http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog Technology, law, and personal stories Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:24:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been happy to see WiFi appearing on nearly every MBTA commuter rail car recently. I was less happy to see this: [caption id="attachment_802" align="aligncenter" width="694" caption="No TPM on MBTA"][/caption] I guess I'll have to wait until I get home to find out why this bothered Steve so much. Oddly, the MBTA's web ... http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2009/07/01/mbta-blocking-tpm I've got to give a shout out to my brother Jonah's new photo blog, so you can finally keep up with his exploits via RSS. His recent work from Algeria is amazing: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" caption="Jonah's New Blog"][/caption] http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2009/06/27/jonahs-new-photo-blog Cell phone photo from West Palm Beach Gas Station: It's this sort of fuzzy accounting that got us into this mess to begin with. http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2009/04/16/fuzzy-accounting I'm on my first Virgin America flight. WiFi connected instantly. It turns out that the Internet is pretty much the same at 40,000 feet. Addendum: Apparently there is also still spam email at this altitude. [Tags]Virgin America[/Tags] http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2009/03/29/liveblogging-from-virgin-america Excellent summary of where we find the newspaper business today: Round and round this goes, with the people committed to saving newspapers demanding to know “If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?” To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work. There is no general model ... http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2009/03/14/clay-sharky-on-newspapers I recently upgraded my home router box to Debian Lenny. Everything went fairly smoothly, with a few exceptions. My NFS mounts no longer worked because apparently wildcards are no longer allowed in IP addresses in /etc/exports; the export addresses needed to be translated to subnet format (e.g., 192.168.98.* becomes 192.168.98.0/824). But ... http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2009/02/25/iptables_router_failed_after_debian_lenny_upgrade_solved_by_setting_mtu ...of Nova Scotia. My past and future colleague Trevor Smedley just lost his appeal to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia of his criminal conviction for having pet chickens.  As the Supreme Court noted in Trevor J. Smedley and Her Majesty the Queen: They are not just any chickens - they are ... http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2009/01/08/the-great-urban-chicken-debate-at-the-supreme-court... When did it become so fashionable for the United States to have czars for everything? Apparently, the first "drug czar" was appointed at the height of the cold war. Do we have nostalgia for the good old days in pre-communist Russia? [Tags]Working Families Czar, Joe Biden, Czar, Language, Politics[/Tags] http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2008/12/21/czar-thought [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Still Falling"][/caption] [Tags]Snow, Blizzard, Boston[/Tags] http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2008/12/21/its-still-falling... Via Steve (new domain name, otherwise as usual), this inspiring little PowerPoint-ish presentation from Dr. Steven Chu, Obama's choice for Secretary of Energy: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfLaQUD86Mw[/youtube] This video features about as many charts per minute as did An Inconvenient Truth, but left me far more hopeful about our long-term prospects on Earth. It is ... http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2008/12/13/climate-hope