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2014

Updating Bulk Data in CourtListener…Again Can You Do it Faster? Thu 06 November 2014

Some Thoughts on Celery A love-hate relationship Sat 01 November 2014

Creating a Non-Profit An incantation to make California and the IRS grant your organization tax exempt status Tue 14 October 2014

In Re NSL Under Seal v. Holder Wed 08 October 2014

Editing a File on Github A Non-Technical Explainer Mon 06 October 2014

Updating Bulk Data in CourtListener Bulk Data Can Be Hard Sun 28 September 2014

New Version of the Site is Now Live Better, Faster, Stronger Wed 27 August 2014

Reworking the CourtListener Datamodel Work, iterate, work, iterate… Wed 18 June 2014

2013

Our New Zealand Blog Wed 27 November 2013

Snow Mountain Distance Map Tue 27 August 2013

Best Energy Pack for Ultra-light, Long-Distance Backpacking Spoiler: It's the Just Mobile Gum++ Fri 19 July 2013

New Tool to Remove Dead Feeds from OPML Files Fri 28 June 2013

Desolation Wilderness Mon 17 June 2013

How to help end Boy Scouts of America’s ban on gays Fri 19 April 2013

So you wanna buy a bike Tue 05 February 2013

Enabling Two-Factor Authentication Sat 02 February 2013

2013 Donations Fri 04 January 2013

2012

Year in Review: Travel Edition Mon 31 December 2012

Setting up etherpad with postgres on Windows Thu 27 December 2012

Presentation on Juriscraper and CourtListener for LVI2012 Tue 09 October 2012

Calculating the average elevation of a trip using a TCX file Sun 16 September 2012

URL Hacking at REI.com Tue 31 July 2012

New tool for testing lxml XPath queries Sun 20 May 2012

Further privacy protections at CourtListener Fri 27 April 2012

My Presentation Proposal for LVI 2012 Thu 15 March 2012

Adding New Fonts to Tesseract 3 OCR Engine Sat 11 February 2012

The Winning Font in Court Opinions Fri 27 January 2012

Support for x-robots-tag and robots HTML meta tag Tue 24 January 2012

Respecting privacy while providing hundreds of thousands of public documents Mon 16 January 2012

Android Icons from Ice Cream Sandwich Thu 12 January 2012

2011

Integrating Solr Search with Django at CourtListener Fri 02 December 2011

Tripling Down Thu 27 October 2011

The abolishment of the Emergency Court of Appeals (April 18, 1962) Wed 10 August 2011

Project Idea: “Programming library for curse words” Sun 13 March 2011

Viewsonic Drivers, Repair and Service Manuals Sun 20 February 2011

Firefox images and icons Sun 20 February 2011

2011 Donations Sat 22 January 2011

2010

Changes and Plans at CourtListener.com Thu 04 November 2010

Swimlane Diagram Generator Written in XSLT Mon 06 September 2010

Using Pylint in Geany Wed 11 August 2010

Project Idea: “Community-Curated Data Repository” Mon 02 August 2010

Haiku Mon 02 August 2010

Lecturing at UC Berkeley Fri 30 July 2010

The eBook Wars Continue, but The Gravy Train Hasn’t Arrived Sat 24 July 2010

Project Idea: “User contribution aggregator” Mon 28 June 2010

Project Idea: “Bug Trackers for Cities.” Tue 22 June 2010

Project Idea: “Breaking the Cycle: Isolating Easy Solutions to the Bike Theft Problem” Tue 15 June 2010

Announcing CourtListener.com Sat 01 May 2010

In consideration of Apple Sat 01 May 2010

How to Recover a Broken Drupal Install Resulting from a Full Hard Drive Mon 26 April 2010

Berkman Broadband Study Mon 15 March 2010

Designing the Final Project Sat 13 March 2010

Exploratory Analysis of Service Recipients of the Contra Costa County Community Services Bureau Fri 26 February 2010

