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Below is the text of the speech I’m giving to law students graduating from the University of Richmond School of Law this afternoon. The school is recording the speech; once I have the video I’ll put it up in my YouTube account. ===== Thank you, Rob, for that wonderful introduction. President Ayers, Dean Douglass, members…

Image via Wikipedia I leave for Richmond tomorrow afternoon, where I’ll be giving the commencement address to this year’s graduating class at the University of Richmond School of Law. It’s been almost four months since I received the call from Dean Douglas, I’ve spent quite a bit of time in the last several months refining…

Over the weekend on Twitter, I asked for bloggers to share reasons why they used FTP instead of Custom Domains. Most people, once I’d explained the advantages of Custom Domains, tended to agree that was the better path… and the time seemed ripe for diving in, as we’d had a number of FTP-related issues over…

Image via Wikipedia Dave Zatz has a thought-provoking piece up asking whether TiVo has lost its way. The impetus for his post is a recent NY Times article about recent TiVo developments extending advertising throughout its UI, and the recognition that the core of TiVo’s innovation hasn’t changed much since it first launched in 1999.…

This is really cool: go to the Google Latitude badge maker and create a badge that you can add to your blog. If you use Latitude, you can show off where you’re located. The end result: (Used a screenshot so those of you looking in a feed reader will see it.) Works on all blog…

I’m a big fan of Stephen King’s The Stand – part sci-fi, part horror, mostly a wonderfully engaging view of what happens to a few survivors of a man-made apocalypse. I’ve read the book at least four or five times – never for the story itself, but to be immersed in a world of characters…

Image via Wikipedia Mike Masnick at TechDirt has repeatedly identified cases where the difficulty of obtaining rights to music played in TV shows is either holding up or killing attempts to reissue those shows on DVD. WKRP in Cincinnati is probably the best-known example, but more recently this meant that the claimed “complete” release of…

http://www.youtube.com/get_player … you might think I actually knew what I was doing. Actually played a lot better than I thought I would, which made it a lot more fun. In all, we played 4 rounds of golf, playing the Fazio course, Arthur Hills course, Robber’s Row course, and Oyster Reef. Needless to say, these courses…

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Last summer, my brother and I told our Dad that we’d take him golfing for his 60th birthday. The weekend in which we actually deliver on that promise is upon us… and the reality that I will be soon defiling courses of incredible beauty is finally setting in. To…

Posting to my blog via SMS is rather cool.