Monthly Archives: September 2007

DNA everyone?!

September 7, 2007 – 7:51 pm

Lord Justice Sedley is said to be a judicial activist progressive and a rare judge in that he favours civil liberties. Nonetheless, in what can only be described as an unfortunate temporary simultaneous failure of critical thinking and common sense he has proposed that everyone in the UK be put on a DNA database.
Lifelong member […]

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Ruthie missing in action in the Evil Empire?!

September 7, 2007 – 6:21 pm

Alarming news: Ruthie was supposed to meat Dan Hull in Salt Lake (wait, what?!) Thursday evening. The Mariott was the venue for the first interaction between Yank and Brit Bloggers. Self-confessed horny Dan Hull wails that she hasn’t shown up as of this Friday morning.
Don’t worry Dan that’s a standard Ruthie trick: she takes being […]

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Embarrassing bug reports

September 6, 2007 – 5:00 pm

Geeklawyer did titter a bit at this bug report for the Totem open source movie player.
For edification of the non geeks among you: it is considered good form to submit bug reports for open source software to help developers squash them.
This fellow did so while omitting to clear the films he was viewing at […]

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Dammit *I* invented that!

September 6, 2007 – 4:35 pm

Geeklawyer, dapper elegant - the Beau Brummel of the Bar, long ago invented his own tie knot after some dissatisfaction with those taught to him at his rather mediocre public school. He was horribly distraught to learn today that he had, in fact, re-invented the Windsor Knot.
Bugger.

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Lessig finally wins a case!

September 5, 2007 – 5:27 pm

Geeklawyer is a great admirer of Professor Lessig, particularly after his battering in the Eldred case when he was, manifestly, right. Unfortunately courts are occasionally wrong on the facts the law the policy, or even all three.
So it was nice to see the 10th Circuit ruling for him for once and against the US Government. […]

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Podcast 12 - Ruthie in the Evil Empire

September 1, 2007 – 3:12 pm

content:

Ruthie visits the Harley Davidson factory in the US & tries to shag Dan Hull of WAC?
Geeklawyer gets a reader a job.
Geeky stuff: idiot FSF lawyers. Ruby on Rails.
Geeklawyer is organising a blogger meetup in London.

Background music:
“Leaving on a Jet Plane” - Peter Paul & Mary
“Shave ‘em Dry” - Lucille […]

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