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I have been contemplating my ability to juggle my responsibilities—leader, manager, parent, partner, pup valet—and was reminded, once again, that we need to give ourselves slack. No one and nothing operates at 100%, let alone the cliché commonly brought up of 110% now that we’re in American football season, on a…

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I have just passed my first anniversary at the new job. It seems to have come around faster than I expected although, considering everything else going on in the last 12 months, that may hardly be surprising. There have been a number of changes that I had to negotiate, not all…

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The photo coming out of the Fayette County (TX) courthouse law library was not great PR. The story showed a stack of boxes from legal publishers that had pocket parts, shrink-wrapped text volumes, and who knows what else. Common sights in any law library, for sure, but the article suggests that…

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There are times when you know you need help and you take the step to ask for it. We were selling a house in Canada and moving to the United States. There are tax consequences and they were complicated because now we had 2 national tax regimes to deal with: capital…

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My mind wandered in the middle of a presentation—taking a speaker’s comment and turning it in the light, thinking about the facets—at the AALL annual meeting. This is both a common occurrence and also my real purpose of attending. A speaker will sometimes say something in a way that gets behind…

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When you self-host your own website or have it hosted on someone else’s hardware, it takes up a small part of your brain. I chose to put my websites on other people’s equipment because that mental occupation was a bit more than I wanted to handle: was it running, how was…

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I wrote my first editor’s note for AALL Spectrum. It was a lot harder than I expected. As you will know if you follow this blog, it was not due to writing publicly. I’ve been reflecting on the differences and, frankly, I’m not sure that future columns will be any easier…

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A long time ago, I worked at a software company that developed a law practice management system. I was about to head off for law school and had my first PC. It was pretty great. The internet existed but it was still something that I only connected to when I needed…

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One thing that I attempt with this blog is to share what I know. It may not be much and it may not be exactly what someone is looking for, but I always think that knowledge is accretive. Like a puzzle, a bit gets added here and there until the picture…

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I was adamant that the artificial intelligence was wrong. My family had given me a bird feeder that came with a camera. As the birds appeared, the camera would take pictures and make an assessment of the bird’s species. It gathered a location for the camera, so it could geo-locate its…

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My student evaluations came back from my first semester back teaching. I had sort of forgotten that they might exist, since the prompt for them had hit the students before the end of term. Then there had been the final grading, and commencement and, frankly, this was all in my rearview…

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Mozilla has brought Pocket to an end, an acquisition it made in 2017. Although it was an award-winning read later app, Mozilla felt “the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved”, whatever that means. The outcome appears to be that people who use Firefox can see Mozilla’s…

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The last eight months or so has seen a lot of upheaval for me. It came at a time when a big project came to an end, which was fortunate. But I moved states and moved my lodging twice. I started to live with my wife again after a few years…