The StreamingMedia.com survey on CDN pricing and trends has now been filled out almost 1,000 times. I’ll be keeping it open for another week or so and then we’ll start to compile all the data and give away the free iPhone. Taking a look at some of the …
If you have ever seen my show Triumph of the Nerds well then you’ve also seen my car, a 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible very similar to the car used in the movie Thelma & Louise (I play the role of Thelma). It is in almost every way a fabulous car. It’s going up in value, [...]
Well I finished the dish last night by grilling the octopus cooked the night before and grilling some baby bok choy. It didn’t take too long on the grill, and afterwards I sauted them ever so briefly in some olive oil to meld the flavors and moisten the bok choy whose ends had become a [...]
Today eight colleagues and I are releasing a significant new research result. We show that disk encryption, the standard approach to protecting sensitive data on laptops, can be defeated by relatively simple methods. We demonstrate our methods by usi…
Trying to find two articles or recipes online that agree on how to cook octopus is difficult. Why am I looking for this you ask? Well it all started the other night at Gabriella’s Cafe in Santa Cruz. They had an appetizer dish that was grilled octopus over some collard greens or bok choy or [...]
“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.”
At lessig08.org, you can watch a 10 minute video explaining the launching of a Change Congress movement, and the decision I am trying to make about whether to run for Congress. That decision will be made soon. I’ve been spurred to consider it seriously by the enormous support of many at draftlessig.org and facebook (and by the cool swag at zazzle). Those three I had nothing to do with. But this I do.
This is a very difficult decision. In the coming days, I’ll reflect a bit about it here. Thank you to everyone who has tried to help — both through very strong words of encouragement and very very strong words to dissuade.