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Grammar As Proxy: The Experian Data Breach

November 15, 2015

I got a treeware letter recently from Experian explaining how one of their servers had been hacked and how my

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Privacy is an ecological concept, not a transactional one.

October 5, 2015

On a private mailing list, a friend recently asked this: Playing devil’s advocate here: what privacy are you trying to

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Twitter “Verified” Account… Not So Much.

September 13, 2015

Update Nov 2015: Many thanks to Twitter engineer Eitan Adler for grabbing this one by the horns and steering it

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Freedom of conscience applies to Kenyan immigrants too.

July 9, 2015

I’ve run across yet another reference to President Obama’s supposedly Muslim father, this time in a magazine that I subscribe

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Nice web design, but poor logic: Why OccupyGPL is wrong.

February 11, 2015

Update 2015-02-12, ~12 p.m. CT: Eric Schultz just told me that the OccupyGPL site has suddenly started redirecting to choosealicense.com, within

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Noel Taylor: A Scholar and a Gentleman.

January 15, 2015

I gave my friend Noel Taylor (yes, the noted William Howard Taft scholar) a book as a New Year’s gift.

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New York State Senate bill offers tax credit for open source development expenses.

January 8, 2015

An interesting bill was just introduced in the New York State Senate: open.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/S161-2015 AN ACT to amend the tax law,

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How hard is open source winning? This hard…

December 5, 2014

How hard is open source winning? So hard that apparently it can be taken for granted now in contexts where

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Fix for WordPress 4.1 front page “Not Found” error (from Stealth Publish plugin).

November 12, 2014

This is a public service announcement for anyone else who runs WordPress straight from SVN trunk and found their site

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Disabling the GNOME Workspace Switcher Popup (in GNOME 3.14 on Debian GNU/Linux).

October 11, 2014

This post is a public service announcement for all those using GNOME 3.14 or higher (in my case on Debian

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