Thanks to the generosity of snej, I finally have a G1 of my very own and have gotten nothing done since I got the T-Mobile data plan activated (which I hear you can just cancel the next day and then rely on wireless access). My PEBL, which is 3 years old, deserves its retirement. OK Android developers, make me your guinea pig ( Read more... )

Good, good, good. This heads off any chance for bad precedent to come out of the Texas district court and reinforces the point I make in my forthcoming article on search engine liability for trademarked keyword purchases: It's useless to sue search engines anymore. If you want to sue somebody because your competitors are bidding on your trademarks ( Read more... )

We kicked ass at EFF Trivia Night! Our team came in fourth, although third place was tied and we left before the tiebreaker, so I guess ultimately we were fifth. But that's out of like twelve teams! dreamword's firm's team came in first (largely because of dreamword, I sense), followed by Google, and the tie was Berkeley vs. Stanford. Oooh, wonder who won that ( Read more... )

Google and CNET employees' info stolen from HR company in burglaryWow, that's *both* of the places I worked prior to 2006. Well done. Has Google or CNET contacted me about this? No. Have they contacted their current employees? Yes. I left voicemail with CNET's HR asking for the one-year credit monitoring service that both companies have offered to ( Read more... )

So, a guy I know is on the cover of today's issue of BusinessWeek. One more remarkable person doing remarkable things at a remarkable company - and at a remarkable university!

Of course, not everybody at Google, or at UW, who is doing marvelous things is going to get rich and famous for it. I probably won't get famous once I'm an attorney, trying ( Read more... )

If only this had been around last summer. I would have killed to get this last summer. This is a fucking incredible opportunity and I'm sad it wasn't around, but so happy to see that Google is giving students at all degree levels $7000 to spend their summer at a participating organization in either SF or DC, studying public policy. Participating ( Read more... )

is in my Property textbook!

( Reprinted without permission! )

1. Today in my Gmail, I got an ad in Farsi. <3 ( Read more... )

So, I'm making plans to go up to Seattle in a couple weeks, namely opening weekend of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. I'm planning via e-mail with a friend to go see the movie. Google gave that Gmail conversation all pirate-related ads, including:

Pirate Swords for Sale ( Read more... )

Hoowah. Good news for Google and its users: all your searches do not belong to DOJ. Google does not have to hand over any search queries and has to share only 50,000 URLs, instead of the DOJ's original demand for "billions of URLs and two month's [sic] worth of users' search queries". Of course, a mere 50,000 URLs may yet prove sufficient for the ( Read more... )