Aaron Swartz: Activity Log

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2003-06-02

2003-05-19

# Monday morning. Going to get some work done this week. 10:23a

2003-05-14

2003-05-13

2003-05-12

2003-05-07

# Dream: Mark Bernstein did a one-man singing, piano-playing comedy stageshow that made buckets of money for Eastgate. Then he got Woody Allen to do a movie version and put it in coin-operated kiosks around town with poor user interfaces, making more money.
# Dream: Two people say they're police, want to come into the house. I ask to see a warrant. They say they don't need one -- USA PATRIOT Act. I don't let them in; they force their way in. Turns out they were notorious burglars.

2003-05-01

# When I get my own place, I'd like it to be sleek and clean. All my stuff would be out of sight, and extremely large blowups of letters from beautiful fonts would grace the walls. 12:13p

2003-04-28

2003-04-16

2003-04-15

2003-04-14

2003-04-13

2003-04-01

# I'm in Japan.

2003-03-31

2003-03-24

2003-03-23

2003-03-22

2003-03-21

2003-03-20

2003-03-19

# I wish there was someone on the right who could explain there position intelligently and carefully, so I could understand it. All that's coming through now is “French Bad! War Good!” which doesn't seem very thoughtful. 10:10a

2003-03-18

# JSTOR has lots of scanned images of old journal articles which are only available to paying customers. Would it be legal to copy their scans and put them on my own site? I would think so, since their scans lack “the spark of originality” necessary for copyright protection. 1:17p
# It's heinous that JSTOR has scanned in all these papers and keyed all these abstracts (the article below is from 1958!) but won't let Google index them!1:14p
# Link-Length Minimization in Networks (req. JSTOR) seems to say that the soap bubbles are doing a local minimum, not an absolute minimum. 1:13p

2003-03-17

2003-03-16

2003-03-15

2003-03-14

2003-03-13

# Do you know of any writings or organizations that support child pornography? Email me. 10:31p
# Calling “free software” “open source” is like calling a democrat a republican. If you're from a dictatorship (the world of proprietary software) they might seem essentially the same, but where they come from the differences are significant. 1:02p

2003-03-07

2003-03-06

2003-03-05

2003-03-04

2003-03-02

2003-02-28

2003-02-27

# Switching to PST 2:18p
# Happy birthday, Ada T. Norton!

2003-02-26

# How come whenever I come up with a cool idea for a program I want to write, I find out someone else has already written it within a week? 12:19a

2003-02-25

# I was like watching a few of my DVDs using unauthorized software under the evil GNU/Linux operating system, and then my computer was, like, beep beep beep beep beep beep beep, and then, like, all my computers were confiscated, and I was like, nnnn? ... It's kind of ... a bummer. 11:59a

2003-02-24

2003-02-23

2003-02-22

2003-02-21

2003-02-20

# ATTENTION PROGRAMMERS (yes, I'm looking at you, Apple!): Please use atomic updates for your user's important data files. (This has been a programming safety announcement.) 1:32a
# I got to be a Supreme Court Justice for Wallace v. Jafree and Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier. 11:02p

2003-02-19

# Can anyone explain to me how Peppercoin works? Reading the site, the article, and the paper I can't see how it's better than batching charges at the bank. 12:12a
# Got second false positive today; both to-date were uninteresting. 12:06a

2003-02-18

# OK, I need to stop wasting time. 12:15a
# Looking thru history: about a year ago vorpal was set up, I drove in a car for the first time, and Brent Simmons left UserLand 10:54a

2003-02-17

2003-02-16

2003-02-15

# Larry said that after the MP3.com Beam-It case was lost, MP3.com couldn't pay the millions of damages they owed so they got bought by the record labels and then the record labels turned around and sued the defending lawyers for malpractice. “These are mafia tactics!” Larry said. So now, he says, no VCs or lawyers will touch the stuff. 8:59p

2003-02-14

# Spam subject: "JOE MILLIONAIRE invites YOU to join NOW!" 8:48a

2003-02-13

# Where does the time go? 1:10p

2003-02-12

# Sometimes I feel like I'm trapped in a libertarian version of Fox News. The list of bad things the government is doing is endless. 12:05a
# Congress: We just make the laws; we don't make them constitutional! 9:36p
# It's weird that two people emailed me today about RSS 3.0 after months of silence. 1:53p
# Starbucks' Motto: A Starbucks on every corner -- sometimes two! 11:49a
# Pandora's Declaration: from math import sin 11:31a

2003-02-11

2003-02-10

2003-02-09

2003-02-08

2003-02-07

2003-02-06

2003-02-05

2003-02-04

2003-02-03

# I got to try a tablet PC for the first time. ?
# I don't understand why today's xdaliclock is less realistic than the one from 1984. 12:31p

2003-02-02

# My headache seems to have gone away. I wonder if it was the food, the awakeness, or the exercise. 2:40p
# Ugh. I've got a really painful headache. 10:11a

2003-02-01

# Wow, the week went by so fast 12:22

2003-01-31

2003-01-30

# maybe we should prounounce NGSCP (neé Palladium) as NUG-scup 10:26a

2003-01-29

# Now I know exactly how pointless my life is. (-3627 points.) See you tomorrow. 12:02a

2003-01-28

# I think I have a bit of a cold. My nosed is all stuffed up and my throat is sore and gunky. 1:25p

2003-01-27

# Wow, apparently I get 8 spams a minute. 9:34p
# Second verse, same as the first, only thing different is the lyrics are worse. 8:55a

2003-01-26

# Writing this book is great fun! 3:06p

2003-01-25

2003-01-24

2003-01-23

2003-01-22

2003-01-21

2003-01-20

# This log has made me much more conscious of how much time I'm wasting. 4:50p