Using Revision Control on a Django Project Without Revealing Your Passwords Wed 24 February 2010

Converting PDF Files to HTML Sat 06 February 2010

With Howard Zinn’s Death, We All Suffer a Little Wed 27 January 2010

New Server! Tue 26 January 2010

How to Protect Your Open Source Code from Theft and a Mercurial Hook to Help Fri 15 January 2010

2010 Donations Tue 12 January 2010

2009

Cheap Metal Bike Stand Tue 29 December 2009

Script to Rid Thyself of Autocomplete = Off in Firefox Tue 15 December 2009

Some Legal Gems Sat 12 December 2009

More Security Papers: Breaking ReCAPTCHA and Proactive Methods for Secure Design Sat 12 December 2009

Technology Revolution and the Fourth Amendment Tue 08 December 2009

Analyzing Facebook’s Security Mechanisms Sun 15 November 2009

Testing Deletion Speed of Online Photo Sites Sat 14 November 2009

Rid Thyself of Autocomplete=Off in Firefox Wed 28 October 2009

Script to Clean Up F-Spot Database Wed 14 October 2009

Fix Duplicate Thunderbird Address Book Contacts Fri 09 October 2009

Jacobsen v. Katzer Article Posted Sat 03 October 2009

Google Resonds to the Twitter Attack Fri 02 October 2009

Economics of Securing Government Information Systems: A Case Study Sat 12 September 2009

Firefox Extension Fixes Wed 09 September 2009

Rethinking Facebook Privacy Settings Mon 17 August 2009

Firefox Modifications for Maximal Screen Real Estate and Usability Wed 12 August 2009

Making Prey of Computer Thieves Sat 25 July 2009

A Fresh Install of Vista on an HP Laptop Thu 23 July 2009

Gnome-Do is Pretty Damned Impressive Wed 22 July 2009

The Contents of My First Aid Kit Fri 17 July 2009

Impossibility of Complete Privacy Tue 14 July 2009

Japan Pictures Posted, and a Sampling Sun 28 June 2009

Every Now and Again, I Rant About iPods This is One of Those Times… Sun 24 May 2009

The Difficulties of Managing Online Estates Still unsolved Fri 15 May 2009

Final Paper on Online Memorialization by Default Wed 13 May 2009

This was Supposed to be My Patent Or, LG, Please Build This Already Wed 13 May 2009

Final Project from Interface Aesthetics Class Thu 07 May 2009

Papa’s Got a Brand New Look Sun 26 April 2009

Quiet Friday News About CIA Interrogation Techniques Fri 17 April 2009

Who Is Entitled to Grieve and Why Mon 13 April 2009

A Real Problem You Should Fix. Now. Sun 12 April 2009

A Python Function to Verify Twitter Credentials Fri 03 April 2009

An Analysis of FTC Behavioral Advertising and an End of Semester Countdown Thu 02 April 2009

Privatizing the Twitter API Feed Fri 20 March 2009

Zeran v. AOL Paper Posted Wed 18 March 2009

Installing Tracker from Source Mon 23 February 2009

Snow Camping in Sequoia Fri 20 February 2009

Location Based DNS Switching For Internet vs. Intranet Thu 19 February 2009

Thoreau Would Have Found This Amusing…or not Fri 13 February 2009

The Latest Books and Classes Sun 01 February 2009

Twitter (and Facebook) Integrated Sun 25 January 2009

Confused About Obama Fri 23 January 2009

The Interactions of Law and Code Thu 22 January 2009

Working with matplotlib and pycairo Mon 19 January 2009

Final Papers on Metrics of Sustainability Class Tue 13 January 2009

Guantanamo to Close, But They’re Just Moving the Prisoners Mon 12 January 2009

Final Papers on Music Jukebox Wed 07 January 2009

Research Idea – The Age of the Internet Mon 05 January 2009

2008

Meyer Lissner Was Famous (Go Figure) Wed 31 December 2008

Dear Mr. Gore Mon 29 December 2008

Food Choices All the food that's fit to eat Mon 29 December 2008

Yelp Scraper to Get Business Info in a Geographic Area Sun 21 December 2008

Cheney is so shady, it pisses me off. Fri 19 December 2008

Dear God, This is a Terrible Interface Sat 13 December 2008

Rsnapshot Backup Solution OR Why Backing Up Is Hard To Do Tue 09 December 2008

We Knew It Existed - The Official Definition of The Internet Sun 07 December 2008

