I think I need a new look for my web site. Singular, now, since I merged everything back into one space. I decided people find stuff via social media anyway, so why worry about separating topics into separate web sites. Besides, what a pain to manage. But now, I think I need a new look […]
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Who owns the law?
I follow several legal cases, most related to animal welfare, climate, the environment, or agriculture and food. Like others, I have a PACER account, which gives me access to most court documents at the federal level, but at a price. I’m not overfond of the cost, as I’ve noted in the past, but I am, at […]
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Walker Evans: I am a Writer
I am not a Walker Evans expert, but from my recent readings about him, I sensed there were three significant events in his life that shaped the man, and subsequently, the photographs we’ve come to cherish. One of the events I briefly mentioned in the last Walker Evans writing, and that was his search for […]
I dabble more than a little in the legal world, but that’s OK, because the legal world dabbles quite heavily in the world of technology. Nowadays, metadata is the smoking gun in court, and e-discovery is the ballistics test that uncovers it. The concept of e-discovery, or electronic discovery is simple: it is the discovery, identification, and […]
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JavaScript, not a ‘real language’
Simon St. Laurent and I have been discussing that exciting upcoming conference, DHTMLConf. Party like golden sparkles following the mouse cursor is cool again! If you’re going to JSFest, how can you not go to DHTMLConf? This is a conference celebrating a time when all of the technologies we take so seriously now, were fun! Simon is […]