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The law school’s senior staff meet monthly and we occasionally convert the meeting into a group training. Things as common as managing personality types or corporate finance nuances. Perhaps the most unusual at my current workplace
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Adding the DNS Sinkhole
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I finally turned my attention to a project that had been tickling the back of my task list since we moved into this house. It was our first house with appliances, other than a TV, that
An Insensitive Document
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I taught legal research and writing last year and had created some mock documents for the final assignment, an open memorandum. The topic was police interrogations and so I created a fake police report, using a
An End to All Things
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When we use computers, it often feels like we never come to the end of something. Occasionally an app will be closed down—RIP Google Reader and Microsoft Bob—but we get used to versioning. A
Transparency, To Be Clear
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There was a lot of good information sharing at the AALL annual conference in Cleveland. I feel pretty seasoned as a manager and leader but I always drop in on some of the sessions focused on
In Step With PACER
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We have been emphasizing PACER as a primary Federal docket resource for just over a year now. This was a change from placing commercial options ahead of the official one. It is part of a complicated
Playing the Long Game
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I have been blogging for awhile, decades at this point. This blog has the word “exploration” in its title but, really, it may be more about experimenting. One thing about experiments is that you may not
Like A Good Neighbor
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I had the lawn mower out over the weekend. We had a brief respite from the heat and the rain and the new sod we’d put down needed a trim. As I was finishing up, my
Do Web Analytics Measure Anything Any Longer?
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The age of bots is here. While we have always been awash with automated crawlers and scrapers, it has now become overwhelming. For a long time, the reporting of website statistics in annual reports or as
The Point of Training
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I am a recent transplant to Chicago. This past spring, I learned that Chicago Public Schools have an administrative governance board at each school. The Local School Council operates as an advisory group for each principal,