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    change.gov changed to Creative Commons license started by johnlilly
    In a fantastically great development, change.gov changed its license to a Creative Commons by Attribution license. It’s a really great thing to see, and an important detail to get right for an administration that’s so far both incredibly ambitious and incredibly overloade
    on competition started by johnlilly
    Lest anyone be at all confused about my motives in writing my recent post about Apple Software Update, I’ll say this unequivocally: it isn’t about competition. [I wrote what I meant in my post -- there's no subtext at all -- it's all on the page, so I won't reha
    modernity, revisited? started by johnlilly
    Briefly, then gotta get started on working in an abbreviated Thanksgiving week…
    Every so often I find myself in a situation with family or work and realize that something’s different, something’s new — and I try to take myself out of the moment a
    Tokyo started by johnlilly
    Another good & full trip to Tokyo — just got on the Narita Express — and I have to say that Tokyo trains are an absolute marvel. I bought my ticket at 2 minutes to 2p, with the train set to board at 2:03, and made it all the way through a very complex Tokyo [.
    Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts started by johnlilly
    I received this novel unsolicited from Suneel Gupta, who’s coming to work for Mozilla in a few months once he’s got the little matter of passing the bar exam out of the way.
    I’m really, really glad he sent it. It’s a wonderful, sprawling,
    Joining the TripIt Board started by johnlilly
    Very happy to write that I joined the Board of Directors of TripIt this month. Simple story — I’ve been using their service when I travel for several months, mentioned it to one of their investors at OATV, met with the company, really liked them and their product,
    The Post-American World, by Fareed Zakaria started by johnlilly
    A terrific book, and everyone should read it. A great analysis of what’s happening in the world, not from the point of view of decline of the US, but of a rising of new participants. Can’t recommend it highly enough. A couple of fantastic bits:

    This is a book
    Letter H goes there :-) started by johnlilly
    Letter H goes there
    Originally uploaded by khowe.

    Great puzzle time with Sam lately. Learning a few more each day.
    iPhone battery problem started by johnlilly
    Weird problem today — I was watching a bit of video on my iPhone, then stopped & went away for a while — it had more than 50% charge left when I walked away. When I came back, it was dead — felt warm to the touch. No buttons would work, black scree
    The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan started by johnlilly
    Great, great book. I didn’t really mean to read this — but I was at Logan a couple of weeks ago with nothing to read (a very strange happenstance for me), and this was the best thing I could find to read at the bookstore there. I’m really happy I picked
    trying out disqus for comments started by johnlilly
    trying out disqus for comments, both because i’d sorta like to see threaded comments on my blog, and because i really like & am thinking a bunch about a people-centered web (in this case, comments across the blogosphere indexed by person).
    let me know what you think%2
    Kid concert started by johnlilly
    We’re at our first kid concert - it’s a bit of a mass of kidmanity. There’s even something like a five year old mosh pit up at the front (not kidding). It’s great, really — fun, engaged, optimistic.
    It boggles my mind a little
    A Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin started by johnlilly
    Not sure why I picked this one up — it’s a sorta typical epic fantasy book (although for about the first 850 of the 900 pages, you can argue there’s very little that’s fantastical about it) — but enjoyed reading it. It’
    kid privacy started by johnlilly
    i seem to be talking a bunch about moving my blog over — and in fact, i think we’ll move mine and kathy’s over in the next few weeks. one of the things we’re a little stumped on, though, is what to do about the kid. more specifically, we obviou
    Thoughts on Chrome & More started by johnlilly
    Interesting developments in the browser world lately. Between the new beta of IE8 and Google releasing the beta of their new browser (called “Chrome”), not to mention interesting work by the Mozilla team here as well, there’s as much happening as I can eve
    Distance started by johnlilly
    I’ve had the good fortune to visit the Stanford CS department twice this week — on Monday I visited with some of the current section leaders to talk about Mozilla some, and last night I was on a CS careers panel with my very good friends Schrep & Mauria and got to s
    my new job at mozilla started by johnlilly
    Sometimes in life, you find an opportunity to make a difference in something you care about, and it feels like, even though you didn’t know it at the time, that the last few years have really just been practice, giving you the background, skills and ability to really help. An
    Supreme Courtship, by Christopher Buckley started by johnlilly
    I always like Buckley’s books, all the way back to Thank You for Smoking. Lots of funny current culture & political stuff in his books; stuff that seems ridiculous, but is, sadly, not all that far off from truth. This is another fun one about a president picking a TV
    leverage started by johnlilly
    I’ve been thinking a lot the last few days about the debate that’s been going on about what “Mozilla” should do. [I put "Mozilla" in quotes here because it's a quite unusual & difficult to understand thing -- but the link to Mike's po
    Eudora & Penelope started by johnlilly
    This’ll be a little bit short, as I’m in Beijing at 3a trying to fight off jetlag (here’s a tip: when you wake up at 2a, don’t turn on your computer!), but wanted to post something about the Eudora 8 beta release that’s recent
    Apple Software Update started by johnlilly
    What Apple is doing now with their Apple Software Update on Windows is wrong. It undermines the trust relationship great companies have with their customers, and that’s bad — not just for Apple, but for the security of the whole Web. What they did yesterday was to use the
    Blogging from ScribeFire started by johnlilly
    Experimenting with ScribeFire, which is the new instance of a Firefox extension for blogging, formerly known as Performancing. Seems to work great — going to see if it increases my frequency of blogging.

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    American Creation, by Joseph Ellis started by johnlilly
    I think this was my favorite non-fiction book of the year. Fantastic, fantastic book, and a great continuation of the themes that Ellis started in Founding Brothers. As usual, Ellis conveys a huge sense of the humanity of our founders, and the real uncertainty of the time. Also as usual%2
    colors, layout in flux started by johnlilly
    lots of monkeying around with layout & colors still. the blog is going to be unstable for a while, so bear with me if i introduce some unreadable schemes….

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    A Storm of Swords, by George R. R. Martin started by johnlilly
    3rd thousand page book in the series, liked it well enough, although at the 3k page mark, feeling a little fatigued. The OCD part of my personality compelled me to get the 4th book downloaded to my Kindle, but not really feeling it.
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