Monthly Archives: January 2006

I still love del.icio.us, but the links were a bit much

You might have noticed that for a while there I had my new del.icio.us links automagically appearing here every day as posts (at least on days where I created new links). This makes use of a spiffy tool that del.icio.us now provides to automagically generate posts from your recent links. I really liked the idea [...]
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Random bits on intellectual property

A few interesting bits on the intersection of tech and intellectual property have popped up on my radar in the last day or two: Courtesy of Alex Jarvis, this article on the MPAA being caught pirating a DVD. Their defense is apparently because it was important for their employees to be aware of the contents [...]
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Where have the “real” conservatives all gone?

Arne Kildegaard and I are using Lawrence Lessig’s Free culture as one of the texts in our Open Source/Network Economics course this semester. Last time (two years ago), we used his Future of ideas, which worked out quite nicely, so I’m optimistic about Free culture. (It’s also cool because it’s freely available on-line under a [...]
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links for 2006-01-19

JUnit-addons A cool set of JUnit extensions with a nice set of utility methods and classes to check for correct implementation of methods such as equals and compareTo. (tags: java programming tdd test testing tools unittest junit) Scout: Find your photographs in Flickr’s Explore A cool tool that searches through the Flickr DBs and finds [...]
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links for 2006-01-18

NeoOffice Home A very nice open source office package for Mac OS X; essentially a repackaging of OpenOffice for Macs. (tags: apple editor java mac OSS osx presentation software office openSource openoffice UMM:IS3221) Writing Strategies An interesting study of different academic writing strategies. I definitely lean towards the oil painting strategy myself. (tags: creativity productivity [...]
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links for 2006-01-17

A Glass Box [Ryan Scadlock's web site] Ryan’s got his philosophy senior defense paper here, and I need to read that before his defense, 26 Jan 2006. (tags: blog philosophy computerScience) No tag for this post. Related posts No related posts.
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1500 messages have been blocked

For various and strange reasons I had to go poking around in the e-mail filter settings for my U of M e-mail account. In the process I discovered that 1,500 (!) messages have been blocked in the last two weeks alone. Add to that the 53 that Thunderbird decided were spam and autofiltered, the 155 [...]
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What other people liked in 2005

Since I shared some recent shots from Flickr by others that I was particularly fond of, I thought I’d also share some of my own work that people on Flickr liked in 2005. The mosaic above is 20 of my most favorited (on Flickr) images that were taken in 2005. I have a ton with [...]
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links for 2006-01-16

Why collaborate with Open Source tools. Get Real: Stowe Boyd’s Soapbox An interesting article based on the chief WordPress developer. (tags: UMM:IS3221 cms opensource wordPress blogging projectmanagement programming productivity) Once More unto the Breach: Irony, OpenOffice, Open Source, Shared Source, and Microsoft Office (and Standards!) A very interesting piece on open source and open standards. [...]
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Recent Flickr faves, 15 Jan 2006

I’m up to my ears in a conference submission deadline that’s bearing down upon us and the fact that classes resume on Tuesday and some pressing committee work, so posting ought to be thin for a bit. In the meantime you may amuse yourself with collection of the last 36 images (by other people) that [...]
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