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The photo coming out of the Fayette County (TX) courthouse law library was not great PR. The story showed a stack of boxes from legal publishers that had pocket parts, shrink-wrapped text volumes, and who knows
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The Form of the Law
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There are times when you know you need help and you take the step to ask for it. We were selling a house in Canada and moving to the United States. There are tax consequences and
The Private Law Library of America
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My mind wandered in the middle of a presentation—taking a speaker’s comment and turning it in the light, thinking about the facets—at the AALL annual meeting. This is both a common occurrence and also my real
Fine-Tuning A Firewall
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When you self-host your own website or have it hosted on someone else’s hardware, it takes up a small part of your brain. I chose to put my websites on other people’s equipment because that mental
The Next Step on a Path
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I wrote my first editor’s note for AALL Spectrum. It was a lot harder than I expected. As you will know if you follow this blog, it was not due to writing publicly. I’ve been reflecting
The Weak Links
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A long time ago, I worked at a software company that developed a law practice management system. I was about to head off for law school and had my first PC. It was pretty great. The
In With the In Crowd
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One thing that I attempt with this blog is to share what I know. It may not be much and it may not be exactly what someone is looking for, but I always think that knowledge
Correct Twice A Day
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I was adamant that the artificial intelligence was wrong. My family had given me a bird feeder that came with a camera. As the birds appeared, the camera would take pictures and make an assessment of
Feedback In Its Fullness
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My student evaluations came back from my first semester back teaching. I had sort of forgotten that they might exist, since the prompt for them had hit the students before the end of term. Then there
An Archive of My Ohhh Noooo…
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Mozilla has brought Pocket to an end, an acquisition it made in 2017. Although it was an award-winning read later app, Mozilla felt “the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved”, whatever