similes for Microsoft, Yahoo and Google)

  109. Bloglines sucks II

  110. How to turn off the display of b2evolution's massive antispam table

  111. Death by Doll

  112. Courseware Lite?

  113. WiFi on East Bay buses?

  114. Seen in IM today...

  115. DJ Ripley and Kid Kameleon at the Elbo Room...

  116. Reading SethF...

  117. Pam Samuelson: "Did MGM Really Win the Grokster Case?"

  118. Astrologer suing NASA for hitting comet with spacecraft

  119. Photos from Where 2.0 and Oakland...

  120. Chris Hall's Barbecue Sauce

  121. Preparing for battle...

  122. No p2p setbacks in Taiwan...

  123. Best pizza in the East Bay...

  124. Mary on what to do in an era of Grokster...

  125. Yahoo local's yahoos...

  126. Design communications that leave no trace?

  127. A lesson in allegorical discretion from Kathleen...

  128. At where 2.0... (well not all of it, due to the EAC)

  129. Take a quick blog survey...

  130. Grokster reversed and remanded...

  131. Crappy NYT editorial on Grokster...

  132. My comments to the CA SoS's request on AVVPAT regulations...

  133. MobBlog for Grokster...

  134. RSS feed of U.S. Supreme Court slip opinions...

  135. Device interoperability for digital music is illegal in the UK...

  136. Grokster could be announced on a Thursday...

  137. Video of re-examination of the Unilect Patriot voting system...

  138. Computing in bright environments with a Mac...

  139. Amazon labeling CDs as "Copy Protected"?

  140. Losing patience with Bloglines... it's starting to suck!

  141. Favorite Podcasts...

  142. The opposite of fill-paragraph in Emacs...

  143. Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.1 for PCs leaked...

