Barry on August 23rd, 2008

When LexisOne was first announced, Lexis promised to offer free research in state and federal appellate cases within the last five years.  (Presumably, in the second year of the program the earliest year in the set would drop out.)  The theory is that except for seminal cases that you know anyhow, cases older than five [...]

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Over the years, I’ve purchased and broken many different headphones for tiny portable radios — walkman - style contraptions — and MP3 players.  (I tend to use these things while exercising, and there’s a lot of stress in the gym.  But it takes away my stress, so it is a definite plus.)  Last night, when [...]

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Barry on January 29th, 2008

About 12 hours after George Bush began last night’s address, the AskSam folks announce that the speech, and all of them since 1790, are available in a free download (in AskSam format, of course.)
(If you don’t have the latest version of AskSam you can always download a copy of the free AskSam viewer [...]

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Barry on January 24th, 2008

My firstborn went to Beijing for a couple of weeks — something was broken and had to be fixed, I guess — and he suggested Skype as an appropriate communications system.  I’ll be writing more about this in the column, but on a preliminary basis, Skype was easy to install and seems to work pretty [...]

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Barry on December 15th, 2006

I’m not a Patent Lawyer, and have no idea as to how to conduct a patent search, but I’m certain that there are a lot of people in my category who will turn to Google to do a little looking through the new Google Patent site at www.google.com/patents. You can find more information at [...]

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Barry on March 29th, 2005

I haven’t tried any of the online PLI for a couple of years but I’ve liked what I have seen in the past. Choose the CLE you may want to take in the next year at $49 per course — this seems to include MCLE credit if you are in a mandatory state — [...]

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Barry on March 16th, 2005

Hard drives are getting ever less expensive, and a couple of hundred bucks should buy a couple of hundred GigaBytes of storage. (My first hard drive was 5 MegaBytes and cost $800. And was a bargain at the time, because the only one available previously for my Apple ][ cost about $3000.)
But [...]

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Barry on March 12th, 2005

I surfed over to Amazon to get some information about a book — verifying author / title information and so forth is a lot easier on Amazon than the usual governmental places — and came across this Jeff Bezos “letter” about a new Amazon feature. For $79 a year, you get “free” two business [...]

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