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Wed 27 November 2013Our New Zealand Blog
Tue 27 August 2013Snow Mountain Distance Map
Fri 19 July 2013Best Energy Pack for Ultra-light, Long-Distance Backpacking Spoiler: It's the Just Mobile Gum++
Mon 17 June 2013Desolation Wilderness
Fri 17 July 2009The Contents of My First Aid Kit
Fri 20 February 2009Snow Camping in Sequoia
Sun 24 February 2008Went Solo Backpacking this Weekend
Wed 12 December 2007PCT Data Project - DONE
Thu 01 November 2007The Great Temperature Data Project

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

Thu 07 May 2009Final Project from Interface Aesthetics Class
Sat 13 December 2008Dear God, This is a Terrible Interface
Sun 27 July 2008Ubuntu Disk Usage Analyzer
Fri 30 November 2007The Prettiest Ratio and Google

Economics & Business1

Sat 13 September 2008Why Online Booksellers do so Damned Well

Fri 13 February 2009Thoreau Would Have Found This Amusing…or not
Tue 13 January 2009Final Papers on Metrics of Sustainability Class
Mon 28 July 2008Stop Getting Catalogs
Sat 19 July 2008While Cleaning the Block
Tue 03 June 2008Fiji Water Tries, Fails to Be Smart
Sun 04 May 2008Eco-tip 5 - Stop Junk Mail
Fri 07 December 2007Eco-tip 4 - Hibernate vs. Suspend
Mon 19 November 2007Eco-Tip 3 - Buy Locally, Buy Seasonally
Tue 06 November 2007Eco-Tip 2 - Think Long Term…Really Long Term.
Wed 24 October 2007The Plan: One Environmental Tip Every Other Week

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

Information Visualization & Statistics3

Fri 26 February 2010Exploratory Analysis of Service Recipients of the Contra Costa County Community Services Bureau
Tue 21 October 2008Maps We Really Need to Use More
Wed 08 October 2008Radar Analysis Charts: Fun, Trendy, BAD!

Tue 29 December 2009Cheap Metal Bike Stand

Tue 05 February 2013So you wanna buy a bike
Sun 20 February 2011Viewsonic Drivers, Repair and Service Manuals
Mon 02 August 2010Haiku
Mon 29 December 2008Food Choices All the food that's fit to eat
Sun 03 August 2008Sewing and Peru
Sun 13 July 2008The Facts are In - Ars Technica Rocks
Tue 15 April 2008The Vision
Mon 12 November 2007The Pleasure of Making Goats Faint
Tue 23 October 2007“Never Seen a Fire This Bad”
Wed 12 September 2007Richard Stallman, Eccentric or Rather Well-Spoken?

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

Tue 11 November 2008Our Poor Great Grandparents
Wed 08 October 2008Music Stats
Sun 11 May 2008Happy Mother’s Day, Decemberists Style
Sat 02 February 2008Personal Music Collections
Sun 30 December 2007Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave Lyrics of power
Sun 16 September 2007I want ogg on my iPod

Fri 04 January 20132013 Donations
Mon 31 December 2012Year in Review: Travel Edition
Tue 09 October 2012Presentation on Juriscraper and CourtListener for LVI2012
Thu 27 October 2011Tripling Down
Sat 22 January 20112011 Donations
Fri 30 July 2010Lecturing at UC Berkeley
Tue 12 January 20102010 Donations
Wed 13 May 2009This was Supposed to be My Patent Or, LG, Please Build This Already
Sun 01 February 2009The Latest Books and Classes
Wed 31 December 2008Meyer Lissner Was Famous (Go Figure)
Sun 23 November 2008Civic Frustration
Fri 14 November 2008More Details On Fire Last Night
Fri 14 November 2008Car Arson Across The Street From My House
Wed 17 September 2008Quick Update on my Prostate
Fri 05 September 2008Crime in my hood in the last 90 days
Mon 25 August 2008Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
Wed 13 August 2008Update from Peru
Thu 17 July 2008My Linux Story
Wed 25 June 2008My Eyeballs
Tue 15 April 2008The Mission: Results
Tue 01 April 2008Something New…and Some Updates
Sat 15 March 2008A Decision Has Been Made This guy is going to Cal!
Sat 15 March 2008The Mission
Thu 21 February 2008It’s Official. I’m Going to Grad School.
Sat 19 January 2008Howard Zinn on “The Use and Abuse of History”
Sun 13 January 2008Volunteering At Last! Linux for the masses?
Mon 10 December 2007Pitzer College Murals
Fri 16 November 2007By Decree of This Blog
Tue 16 October 2007The $10,000 scam Wherein I take the bank's money with a 0% loan
Wed 03 October 2007My Destiny To Have A Beard
Sat 29 September 2007A Boring Confession
Mon 24 September 2007A Modest Miracle

Sun 28 June 2009Japan Pictures Posted, and a Sampling
Sun 07 September 2008Peru Pictures Posted…Finally!
Tue 19 February 2008Yosemite Pictures Posted
Thu 29 November 2007Thanksgiving Pictures Posted

