Congratulations
I had been wanting to congratulate James Grimmelmann on the recent publication of his law review article "Regulation by Software", which is very interesting. (Thanks to James for sending me a draft a while ago.) This article makes more specific the idea that "code is law" by describing some actual characteristics of software that make it unlike other kinds of texts, or other kinds of artifacts. It starts off by describing software as automated, immediate, and plastic. There are lots of ways of paraphrasing these observations, and James goes on to describe more specifically what he means and how software is unlike other things.
I remember Nick Moffitt's article on how computers only do what you tell them to. There's a lot of experience, and a lot of ambiguity, and a little politics, in that little maxim. "Regulation by Software" could help a lot of people in the legal world understand that complexity.
But instead of congratulating James on the publication of "Regulation by Software", I'm going to take the opportunity to congratulate him on his engagement!
