I did meet Rachel,
go to SVLUG, and learn that the world's leading peer-to-peer file-sharing
networks have been sued by
both the motion picture and recording industries.
I got a letter from a fellow HCSSiM alum who found my
July 17 entry by way of a web search. I
would like to send her a BBC.
John Young (speaking
of "prodigious revelations") had a run-in with the New York City police,
but, true to form, still produced
a series of shocking original
documentary photographs of the World Trade Center disaster.
I've now written something which is
published
on the EFF web site, and
included in the
EFFector.
I stayed over in Berkeley.
Leonard had superlatives
for my party -- "Seth has the best library in the world; it's better than huge
libraries which contain millions of books". Hey, just call me Alex.
I've been talking to some press people about Carnivore and surveillance.
Apparently I'm going to be quoted as a technical expert on the subject.
I've also been busy reading "Patenting Speech" by Dan Burk, and
"Publishing Software as a Speech Act" by Lee Tien.
I'm going to go to dinner with Ren and Gwen, two thirds of the people
in the largest name-rhyming group from my birthday party. The other,
Ben, is sick; I hope he feels well soon.