To Be Silent is To Lie Fri 05 December 2008

It’s OK to Advertise the Holdiays Now… Tue 02 December 2008

Rebuilding the 9th Ward in New Orleans Sun 30 November 2008

Civic Frustration Sun 23 November 2008

A Music Cost Inventory Sat 22 November 2008

Mr. Rogers on the Usage of VCRs Sat 22 November 2008

More Details On Fire Last Night Fri 14 November 2008

Car Arson Across The Street From My House Fri 14 November 2008

Our Poor Great Grandparents Tue 11 November 2008

Misdirected Energies Fri 31 October 2008

Excess Elections Spending Wed 29 October 2008

Maps We Really Need to Use More Tue 21 October 2008

Yahoo! Drives Me Nuts Tue 21 October 2008

Change the Default Print to File To PDF in Ubuntu Hardy Heron Sun 19 October 2008

A Script to Kill Evolution Mon 13 October 2008

Radar Analysis Charts: Fun, Trendy, BAD! Wed 08 October 2008

Music Stats Wed 08 October 2008

Piracy “Costs” Wed 08 October 2008

The Argument for Encryption, and Why Vista Is Irresponsible Fri 26 September 2008

On Airport Security and Knives Mon 22 September 2008

Quick Update on my Prostate Wed 17 September 2008

There’s a Lesson About Yahoo! Security I Learned from Palin Today Wed 17 September 2008

Delete Original Images from F-Spot and Rotate Using Exif Information Mon 15 September 2008

