San Francisco recommended readings

When I moved into San Francisco, I asked some people on the books, that I should read to get a sense of the history of the city. Here is a sample of the books I have read since then, gathered in one place for the next time someone asks me the question. I am always open to more suggestions and suggestions not necessarily on the city as a whole - for example, my book preferred on New York was in large part on the traffic and my book preferred on Boston was on the River.In fact publish this post, moons after writing is mainly in honour of spectacular weather of today and my first ever bike ride across the Golden Gate. (And Yes, the photo is clichée and I don't care point)Imperial San Francisco: Urban power, Earth's ruin: Gray Brechin: this book...

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Personal acknowledgements of MPL

This morning I hit publish on the announcement of the MPL 2.0, a two-year finishing process. The official announcement had a number of thanks for the many people who helped along the way, but I wanted to take to my personal blog to add a few personal notes."Thank you note for each language," by woodleywonderworks, used under CC - BY 2.0.First, Gerv Markham. GERV has many ways central to the mission of open source Mozilla for some time and it would have been easy for him to feel threatened when I dropped by parachute and began working on the licence. Instead, it has been helpful, patient and constructive - everything you would want a team member and co-worker.Second, Brett Smith of the FSF: Brett brought a very professional constructive approach...

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Regular internet Detox tips?

In recent years I have heard a few friends speak of plans to get off the internet for a day, a weekend, a week end, a month, etc. Each of the last two years, I tried to take 3-4 days off the coast of the internet and on both occasions he was younger - I come back feeling quite invigorated, focused, etc. But that sense did not last too long last year, and I doubt it will be this year.Small waterfall on the side of a trail off the coast of the Skyline Drive, Virginia, may 2011So... all friends who have tried things similar have thoughts or advice on how to do an internet detox on a regular basis and make it really effective and sustainable? I guess that part "make it sustainable" inevitably involves advice on how to manage email, work, twitter,...

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you are looking for a programming analogy - if there is a

As I mentioned, there are many analogies between programming and legal work.I am working on an upcoming post to explain a specific application of a legal concept. Unfortunately, I think this is one of these a few concepts is not a ready programming analogy. I would love someone to prove me the contrary, since the programming side of my brain will slowly pot. This is:In law, there is the notion of "rules" and "standards". Fundamentally, the rules are clear - they allow a judge to simply look at the facts, apply the rule and voila - you know if the rule has been violated. An example would be "the speed limit is 55". If you are in a car 56, you are in violation - even if, say, you are accelerating to the hospital with your pregnant wife. Alternatively, if you are in a car 54 you fine - even...

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Joining W3C PSIG as an Invited Expert

Just a note to say that I’ve been invited to join the W3C‘s Patents and Standards Interest Group as an Invited Expert. I’m pretty pleased by this and am looking forward to contributing immediately. Invited Experts speak for themselves, not other organizations, so I will not be representing Mozilla or anyone else, but hopefully I’ll be able to add something to the discussion on my own and help move W3C and the open web forward.This entry was posted on Thursday, March 24th, 2011 at 9:31 pm and is filed under forfacebook, gnome, law, licensing, mozilla, pmo, work. You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site. View the original article h...

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Invoice v3.44 express free version

You can manage client accounts, quotes, orders, invoicing and payment software for free. Professional Express invoice features Web Access console, you can create multiple users and see their bills from your Web browser, designed for continuous service to apply and pay bills and credit card gateway, you can easily connect to process payment for goods and services.Free express invoice features:* Create invoices, quotes and orders quickly and easily. * To automate the recurring bills.* Accounting, sales person, unpaid invoices, and more like the standard reports.* If you want to select from when creating bills of up to three tax rates can be set.* Regional format settings include currency symbol, decimal point display and paper size.* Automatically sends a statement to the customer payment overdue.*...

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CaptureScreen v2.0.4396

Capturescreen is easy to use:The contextual menu, right-click for access. Move to the desired position for the screen capture area of the window size "capture" command or full-screen capture of the "full screen" command. The "Save" command; Capture stored in png format (by default) provides a perfect result. "Clear" to clear the command capture.Easily capture and manipulate the part of the screen, for example, both text, or you can compare two images."Show all" command, the entire menu and all of the command.Capturescreen includes options, advanced."Thumbnail ..." Command allows you to capture a thumbnail (or expanding) (preview), you can save. Image effect (lighten, Darken, contrast, color, grayscale, invert, RGB ...) and special effects (optional...

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Brilliant.

AppId is over the quota Vu pour la première fois sur mon lecteur de travailler hier :Pas de chaque entreprise sur la capitale, par Fligtar, utilisée sous CC-BY-NC-SAFélicitations à tous mes amis sur une très solide libérer et à relancer leur message important de la fonction publique.Cette entrée a été postée le vendredi 1er avril 2011 à 07:57 et est déposée sous mozilla, BGP, forfacebook, logiciels, travail. Vous pouvez suivre vos commentaires à cette entrée par le biais de la RSS 2.0 se nourrissent. Les réponses sont actuellement fermés, mais vous pouvez trackback à partir de votre propre site.View the original article h...

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Make the legal HTML Documents (such as the MPL) to look well

Some months ago, I bought "Typography for lawyers" (TFL), an excellent book that I recommend to all lawyers. And since the document larger, that I worked at the Miss, of course, published in HTML, I began a few minutes here and learning spending there enough CSS to make the license look better. (Of course, very pragmatic advice of the book focuses on Word and Pages, no HTML.) Fine Print by CJ Sorg, used under CC - BY 2.0 I published the experience (to compare with the MPL of HTML 1.1 address plain-jane). It is just an experience and a personal hack, but I am pleased to hear more suggestions and improvements, and if the end result work, I suggest that we use it instead of the traditional simple HTML version. Some notes on the process, including...

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