Archive for April, 2009

Girls compared

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

A visual comparison: Madelyn and Amelia.

Appeal denied in Turnitin case

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Not much on the web about this: Fourth Circuit’s Turnitin.com Ruling Brings More Trouble for Plaintiffs.
The fourth circuit’s opinion is fairly short, but given that I haven’t read the original decision, I can’t make heads or tails of it. Anyone?
One thing that bugs me from the summary: “The court said it didn’t need to [...]

Google Books settlement

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Objections to the Google Books settlement start to come in, and a good piece on the proposed agreement by Pamela Samuelson

Ah, to be king

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Excuse me if I
have some place in my mind
where I go time to time
—Tom Petty

Southern Illinois

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

A quick post to point out Erin’s pictures from Southern Illinois, the last of my four recent trips. If you live close by, and have never spent any time in the Shawnee National Forest, you should check it out. Not drop-your-jaw amazing like Point Reyes, or consistently beautiful like the south shore of Lake Superior, [...]

Educause Midwest 2009

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Recent trip #3: Educause Midwest 2009. With Richard Chamberlain and Rebecca Fauvie, I presented on Western’s response to the IITAA, summarizing a lot of my release-time work to improve web accessibility at WIU. We had pretty good attendance and good questions. I was pleased with the session.
I stayed at Club Quarters, which worked out well: [...]

More on Florida

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Recent trip #2: a family affair, in Florida.

CCCC 2009

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Recent trip #1: to San Francisco for CCCC 2009. I booked a quick trip: Wed PM to Sat noon. On the one hand, I wish I’d stayed Saturday night. On the other, I didn’t want to be away from the girls any longer than I had to, and with more travel coming up, it was [...]

Happy Easter

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Happy Easter, everyone. Don’t eat too many Peeps.