Archive for January, 2008

Law School Survival Guide: Textexpander

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

You can look at the experience broadly and appreciate the education and opportunities you’ve been given, but that’s entirely too fluffed. Law school gives you three things. Books, papers and time. Two of which seem overwhelming only because they give you little to none of the third.

To survive you need a couple aces up your sleeves and I’m a firm believer that the efficient use of your available tools can very well be one of those cards.

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Textexpander is a text replacement tool. Very simple (DEMO). I type ‘RIL’ I get ‘Res Ipsa Loquitor.’

That Air, just don’t compare! Yo.

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

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How much is two pounds worth to you? Why? Because that’s what it amounts to. 2lbs lighter and a 1/3 of an inch shorter. Is that what you expect from a sub notebook?

13.3 is nothing special to the Macbook line and I would argue that the loss in poundage and abilities doesn’t even equate to the cost and product.

Considering the stats of Apple’s existing line of laptops, it appears they may have been a little preoccupied with lightening the load than creating a worthwhile sub-notebook option for the consumer.

Net Phenomena: Death on the Internet

Monday, January 14th, 2008

How long after someone has passed is it appropriate to unfriend them, or is it ever acceptable?

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A few years ago a dear friend of mine passed, due to perhaps some bad choices and a pre-existing medical condition, but nonetheless a good man. Like many men, twenty plus with too much spirit and perhaps time, he died at the end of a bottle. One of my dearest friends and an excellent person by any standard, he’s left an odd legacy behind.