Cleaning up your PC: Life Hacker may turn out to be a very useful web site and blog with some, mostly, easy-to-understand instructions, especially for those of you who “go home for the holidays” and have to clean up the pc after the parents. (Whatever happened to just getting stuck with the dishes :-). The blog’s comments have additional advice. If this link doesn’t work, the post was made by Life Hacker on November 18th. I linked to it from a Dec 24th, 2005 post at the Waterboro Public Library.
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Find your librarian: “Search is one of the hardest computer science problems in the world, because basically we are trying to create artificial intelligence so that we can speak with our computer, they can understand us and deliver what we are looking for. That is equivalent to turning your computer into a very intelligent research librarian, which of course is the holy grail of computer science, to create artificial intelligence.” From a CNN interview with Wired Magazine co-founder, John Battelle.
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Bob Loblaw Blog: As reported by How Appealing, there really is a Bob Loblaw and he has a blog. It’s an interesting blog too, with Robert Loblaw reporting on the best and worst of federal appellate decisions.
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Famous Trials: If you need something new to make you happy to be a lawyer, or to get you out of doing the dishes, try this web page.
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Festivus for the Rest of Us: December 23rd is the day. Happy Festivus Eve!
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Measure 37: Multnomah County filed a Measure 37 complaint (Petition for Review of Agency Order) against the State of Oregon on December 16th. If you can’t find the complaint at 1000 Friends of Oregon, Oregonians in Action, or the Multnomah County Circuit Court web site, let me know. I’ll email you a copy.
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Yahoo Shortcuts: Some of these have become universal shortcuts, but this is a nice list nonetheless. You can also design your own Yahoo “custom shortcuts.” (Thanks to beSpacific for the tip link.)
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Marketing in the Zeros (21st century that is): Marketing isn’t what it used to be. It’s no longer enough to put an ad in the Yellow Pages, the area lawyer directory, and maybe in Martindale-Hubbell if you’re feeling really flush. It isn’t even enough anymore to create a web page, a blog, a wiki, and to conquer metatags. There is no rest for the weary. You need to Research and Update, contantly, relentlessly. An interesting example of how a simple web search concept, Local Search, has wider implications for law firm marketing is here. Of course then there is always the sandwich board, which may be a punishment, but may also be extremely effective. But whatever advertising scheme is hot today, you can be sure a hotter one will show up next week, or even tomorrow. Research Rules, but so does having a good crap detector as Hemingway knew.
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“Paper of Record?” Be careful when you cite to a newspaper article in a brief or an article, even (especially! – that old false sense of security) when citing to articles in so-called “papers of record.” Mistakes happen. A favorite activity for many of us is reading the Corrections in the daily papers. Here’s another place to look if you need to be reminded of this fact that we are all infallible.
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Multnomah County Corrections: the good the bad and the ugly: A report worth reading from the Multnomah County District Attorney, Michael Schrunk.