Month: August 2003

Friday hack: rcs2log

One of my co-workers asked me this week for an easy way to see which files had changed in CVS over the last week. I suggested that rcs2log would be a good first start, but strangely enough he had never heard of it before. rcs2log is a nifty script that you can use to generate […]

Hashivenu

Today is Tisha B’Av, a Jewish holy day. I choose to call it a “holy day” and not a “holiday” because it’s a rather somber one. Last night at shul we read from the book of Eicha (known in English as Lamentations) by candelight. Both the words and the melody are melancholy and sad. The […]

Tribe.net: online communities redux

My friend Chris persuaded me to sign up for tribe.net, an online community/job networking website. It’s like 1999 all over again, and the web still sucks. Back then, PlanetAll promised to help you manage your contacts so you’d never need to update your address book every again; you just “linked” to someone’s PlanetAll account and […]

Recovering domain names from squatters

Next week’s Perkins Coie Computer/Internet Law Roundtable is entitled “STALKING THE WILY DOMAIN SQUATTER: Lessons from Years of Recovering Domain Names.” David Steele will discuss how to recover infringing domain names and protect trademarks and trade names from cybersquatters using examples and techniques drawn from his extensive experience with domain name and trademark issues.