Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

17 Aug 2002, 10:38 a.m.

Well, a few days ago, I took up a spontaneous…

Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2002 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.

Well, a few days ago, I took up a spontaneous invite to see the Perseid meteor shower with Seth and his posse, and I can't really ask more from such an expedition than a commendation in Seth's diary.

Also, from Seth's description of the Microsoft booth at a Linux expo:

On another day, I walked back into the booth to ask about Palladium. (I didn't want them to see my name, because supposedly "The best technical description [of Palladium] is the summary of a meeting with Microsoft engineers by Seth Schoen of the EFF", and being Seth Schoen is therefore inconvenient when you want to ask basic and uninformed questions about Palladium.)