  144. PlaceSite in NYT

  145. Lots going on at NASA...

  146. Independent Label Trade Group

  147. Flaky web services...

  148. The last Peel session...

  149. Privacy leakage via Netflix...

  150. Veronica Lipgloss, Glass Candy and the Man with the Screaming Brain

  151. NQB2 on the move! (Or "How to move a b2evo blog")

  152. Tales from the Long Tail... (No. 1)

  153. People voting twice...

  154. Upgrading to Tiger...

  155. Worst... travel experience... ever

  156. Panama's problems with Social Security reform...

  157. It's an exodus, y'all...

  158. Moral compass?

  159. Macrovision patents hacking...

  160. A change in name...

  161. Off to SSAW

  162. Dual Photography

  163. Chocolate cake...

  164. A crazy flower...

  165. Another change to NQB2 feeds...

  166. An example of what to do when Apple breaks things...

  167. GPL'd audio editing software for the Mac... Audacity

  168. Doug on GMail...

  169. On netiquette

  170. Women you should be reading...

  171. NQB2 podcast 02 - Hella, Fantômas and Hasil Adkins

  172. Hasil Adkins dead at 68

  173. Is eMusic selling customer data? No.

  174. PlaceSite @ A Cuppa Tea

  175. A XML powered syllabus viewer

  176. Disable comments on historical posts in Wordpress via MySQL

  177. Using a Makefile to make LaTeX more usable...

  178. Can optical scan ballots hold as many races as punch cards?

  179. Percent (%) sign inserted into URLs using LaTeX's url package

  180. DeForest Soaries resigns

  181. Slight changes to NQB2 feeds...

  182. Another Berkeley laptop theft... with video!

  183. Clean Firefox upgrades

  184. My blog got cracked

  185. QOTSA at The Fillmore in San Francisco Saturday...

  186. UC Berkeley Strike... April 14, 2005

  187. Way cool tee...

  188. President Bush knows the Darknet

  189. SSAW2 panel and paper...

  190. Bay Area Law School Technology Conference, 2005

  191. All your base (stations) belong to U.S.

  192. Transcript of MGM v. Grokster

  193. Disable pre-fetching in Firefox

  194. When diverse parties openly deliver digital information...

  195. PHP Markdown 1.0.2b2

  196. Cherry Owens' Ode to Prednisone

  197. Misogynistic sphaghetti western song...

  198. Redaction gone bad...

  199. Orphan Works Initial Comments

  200. The skinny on Grokster oral arguments...

  201. Thurston Moore on Sharing...

  202. Getting Palm's HotSync to work after getting a new Mac...

  203. DIY laptop wrist rests...

  204. Jeez and oof

  205. McCormack Hit Job Video on VVPAT

  206. Cognitive Disabilities and Voting

  207. Don Jon

  208. Cease-and-deshit another bogus C&D

  209. Using Full Keyboard Access on Mac OS X

  210. mREPLAY allows for mobile replay at an event

  211. 0 my g0d. teh AOL r stealing our pr1v4cy!1!!

  212. New blog on usable security...

  213. Problems in Maryland Just Now Surfacing?

  214. NYT: White House Approves Pass for Blogger

  215. How will Supremes decide MGM v. Grokster?

  216. Fast Fraud

  217. Martin Denny, 93, Dies; Maestro of Tiki Sound

  218. A Law of Daves?

  219. My Mac is sick... sort of (loose AirPort Card)

  220. Evidence of Cosmic Strings Found?

  221. Highlights from Computer Scientists' Brief in Grokster

  222. MGM v. Grokster briefs in support of affirmance

  223. EFF posts The Betamax Case archive...

  224. On Teaching Titilation

  225. Classic Grokster Quote

  226. New paper on the poisioning and pollution of P2P networks

  227. Googling old friends...

  228. Comment on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trailer

  229. Search Engine Hits to NQB 2.0

  230. Discourse.net: If You Use Firefox You Need To Read This

  231. Firefox Searchbar for Google Maps

  232. MythTV Torrents

  233. The emulsion of politics and election administration...

  234. My russian friend the pirate...

  235. Is the shuffling algo for iPod random?

  236. AskJeeves purchases Bloglines

  237. A Heart Filled Reaction To Dissatisfaction

  238. Tokaji: Florida Non-Votes with New Equipment

  239. Peer Impact to go live...

  240. Trouble installing WPBlacklist 2.8...

  241. Aunt Cathy's Waffles

  242. zestyping: What's wrong with this picture?

  243. Voting System Performance Rating Launch

  244. TEST of 'p-numeral' bug

  245. eviL dead Live

  246. Wendy: Building our own PVRs

  247. NQB has a slight NQBug...

  248. Non-controversial P2P: Aliens, Proteins and Atmospheric Models

  249. Breaking News: Vote Fraud in Clement County, OH?

  250. A Letter From My ISP, Sonic.net

  251. KDFC Music News: Bill Gates Invades the Opera in Boston

  252. Grokster Briefs on the Merits...

  253. Try Unsubscribing from State Department Email Lists...

  254. `nofollow` for b2evolution...

  255. RSS feed for MGM v. Grokster

  256. The Challenge of P2P Blog...

  257. Happy slappers

  258. A mess o' dorks...

  259. Methane rain "on the rocks"...

  260. Thoughts on VSDA's brief in MGM v. Grokster...

  261. Some good news...

  262. Huygens coverage stinks... where the real data is.

  263. Bad Clearance Sale Merchandise...

  264. EFF: Sham Recount Process on Diebold E-voting Machines

  265. Who Supports Spyware?

  266. More on Huygens Descent

  267. Classic Pizza Dough

  268. Elgato

  269. Caitlin and Roger are "Missing" in Thailand

  270. Trade Secrets and the "Cherokee Nation Open Source License"? Yeah, right...

  271. Displaying Recently Played Tracks on Blogs

  272. EMIGRATE vs. IMMIGRATE

  273. CD Sales GROWTH in 2004!

  274. Copyrighting Cease and Desist Letters?

  275. What do you believe that you cannot (yet) prove?

  276. A Solution for Messy Cables?

  277. A Quick Cinnamon Roll Recipe Using Pizza Dough