http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/ A strange loop. Copyright 2012 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:36:17 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2012/03/a_great_books_a.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2012/03/a_great_books_a.html IT and Technology Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:36:17 -0500 On Twitter, I got asked a great question by @edwardjohngalla: If we repealed Marbury v. Madison, that would get rid of Roe v. Wade and Citizen's United. Cool! Your thoughts? OK, there are actually several things buried in there that I want to talk about: Would the undoing of Marbury v. Madison also undo all the precedents set by rulings assuming its validity?Should we even be using precedent in deciding legal matters? What about nullification?Should Marbury v. Madison be undone?Should there be a final arbiter of the Constitution's meaning, and if so who or what should be that final arbiter?... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2011/09/who_says.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2011/09/who_says.html US Politics Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:27:14 -0500 OK, so I was setting up SVN on a MacOS X Leopard (10.5) server, and had a couple of problems. Most of these were relatively easily solved, but here are the secrets that are not revealed by Apple's instructions. You cannot restart the server once you enable the mod_dav_svn module, until you have at least one site configured to allow WebDAV (under the Options pane in the site config on Server Admin). You might also have to allow folder listing; I don't recall if that was a problem or not. You have to edit the sites file to do more... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2009/03/svn_on_macos_x.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2009/03/svn_on_macos_x.html IT and Technology Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:16:11 -0500 http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2008/10/down_the_ballot_2.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2008/10/down_the_ballot_2.html US Politics Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:41:09 -0500 should show up on new server only... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2008/01/test.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2008/01/test.html Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:15:37 -0500 What? You think that the company that admitted to reporting Saddam Hussein's propaganda as news for a decade would be above rigging a debate for their chosen candidate? Oh, and a happy Thanksgiving to all.... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/11/lolelecshun_yur.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/11/lolelecshun_yur.html Laugh, Damn You! Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:18:44 -0500 Inspired by lolcats, and armed with Gordon McNaughton's LolCat Builder, I decided to take on the 2008 campaigns. Herewith, the first installment: i can has president?... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/11/i_can_has_presi.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/11/i_can_has_presi.html Laugh, Damn You! Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:25:52 -0500 John Lennon was right: life doesn't wait for us, but moves of its own accord. Here's what's going on with us right now. I've been working on math with Connor (more on Steph's blog, where I have lessons as they come up), but am probably not going to be able to do that this week due to Lego League. Speaking of which, the qualifying tournament for us is next Saturday. We have to finish the robot and programming this week, complete with finding out that our entire strategy is bunk: we can only use one robot, not one robot at... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/11/life_is_what_ha.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/11/life_is_what_ha.html Family Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:32:34 -0500 I have a post at Eternity Road on Apple's ringtone debacle.... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/09/lie_down_with_d_1.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/09/lie_down_with_d_1.html Entertainment Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:59:17 -0500 I have a small discourse on the need for governance, and the possible claims of a government to legitimacy, over at Eternity Road.... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/07/the_republic_ar.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/07/the_republic_ar.html Politics and Political Philosophy Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:15:42 -0500 Our older cat, Merlin, has gone missing. He went outside Saturday afternoon, and hasn't come home. Going outside is very normal for him; not coming home is, needless to say, not. My hope is that someone took him inside during the rain, not realizing that he actually has a home (he won't wear a collar, so he has no identification on him). But if that were the case, I would have thought he'd be home by now, assuming they let him out. We've checked the pound, and asked some neighbors to help, and posted on a couple of missing pets... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/06/missing_cat.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/06/missing_cat.html Family Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:03:13 -0500 Glenn Reynolds points to this delightful rant about the administrators of Tennessee State University, who (in their boundless enthusiasm to prevent another Virginia Tech-style rampage) have banned squirt guns! You heard me: they banned squirt guns. Well, that would have stopped the various sociopaths who have shot up schools in the past! All right. That's it. It's not legal to shoot idiots in the street. It's arguably not even moral. So since these idiots insist on beclowning themselves in public, I propose that we follow suit. Here's the deal: if enough people (say, ten) are seriously interested in, and will... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/05/rage_against_st.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/05/rage_against_st.html Laugh, Damn You! Wed, 09 May 2007 22:20:27 -0500 Michael Moore is profiteering off Ground Zero workers. I'm disgusted, but not surprised.... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/04/sicko_indeed.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/04/sicko_indeed.html Unamerican Activities Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:43:40 -0500 One of my pet peeves is enterprise software projects that fail. In my opinion, the only possible reason for an IT project to fail is incompetence, either on the technical staff or (far more likely) the project or above management. The most common management incompetence is the inability to say "no". (And as I am fond of pointing out in other contexts, if you have a manager who can't say "no", it's a management problem one level higher.) All of this is just a roundabout way to introduce Karl Gallagher's insightful essay on how excess requirements and misclassification of requirements... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/04/topic_notes_pro.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/04/topic_notes_pro.html IT and Technology Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:38:47 -0500 Glenn Reynolds calls attention to this comment by Bruce Kesler: Wonder why so many of the news articles you read, or steam over, are lacking essential information or perspective? Wonder no longer. Knowledge and experience of the subject is only a “plus.” Would the AP advertise for a sports reporter for whom knowledge and experience with baseball, basketball, football, soccer, hockey, tennis, and so forth is only a “plus,” rather than essential and primary? So, why should the AP believe that knowledge and experience of intelligence, or medicine, or any other important and technical subject only requires a “plus”? Maybe... http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/04/makes_sense_to.html http://www.caerdroia.org/blog/archives/2007/04/makes_sense_to.html Education and Schooling Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:38:58 -0500