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Developer Conference at Amazon. Jeff Barr announces Amazon's invited several developers including Joel Spolsky, Rael Dornfest, and James Gosling to talk to their developers this Wednesday and Thursday. Jeff plans to post transcripts to the Amazon Web Services weblog, and forward questions to the speakers from readers outside of Amazon.  [More Like This WebLog]

Dennis Kennedy's Annual Legal Technology Predictions Article Published in Law Practice Magazine. The 2005 version of my annual legal technology predictions article appears in the January issue of the ABA's excellent Law Practice magazine (the subscription to the magazine is reason enough to join the ABA's Law Practice Management Section – and the discount on… Continue reading Dennis Kennedy's Annual Legal Technology Predictions Article Published in Law Practice Magazine

Converting Manila to Movable Type. About twice a month, I get a request from someone to help them migrate their Manila-based weblog over to Movable Type or TypePad. (It's a migration I did, and wrote about while misspelling Movable Type, back in 2002.) Each time, I'd send along my script and a hastily-written set of… Continue reading Converting Manila to Movable Type

Beta Blues. I want to draw attention to what I consider to be a disturbing Microsoft marketing trend, one that I would strongly encourage the company to withdraw from. More importantly, I'd like to discourage other vendors from venturing down the same treacherous path. … The problems would be less if the betas were better.… Continue reading Beta Blues

Inside the new Airbus 380, unveiled yesterday in France. [Scripting News]

Microsoft RC4 Flaw. One of the most important rules of stream ciphers is to never use the same keystream to encrypt two different documents. If someone does, you can break the encryption by XORing the two ciphertext streams together. The keystream drops out, and you end up with plaintext XORed with plaintext — and you… Continue reading Microsoft RC4 Flaw

Benefits of Blogging for Law Firm Librarians. Librarians typically come across new information, web sites and resources on almost a daily basis. But can you recall that new source or research tip the next time it's needed, months or even years later? I can often remember questions from months ago, but not necessarily the answers,… Continue reading Benefits of Blogging for Law Firm Librarians

Mossberg on Fighting Spyware.  Webroot Software has reprinted Walter Mossberg's short essay on fighting spyware. Mossberg provides a good summary of the problem and ways to fight it. One tip is of particular interest: The absolute best way to avoid spyware is to stop using Windows, and switch to an Apple Macintosh, which gets little… Continue reading Mossberg on Fighting Spyware

Worshipping librarians. I found myself in Via Valverde on Friday with the head librarian of Goucher College, explaining the concept of folksonomies over a glass of wine. Lisa became friends with Nancy when they were on a curriculum committee together when Lisa was an undergrad, and Nancy pinged her when she was coming up here… Continue reading Worshipping librarians

Useit.Com: Durability of Usability Guidelines. Usability guidelines endure because they depend on human behavior, which changes very slowly, if at all. What was difficult for users twenty years ago continues to be difficult today. People can only remember so many things, and we don't get any smarter. [Tomalak's Realm]