Entries from July 2007

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Harry Reid’s Bullshit Legislation Withdrawn

Don’t have time to do a full write-up because I’m about to leave for New York, but that amendment which would force colleges to spy and punish students has been withdrawn and replaced with a far tamer one. From the EFF:
News.com reports that Sen. Harry Reid has withdrawn a dangerous proposal that threatened to make […]

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Harry Reid (D-NV)’s Corrupt “Campus-Based Digital Theft Prevention” Amendment

It was bad enough when it was the industry versus college students. Now the federal government is getting involved.

Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying to get his own amendment attached to the Higher Education Reauthorization Act. His amendment would require universities to do the following things:
* Report annually to […]

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

RSSWriter

I’ve been playing with a new RSS project and have been using MagpieRSS to do it. Magpie recommends ‘RSSWriter’, which doesn’t exist anymore. However, I emailed the author and he linked me to a version available on the Wayback Machine, but I’m going to host my own version here if anybody wants to use it:
RSSWriter […]