Month: December 2002

I started this blog one year ago today. Many thanks to all of you who continue to stop by and read.

I like the idea behind Creative Commons, the license project designed to make the distribution of intellectual property more flexible. Read more about it at their FAQ, or just go ahead and get yourself a license. I just added a button to this site that permits copying, displaying, or performance (!) of work on this…

Well, so much for being excited about my Treo arriving. I ordered the Treo on Monday morning, around 9:30am central. By about 4pm, T-Mobile had approved me for service and I was told: See that “awaiting shipment” in the right-hand column? Just in case you weren’t sure what it meant (I sure thought I knew…

I’m a huge fan of John Cusack’s (though I’m not sure I’d vote for him for president) and I think Identity – starring Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, Alfred Molina, Clea Duvall and Rebecca DeMornay – looks awfully spooky. Scheduled release date is March 21, 2003. Check out the trailer at Apple.com.

Internet World ran a case study this week about Lincoln Partners, a Chicago-based investment bank. They recently purchased InterAction for business development and client service. Lincoln Partners plans to use InterAction 5 to manage both its strategic and tactical business development initiatives and the processing of transactions. The firm will now be able to execute…

UPDATE: (10:05pm CST) Not that it much matters, but the directory of RSS files at Blogspot sites is back up. Go to http://blogname.blogspot.com/rss/ where blogname is the name of whatever blog you visit. Using the URL below (http://appellateblog.blogspot.com/rss/) produces an apparent list of all BlogSpot RSS feeds. (And for those that asked: this isn’t a…

Missed this one on the first go-around, but just stumbled upon it this morning. It seems that Philadelphia-based firm Pepper Hamilton issued a subpoena to a company in Detroit. The subpoena came from the Philadelphia office – and the lawyers found out after the fact that the company was a client of (you ready for…

Yesterday’s NY Times had a good profile on Howard Dean and his presidential ambitions. “The disadvantage is all the other guys in the race on the Democratic side have national fund-raising organizations; I don’t,” Mr. Dean said at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan the other day, between fund-raising meetings and speeches. “The big advantage is I’m…

Marriott to add Wi-Fi in 400 hotels. Service to be available in hotel obbies, meeting, rooms, restaurants [InfoWorld: Top News] I’ve been in the process of checking out Marriott. I’m a Hilton Diamond member (means I’ve stayed in more than 28 Hilton Hotels each of the past two years) but received an invitation to try…

If this weren’t so close to reality, it would be hysterical. Instead, I feel like sobbing uncontrollably. (OK, that might be overstating it a bit. But not by much.) The Onion: Bill of Rights Pared Down to Six: “We’re not taking away personal rights; we’re increasing personal security,” Ashcroft said. “By allowing for greater government…