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| Monday, July 30, 2007 |
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Quote du jour 
| | There may be something of a ³race to the bottom.² National patent systems may have incentives to offer the most favorable treatment to inventors, at the expense of patent quality. |
| | Here's the first of a number of pieces I wrote about patents back around the turn of the Millennium. |
A forism
Beyond the leading fire edge
| | It's dawn in Boston, where a thunderstom rumbles outside the hotel. Back home in Santa Barbara, precautions are being taken to assure that the Zaca Fire does not advance all the way to town. Specifically, |
| | Due to the presence of heavy equipment working in the area, East Camino Cielo Road between Painted Cave Road and Gibraltar Road is closed to general public traffic. Bulldozers are enhancing an existing fuelbreak that parallels East Camino Cielo. This work is being done as a longterm contingency should the Zaca Fire advance in that direction. The Zaca Fire is several miles away and does not pose an immediate threat to the area. Similary contingency lines are being placed as a precautionary measure at strategic locations around Los Padres National Forest. |
| | Guests in our house report ash-fall on pretty much everything. |
| | Meanwhile, here in Boston, thanks no doubt to the thunderstorm nicely depicted above, FlightStats reports this about Logan (BOS): |
| | Ground Stop - This airport has issued a Ground Stop affecting flights departing to it between Jul 30 10:47 AM UTC and Jul 30 12:00 PM UTC due to . (sic) Flights are being delayed an average of 38.7 minutes. |
| | Logan is currently the only airport in the U.S. reporting delays. |
| | Here are pictures of Logan and Winthrop, just after the last big storm there, on Saturday. |
Happy 60th
| | to the Governator. Whom, I believe, at least partly owes his office to the use of hair enhancement chemicals. |
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