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Ramblings on law school in New York, free software, and the spaces in between.
By Luis Villa

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Last Entry: February 26, 2020 at 00:21:04

multi-computer photo editing workflow?

Posted on November 23, 2009
Does anyone have any suggestions for a good workflow for editing a large set of photos using at least two and probably three laptops? It should be able to do f-spot-like tagging and favorit-ing of pictures, as well as cropping, simple color adjustments, etc...

Ranthambore

Posted on October 31, 2009
I think our visit to the tiger sanctuary in Ranthamore has gone alright… (Special thanks to Hema at Wipro for reminding me of the existence of Ranthambore, and to the great staff at Tiger Safari Resort Hotel in Sawai Madhopur for helping us through some complications along the way, like me misplacing our passports…)

trip pictures

Posted on October 15, 2009
FYI for friends, etc.: I am going to continue journaling privately for post-trip publication, probably, but rather than bore entire planets worth of people in the meantime, I’m just mentioning small things on identica (with republishing to twitter and facebook) and posting pictures on my gallery install...

london!

Posted on October 03, 2009
Law and policy nerdery ahoy: I saw the site of the traditional courts of the Common Law, the Temple Inn, and Chatham House. Soooo nerdy am I. Krissa loves me anyway, for some reason.

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looking forward to filling gallery 3 with wedding and honeymoon pictures

Posted on October 01, 2009
Just a brief note here to say thanks to the gallery3 developers- they appear to have taken the lessons of wordpress and other successful open source web services to heart; the new gallery (even though still in beta) is a pleasure to set up and (more importantly) a pleasure to use...

48, 48 houuuurs to goooooooo

Posted on September 24, 2009
A picture from last weekend, spent in the not-quite-high Sierras: Krissa and Luis on the very, very, very narrow and twisty road to Edison Lake Vows are finally written, and even printed. Have not wanted to throw my computer all day, and can even breathe on an almost-normal basis...

pathetic, part II

Posted on September 23, 2009
My system failed to functionally come back from suspend yesterday, which appears to have cost me a substantial part of what was the final draft of my wedding vows and ceremony. This is the second time in the past few months I’ve lost big chunks of important work because of a system crash...

awesomeness, part I

Posted on September 23, 2009
A kind blog reader suggested a gross hack which rescued my vows. (Cat, strings, and grep should never be a part of the process of the vows, though admittedly in my case it might seem appropriate.) Krissa may marry me (and continue to deal with my operating system) yet.

pathetic

Posted on September 21, 2009
Battery life of my HP mini with WinXP: 3-5 hours, depending on use. (I hear Win7 is better.) Battery life of my HP mini with Fedora 11: struggling to get one hour. Pathetic. [Ed. later: should have mentioned that this is having done everything powertop suggests...

contacting me in the next two and a half months

Posted on September 18, 2009
As many of you know, Krissa and I moved out of New York early this month, and we will not have a permanent home again until some time in early December. This will make contacting us before then a bit tricky. Here is everything we can tell you should you want to say hi, scream [...

today was a good day

Posted on September 15, 2009
Today was a good day, except for wordpress and gallery3 seemingly disliking me greatly: confirmed some plans for the Greek leg of the honeymoon got marriage license had my first phone call with my little sister since she left for college. Sounds like she’s having a great time, which is good since I’ll always feel partially responsible for [...

life in a nutshell right now

Posted on September 08, 2009
Some friends have admitted to some confusion as to where I am living right now. More details in later posts, but the nutshell version: 1) Krissa and I no longer live in New York. 2) tomorrow night, we sleep in our fifth bed in seven nights. It does get a little more normal from here on out, sort [...

wikitravel on android and in print

Posted on August 28, 2009
In preparation for a honeymoon in places where data access is expensive I’ve put all of wikitravel on my Android phone via the OxygenGuide project. I’m not sure how useful it will prove in practice (especially since all maps are stripped out and there is no search) but this seems to me to be an [...

making our rings

Posted on August 27, 2009
Krissa and I have mostly tried to make our upcoming wedding fairly low key. The groom will probably wear sandals; there will be very little ceremony; traditional decisions like who is taking whose name (if at all) have not been made; so on, so forth. But we’re not completely dispensing with the traditional bits, and [...

who writes the kernel^W gnome?

