Here’s one of my favorite tricks. I do this on Windows and OS X. For 95% of my data, I use only a few file types. Open files formats work best for my desktop search engine, but I use both open and proprietary formats (being an OS pragmatist).
In the… [read full post]
My blog is a work in progress. I have long-term and short-term projects. I recently completed a long overdue project. I wrote to United Media, the publisher of the Dilbert comic strip, to request permission to reprint a Dilbert comic that I blogged about a couple of years ago. (See Musician Loses
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The opinions expressed in LawLawLaw do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Clock Tower Law Group, its employees… [read full post]
My friend Peter H. Schmidt sent a link to a fascinating story in Redmond Channel Partner about how to do business with Microsoft. The title of the article is “Minding Your Microsoft Manners.” Depending on how you feel about Microsoft (love ‘em or hate ‘em), you’ll either find this… [read full post]
First published 7/1/2007; Law Practice magazine, “nothing.but.net” column; American Bar Association
In 1997, if you had a domain name and a registered trademark for your brand, you were in good shape. In 2007, it takes more to protect your brand on the Internet, because the definition of “brand” has… [read full post]
Sunday 04/22/07 is the fifth anniversary of the last PowerPoint presentation I created. And I didn’t even do it for Clock Tower Law Group. When I started my own law firm, one of the benefits that was immediately obvious was that there were no meetings. As the firm has grown, I’ve had to drop the “no… [read full post]
AUTHOR’s NOTE: The ABA is (thankfully) moving to a content management system (i.e. a database) for its website, which means that, for now, ABA archives are even harder to find than they were previously. So I’m not sure if this sidebar actually was previously published by the ABA or not… [read full post]
It’s hard to share printers on a network. Always has been, always will be. Of course, it should not be this way. Computers should be easy to use, and they have gotten easier through the years, but it puzzles… [read full post]
I have previously discussed how to SCP with a Windows WinSCP client to a Windows Cygwin SSH server, and that article is relevant for the server side of the equation.
But what if you want to use a Macintosh, OS X 10.4 (Tiger), with Fugu as your… [read full post]
I got a nice email and call from Parallels yesterday about about my recent purchase of their OS virtualization software. I just purchased a MacBook, a new version of Windows XP, and Parallels. Parallels emailed to see how my install was going. I emailed back and told them that I hadn’t… [read full post]
