Monthly Archives: April 2006

ICANN NomCom Issues Call for Future Board Members

The ICANN Nominating Committee, of which (will wonders never cease) I am a part, has issued its 2006 Formal Call for Statements of Interest for the following positions:

While I’m happy to answer what questions I can, please note that in order to be considered for one of these jobs you have to use ICANN’s official procedure for submitting a Statement of Interest.

Much of what the NomCom does is covered by very strong confidentiality rules, so I will not be posting much (if anything) about this other than the official announcements. I do welcome both public and private suggestions about what sort of person would be good for these jobs — the key thing, though, is to get good people to volunteer for them, so tell your friends and associates.

Full text of the official call below.

[Cross-posted from ICANNWatch]

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Hotline’s Blogometer Spotlights … Me

The National Journal’s Hotline Blogometer turns its “blogger spotlight” on what it calls “not your everyday Froomkin”.

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Research Assistant Needed

My regular research assistant has had the temerity to graduate, so I need a summer substitute. If things work out, the job might well continue into next year. You’ll be doing general research online and on paper, and helping with my current projects.

The ideal candidate will, in addition to reading this blog, have some experience with computers. Bonus points for some experience with unix and html, as I plan to do some computer stuff this summer and could use some hand-holding and script-writing. And of course an interest in Internet law and privacy, which are likely to be my main writing topics.

Interested UM law students (sorry, I can’t pay others) should give me a photocopy of your c.v., transcript and a short writing sample, either by email or by dropping it off with my secretary. I welcome 1L applicants every bit as much as 2Ls.

Ideally I’d like 10-20 hours of your time per week, but the exact amount and the number of weeks is negotiable. The pay, however, is inflexibly set by the law school at $ 8/ hour.

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‘Billboard Liberation Front’ Strikes

Via Boing-boing, an account of the guerilla (theater) tactics of the “Billboard Liberation Front”

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UM Law to Lend Laptops for Exam-Taking

Seems like the new plan to lend laptops to students who don’t have one of their own so they can type their exams is going to be popular:

Legal Twilite Zone: Free computers for Exams: UM Law will allow you to borrow a computer to take your exams. Wow! Didn’t expect that one. Nice.

I just hope they have enough of them.

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Obscure Technical Post

Just in case anyone else is trying to find the answer to this, if rebuilding a Movable Type 2.6x blog produces an error message of

Wide character in print at … /mt/lib/MT/FileMgr/Local.pm line 88

the answer can (only?) be found at archive.org.

Just to make it easier, below I’ve copied the key instructions from the missing post at pkshiu.com.

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