Posted in Computers, Law, School, Technology on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I wrote previously about my general thoughts on how to succeed at law school. Here are two simple quick tips:
Don’t buy the legal dictionary
Every attorney or law school graduate will tell you to buy a legal dictionary. Don’t. I fell into this trap. But the people who tell you to buy one of these went [...]
Posted in Cell Phones, Computers, Fitness and Health, Internet, Society, Technology, Trends on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
A study in the American Journal of Psychiatry has come to the conclusion that sending excessive texts and emails may be a sign of mental illness.
The article, by Dr Jerald Block, said there were four symptoms: suffering from feelings of withdrawal when a computer cannot be accessed; an increased need for better equipment; need for [...]
Posted in Careers, Computers, Internet, Society, Technology, Trends on March 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A new study suggests that a majority of the creators of creative content online are not the geeky male stereotype one things of when thinking of computer programmers.
Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) are not misfits resembling the Lone Gunmen of “The [...]
Posted in Careers, Computers, Internet, Personal, Technology, Trends on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Now that the job search is in full swing, many are giving me the advice that I should shut down my blog, delete my facebook account (not that that would do much!), and keep my private life offline.
However, I ran across this blog post by a lawyer in Ohio who gives a good argument for [...]
Posted in Cell Phones, Computers, Internet, Politics and Government, Society, Technology on February 1, 2008 | No Comments »
The Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act is the legislation that allows the government to spy on communications between domestic parties and those abroad. The idea is that sleeper cells in the US already might be in contact with foreign terror organizations. We want to be able to spy on them.
That bill is about to expire. Congress [...]
Posted in Business, Computers, Technology on December 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Apple has developed their image based on being the rebel outsider. Microsoft controlled over 90% of computers sold. Apple was always the computer nerd’s computer. What the hip graphic designer used at work and home.
Now, because of the halo effect gained by the ipod- they are selling more computers. But when the outsider’s products become [...]
Posted in Computers, Technology on December 4, 2007 | No Comments »
For those of you who are addicted to Gmail (for some reason many bosses think you are working when using it) Gmail now allows you to chat with your AIM buddy list in gmail. Details here.
To try it out you’ve got to be using the new version of Gmail in IE7 or Firefox 2. [...]
Posted in Business, Computers, Law, Technology on October 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Open source software is software that everyone is free to program on and release their own version of. Often this leads to great software that works really well. Examples include Firefox (much more secure than IE) or Open Office (much less bloated than Microsoft Office). However, open source software doesn’t really get anyone a profit, [...]
Posted in Computers, Technology on May 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Dell is finally going to offer Linux as an option for OS on new computers. This is big because since Dell is the leading seller of computers, this opens a large market up to the option of using Linux.
For those who don’t know, Linux is an open source OS. Open source means the code is [...]
Posted in Computers, Technology on February 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Often people will ask me what software they should use for a certain process they need to do. While not nearly comprehensive, I thought I would share a few pieces of software I use more often than you’d imagine, and sometimes do some pretty cool things. Best of all, this software is all free, and [...]
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