SCHEDULING ALERT: I’m heading to the law school for a faculty meeting. Then I’m leaving town for a couple of days as I travel to Memphis and Nashville to talk about the Tennessee Constitution, a document that I find fascinating. (Try following the link and reading Article I secs 1&2 and see if you don’t agree. The Tennessee Supreme Court has repeatedly, and recently, interpreted them as supporting a right of revolution against a tyrannical government, and also held that they support a narrow reading of governmental power — if the Constitution gives you a right to revolt against arbitrary, excessive government power, after all, it can hardly be read as granting the government the legitimate power to act in arbitrary and excessive ways. But I digress). I’m taking the laptop with me, so there will probably, God and MSN willing, be some intermittent blogging. But it won’t be at the usual rate. I’ll try to check in again before I hit the road, but here’s a heads-up. Follow the many excellent links to your left.

Oh, and you can always read my new TechCentralStation column, which in a shattering new development is not about Mars.

It coins a new term (at least, Google says it’s new): “Version fatigue,” to describe how tired I am of learning how to do the same damn thing in a different way after a software upgrade, new VCR purchase, etc.

UPDATE: Eric S. Raymond has a response to my column — and I’ll bet that those of you who know him can guess what it is.