Thursday
I worked at EFF for a bit, and then went to dinner with BBC developers and had a dinner meeting at an Ethiopian restaurant (Cafe Ethiopia on Valencia). That was delicious.
In the evening, I went to a meeting at EFF at which were many exciting and interesting and noteworthy people. I got to meet my friend Jim Tyre, who is fond of remarking on the many occasions when he meets friends for the first time.
I also met a number of other people, including some of the plaintiffs in the Felten case. It was a great time.
Faux pas: complaining about "exporting the concept of software patents to Europe" to a woman who turned out to be a software patent lawyer. She was a very nice software patent lawyer, though, and not easily offended, and I do think exporting software patent law to Europe is a bad thing.
