This morning, my wife was hosting a bridal shower/brunch at our house, so I needed to occupy myself away from the house for a couple of hours. Given the gray, cruddy weather, my options were somewhat limited, but I had read a number of positive reviews of Shine a Light, the Martin Scorcese filmed Rolling…
I’ve been randomly taking a look at Facebook’s “People you may know” feature over the last week or however long it’s been available. It occurs to me today that this feature is actually a perfect example of the limits of the “friend” definition on Facebook and other social networking services. Here’s an example. I have…
Well, you all already know how impressed I’ve been with using VMWare Fusion on my Macbook for those times when I need to dip into the Windows world for something, but today I really stressed out that virtual machine and it handled it like a charm. The basics, I had to dump a series of…
With the weather turning toward Spring this week, and the rain holding off until tomorrow, I decided it was high time to get in a little walking to prepare for my commitment to walk the 5k Race for the Cure next month. Thanks to Gmaps Pedometer I can go back and figure out how far…
I saw this late last night, a post by Ron over at Strategic Legal Technology in response to a LexisNexis survey: Inside Counsel (April 2008) reports on a LexisNexis survey on information overload by professionals: ?77% of legal professionals? cite a clack of sufficient information technology tools to cope with the ever-increasing information burden.” Law…
Got some snail mail at the office today from a vendor based up in Cleveland called JurInnov. I thought it was pretty interesting. Basically it was a postcard with some stats on it: 80% -The percentage of firms and organizations that will need to respond to an ediscovery request. 88% -The percentage of lawyers who…