Barry on January 16th, 2009

John Wesley Hall picks this quote  from the Oral Argument in Herring v US, No 70-513, Opinion issued January 14, 2008:
Chief Justice Roberts: I don’t know what the situation is like in Dale County. They probably don’t have the latest version of WordPerfect, or whatever it is. They are probably making do with whatever they [...]

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Barry on November 26th, 2008

I have acquired, at least temporarily, a BlackBerry Curve 8330 for play; This was a great disappointment to more technical minded members of the family who wanted me to get a Storm or a Bold, but Sprint has neither, and at the moment I’m sticking with that service. The 8330 is old stuff [...]

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Barry on November 1st, 2008

Well…Vista isn’t exactly dead yet, but the first bits of  the next in the series — not Vista Plus or some such, but Windows 7 — has been released to the developers.  Slimmer, faster, presumably what Vista should have been.
 
I’ve never recommended an upgrade to Vista, and have suggested that folks buying a new PC, [...]

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Barry on August 22nd, 2008

Smart Pones are, I continue to tell myself, is really a computer.
So when the other computers in my life are giving ne problems, the
Motorola Q9c joins in.
I’ve left this message on the Google Maps forMobile HELP forum, and someone
thee ought to have more specialized knowledge than readers here, but then
lawyes are very resourceful.
Here’s the [...]

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Barry on August 18th, 2008

I got an email from a well known computer industry publication to which I subscribe and is sometimes really useful.  They wanted recipients to spend just 15 minutes of their time to answer some questions about satisfaction with IT distribution companies.asd then they would use the responses in a story at the end of next [...]

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Barry on August 15th, 2008

My wife, having retiredfrom her longtime employment in the local community college wanted a new computer. (We have several in the house, of course, but she reasonably wanted one devoted strictly to her use.)
After carefully reviewing options for a modern laptop — and after Fry’s unconscionably refused to deliver a Sony they had agreed to [...]

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Barry on February 1st, 2008

I have been following the the anonymous troll tracker, rtolltracker.blogspot.com, for a bit. And although I still haven’t figured out what’s wrong with someone attempting to enforce a patent although he is not personally using it — I wasn’t aware there was a requirement in the Patent laws that requires you actually be making something [...]

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Barry on January 23rd, 2008

I actually made the resolution on December 30, but it has taken until now to implement it. New Virtual Host, new WordPress software, a new theme, soon, a lovely new interface for blogging, and I’ll see if I can keep to it. At the moment I’m making plans for Legal Tech — Feb 5 - [...]

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Barry on April 1st, 2007

This blog will be on hiatus until further notice. I’ll continue to write weekly articles for my column, and those may be available by e-mail if your local legal newspaper doesn’t get them.
Contact Barry D Bayer, barry@lawtechreview.com for further information.
I have no doubt the blog will be back, but, at the moment just cannot [...]

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Barry on January 16th, 2007

I’ve been using Google Mail for the last couple of years, but never realized that the system won’t let you send .EXE files as attachments.  (The file in question was a Flash press release for legal tech.)
 
What to do?  How about zipping the .EXE file.  Turns out that doesn’t work, either because Google understands [...]

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