On DRM and the Darknet Mon 15 September 2008

I Am Me, Dammit! Mon 15 September 2008

Why Online Booksellers do so Damned Well Sat 13 September 2008

Peru Pictures Posted…Finally! Sun 07 September 2008

Crime in my hood in the last 90 days Fri 05 September 2008

Sarah Palin - Worst candidate of all time? Fri 05 September 2008

Linux Tip - Route Standard Output Into to the Clipboard Thu 28 August 2008

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes Mon 25 August 2008

Update from Peru Wed 13 August 2008

Sewing and Peru Sun 03 August 2008

Stop Getting Catalogs Mon 28 July 2008

Ubuntu Disk Usage Analyzer Sun 27 July 2008

Moving and Updating Drupal Thu 24 July 2008

I Just Heard About This Sat 19 July 2008

While Cleaning the Block Sat 19 July 2008

My Linux Story Thu 17 July 2008

Wake Your Computer by USB Mon 14 July 2008

The Facts are In - Ars Technica Rocks Sun 13 July 2008

Log Your Friend Out of Gmail Fri 04 July 2008

No wonder I’m losing money right now… Wed 02 July 2008

My Eyeballs Wed 25 June 2008

Lessons from the Street Mon 23 June 2008

On Memories Thu 12 June 2008

Fiji Water Tries, Fails to Be Smart Tue 03 June 2008

Install Citrix In Ubuntu Hardy Heron Mon 02 June 2008

Create a List of Formulas from Excel Files Thu 22 May 2008

Dear Hillary Tue 20 May 2008

Drag a Screenshot Using ImageMagick Sat 17 May 2008

Meet My Enemy Thu 15 May 2008

Happy Mother’s Day, Decemberists Style Sun 11 May 2008

Eco-tip 5 - Stop Junk Mail Sun 04 May 2008

Remap Caps Lock as Backspace in Windows and Linux Tue 29 April 2008

Bypass Form Protection in MS Word Fri 18 April 2008

The Vision Tue 15 April 2008

The Mission: Results Tue 15 April 2008

Something New…and Some Updates Tue 01 April 2008

A Decision Has Been Made This guy is going to Cal! Sat 15 March 2008

The Mission Sat 15 March 2008

My Child Is NOT Catholic Dawkins Insists Sun 09 March 2008

Notes on Drupal Multisite Wed 05 March 2008

New Website - CharityHikers.org Wed 05 March 2008

Treasures of Old Websites Part II Tue 26 February 2008

Treasures of Old Websites Tue 26 February 2008

Went Solo Backpacking this Weekend Sun 24 February 2008

It’s Official. I’m Going to Grad School. Thu 21 February 2008

Yosemite Pictures Posted Tue 19 February 2008

Install Garmin Topo! in Linux Mon 11 February 2008

Federal Salaries Sun 10 February 2008

Tune Your Monitor. You’ll Like It. Sun 10 February 2008

Personal Music Collections Sat 02 February 2008

Bots be Damned! Fri 01 February 2008

GIS Training Fri 01 February 2008

Marvelous RSS, Marvelous Google Sun 27 January 2008

Amazon Has mp3’s! I Wish I Could Download Them… Tue 22 January 2008

New Theme Poll Mon 21 January 2008

Top Five Problems with Major American Elections Sun 20 January 2008

Howard Zinn on “The Use and Abuse of History” Sat 19 January 2008

Search Concept Tue 15 January 2008

Volunteering At Last! Linux for the masses? Sun 13 January 2008

Taxonomy Features Are Go Sun 13 January 2008

The incredible size of XP Thu 03 January 2008

Program Idea - Public Jukebox for Internet Cafes Wed 02 January 2008

2007

Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave Lyrics of power Sun 30 December 2007

Cool Research Tip - Bookmark to Date Websites Fri 28 December 2007

PCT Data Project - DONE Wed 12 December 2007

Pitzer College Murals Mon 10 December 2007

Eco-tip 4 - Hibernate vs. Suspend Fri 07 December 2007

The Prettiest Ratio and Google Fri 30 November 2007

Thanksgiving Pictures Posted Thu 29 November 2007

An Important Distinction Mon 26 November 2007

A Website that Irks My Soul, and the Internet’s Inability to Kill It Mon 19 November 2007

Eco-Tip 3 - Buy Locally, Buy Seasonally Mon 19 November 2007

By Decree of This Blog Fri 16 November 2007

The Pleasure of Making Goats Faint Mon 12 November 2007

Eco-Tip 2 - Think Long Term…Really Long Term. Tue 06 November 2007

The Great Temperature Data Project Thu 01 November 2007

Mashups Sun 28 October 2007

The Plan: One Environmental Tip Every Other Week Wed 24 October 2007

“Never Seen a Fire This Bad” Tue 23 October 2007

The New Computer and The Giveaway Pile Tue 23 October 2007

The $10,000 scam Wherein I take the bank's money with a 0% loan Tue 16 October 2007

The Singularity Is Near Fri 12 October 2007

Old Versions of Site are Up Sort of, Kinda Thu 11 October 2007

My Destiny To Have A Beard Wed 03 October 2007

A Boring Confession Sat 29 September 2007

Zimbra Done. Worth the Wait? Yes. Sat 29 September 2007

LoJack for Linux Part II Tue 25 September 2007

A Modest Miracle Mon 24 September 2007

LoJack for Linux Sun 23 September 2007

I want ogg on my iPod Sun 16 September 2007

Chronicals of installing Zimbra, OR If it looks awesome, it’s probably a pain to install. Fri 14 September 2007

Richard Stallman, Eccentric or Rather Well-Spoken? Wed 12 September 2007

This is it. Drupal systems are go. Wed 12 September 2007