Archives mensuelles : décembre 2002

Chinese pics revisited

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I just realized that somehow the URL for the pictures I took in China got quite popular with my travel partners. In fact, both for bandwidth used and visitors served, it dwarfs this site.

I did mention the pictures here before[update: it moved, so did this site, so they are not on the same machines anymore], but since then I regenerated the pages with a smarter script and moved the site to my machine at work. I doubt I’ll ever host it anywhere else since it’s over 850Mb of stuff… It would be nice to make some sort of photoblog out of it though where people could comment on the pictures and add their own. I don’t think I have the time (or skills) to put that together though.

Downtime

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MS Word is literally eating though my thesis. I have plenty of backups, but I am not happy about the whole thing. I would think I’m having a font conflict, except that my only fonts are the standard OS X install and the Office font pack. Maybe there is an issue between my french Office and my primarly english OS X.

But I suspect the mini MS world on my machine: now IE won’t launch. Anyways, this little break will give me a change to run a couple updates which insists asking for a reboot.

And here’s a list of domains I was thinking about..

pagaille.com
perplexe.com
bobards.com
boniment.com
boboche.org

As you can see, I’ll probably switch back to french soon.

Southern Building Code v. Veeck

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Law Meme has coverage of an decision that will be reviewed by the Supreme court of the US.

Why do I really care? The decision is about builing codes. Ok, I don’t care, but Fleecy might! The decision is about web publication. Bonus points, but not really that much of a big deal for me (or for the court I think). It deals with copyrights on public texts, law and judicial decisions. Getting closer, and Pseudo will most certainly be interested

The deal for me is that it shows a different aspect of the practice of law making using private norms than the ones I focus on in my thesis. It is also reminiscent of the W3C and ITU patent policies problems.

Anyways, hopefully this is a good test case to get a sound policy conscious copyright decision from the US Supreme Court.

Yahoo!!! La saga continue

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Bon, vous connaissez la saga Yahoo! La contestation de la décision française a réussie l’an dernier à la cour fédérale en Californie. Hier, la Cour d’appel du 9ème circuit a commencé à se pencher sur la question. La question à cette étape est fort intéressante. Les juges s’interrogent sur la possibilité pour Yahoo de s’opposer à une ordonnance française en Californie.

Tout ça pour dire, La saga continue!

Ramen recipe database

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I had a certain period in my life where high cost of living, co-location of a small kitchen and limited personal time made me a rather satisfied advocate of Ramen and tuna as the basis of one’s alimentation (with Lindt chocolate and gruyère). (forget Atkins, I lost 20 pounds on that stuff)

If I’m ever nostalgic, there is a database of Ramen noodles recipes. Quite imaginative. And I do have to try the Ramen Trail Mix next time I need Gorp. Other imaginative recipe titles? What about Ramen & Chicken in Vodka Sauce or Death Valley Ramen Treat?

[Via Metafiler]

Oldie but a goodie on « modern » copyright

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Cla pointed me to this LawMeme article about AOL’s view on the bathroom break during commercials. I remember reading about the article in the spring, but I didn’t blog and I forgot about it.

Quite a gem. LawMeme suggest 10 new copyright infringements, including changing radio stations when a commercial comes on or arriving late to the movies and missing the previews.

BIlly Joel explained

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This does a pretty good job in illustrating the song « We didn’t start the fire ».

It has always somehow fascinated me that this song does indeed fast forward through 40 years of american history.

The little flash thing isn’t perfect. Or maybe it’s my player. It seems to miss a couple verses though. Maybe it’s my permanent-beta flash player

Anyways, is this a copyright infringement? It does contain the whole song… and quite a few of these images are also copyrighted. Enjoy while it’s still up. As far as I’m concerned, it’s pretty educational though.
There was an great page on AOL that hyperlinked the lyrics with relevant web pages but it’s 404 now. Fear not, here’s the Wayback machine to the rescue.

[don’t know who to credit for this, I saw it all over the place last week and this w-e I remembered about the hyperlinked lyrics web page (that I originally saw on Memepool) which made this a somewhat value added post]