Jury duty

I got called for jury duty in Oakland.
They have wifi here but it’s $5.95 per day.
Can you imagine, here we are doing our civic duty, taxpayers all of us, and they want us to pay to get online. It’s a crime I tell you! Put me on a jury to decide this and I’ll vote […]

An open source Twitter client?

There have been a lot of back-channel conversations about the future of Twitter, and one subject that keeps coming up (I keep bringing it up actually) is the need for a Twitter client that isn’t aligned with any commercial interest. One that, by design, is meant to serve users and users only. I think it’s […]

From the Mind of Hugh


Jury Duty, day 2

I have another day of jury duty. I haven’t been selected, but the voir dire is going into a second day because we started so late yesterday. I am not allowed to talk about the specifics of the case as long as I might potentially be a juror, however I can say that I think […]