Archives for: February 2006
Feb
28
Judd and Me on CalTV
open source, chilling effects, politics, berkeley, research, policy, education, iSchool[Judd](http://www.technotaste.com/blog/) and myself are on [CalTV](http://thecaltvproject.com/) talking about the recent incident where Wikipedia started to block IP addresses from Capitol Hill due to bad-faith edits ([*"Wikipedia Traces Back ?Vandali… more »
Feb
28
CA Senator Bowen had a tasteless prank played on her the other day where someone played "inappropriate sounds" during a conference call with hundreds of activists ([*"Was it a prank, or something more?"*](http://www.debrabowen.com/blog/?p=18)). That so… more »
Feb
27
### 2006 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT '06)
#### August 1, 2006, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Join us in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August 1, 2006, for the first USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology (EVT) workshop. EVT… more »
Feb
24
I figured this would be a great picture of me to associate with my blog... straight out of the late 70s, born with a beer in my hand:
So, if you visit NQB2, you'll see the beach shot of me on the right replaced with this.
##### Um, of course i… more »
Feb
24
Shout out to my sister, Tracie, who is doing much good as part of the [King County Explorer Search and Rescue](http://www.kcesar.org/). Here's some recent press: [*"Training day turns into real-life rescue"*](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/local… more »
Feb
22
Macs and external FireWire hard drives can be strange. Sometimes the drive just doesn't show up.
Here's a trick [I found](http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/macosx10_4_4/topic3911.html) after some googling: If your FireWire drive and its part… more »
Feb
21
Man, I hate reverting edits in [Wikipedia] from people that mean well but add a bunch of unsubstantiated crap.
Thankfully, instead of simply reverting edits, I can add the following tag everywhere I think a statement needs a citation:
{{Fact… more »
Feb
21
Dave Schlossberg (now at [IODA]) has this piece, [*"The State of the iSchool: A response from an unarmed alum"*](http://www.themeat.org/rant/TheStateoftheiSchool.html), over at his rant-space, [the meat]. I'll post some comments after reading it at lun… more »
Feb
21
From [Ryan]... [DJ Mark Marcelo presents The Ignant Mix][1]. All the Hyphy you can handle and then some...
[1]: http://www.markmarcelo.com/ignantmix/
[Ryan]: http://sindikk.aeshin.org/ more »
Feb
20
Here's a quick refresher course from my Dad on tying ties. (Note: these illustrations are drawn as if you're looking in the mirror... so the left side of each illustration should be your left in the mirror.)
Windsor Knot
Ha… more »
Feb
20
[Doug] on [Paul Saffo] ([*"Paul Saffo: Professionally vapid"*](http://tygar.blogspot.com/2006/02/paul-saffo-professionally-vapid.html)):
> Now notice this about the quote ? his anecdotal evidence ? two high school students ? don?t support hi… more »
Feb
18
During yesterday's [ACCURATE] retreat we got to see what everyone was working on in their elections-related research. There was a lot of neat stuff, especially from David Wagner's group. Wagner's group (including [Ping], [David], [Arel], [Naveen] and [… more »
Feb
18
Follow Tim's directions here: [Getting rid of that pesky GTalk box in Gmail](http://www.thebishop.net/geodog/archives/2006/02/17/getting_rid_of_that_pesky_gtalk_box_in_gmail.html)... look down at the bottom of the page and there is a link for "standard… more »
Feb
18
So, I've grown very very fond of Mac OS X's negative mode (you can invert the screen colors on a Mac OS X system by hitting `Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-8`). However, it seems that one can get **too** used to it. Case in point: I gave a talk yesterday at the [ACCURA… more »
Feb
16
Interesting (via a Google AdSense ad, no less). In addition to efforts like mine, where I publish information about [cool shows](http://josephhall.org/shows.php), there's also this: . Apparently, Track50 will send you email ([if and only if](http://ww… more »
Feb
16
So I look up Vallejo rapper [Mac Dre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Dre) on Last.FM and see that they have an image of a different rapper, BavGate, instead of an image of him:
That made me realize just how few people in the bay area must use W… more »
Feb
16
So Google is trying its best to get all GMail users to also use the integrated Google Talk IM service. I made very sure that I don't use it as the last thing I want to loose control over is IM logs. However, last night I logged into GMail and saw this… more »
Feb
15
Michelle and I went to [Cafe de la Paz](http://www.cafedelapaz.net/) last night to see a very good flamenco show and eat a prix fixe meal (I had duck, she had salmon). It was a really neat experience and the food was good and refressing. We also drank… more »
Feb
13
1. Never give blood during a fraternity/sorority-sponsored blood drive. You'll wait for hours.
2. Never let someone who's only drawn blood a few times do it to you (ask, "How many times have you done this?"). Otherwise: more »
Feb
11
This is the second installment of *Tales from the Long Tail*, my podcast where I (try to) highlight good, obscure music. In this podcast, I play some very good bay-area rap from [Mac Dre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Dre), Mistah F.A.B., The Team a… more »
Feb
10
I'm here at [IODA](http://promonet.iodalliance.com/) testing their blog/podcast indie music promo tools!!!! Cool! Check it out... the below was generated by their software that will automatically do this:
Viva Zapata!
7 Year Bitch C/Z
Buy at iTu… more »
Feb
08
Today I testified at a hearing entitled, ["Open Source Software ? Does It Have A Place In California?s Electoral System?"](http://www.senate.ca.gov/ftp/SEN/COMMITTEE/STANDING/EL/_home/HearingAgendas/Agenda2-8-06.htm) held by the California State Sen… more »
Feb
02
So, it wasn't easy, but today I got conditional approval from [CISC](http://security.berkeley.edu/CISC/) to run a [Tor] server at the [iSchool]. (Yes, that last link is for Google.)
And, man, only a few of you know what I mean when I say "it wasn't e… more »
Feb
02
Do you think we'll start to see "orphan works trolls" that examine commercially successful orphan works (or their derivatives), try go find the copyright holders and get rights assigned and then sue so that they can make money? Hmmmmm...
[Joe Gratz]… more »
Feb
01
Help Ed and Alex [name their Sony Rootkit paper](http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=969). They want a song title that sums up the fiasco but in a non-inflammatory way (which, yes, means that the Talking Heads, *Burning Down The House*, is off limits. B… more »
Feb
01
We've changed our name from SIMS to UC Berkeley's School of Information... or iSchool for short. Check us out and our new web page: .
Let us know if you have any comments on the design, content, whatever! more »
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