Just a comment for the increasingly small handful of people for whom this is the only means of contact with me ( Read more... )

Regular readers of the RSS feed for my journal entries (irregular readers should consider eating more fiber) are hereby informed that the RSS feed has been broken, through fault which is entirely LiveJournal's, for about four days. Actually, in the last month it seems to have been broken more often than not. This is the level of reliability and ( Read more... )

People who have columbina_rss in their regular LJ reading should note that, as far as I can tell, NO RSS-based LJ feeds have been working at all for some three days now.

That is all.

http://www.eccentricflower.com/Read more... )

In case you hadn't deduced from the silence, this journal's going essentially silent until I move off LJ onto a different system. Short answer: there's no good excuse for me to pay for my own site and not use it; it's time to use it again.

If you'd like to follow interim activity, I'm really putting a lot of interest into my Flickr account lately ( Read more... )

I can't believe I'm linking this, first off because it is in the odious Slate and second because it concerns a subset of geeks I dislike a great deal amid a subset of geeks I dislike a fair amount. (Got that? It's like the least favorite flea on the least favorite dog.)

However, while I may dislike Star Trek geeks, and the Klingon enthusiasts most ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure that this Burk Murray who is also this Burk Murray is also the Burk Murray I was reminded of a while ago today and went to dig out of the internet. I'm pretty sure, but I can't tell for certain, because neither Facebook nor Twitter will let me dig any deeper into their social networks without registering for them, and there will be ( Read more... )

Today is not going so well. Yesterday didn't go too well either.

Rather than rant about that, five pictures taken for the testing of Kawaii Very Smart Good Camera of Japan Friendship, starting here.

ETA: I have added a photo. It comes with a scavenger hunt.

Now this is the way to teach.

The unprintable Justice Scalia says, "I don't see why we need more online privacy protections."

A Fordham law professor says to his students, "OK, everybody see what you can find out about Scalia's personal life on the web and we'll make a dossier."

The class

turned in a 15-page dossier that included not only ( Read more... )

This is the best thing evar.

Unless, of course, you are one of those poor sad souls who doesn't like Muppets. Or Janis.