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Legal-ease


File this under: “Ten Things That I Thought Would Never Happen in My Lifetime.”
Law firms forced to lower fees
The recession hasn’t been good for the legal profession. Clients are demanding lower fees and new billing procedures. What’s more, it’s unlikely that law firms will be [...]

If Rube Goldberg Was a Musician


This piece of video is simply extraordinary and needs to be shared and seen.
The Ruse:
People were told this bizarre and wonderful machine was built as a collaborative effort between the “Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory” and the “Sharon Wick School of Engineering” at the University of Iowa. It was alleged to be comprised 97% of [...]

Slow Money


Bringing Money Back Down to Earth
Oodles of money zip around electronic banking networks every minute of every day.  The movement is so quick, the transactions so frequent, the companies so complex, and the forms those investments take so myriad, the average investor has lost track where their money is and for what it’s being used.  [...]

Ay Dios Mio, Espana!


File under: We’re not in Kansas any more, folks.
My wife and I, replete with extended family, took a trip to Spain this summer. Lovely time. Really, lovely time. Flew into Madrid, rented a car and drove to the north, camping near Bilbao for a few days before we drove westward to beautiful, [...]

Menage “i” trois?


Blackberry or iPhone…  can we all live happily together?
I have a long and sordid history with computers as they relate to “brand.” My very first personal computer was an HP150.  Notwithstanding the fact this carbon-dates me to the Big Iron Age of computing (or very nearly), that little touchscreen computer was a ball.  By most [...]

Thinkerer


I misspelled thinker, but think I came up with a legit definition of the misspelling in the process: What’s a thinkerer?

What’s in a name…


Everything, really. Google. Yahoo. eBay. Facebook. MySpace. Flickr. Expedia… and on and on. A good name is… well… memorable. It embodies a personality all its own. It rolls of the tongue. And in some cases is verbifiable. Ever been googled?
There are so [...]