Policy, Law & Politics41

Tue 14 October 2014Creating a Non-Profit An incantation to make California and the IRS grant your organization tax exempt status
Wed 08 October 2014In Re NSL Under Seal v. Holder
Fri 19 April 2013How to help end Boy Scouts of America’s ban on gays
Fri 27 April 2012Further privacy protections at CourtListener
Wed 10 August 2011The abolishment of the Emergency Court of Appeals (April 18, 1962)
Mon 02 August 2010Project Idea: “Community-Curated Data Repository”
Sat 24 July 2010The eBook Wars Continue, but The Gravy Train Hasn’t Arrived
Tue 22 June 2010Project Idea: “Bug Trackers for Cities.”
Mon 15 March 2010Berkman Broadband Study
Sat 12 December 2009Some Legal Gems
Tue 08 December 2009Technology Revolution and the Fourth Amendment
Sat 03 October 2009Jacobsen v. Katzer Article Posted
Tue 14 July 2009Impossibility of Complete Privacy
Fri 15 May 2009The Difficulties of Managing Online Estates Still unsolved
Wed 13 May 2009Final Paper on Online Memorialization by Default
Fri 17 April 2009Quiet Friday News About CIA Interrogation Techniques
Mon 13 April 2009Who Is Entitled to Grieve and Why
Thu 02 April 2009An Analysis of FTC Behavioral Advertising and an End of Semester Countdown
Wed 18 March 2009Zeran v. AOL Paper Posted
Fri 23 January 2009Confused About Obama
Thu 22 January 2009The Interactions of Law and Code
Mon 12 January 2009Guantanamo to Close, But They’re Just Moving the Prisoners
Mon 05 January 2009Research Idea – The Age of the Internet
Mon 29 December 2008Dear Mr. Gore
Fri 19 December 2008Cheney is so shady, it pisses me off.
Fri 05 December 2008To Be Silent is To Lie
Sun 30 November 2008Rebuilding the 9th Ward in New Orleans
Sat 22 November 2008A Music Cost Inventory
Sat 22 November 2008Mr. Rogers on the Usage of VCRs
Fri 31 October 2008Misdirected Energies
Wed 29 October 2008Excess Elections Spending
Wed 08 October 2008Piracy “Costs”
Fri 26 September 2008The Argument for Encryption, and Why Vista Is Irresponsible
Mon 15 September 2008On DRM and the Darknet
Fri 05 September 2008Sarah Palin - Worst candidate of all time?
Tue 20 May 2008Dear Hillary
Sun 09 March 2008My Child Is NOT Catholic Dawkins Insists
Sun 10 February 2008Federal Salaries
Sun 20 January 2008Top Five Problems with Major American Elections
Mon 19 November 2007A Website that Irks My Soul, and the Internet’s Inability to Kill It
Fri 12 October 2007The Singularity Is Near

Privacy & Security13

Sat 02 February 2013Enabling Two-Factor Authentication
Tue 31 July 2012URL Hacking at REI.com
Mon 16 January 2012Respecting privacy while providing hundreds of thousands of public documents
Sat 12 December 2009More Security Papers: Breaking ReCAPTCHA and Proactive Methods for Secure Design
Sun 15 November 2009Analyzing Facebook’s Security Mechanisms
Fri 02 October 2009Google Resonds to the Twitter Attack
Mon 17 August 2009Rethinking Facebook Privacy Settings
Sat 25 July 2009Making Prey of Computer Thieves
Sun 12 April 2009A Real Problem You Should Fix. Now.
Mon 22 September 2008On Airport Security and Knives
Wed 17 September 2008There’s a Lesson About Yahoo! Security I Learned from Palin Today
Mon 15 September 2008I Am Me, Dammit!
Fri 18 April 2008Bypass Form Protection in MS Word

Sun 24 May 2009Every Now and Again, I Rant About iPods This is One of Those Times…
Tue 02 December 2008It’s OK to Advertise the Holdiays Now…
Sat 19 July 2008I Just Heard About This
Mon 23 June 2008Lessons from the Street
Thu 15 May 2008Meet My Enemy
Tue 22 January 2008Amazon Has mp3’s! I Wish I Could Download Them…
Mon 26 November 2007An Important Distinction

