Saturday
Anirvan and I tried to go to Proof, but it was sold out, so we went book-shopping instead. I got Law's Order by David Friedman, and Software, Shamans, and Spleens by James Boyle. (Later, I got The Phantom Tollbooth -- a great book!)
Anirvan helped me set up a program called Spam Assassin, which attempts to detect and identify spam. This is useful to me because I get a lot of spam, although I'm intimidated by the "spam wars". (It took EFF years, literally years, to reach a consensus on the organization's position on spam. Even today, we are getting mail accusing us of doing too little or too much in the war on spam.) Spam sometimes seems to be an almost unique problem in the sense of the divisions it can inspire within the technical and civil liberties communities.
We had lunch and dinner together, in addition to our book-shopping.
