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Nomad is on Island. I’m composing this in an office in Bellevue, which is an odd experience… it's disconcerting to see someone you know in a languorous island context appear all perky and corporate, moving briskly among cubicles with sheafs of laser-printed arcana, interacting in a loosely suited hierarchy, and otherwise doing things that seem… Continue reading Nomad is on Island

VoodooPad 2.0 post-mortem. Gus Mueller wrote a VoodooPad 2.0 post-mortem. I love stuff like this and wish more programmers would write about writing their software. [inessential.com]

CalDAV. Yesterday's item drew comment from the Chandler team. In email (quoted with permission) Jeffrey Harris wrote: Are you familiar with CalDAV? At OSAF we're very interested in getting a workable standard going for iCalendar over WebDAV, Lisa Dusseault has put time and energy into creating a draft standard. I've been working on a Python… Continue reading CalDAV

Doctor Who, now?. Doctor Who (oh blessed British Sci-Fi genius) is returning this spring.  Well, a new Doctor Who, but a Doctor Who nonetheless.  You can view a teaser on BBC's site if you'd like to whet your appetite a bit…and I do mean just a bit.  The teaser is only 27 seconds long, but… Continue reading Doctor Who, now?

Blair's rule full of gaffes, spin and control freakery, says mandarin. Tony Blair's style of government was condemned yesterday as shallow and incompetent in a scathing assessment from one of the country's most authoritative figures. [The Scotsman]

Clarity vs. Simplicity. Simplicity is dead. It's been dead for quite a while, and mostly because simple doesn't mean a whole lot. To some people simple means sparce. To others it means white. To others it means something else entirely. What really matters is clarity. Clarity in visual design. Clarity in copywriting. Clarity in purpose,… Continue reading Clarity vs. Simplicity

A Legal Tech Sea Change?. DC-based Howrey Simon Arnold & White, LLP has chosen enterprise resource management software SAP to run key business processes. This may be a first for a US-based firm.  According to an SAP press release, “[t]he first phase of Howrey’s implementation will include SAP® solutions for financial accounting; management accounting; client… Continue reading A Legal Tech Sea Change?

In Support of Best Practices. My prior post discussed a recent article suggesting that the search for best practices may be fruitless. I believe that the problem is less in defining best practices and more in the mindset of lawyers.  [Since my prior post, the article, The Quest for the Best Law Department Management Practices,… Continue reading In Support of Best Practices

Freshfields Chooses Verity for Enterprise Search. Enterprise search – the ability to conduct full-text search across multiple information repositories – comes up at many of the knowledge management meetings I have attended over the last year. Anecdotally, it seems that many firms are evaluating Recommind. So it is interesting to see that Freshfields has chosen… Continue reading Freshfields Chooses Verity for Enterprise Search

Personal Productivity Update. Periodically, I share findings about how technology improves my own productivity. In this post, I have some quick comments about back-ups and full-text search.  Last August, I wrote about using small external hard drives to facilitate back-ups. I realize that for users in corporate settings, including law firms, where back-up is often… Continue reading Personal Productivity Update