Thu 12 June 2008On Memories

Thu 06 November 2014Updating Bulk Data in CourtListener…Again Can You Do it Faster?
Sat 01 November 2014Some Thoughts on Celery A love-hate relationship
Mon 06 October 2014Editing a File on Github A Non-Technical Explainer
Sun 28 September 2014Updating Bulk Data in CourtListener Bulk Data Can Be Hard
Wed 27 August 2014New Version of the Site is Now Live Better, Faster, Stronger
Wed 18 June 2014Reworking the CourtListener Datamodel Work, iterate, work, iterate…
Fri 28 June 2013New Tool to Remove Dead Feeds from OPML Files
Thu 27 December 2012Setting up etherpad with postgres on Windows
Sun 16 September 2012Calculating the average elevation of a trip using a TCX file
Sun 20 May 2012New tool for testing lxml XPath queries
Thu 15 March 2012My Presentation Proposal for LVI 2012
Sat 11 February 2012Adding New Fonts to Tesseract 3 OCR Engine
Fri 27 January 2012The Winning Font in Court Opinions
Tue 24 January 2012Support for x-robots-tag and robots HTML meta tag
Thu 12 January 2012Android Icons from Ice Cream Sandwich
Fri 02 December 2011Integrating Solr Search with Django at CourtListener
Sun 13 March 2011Project Idea: “Programming library for curse words”
Sun 20 February 2011Firefox images and icons
Thu 04 November 2010Changes and Plans at CourtListener.com
Mon 06 September 2010Swimlane Diagram Generator Written in XSLT
Wed 11 August 2010Using Pylint in Geany
Mon 28 June 2010Project Idea: “User contribution aggregator”
Sat 01 May 2010Announcing CourtListener.com
Sat 01 May 2010In consideration of Apple
Mon 26 April 2010How to Recover a Broken Drupal Install Resulting from a Full Hard Drive
Sat 13 March 2010Designing the Final Project
Wed 24 February 2010Using Revision Control on a Django Project Without Revealing Your Passwords
Sat 06 February 2010Converting PDF Files to HTML
Tue 26 January 2010New Server!
Fri 15 January 2010How to Protect Your Open Source Code from Theft and a Mercurial Hook to Help
Tue 15 December 2009Script to Rid Thyself of Autocomplete = Off in Firefox
Sat 14 November 2009Testing Deletion Speed of Online Photo Sites
Wed 28 October 2009Rid Thyself of Autocomplete=Off in Firefox
Wed 14 October 2009Script to Clean Up F-Spot Database
Fri 09 October 2009Fix Duplicate Thunderbird Address Book Contacts
Sat 12 September 2009Economics of Securing Government Information Systems: A Case Study
Wed 09 September 2009Firefox Extension Fixes
Wed 12 August 2009Firefox Modifications for Maximal Screen Real Estate and Usability
Thu 23 July 2009A Fresh Install of Vista on an HP Laptop
Wed 22 July 2009Gnome-Do is Pretty Damned Impressive
Sun 26 April 2009Papa’s Got a Brand New Look
Fri 03 April 2009A Python Function to Verify Twitter Credentials
Fri 20 March 2009Privatizing the Twitter API Feed
Mon 23 February 2009Installing Tracker from Source
Thu 19 February 2009Location Based DNS Switching For Internet vs. Intranet
Sun 25 January 2009Twitter (and Facebook) Integrated
Mon 19 January 2009Working with matplotlib and pycairo
Wed 07 January 2009Final Papers on Music Jukebox
Sun 21 December 2008Yelp Scraper to Get Business Info in a Geographic Area
Tue 09 December 2008Rsnapshot Backup Solution OR Why Backing Up Is Hard To Do
Sun 07 December 2008We Knew It Existed - The Official Definition of The Internet
Tue 21 October 2008Yahoo! Drives Me Nuts
Sun 19 October 2008Change the Default Print to File To PDF in Ubuntu Hardy Heron
Mon 13 October 2008A Script to Kill Evolution
Mon 15 September 2008Delete Original Images from F-Spot and Rotate Using Exif Information
Thu 28 August 2008Linux Tip - Route Standard Output Into to the Clipboard
Thu 24 July 2008Moving and Updating Drupal
Mon 14 July 2008Wake Your Computer by USB
Fri 04 July 2008Log Your Friend Out of Gmail
Mon 02 June 2008Install Citrix In Ubuntu Hardy Heron
Thu 22 May 2008Create a List of Formulas from Excel Files
Sat 17 May 2008Drag a Screenshot Using ImageMagick
Tue 29 April 2008Remap Caps Lock as Backspace in Windows and Linux
Wed 05 March 2008Notes on Drupal Multisite
Wed 05 March 2008New Website - CharityHikers.org
Tue 26 February 2008Treasures of Old Websites Part II
Tue 26 February 2008Treasures of Old Websites
Mon 11 February 2008Install Garmin Topo! in Linux
Sun 10 February 2008Tune Your Monitor. You’ll Like It.
Fri 01 February 2008Bots be Damned!
Fri 01 February 2008GIS Training
Sun 27 January 2008Marvelous RSS, Marvelous Google
Mon 21 January 2008New Theme Poll
Tue 15 January 2008Search Concept
Sun 13 January 2008Taxonomy Features Are Go
Thu 03 January 2008The incredible size of XP
Wed 02 January 2008Program Idea - Public Jukebox for Internet Cafes
Fri 28 December 2007Cool Research Tip - Bookmark to Date Websites
Sun 28 October 2007Mashups
Tue 23 October 2007The New Computer and The Giveaway Pile
Thu 11 October 2007Old Versions of Site are Up Sort of, Kinda
Sat 29 September 2007Zimbra Done. Worth the Wait? Yes.
Tue 25 September 2007LoJack for Linux Part II
Sun 23 September 2007LoJack for Linux
Fri 14 September 2007Chronicals of installing Zimbra, OR If it looks awesome, it’s probably a pain to install.
Wed 12 September 2007This is it. Drupal systems are go.