Year: 2002

The Clock of the Long Now. I remember reading in Wired about Danny Hillis “millennium clock”. It was a single page with some text over a picture of Hillis, probably standing by the clock, I don’t remember. The text can be found here. When I read it, I interpreted it as a challenge to be…

eWeek reports that IBM is buying the business and technology consulting arm of PriceWaterhouseCoopers: The deal, already approved by both companies’ boards, calls for IBM to pay $3.5 billion in cash and stock to PricewaterhouseCoopers for the global IT consulting unit. PwC Consulting expects to achieve revenues in fiscal 2002 of $4.9 billion, according to officials.…

This is a great site: dejavu.org. Pick your poison, then see a current web site through the eyes of the web’s first browsers. Wow.

Update: I removed this from the site. Apparently it was causing IE6 to crash entirely… which isn’t quite browser-friendly. sigh Here’s hoping this shows up as a Radio macro so I can insert it into the site without any compatibility problems. Many thanks to Buzz, Ernie, Will, Jenny and Robin for chipping in to help…

If you’re testing and you know it, clap your hands. [The Peanut Gallery ] Will, many many thanks for your help. We’ll figure it out. 🙂

My mission – to find a way for you, loyal reader, to know who’s pointing to this site. Why bother? The real value of the weblog medium is its transparency – if you’re reading this stuff, I can guarantee you there are at least a dozen others out there talking about similar issues. And wouldn’t…

My New Law Blog Roll – I’m going to maintain a master list of law blogs in the outliner format.  It’s easier to maintain and to annotate.  Check this out.  I have added some commentary about most of the law blogs.  If you aren’t listed E-mail me and complain and I’ll be happy to add…

New story – Privacy in the U.S.: Beyond the Tipping Point? Commentary on Ashcroft’s Operation TIPS, the erosion of privacy in a post-9/11 world, and the quandary the Bush administration finds itself in with respect to data management.

I vividly remember calling Domino’s one night in law school. I ordered my regular pizza (it was the health special: bacon and sausage w/extra cheese), but forgot to give them my address before I hung up. Realizing that, I called back. “Oh don’t worry. We’ve got your address.” They’d implemented caller ID, and had my…

In the Sunday NY Times, William Safire explains “ blog.” This takes the concept to a high level of acceptance in the English language (at least American English). I’ve been here before. In the 80s, with my brother, we got credit for “laptop” from Safire, but told the researcher that the word was already in…