Posted on August 19, 2009
The new ‘who writes the kernel’ paper is out; an interesting read as always. I’m still waiting for someone to take the scripts and run the same analysis for GNOME, especially since GNOME’s data is all in git now. Should be a short project for someone, I’d think, and very valuable for the community as [...

state of the art for bounties?

Posted on August 12, 2009
Is there a state of the art for free software project bounties? I’m sort of curious, because I’ve become a heavy user of a project which has an overworked maintainer and no particularly vibrant community.� I also� have no time/ability/desire to dive into that codebase, but I have two features that I’m pretty sure upstream [...

the nerd merit badges I?d make

Posted on August 11, 2009
I like the concept of nerd merit badges- I even want the inbox zero one- but the execution is a little weak. Seeing this started me pondering on what I’d do if I were going to make my own. The temptation, of course, is just to have a logo per organization- gnu, gnome, moz, fedora, etc...

thanks, friends

Posted on August 10, 2009
A few days before the bar I got a ‘wish you were here’ postcard from Gran Canaria. I promise I only choked up a little bit. :) It meant a lot to me. Thanks to everyone who signed it- I miss you guys (and gals) too :)

how do busy people deal with identica/twitter?

Posted on August 02, 2009
I’m an anti-social denter/twitterer. I publish irregularly (to, apparently, several hundred people) but read at best daily and at worst weekly, and at that, I read basically only direct replies plus (by twitter standards) a handful of people’s dents/twits...

FLOSS Law Review

Posted on July 14, 2009
I thought I was done with law review blogging for a while, but apparently not! The International FLOSS Law Review has just published their first issue, with what looks to be a fair number of interesting articles. I look forward to seeing how it progresses.

rome travel advice request

Posted on July 12, 2009
Now that all my European friends are back from their fun in the sun: Does anyone have a recommendation of a hotel near the train station in Rome? It will be for just one night, coming in by train the night before and leaving by plane at 10am the next morning...

10th bugiversary

Posted on June 23, 2009
Some part of me will always be a QA guy, so it is nice to note that today is the tenth anniversary of my first formal bug filing (and first formal participation in Mozilla, I believe): mozilla bugzilla bug 8749, nested <DL> tags don’t display properly...

Social Desktop contest

Posted on June 16, 2009
As I mentioned in my lwn interview a few weeks ago, I’m curious about where the Open Collaboration Services/Social Desktop is going- while I have not been able to figure out if this is the right way to do it, it is obvious that the Free desktop needs to start experimenting with and exploring this [...

hallelujah!

Posted on June 10, 2009
Apologies if I’ve seemingly been ignoring you; it isn’t personal. :/ But my vicious head cold is clearing up, and I now have home internet again. So expect slightly improved service from me in the near future. (Note that I am still studying for the bar, so I’m mostly still pretty swamped, but at least [...

useful notes on resumes and free software

Posted on June 04, 2009
Gerv Markham (of Gerv-fame) has posted some useful notes on putting Free Software experience on your resume. It is probably� most useful for people who have gotten at least somewhat involved in free software communities, but are not yet at the point of expertise where they are looking for jobs directly in those communities- in [...

internet FAIL

Posted on June 03, 2009
I moved this weekend, and as a result of some miscommunication, my sublet place has no internet. Worse, the internet provider to the place has no record of the building’s existence. So I’m pretty much AWOL from the net for probably a couple of weeks...

two other people capture what I?m thinking perfectly

Posted on May 31, 2009
Read two posts this morning that I wanted to note because they capture what I’m thinking pretty perfectly. Julian Sanchez on the reaction from some quarters to Sonia Sotomayor. Sanchez is a lot like me- sort of libertarian-leaning, not terribly comfortable with lefty identity politics, and not very close to his Hispanic heritage...

a good graduation day

Posted on May 25, 2009
Besides actually graduating, it turns out that the faculty named me, along with Alex Middleton (below, the one without the beard ;) as winners of the Carroll Harper prize for excellence in intellectual property studies. A pleasant way to go out, and nice to have my family there for it.

IANALY

Posted on May 20, 2009
I am not a lawyer yet, but I am, apparently, a JD. Parents arriving as we speak; actual graduation tomorrow.

UbuntuOne trademark- well, duh

Posted on May 14, 2009
Usually, I’m above saying ‘I told you so’, but sometimes… well, lets just say that it is clear that most of the people commenting in this bug about the ‘confusion’ caused by the Ubuntu One mark didn’t read my old posts on trusting open source companies or my (old, not terribly good) trademark paper...

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