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An End, A Beginning

Thursday, June 29, 2006

A very long post about graduating from Harvard; not reading enough; and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Over two thousand words! Nine footnotes! Four pictures! One very long digression!

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The Coming Digital Library

Saturday, May 13, 2006

In tomorrow's New York Times magazine, Kevin Kelly writes the best explanation I have recently read of why book digitization is a good idea and its potential pitfalls. The beginning of the article is a bit silly and utopian, with its claims that the "universal library" (which will include the sum of all human [...]

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Intercepting Email is Wiretapping

Saturday, August 13, 2005

I was pleased to see that the First Circuit Court of Appeals reversed its earlier decision that email messages intercepted by procmail (an Unix program for filtering and sorting email) are not covered under 18 USC 2510, colloquially known as the "Wiretap Act." The case which started this issue is US v. Councilman. The [...]

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